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LIFE rp HE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION of Berkeley Institute, Mrs. V. Hall Everson, president, held its third social meeting Monday afternoon, March 10th, at the home of Mrs. Robert E. Merwin, 796 Carroll Street Mrs.

Harriet Menken, playwright and radio dramatic critic, was the speaker of the afternoon. Mrs. Alfred Halt Everson, of the League of Women Voters, spoke of the League's activities. Those present were Mrs. Randolph Fuller, Mrs.

Alexander Macfarlane, Mrs. Maude Boody Carey, Miss Dorothy Betts, Mrs. Henry Clay Evans, Mrs. John B. Catlin, Mrs.

John L. pence, Mrs. Russell Cruikshank, Mrs. Charles G. Proffitt, Mrs.

Stephen Valentine, Mrs. Alfred H. Everson, Mrs. Andrew Mars, Mrs. George M.

Kendall, Mrs. Wilma S. Silver, Mrs. Norman W. Williams.

Mrs. Ruel S. Smith, Mrs. Harry O. Burt, Mrs.

Courtney B. Groser, the Misses Lillian Anderson, Lothian Kerr, Helen Stickler, King, Isabelle King, Beatrice Ruckgaber, Betty Russell, Fanny Ingalls, Grace S. Ramsay, Mary Cabaud, Lucretia M. Kouwenhoven, Priscilla B. Granat.

10' BROOKL Clubs and Clubwomen OR THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the National League of Women Voters is planning a nation-wide celebration in honor of the women' who won woman suffrage in the United States. Among those on the Executive Committee for the anniversary are Mrs. Frederick L. Cranford of Brooklyn, Mrs. Charles Noel Edge, Mrs.

J. R. Fairchild, Miss Clara Hyde, Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Miss Esther Ogden, Mrs. Mabel Russell, Mrs.

F. Louis Slade, Mrs. Thomas W. Wells, of Manhattan, Mrs. Julius Frank, of Ogdens-burg, Mrs.

Melvin P. Porter, of Buffalo, Mrs. Emma B. Sweet, of Rochester, and Mrs. Lucy C.

Watson, of Utica. On March 26th luncheons will be held all over the United States. A half hour program will be broadcast. Miss Belle Sher win, the national president of the League, speaking from Washington; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt and Miss Katharine Ludington, from the Hotel St.

Regis, New York, where a largeJuncheon will take place, Mrs. Henry Goddard Leach, state chairman of the League, presiding. Tablets will be placed in Washington and in the State Capitols bearing the names of the pioneers and leaders in the suffrage, movement. A permanent memorial fund is being income to be used for the work of the National League of Women Voters, the lineal descendant of the National Woman Suffrage Association and founded by it to educate women for the political privilege which the Nineteenth Amendment had conferred. The New York Committee for this memorial held an informal luncheon in New York City at the Hotel Roosevelt, recently, to lay plans.

This was attended by former suffrage workers from many parts of the state, and an hour was given to reminiscence, touching and amusing, before taking up the business of the memorial. Among those who spoke were Mrs. Stephen Loines of Brooklyn, who began her work for suffrage 1869; Mrs. Alfred G. Lewis of Geneva; Mrs.

William F. Canough and Miss Harriet May Mills of Syracuse. Mrs. Charles E. Simonson of Staten Island, who is the chairman for the State Memorial Committee, presided.

A DDITIONAL PATRONESSES for the annual bridge party of Battle Pass Chapter, B.A.R., which is to be held this afternoon, March 15th, at the Edison Auditorium, are Mrs. H. E. Kinkel, Mrs. Charles Renouard, Mrs.

Cameron Reed, Miss Hazel Nelson, Miss Mellicent Blair, Miss Ethyl Webster, Mrs. B. L. Maxfield, Mrs. N.

Robinson, Mrs. Cora C. Oakes, Mrs. George M. Aldrich, Mrs.

Hugh Thompson, Mrs. Charles Collis, Mrs. William Barnaby, Mrs. George I. King.

ftI RS. TRACY S. VOORHEES of 98 Remsen Street was one of the hostesses at the Vassar Club on March 11 when Mrs. Julius Frank, chairman of mental and social hygiene of the New York State Federation of Women's spoke on "Youth in a Changing World." CHARTER CHAPTER, Daughters of the Union, 1861-1865, Mrs. Thomas B.

Lowerre, regent, will hold their regular meeting, Wednesday, March 19th, at the home of Mrs. Allan McLean, 1465 East Nineteenth Street. Colonel George Chase Lewis will be the speaker. THHE SOCIAL DAY of Chiropean, of which Mrs. Charles Edward Porter is president, A will be held on Thursday, March 20th, at Lever ich Towers Hotel, under the direction of the Committee on Philanthropy, Mrs.

Charles Ross Mcintosh, chairman. Maud Ballmgton Booth will speak on her work in the prisons. Other speakers will be Dr. Frank A. Gough and Leonard Mayo of the Children's Village at Dobbs Ferry, N.

on his work with children. A reception at noon will open the day's activities. Luncheon will be served at 12 :00, the hostess being Mrs. E. D.

B. Walton, chairman of Hospitality. The program will commence at 2 o'clock. THE SPRING CONCERT of The Mundetl to be held at the Academy of Music (Opera House) Friday evening, March 28th, at 8:15 o'clock, three well known American artists will be presented: Anna Case, soprano; Ruth Breton, violinist (new), and Donald Pirnie, baritone (new). Carroll Hollister will be at the piano for Miss Case, Betty Baker will accompany Miss Breton and Frank Chatterton will be at the piano for Mr.

Pirnie. The delightful closing function of a most successful musical season is the sixteenth annual breakfast to be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Commodore on Thursday, April 10th, at 1 o'clock, and preceded by a reception at 12 noon, Mrs. Frederic P. Tuthill is. as in former years, chairman.

Distinguished guests will honor the Club on this occasion, and appropriate music will be featured as usual. SELMA EKREM, a young woman of New Turkey, spoke on "Turkish Women in the Toils of Transition," at the Brooklyn Woman's Club, on Monday afternoon. Mrs. George Kunz, Derby air flyer, gave a short talk on aviation. Mrs.

Richard Marvin Chapman, president, presided. Mrs. William W. Brush, chairman of hospitality, arranged for the tea which followed, assisted by Mrs. Le Grand Kerr and Mrs.

William J. Baldwin, co-chairmen. Mrs. William Taylor, Mrs. George H.

Her, Mrs. Edgar S. Banta and Mrs. Horace Mann Snyder were at the tea tables, and were assisted in serving by Miss Ethel Slipper, Mrs. Charles M.

Turner, Mrs. Austin Dupuy Smith and Mrs. A. Alexander Craig, Jr. HHHE ORGANIZATION of the Protestant Big Sister Council of the Brooklyn Federation of Churches was held on Friday afternoon, February 28th, at the Federation Headquarters, 306 Schermerhorn Street, and proved a great success.

Almost 200 women met for that Conference and listened to the program of work to be done in the Children's Court. Mrs. Horatio Berry called the meeting to order, and, after the address of the afternoon by Dr. Gordon, a question period followed. The following persons were elected to serve as officers of the organization for' the coming year: Honorary Presidents, Mrs.

James H. Post, Mrs. S. Parkes Cadman and Mrs. Henry B.

Davenport; president, Mrs. Fenwick White Ritchie; first vice-president, Mrs. Charles R. Gay; second vice-president, Mrs. William McFeely; third vice-president, Mrs.

George J. Sowter; fourth vice-president, Mrs. Edwin Gaylord Warner; fifth vice-president, Mrs. F. L.

Townsend; secretary, Mrs. E. E. Horrocks; treasurer, Mrs. E.

W. Van Aken. Ways and Means Committee, Mrs. Frederick Marsh Gordon, chairman; Social Committee, Mrs. G.

Elizabeth Kirby, chairman; Hospital fty Committee, Mrs. Francis Hubert Boyd, chairman Chairman of Clubs, Mrs. William Paine Publicity, Mrs. Schenck G. van Siclen.

Executive Representatives: Mrs. H. 0. Patterson, Mrs. Joseph Mills, Mrs.

Grace Kasschau, Mrs. Charles G. Cook, Mrs. Frederick J. Griffin, Mrs.

R. J. Macker, Mrs. John H. Field, Mrs.

Hubert Arrowsmith, Mrs. George A. Freidrich, Mrs. Oscar W. Swift and Mrs.

Isaac Franklin Russell. The Executive Committee met on Wednesday afternoon, March 5th, at the home of the president, Mrs. Fenwick W. Ritchie, 752 St. Johns Place, and outlined a program for the immediate future.

TP HE DINNER BRIDGE of the Brooklyn Woman's Club, which took place Wednesday evening at the Clubhouse, was a great success, both numerically and from the point of the pleasure of the members and guest9. Mrs. Richard Marvin Chapman, president of the Club, headed the receiving line, and with her were the other officers: Dr. Cornelia Chase Brant, Mrs. Frederick H.

Paine, Mrs. Edward M. Crane, Miss Jane L. Moore, Mrs. Samuel K.

Frost, Mrs. James M. Edsall, Mrs. Preston S. Millar.

Mrs. Le Grand Kerr had charge of the tickets. Those who attended included also Mr. and Mrs. Homer A.

Vilas, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Waycott, Mrs. and Mrs.

W. Palmer Smith, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. McClintock, Mr.

Henry Livingston Brant, Mr. and Mrs. Berton W. Maxfield, Mr. Frederick H.

Paine, Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Browne, Mrs. Abel Blackmar, Mrs.

G. Foster Smith, Mrs. Arthur W. Mellen, Dr. and Mrs.

Horace Mann Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar S. Banta, Mr. and Mrs.

Lewis J. Spence, Mrs. Arthur S. Knowles, Mrs. William Onken, Mrs.

Frederick H. Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Taylor, Mr.

and Mrs. Edward P. Folger, Mr. and Mrs. William J.

Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs. David Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S.

Pendleton, Mrs. Harrison A. Tucker, Mrs. John B. Clark, Mrs.

E. Rodney Combes, Mr. and Mrs. Brown Gwathmey, Mr. and Mrs.

William W. Brush, Mr. and Mrs. George Clifford, Dr. and Mrs.

George Her. Mrs. Daniel K. de.Beixedon, Mrs. Irving J.

Chapman, Mrs. George Andrew White, Mrs. Edgar S. Shumway, Mr. and Mrs.

William A. Watson, Mr. and Mrs. John Sackett, and Mrs. Frank Black, Mr.

and Mrs. William O. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jacobs, Mr.

and Mrs. Frederick Bass, Mr. and Mrs. Juan A. Alrairall, Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur S. Tuttle, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence R.

Nims, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Holmes, Mrs. Frederic P. Tuthill, Mrs.

William Buchanan, Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Kunkel, and Mrs. George Taft, Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Bryant, Mr. and Mrs. George Daggett, Mr. and Mrs.

William H. Vogel, Mr. and Mrs. William V. Laurino, Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Greason, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Parsle, Mr.

and Mrs. James Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. Harold H. Donaldson, Mr.

and Mrs. John Ruston, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore 'M. Hardy, Dr.

and Mrs. Le Roy Edwards, Dr. Le Grand Kerr, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schafuss, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles E. Porter, Mr. and Mrs. John Weinstein, A PLAY, "The Minister Comes to Tea," was very creditably given before a large and appreciative audience at the Baptist Church of the Redeemer on Friday evening, in the interest of the Bible School, of which Mr.

Howard O. Patterson is superintendent. Mrs. William Herrington acted as the coach and also performed one of the roles in the play. Others in the cast were Mrs.

F. Walter Smith, Mrs. Franklin Goodchild, Mrs. Richard Milliken, Mrs. Charles E.

Satterley, the Misses Laura Hendricks, Rene Sutherland, Adelaide Dietrich, Miriam Georgi and Dorothy Rayberger. HP HE ANNUAL LUNCHEON of Urban Club, Mrs. Louis Elbert Strong, president, will bp held at the Hotel Bossert on Tuesday, March 18th, at 1 o'clock. A reception at 1230 will precede the luncheon. The guests of honor will be Mrs.

Theodore Roosevelt of Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, and Dr. J. Herbert Low of Erasmus Hall who will be the speaker of the afternoon. Mr. Frederick Rover of the Apollo Club, accompanied by Mrs.

Rover, will be the artist of the day. Mrs. Harry Palmer, Mrs. William McCarroll, Mrs. Richard M.

Chapman, Mrs. Nella Brown and Mrs. John J. Schoonhoven will be guests of the Club. Mrs.

Joseph W. Turtle is chairman of luncheon, Mrs. Marshall E. Stewart of music and Mrs. Reuben L.

Haskell of program. Some of the hostesses are Mrs. John Biddle Clark, Mrs. David Porter, Mrs. W.

A. O. Paul, Mrs. Gustav Volckening, Mrs. Louis E.

Strong, Mrs. Joseph W. Turtle, Mrs..