Junior League

In Manhattan last week 400 young women made a polite but determined entrance into a room on the 22nd floor of the Hotel Barbizon. They were dressed in their anxious best. They were members of the Junior League of America and they were visiting their new national headquarters.

The room they saw modernistically designed by Junior Leaguer Mrs. George Draper is bright, undeniably attractive. Rubber plants and Venetian blinds somehow suggest Bermuda, California. There are white-washed walls, blue carpets, orange velvet chairs. From the windows the Junior Leaguers gazed rhapsodically on Manhattan's skyscrapers.

On the 21st floor of the hotel are the offices of the League's only national publication, the Junior League Magazine. For the first time in its history the Junior League now has its national headquarters lodged in its own offices. Heretofore confusingly the headquarters were in the same building as the subsidiary Junior League of New York City.

The League consists of 20,000 young women of the U. S. allied by social security and an urge, sometimes vague, toward charity. There are also Junior Leagues in Canada, Honolulu. Recently colleens in Ireland have shown interest, written letters, spoken of forming yet another Junior League.