The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-26
AESTHETIC AUTUMN TEA
A Church and Social Event
at the Residence Of Mrs.
Harry Mcbride.
MARKET GARDEN AT ST. JOHNS.
Where Pretty Flowers Will Appear
as Notwithstanding From
the Local Churches.

the Autumn Tea," given at the resi-
dence Of Mrs. Harry Mcbride, No. 345
| Commuuipaw aveaue yesterday after
noon and evening. Three floors of the
beautiful house were given up to the
| entertainment of the guests. h draw
ing rooms were decorated with palms.
| century-pIants, caoutchouc trees and jars
of yellow and white chrysanthemums.
The autumnal %colors. yellow and red,
| showed in the floral decorations aud the
| gowns of the young ladies in charge. The
piano and bouquet lamps were yellow
| shades and in all sorts of odd corners
tiny fairy lamps shone from banks of
smilax anu flowers.
Miss Jean Cameron Mcbride, President
of the society, received the guests, who
began to arrive at four o'clock. She was
| assisted by Misses Carrie Clark, Jessie
Fenner, Josie Robb, Ami Koonz. Lucy
| Mcbride, Katharine Van Horne, Hattie
Harris. Mabel Rossel and Cora Lowell.
A small table for the sale or fancy ar
ticles stood in Il window recess, and ii
piano placed in the rear bay window was
| played softly during the evening.
RIBBONS AND FLOWERS.
Tea was served In the basement. The
dining room decorations were all in yell
low, the flowers yellow chrysanthemums.
In the centre of the table was a tall ala
baster standard with c~andelabra, from
which four yellow satin ribbons passed to
the corners of the table. Here Miss
Louise S. Doremus was in charge, assisted
by Miss Grace Vernon. Miss Hattie
Baker aud several other members Of the
society.
Among those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Mcbride, MI. and Mrs. j.
Warren H~ardenbergh, Mrs. Marshall,
Miss Lucy Nelson. Mr.. aud Mrs. John
Horne. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Louder
bough, MIR. and Mrs, John Clark,
Mi. and Mrs. Thomas. Messrs. CIarence
Harmstad, Morgan Holloway. Geo. Beach,
Louis, William and Walter Sherwood,
Allan Adriance, Russell Coykendall. the
Misses Julie Sherwood. Emily Bartlett,
Florence De Hart. Mary Lamberton, Min
ple Kimball, Marguerite Mcknight.
Mary l.. Doremus. L. j. kommers, Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Sherwood, Captain and
Mrs. John A, Bouker. The young ladies
in charge were all in full evening dress,
the guests in demi-roilettes, SO that the
rooms presented q pleasing appearance
during the progress or The tea which con-
GUIDED at ten O'Clock.
LIVING MEMORIAL.
The presence of Miss Lily n. Duryee.
the founder and long time President of
the society, was a rare and highly priced
event. 1t was in 1885 that the Memorial
Mission Band began it's career to carry on
the work for foreign missions. with
which the dearly loved wife OF their pas
tor had long been identified. Her second
| daughter, Miss Lilly Duryee, kept the So
ciety iu good working order. and did more
than nine-tentbSt the actual work, and all
the .'enthusing'' until the retirement of
her father. the Rev. Mr.. Rankin Duryee,
ID. D., from the pastorate, and his with
| draWal to New Brunswick to take a pro-
~fessor's chair in Rutgers College. Miss
Jean C. Mcbride was elected to fill her
| place, which she still holds with notable
success.
Tn society's growth has been remark
able. its work even greater than that. 1t
has often surpassed the entire church
congregation In its gifts to missions, and
| is in receipt of many letters from grateful
recipients in foreign lands. It is at pres
ent supporting a bed in the Hospital of
DR.. Otte, in Stoke. China.
ST. JOHNS MARKET GARDEN
So much for the past, now for the
future.
In last weeks news of the churches, in
these columns, there was Il short note Of
The approaching fancy drsss fair to be
held in the basement OF st. Johns Free
Church, Summit avenue, November 80
| and December L. Since then the com
mittees have arranged the details some
what more definitely, SO that published
Information can be more complete. 1t is
TO be a Market Garden Variety Store,
Sixty young women are to take part, and
| each will representa- flower? Not Il bit
of it. This is the age of utility, and at the
| present prohibitfve tariff on chrysanthe-
NUNS for instance, they can't be said
to be very useful. They will
appear as vegetables-no5 only your
banan as and ORANGES and such like for
eign interlopers and naturalized citizens,
but real native born pumpkins and bean .
and turnips and cabbage and all the rest
of the component parts of a hoiled din
ner. One is to wear a white gown trim
med with rows and rows OF green bean
pods, and chains of dried boans strung on
threads. And what is more. one may
buy from her Boston baked beans. "ali
'otn
Another is to have yellow pumpkins
painted on her gown, and what you can
buy of her is what New Englanders had
for desert last Thursday. Sc it goes
around the hall. until you think you
have really met with a market garden,
such as Alice might have found in Won
derland.
in the centre of the room will be q
large booth in which the young women.
representing vegetables now out of sea-
son, will sell fancy articles. So il you
would like to see a cucumber vending
sofa cushions, or purchase Il necktie from
a raspberry, now is the chance of a life
time. The united guilds of St. Mary, st.
the fair, some sixty in all appearing in
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