The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-13
In THE SOCIAL WORLD.
Clubs and Glasses of Every
Description For Every
Purpose.
MANY PRETTY WEDDINGS
Piano Recital for the Benefit of
the Home for Aged Women
Other Musical Matters.

This is 4 great town for clubs and
classes of every description. for every
purpose. Indeed, If q woman In Jersey
! City but have enough afternoons q week
to give to them. there is not the least ex-
cuse for her dying unlearned III every
thing teachable. This winter the classes
have started a little earlier than usual.
aud there are more of Them. l shall have
Co mix together classes Is dancing, as
tronomy and English literature. all In
one mass. but as they come about this
way on the calender, I may be forgiven.
First In the minds of a great part OF
society-the younger part is the new dane
ing class soon to open in the Carteret Club
house. 1t Ia under the direction OF Mrs.
Smith. daughter of Mrs. E. F. G, Young.
The instructor will be the famous Mar
wig.
Several years z q class of this sort
was organized on the Heights, Marwig
then being the instructor. The buds of
this season we've in the chtldren's class.
aud not a few OF the young matrous Ia
society were then dancing in the evening
meetings. The class was conducted
much as the famous "Papautts" of
Boston, immorralized by w. D, Howeils
"a class where people obtained what
might be called the higher education"
of dancing-a class in which membership
testified to 8 certain social position. This
seasons class seems TO be OF the same
nature. '1he dates have not been made
known TO the general pubic. but the
place will be In the Carterst Club Hall.
Another dancing class soon to open
will be held IN Foye Hall. This class
has won itself Q place in the social annals
of the HafRufG QGnaciailH am0nQ tna
younger sat. " is under the supervision
OF Mrs. Edward Schroeder, formerly a
resident OF Kepslngton avenue, DOW
living IN Rossville, New Jersey. Tpis
will be positively the last" season Of the
class, which has basn held for several
years. The instructor Is Professor Viii,
liam Pitt Rivers OF Brooklyn. The OPEN
ing reception will be held on the Goth
of October. The pretty hall has been
remodelled SO as to make It an ideal
place for a class, which has been puI-
posely kept small and select.
DOWN TOWN CLASS.
Now TO go to literature. | SUPPOSE one
might lead to the subject a litsle more
gracefully by quotations from Milton
about the light fantastic toe, aud so
gently slide from Terpsichore to which,
sver Muse il Is that keeps watch over
literary classes, but the result Is the
same In the end. The leader of all the
literary Glasses. the n which is com-
posed mainly of residents of down-towu.
the one over which Mrs. Horace G. Wait
presideS, will reopen or October 81. /
know that Mrs. Wait does not like TO see
her name 10 print, and ! have an uneasy
consciousness tina 1t would not please
her II ! should say all l should like about
the fact that she is undoubtedly the one
woman in jersey City best equipped in
literary matters. SO ! shall have to stop
short and let people imagine to what
heights I would have reached from this
beginning.
LITERATURE IN THE MORNING.
On the Heights there was a class last
year made up exclusively Of young
ladies, most Of them not yet formally
introduced. From the time of It's meet
ings. it was called the Monday Morning
Literary Glass Its teacher was Miss
Louise Grace Farrant, the first girl from
Jersey City to enter Barnard College
and complete the tour years course. /
watched the class from afar with a deal
OF Interest, partly because l knew
what a very clever girl Miss
Ferrant is. sud partly because
any sort of q real literary class is a bene-
fb TO the community, and it gave mo real
pleasure to learn that it was TO be re-
sumed this season. Only the time Is to be
changed, aud instead of Monday it will
held on Thursday mornings. Whether
this will affect the name or not / do
not know. II did mos Interfere with the
Fo~rtnightly's lame lasG year that the
meetings were held anywhere from two
days to three weeks apart.
MUSIC OF H SPHERES,
Then the First Presbyterian Church is
going to tax up University Extension
anda lesrned professor is going to lee
ture In the Session. House GU the sur,
moon. stars and planets. For further
particulars see small bills to quote
Cruln .uies. And Frederick Dean. the
lecturer formerly of New York, will
begin a course of lectures in the Has
br0uck School Of Music early In Novem-
Der, Dide the musical notes elsewhere on
this page.
So the classes are almost In full SWAY.
aud by next month they will be COM
pletely so.