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15 Clubs and Clubwomen BROOKLYN LIFE at the luncheon. A political monologue was given by Mrs. Francis Rogers and short messages of greeting from Miss Frances Perkins, the newly appointed Industrial Commissioner, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, and Mrs. Martha Bensley Bruere were read.

1 4 "On, rpHE WOODMAN CHORAL CLUB, Mrs. Clark J- Burnham, president, held its annual Presidents' Day on Friday at The Neighborhood Club, 104 Clark Street, and it was a most enjoyable affair. There was a musical program given by Edward Kinsey, baritone, and Master Walter Lipper, pianist, a young pupil of the Music School Settlement, who displayed a fine technique as the result of excellent training. Miss Elsie Kissam Easton completed the afternoon's pleasure with her delightful reading of poems and a short story by George A. Birmingham.

After a cordial greeting by the president, refreshments were seryed, Mrs. Alfred Chasseaud, being in charge Her assistants were Mrs. Harold Irving Small, Mrs. Jefferson G. Hanf, Mrs.

William C. Newman, Miss Lillian A. Knapp, Mrs. Harold W. Van Wagenen and Mrs.

C. H. Watson. Among those present were Mrs. John Francis Brines, Mrs.

Arthur C. Brush, Miss Gertrude J. Corwin, Mrs. Edgar P. Foster, Mrs.

Louis B. Gerard Mrs. Henry F. Graham, Mrs. Emile S.

Harper, Mrs. A. H. Homan, Mrs. Ivan Hall, Mrs.

John C. Medd, Mrs. S. Archibald Mills, Miss Olivia Munroe, Mrs. Marie S.

Myer, Miss Anne F. Napier, Mrs. Charles C. Napier, Mrs. Nan Reid Parsons, Mrs.

Charles S. Penwarden, Mrs. J. D. H.

Schulz, Mrs. George Starbuck, Miss Mairetta C. Vander-veer, Mrs. John Vanderveer, Miss Emily Walker, Robert L. Wood and Miss Dorothy Laws.

The guest Presidents were Mrs. Henry C. Palmer, Kosmos Mrs. Ernest M. Strong, the Long Island Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs.

Charles Duryea Smith. Colonia Mrs. Egbert Guernsey Brown, "Illuminati" Mrs. Ferdinand Van Siclen Parr, "Chiropean" Mrs. William H.

Andrews, Froebel Mrs. W. W. Thompson, Friday Afternoon Mrs. I.

Sherwood Coffin, Woman's Auxiliary of the Children's Museum; Mrs. Zimmer, Mundell Mrs. Otto Heinigke, Bay Ridge Reading Club; Mrs. R. Edson Doolittle, Prospect Club; Mrs.

J. B. C. Bartlett, Jamaica Musical Society, and Mrs. James S.

Graham, Flatbush W. C. T. U. THE CHAPTER ROOM of the Matinecock Chapter, D.

A. R7 on the second floor of the House of the Weeping Beech, Fox Lane, Flushing, L. is taking on an authentic early American atmosphere. On Friday of last week, the Chapter in monthly session, inspected the room which has been papered with a charming facsimile of an early Colonial paper, the woodwork being painted an artistic light green. Ruffled white Colonal curtains are to be hung, and the room will be furnished with authentic early American furniture loaned by the members.

Meanwhile, pending completion, the Chapter met on the ground floor, Mrs. Russell Coutant, Regent, presiding over a good attendance. Mrs. Ada Munyon opened with the reading of the New Year letter sent out to the Chapters by the President-General, Mrs. Grace Brosseau.

Mrs. George Ketcham, chairman of the Committee on Historic Educat'on read a delightful article on historic flasks, pointing out how the stirring history of revolutionary and post-revolutionary times was recorded through this medium. She described flasks in the collection of Harry Hall White bearing the portraits of De Witt Clinton, Benjamn Franklin, Washington, Andrew Jackson, Lafayette and others. Miss Ruth Deakins, of the department of history, Fox-wood school, Flushing, related in a dramatic and colorful narrative the history and contributing causes of the revolution. Miss Mary Childs, chairman of the committee on the.

Correct Use of the Flag, read a letter from Mrs. Brandt, chairman of the National Committee for the Correct Use of the Flag, D. A. R. The chapter will hold a food sale on January 26th at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs.

Theodore Averlll, 44 Beech Street, in aid of chapter funds. At the close the members adjourned for tea. The table was decorated with a basket of roses and tall candles in silver holders. THE CIVITAS CLUB will hold its next meeting at the Neighborhood Club on Wednesday, January 23rd. The speaker of the day will be Joseph Wood Krutch, whose subject will be "The Modern Temper." Mr.

Krutch's article in The Atlantic Monthly for August, "Love, the Life and Death of a Value," was probably the most discussed magazine article of the last year. It was followed by others on the emotional characteristics of our time. These are to be published next month in book form under the title of his lecture mentioned above. THE ADELPHI ACADEMY ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION will hold a card party at the Leverich Towers Hotel on Friday, January 25th. Mrs.

Brower Brundage is chairman of the committee in charge which included Miss Elizabeth Halstead, Mrs. I. Harold Spencer, Mrs. Walter Ritts and Mrs. George Dannemann.

MRS. FRANK S. SHAW President of the Mothers' Club of Friends School which held an evening meeting at the School Friday, January 18th, in honor of Mr. Eugene Randolph Smith, Headmaster of The Beaver Country Day School. Welwood, Mrs.

Alexander S. Bacon, Mrs. George H. Her, Mrs. Walter F.

Wells, Mrs. John T. Underwood, Mrs. Irving J. Chapman, Mrs.

Henry G. Macdonald and Mrs. Frank Dow. Mrs. Cameron Duncan gave a most pleasing talk, illustrated with photographs about the Daniel Boone house, where her own grandfather had once lived, and Mrs.

Clermont C. Covert of Staten Island spoke of the school at Tamasee in the mountains of Carolina, and showed lantern slides. Presiding at the tea table was Mrs. Harry H. Spencer, assisted by Miss Helen McWilliams, Miss Dora L.

Conrow, Mrs. Frank W. Holmes, Mrs. Mortimer D. Bryant and Mrs.

Richard M. Montgomery, Jr. Among those present were Mrs. Arthur W. Arnold, Mrs.

Robert S. Alexander, Miss Mary F. Anderson, Mrs. Alexander S. Bacon, Mrs.

Ross H. Boas, Mrs. M. Luther Bowden, Miss Happy E. Branch, Mrs.

Lambert V. B. Cameron, Mrs. Maurice S. Cass, Mrs.

Arthur T. Clark, Mrs. S. Dauchy, Mrs. Frank L.

Dow, Mrs. William H. Fry, Mrs. Harry C. Greene, Mrs.

Frederick W. Haines, Miss Mary Hope, Mrs. Clifford Lasher, Mrs. George F. Lazarus, Mrs.

Randolph H. Lee, Mrs. J. Frederick Lohman, Mrs. Augustus V.

Marckwald, Mrs. Walter M. Meserole, Mrs. Arthur J. Murphy, Mrs.

Frederick H. Schluter, Mrs. Charles F. Seaman, Miss Page Scharzwaelder, Mrs. Edgar S.

Shumway, Mrs. William P. Trench, Miss Marion H. Tuthill, Miss Abby R. Welwood and Mrs.

Alexander Craig, Jr. BROOKLYN COLONY, National Society New England Women, of which Mrs. Berton Lewis Maxfield is president, held a social meeting at the Pouch Mansion on Thursday, January 10th. The programme consisted of a Shakespearian recital by Edith Wynne Mattison. The regular monthly business meeting was held on Wednesday, January 9th, at the, Brooklyn Woman's Club.

Mrs. John O'Mara, Chairman of the Ways and Means and her committee, have completed plans for a bridge to be held February 6th at the Pouch Mansion. HT HE BERKELEY ALUMNAE held their second A social meeting of the season at the home of Mrs. Stephen Valentine, at 62 Eighth Avenue. Mr.

Joseph Mathieu, tenor, sang a group of delightful songs, accompanied by Mrs. John Mottola. He is from the Old Dutch Reformed Church in Flatbush. Among those present were the Misses Beatrice Middle-ton, Helen Stickle, Eleanore King, Lothian Kerr, Carolyn Ruefer, Grace Ramsay, Eleanor Andrews, Lucretia Kowenhoven, Maude Body Carey, Mrs. Harry Burt, Mrs.

Randolph Fuller, Mrs. Alexander Madarlane, Mrs. John Catlin, Mrs. John Spencer, Mrs. Harry Whitehill, Mrs.

Wilma Silver, Mrs. Thomas Joyce, Mrs. Henry Clay Evans, Mrs. Thomas McMullen, Mrs. Emile Harper, Mrs.

Alfred Wise, Mrs. Louis Mills, Mrs. John Hawley, Mrs. Courtney Groser, Mrs. William MacKenzie, Mrs.

Ruel Smith and Mrs. T. Bond Holland. BROOKLYN CIRCLE of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae has just announced, through Miss Katherine F. O'Connor, its regent, that its next important event, following the reception to Miss Dorothy Willmann last week, will be a card party.

This is to be a benefit and will have the attraction of being on shipboard. It is to take place on the afternoon of Thursday, January 24th, a week from this coming Thursday, between the hours of two and six. By courtesy of the Lloyd Sabaudo Line, the Italian steamer Conte Biancatnano, which lies at Pier 95, foot of West 5th Street, Manhattan, has been donated for the afternoon for the Circle. This benefit card party promises to be a very large and profitable one. Its committee chiefs are to be Mrs.

Charles E. Burke, chairman of the Card Party; Miss Margaret Lynch, chairman of Prizes; Mrs. Raymond P. Sullivan, chairman of Reception; Mrs. Frederick E.

Merritt, chairman of Entertainment Mrs. John K. Bolen, chairman of Ways and Means and Mrs. Hugh Markey, Miss Bernadette Dolan and Miss Adelaide Sullivan, co-chairmen of Publicity. MRS.

ROBERT A. CLARK, chairman of the luncheon Committee for the Annual meeting and election of the Daughters of the Revolution, Mrs. George E. Miner, regent, which will be held on February 20th at the Bossert Hotel, will be assisted by Miss Alice Plumb, Mrs. Robert L.

German, Mrs. Grant R. Pitblad-do, Mrs. Vera Mathews, Mrs. George A.

Sheilas, Mrs. John A. Squires, Mrs. J. Hoffman Cone, Mrs.

J. Richard Wiggins, Mrs. Luther Warren, Mrs. Jules G. Lassoe and Mrs.

Charles Roehl. Mrs. William R. Lasher has charge of the program which will be announced later. THE WOMEN'S CITY CLUB of New York, 22 Park Avenue, entertained three of its most distinguished members at a luncheon in honor of Mrs.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman and Mrs. John T.

Pratt on Wednesday, January 9th, at the Hotel Biltmore, at 1 o'clock. All three women came into added prominence in public affairs at the last election; Mrs. Roosevelt as wife of the new Governor of New York State, Mrs. Lehman as wife of the new lieutenant-governor, and Mrs. Pratt as newly-elected congresswoman from New York State.

Mrs. H. Edward Dreier, president of the Club, presided at the luncheon. The Committee on Arrangements included Mrs. Y6rke Allen, chairman, Mrs.

Richard S. Childs, Mrs. Frederick L. Cranford, Mrs. Claire Dana-Mumford, Mrs.

Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. William H. Good, Mrs. Percy Grier Hart, Mrs. Morris W.

Kellogg, Mrs. James Lee Laidlaw, Mrs. Henry G. Leach, Mrs. Arthur Lehman, Mrs.

John L. Loeb, Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mrs. Emanie Sachs, Mrs. F.

Louis Slade, Miss Helen S. Throop and Mrs. Caspar Whitney. Mrs. Dreier, Mrs.

Roosevelt and Mrs. Pratt spoke THE FORT GREENE CHAPTER of the D.A.R. had a very delightful meeting at the chapel of the Memorial Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, January 9th. Mrs. Robert E.

Merwin, Regent, presided. The following were elected as Delegates to the Continental Congress to be held in Washington on April 15th Mrs. Robert E. Merwin, Miss Page Scharzwaelder, Mrs. Walter Meserole and Mrs.

Charles F. Seaman as Alternates, Miss Happy E. Branch, Miss Abby R..