The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-27
JUST BEFORE LENT.
Society C1ings to Silks and
Diamonds Before Wear
ing Sackcloth and
Ashes.
LITERARY CLUBS In PLENTY.
st. Mary's Guild and the Jersey
City Lawn Tennis Club
Notes Of the Week in
the Gay World.
CLUBS In PLENTY.

"For a small town." said a superciliou .
New Yorker, as he strolled into one OF
our drawing rooms not long since, there
seems to be more going on in Jersey City
than any one person can take in" Leav-
ing out the reflection on the extent of our
territory, the remark might well be raken
to apply to the state of things that at
present obtains. There is more going IN
han any one person can take in. And
signs point that until Ash Wednesday
thiss state Of things will keep on aud grow
more so.
First, there are to be several entertain
ments for which an admission fee will be
charged. the proceeds for charity or club
treasures, but which are by no means 80
easy of access as the price of tickets
would imply. Mrs. Young's entertain
ment last night, at Foye Hall, was OF
this nature. Such entertainment is are
usually followed by a dance and the
younger fry go in evening dress. 1t is
strange how much effort 1t takes to In
duce a Jersey City audience to wear full
dress. When the tableaux from Life"
were given in Foye Hall. there were not
ten per cent. of real evening gowns In
the audience, and although the Melopoias
have always printed the Two words that
call for fine raiment on their cards, the
least sign of rain brings hcrdes OF people
in dark gowns. mackiDtoshes mi storm
collars. such was not the case last night,
but of this elsewhere.
The Jersey City Lawn Tennis Club has
invited the Stevens Institute Glee and
Banjo Club to provide their annual enter
talnment January 81. There has always
been a strong flavor of Stevens about the
j. G. L. T. g. since its champions. Au-
drew J. Post, Jr.. and George Fielder, to
say nothing of Edward l.. Ferris. Harry
Adams aud several more, are or have
been Stevens men and play on Stevens
soil. MI. Post will appear In pubic on
the stage next Tuesday night. and so will
all the other Stevens songsters, aud al
though their precise programme has not
yet been published, no doubt we shall
hear our old friend, "L'Ingenue," unless
that has gone to the shades-and more OF
the jolly college songs. A dance will
follow.
SINGING FOR CHARITY.
The same night st. Mary's Guild will
hold its annual entertainment. We have
all seen the mite chests" that stand in
stores and stations. meekly and mutely
appealing for Christ Hospital. liz Is 81.
Mary's Guild that places them there. and
LOOKS out for the Hospitals comfort in
every Way. Its annual entertainment has
Frank Molten, contralto, will sing. as
Mr.. VIM. F. Brown. The star
will be Mr.. Milo Deyo, now of New York,
a pianist of metropolitan, as well as Con-
Jinental reputation. Aprepos, a we'll
known musician of the city was saying of
his PLAYING last Tuesday:-"He played on
my pjunO1 ast yvaak and when he was all
through, | felt as if / ought to &C around
with q scrap basket and pick up the frag-
ments OF the Keyboard" From which it
may be inferred that Mr.. Milo Deyo plays
with vigor and abandon. Mrs. E. w.
Hoddon is drilling a companyof amateurs
in a one-act farce, to briug down -he cur
tain, and it may be that she will recite as
we'll. although this is nor settled for sure.
As for music, there will be a recital az
the Lafayette Rsformei Church some
time early in February That will be worth
going to hear. 1t will be given by Mr..
Louis Sherwood. organist, and Mr.. John
Holland, violin. aud the programme is to
consist entirely of compositions by Rhine
berger. Besides. the twelve or so nu II
bers will be arranged With a view to
logical sequence. Mr.. Sherwood is one of
the most talented and least known organ
list in the city. A pupil OF Dudley Bucks,
be has the technical facility to express
Gub oSutllICupo " o . tLAhNb "iua
u thoughtfulness as rare as it is invalu-
able. Mr.. Hollands violin work our
musical public already knows. Admis-
sion will be by invitation.
Some time before Lent Mrs. Marcus E..
Beach will give a musicale at her resi-
dence on HoboKen avenue. Meantime
the Fortnightly will pursue the even
| tenor of its way.
DANCES AND TEAS.
AS for private fairs, in the way of re-
captions and dances, Mrs. James FIem-
| ming will be at home next Monday at
her residence, No. 81 Grand street, and
there will be guests from le igues around.
while every man noted at Bench or Bar
will be present. On Wednesday the
Misses Clara and Louise Wilkinson will
| give a tea at their home on Bergen ave-
nue.. The next day, Thursday, February
9, the Board of Trade will hold its annual
dinner at the Hotel Washington, and
| speechify to its hearts content.
Meantime, every Tuesday afternoon,
the Physical Culture class meets IN the
| Athletic Club gymnasium, and the mem
| bers swing clubs and clash dumb-be lis
| and use even the higher apparatus OF the
gymnasium. The class is constantly IN
| creasing in numbers, and it has become
quite The proper thing for young women
an Indian Climb, by way of strength
ening the muscles and giving to
the arm the symmetry of health.
The Odd Volumes meet every other
Wednesday, and there has been another
| club formed, called the Emerson Liter
| airy Society,"" 1t is composed of young
people living in the part of the Heights
around Bergen and Belmont avenues,
| the men mainly Columbia law students.
1t was foHnded by four young ladies. and
The first meeting held January IL,
There is the prospect of a parlor lecture
by Miss Clara West some time during
Lent. Miss West has spent several years
abroad, and since her return has de-
| livered parlor talks upon German life,
| literature and arts, which have proved to
be Of great interest. Mrs. Cornelius
| Brett is prominent in the arrangements.
People in Morristown who ave heard
her send to this city enthusiastic praise OF
her lectures. This feature of Lenten life
is by no means so well developed in Jer-
sey City as over the river, where sewing
classes divide the Lenten honors with
lectures on 1.-THE true, the good and the
beautiful"
This, Their is a brief summary of what
is in story for this and the next month.
LENT comes so early tn at the rush must