The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-06
ABOUT GOSSIPS.
How the Social Club of
That Name Abuses It
self and Its
Friends.
A HOSTESS PREDICAMENT.
Lecture at the Carteret Club
Society News-Echoes From the
Musical World.


Heights that has suffered under no little
misstatement on the part OF the other
members OF the local press. Sometimes
it is called ''The Gossip CLUB" whereas
it is really 1.-THE Gossips;" sometimes they
are reported rs giving dances in "Foyee"
Hall, wherever that may be. instead OF
Crescent Hall, and sometimes the dates
of their receptions get wofully mixed.
And no one has even limited that they are
united for any other purpose than to give
receptions.
Therefore, know all men by these pres
ents. that .sThe Gossips" are fourteen
young ladies' who have united in giving
dances and receptions for the past three
seasons, under a different name each
year. Their names are Misses Bessie
AIdriige, Amelia Bouers, Carrie Errick-
son, Julia Foote, Lizzie Kaiser, Edith
Kopido, Mertie Metz. Miss Mulry, Misses
Minnie Rhodes, Lille Rose, Agnes
Stewart, Susie Teetsel. Daisy Thomas
and Alice Whitaker.
They meet on Thursday evenings at
the residences of members, and enjoy
cards, dancing, rotations, singing. or
any other such amusement They have
held one reception, on Thanksgiving
Eve. On the nineteenth of January
they viii give a reception In Mrs. Firms
parIors In Crescent Hall. Each member
is privileged to invite guests, the total
not to exceed 300. The invitations are
just out and very pretty they are.
ECCENTRICITIES OF GENIUS.
4 Speaking of gossip, here is Il little story
that Is told positively for the first time
in print. 1t is about j. j. Euneking, the
famous painter. who is at the head Of the
Art Commission for the Chicago Fair.
He was in Jersey City last Tuesday
night in a sweet frame Of mind, n this
is why.
He had made all the arrangements for
a meeting of the committee in Philadel-
phia, his own residence being in Boston.
When the time drew near, he found HIM
self just ABOUT rushed to death. Al the
call of duty he tore himself away from
he Hub and came on to Philadelphia.
Not an artist was in sight. Mr.. Enne-
king consulted his memoranda.
He had arrived a day too soon.
And there he had to sit in Philadelphia,
counting the moments that were SO prec-
ious, until the appointed time arrived.
The best part of the joke is that he had
himself set the date n arranged all the
particulars. He spent Tuesday in Jersey
City with relatives, and that is how the
story came to be told.
Apropos, it will interest q number of
our people who had the pleasure of meet
ing Miss E%nneking, his daughter, during
her stay of several months in this city, to
know that a study of her, in the costume
and attitude of a haymaker. won a gold
medal at a Boston exhibition. besides
many favorable comments from everyone
who saw it. They say that the effect of
the light on her beautiful red-gold hair
is something wonderful.
AND II FALL THEREOF WAS CIR
There is a little tale of New Years
Day that is going the rounds this week.
that has the advantages of being new and
true. The victim is a prominent mem
Der of the Fortnightly Musicales. On
the last day OF the year there is always u
delightful little dinner at her house.
where a few chosen spirits meet to see
the new year In. 1t was Just before the
time set for the guests arrival last SaIur-
day night. The table was a picture to
look at. Every glass. every bit Of china,
every one of the numberless niceties OF
the table were in place. In the centre
was Il tail stand of fruit and fic wers. The
hostess had gone down for a last look,
before appearing upstairs to receive. AS
she passed into an adjoining room there
was a crash.
The supports of the table had shut up
like q camp stool. The centre-piece was
still in the centre-of the floor; and every
OIL OIL grass, cniuas Silver WAS plleu !oA hop
Of it in a sickening mass.
The hostess looked at it in an unimpas-
stoned, fmpersonal way. As she said
afterward, 'if it had been three or four
things broken, l should rave felt it more,
but it was such a complete wreck that l
was too stunned to realize it. All l could
say was: j wonder how hat table car
ever be set before they come for /
thought everything must be in splinters."
But the table was reset-thes ubstructure
OF fruit had broken the fall, so that no
more than a dozen pieces were utterly
ruined-and the dinner was given on
time. And what is more, the hostess
wore just such a calm unruf1ed brow as
If there had not been such a "destruc-
tion by the fall.o
Now l wonder whether anyone who
reads this has guessed already that the
hostess was Mrs. Robert G.. Lyle?