Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
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Western Theological Seminary Commence
ment-Talking About Good Things to
Eat and How to Get Them-Donation
Day at Charitable Institutions.
THE sixty-fifth annual commencement of
the Western Theological Seminary will be
held to-day at Bellefeld Church. There will
be meeting of the alumni at 4:30 P. n. Rev.
DR.. R. F. Sample, OF New York. will deliver
an address, and Rev. o. A. Hills, d. d., will
tender welcome to the senior class, to
which Mr.. J. s. Nichols will respond. The
alumni dinner will be partaken of ut $50 P.
NJ. The evening exercises Will commence
with prayer, after which Rev. Dr. j. L.
Witherow will make an address. The
diplomas will be presented by Rev. VIM. H.
Jeffers, D. D., LII. D., and the proceedings
will be brought to close with the benedic-
tion. The W. T. s. Male Quartet will sing
several selections during the evening.
AT the sale of art needlework in the
Monongahela House on Friday and satur-
day, Mrs. NJ. Rath Merrill will give per
cent Of the receipts to the Saturday and
Sunday Hospital Association. There is
very fine collection in Mrs. Merrill's room,
most of it made by her pupils among the
ladies Of Pittsburg. There will be an ex-
hibition OF handsome embroidery and other
styles of art needlework during the two
days, which will alone make visit worth
while. The ladies this week are giving
their time to commencing pieces OF WORK,
leaving them in such q condition that the
purchasers can finish them, and thus learn
how the work Is done.
THE Pennsylvania College for Women
was yesterday morning the scene Of an in
tensely interesting lecture on domestic
Mrc DoII ba
Serena" of TEE DISPATCH, was exceedingly
happy in the presentation of the subject,
and held the attention of her audience to the
close. No theme is so essential to health and
we'll l-being as cooking, for Cooking means
much tasting and no wasting; 1t means Eng
lish thorougffness, French art and hosDi-
tality; it means the knowledge OF all herbs
and balms and spices; it means carefulness
in fnventlvenesS and watchfuness; the
economy or our great grandmothers, and
the science of modern chemistry; in fine,
that the wife is always to be a lady or loaf
gfver, and to see that everybody has some
thing nice to eat" At 10 o'clock next
Wednesday morning another lecture will be
delivered on the same subject.
MISS WARREN, the Queen Mother, Mto-
cris. in the Allegheny General Hospital bene-
fit at the Alvin Theater, was unable to take
her solo, Lift Up Thy Soul From Out the
her physician so advising her. The manage
ment, as well as Miss Warren, regretted this
cut in the programme, but they promise to
atone for IL the balance Of the week by in
Producing in addition to this second song,
specially arranged for her beautiful voice.
THIS will be donation day at the Protes-
tant Home for Incurabies. Alarge number
of visitors are expected at the pleasant
Home in Lawrenceville, which is at all times
an interesting place to visit. The ladies of
the Home are about to put in q new hy-
draulic elevator, and it ia hoped that this
day will do much toward raising
sufficient funds to pay for the work.
The charitable are invited to the Chris
tian Home for Women, Allegheny. to-day,
when donations will be received for the in
A new home Is needed, ard it is
hoped that there will be liberal contribu-
tions to the building fund, of which a legacy
of COO from the late Captain K. Z. Gray
makes respectable nucleus.
Social Chatter.
Mrs. THEODORE HosrErrER gives luncheon
to-day at her home, Western avenue, Tor II
ladies.
THE Microscopical Society will meet next
Tuesday, at the Academy Of Arts and
Sciences, in regular monthly session.
THE annual May fair and festival for the
benefit of the Aged Colored Women's Home .
will be held to-day and tomorrow at Lafay
cite Hall.
THE annual meeting Of the Academy of
Arts and Sciences will be held tomorrow
evening, when officers will be elected for
the ensuing year.
MADAME CONSTANCE HOWARD gives her
third lecture recital this evening before the
pupils of the Pennsylvania College for
Women, East End.
A SPLENDID collection of Turkish embroi-
1eries is on exhibition ut the Monongahela
House. The work has been done by the
poor women of Turkey and Bulgaria, under
The auspices of the Turkish Compassionate
Fund"
THE Father Mathew Association gave
pleasant musical ana literary entertain
nent in Duquesne Hall, last night. Among
those who took part were Misses Lulu Cook,
Estelle McCloskey and Rita Cook and Messrs.
Joseph A. McNamee, Robertshaw, Griffin,
Simpson and others. The accompanies |
we're Misses Mary McDermott and Marie |
Cook. There was good attendance.