The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-10
COSMOS PLUS WOMAN.
The Liveliest Kind of a
Session of the Dining
and Debating Club.

For the first time on record the Cosmos
Club. that most masculine of all societies,
invited It's friends of the other sex to Que
of its famous dinners and equally Famous
discussions that come on with the colee.
and are generally conducted in the midst
of a haze of smoke. Last night. how
| ever, the smoke was absent. aud the
atmosphere of the Hotel Washington's
| largest diningroom was redolent VITA
nothing stronger thar the odors from
banks of pink and white roses that STOOD
on tue one long table and served aLter-
wards as dinner favors.
The guests assembled in the parlor on
the second floor, where they were pre-
sented to Mrs. Jennie cunningham
Croly, the guest of honor. 1t was sup
| posed to be half-past six when President
Fiemming gave his arm Co Mrs, Croiy,
but the Cosmos clock was q few monlehts
behind time, a result brought aoout
partly by a telephone message saying
mat DR.. w. X. Durrie. Jr., had Just
ankle. In the subdued excitement winch
was the result of the message. the injury
| began to grow worse aud worse In Ghe
| telling, SO that it would PROBABLY have
| flushed as a fractured skull had not the
| downward procession formed. Tine Rev.
| Dr. ScuQQer aSkeu bH6 DItlu0
| and President Flemming made a litCie
| speech Introductory to the blue points.
Just after the salmon was removed, the
| first of a delightful series of Interruptions
| took place. Miss Florence Turner sang
| Sterlezki's Happy Days" arranged
with violin obligato for Mr.. Duncan
| Cameron, the piano part by Mrs. w.
| Hunter brown. 1t would seem as though
every form of praise had already fallen 70
| the lot of Miss Turner, and it is certainly
no time now to try to tell anything new,
vet it may be said that a more IN
selection could not have been made. Inc
next interruption was when Presloen1
| Memming rose over the ruins of Rogue
fort and delivered a bright little address
| of welcome. telling his unaccustonled
| guests that, up to that time, the club had
| not been a true cosmos" but only a hem-
isphere, and now that the other half had
consented to add itself, the club Woul
| live up to its name for one night at least.
| He referred with feeling to the tunes
when the members wives cooked the
dinners-or saw to their cooking-with.
out so much as seeing them eaten. aud
rejoiced with them that at last they had
their reward in some degree. he con-
cluded his remarks by Introducing MISS
Mary Barton Lamberton, who. reclted
"Lasca," a rhymed story OF a phase OF life
by the Rio Grande. Then there was a
general rustling and sound of prepara-
ton, and that most complimentary
silence of breathlessness as Mrs.
Jennie c.. Croiy denny June) rose to
open the discussion on "Women's CLUBS. "
Even the orchestra in the next room
paused in telling about The Bowery,
the Bowery,' and the walters relaxed
from their professional stolidity, and
hattened themselves against the walls
and doors. Mrs. Cioly's record extends
from Fifth avenue TO Bombay. ana
further. twenty-five years ago she laid
the foundation Of Soross. and since that
time no movement for the enlightenment
and uplifting of women has been IN
augurated without her assistance.
MRS. CRoLY'S TALK.
Mrs. Croly introduced her subject by
setting forth the claims of the middle
aged woman, who is in 1.-The long and lu-
terestiug period that intervenes between
the freshness of youth and venerable old
age.n The middle aged woman certainly
received her just deserts, for once at
least, at her hands. She was declared to
be ideal material for every kind OF Wom-
ans work, especially women's cluos,
since she was eager to learn what
her children talked about. to Keep up
with the world. and while her home
would always and before everything
else, to bring into the narrow confines or
that home, a breath from the great world
of progress outsiue. She spoke OF tne
formation OF Sorosis; and emphasized the
distinction bel ween a club ann a society
the latter organized to carry out some
definite object, to reach some assigned
goal; the former an effort OIL the part OF
Individuals to fiud some common ground.
She spoke of the influence of the club Ia
broadening sympathies and preventing
the seldshness of solitude. She showed
how small beginnings often make
great BINDINGS. telling now Frau
Wathushek of Prague. an ole
hausfrdu who owned a beer garden, by
her own gathering from the homes OF tht
peasantry, formed the nucleus of 6
wonderful collection of woman's hand
work, which now ranks among the great
museums of the world. and whose new