The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-03
CLOSING THE SEASON
The Women's Club Holds
Its Last Meeting
Until Fall
MRS. LILLIAN Belts ADDRESS
What They Find to Do in the
World Of Fashion-Notes
Of Society.
MRS. LILLIAN BELTS ADDRESS

WOf1d OF faSnlOn-N0leS
Of Society.
The last of this years regular meet
ings of the Jersey City Woman's Clui
was held yesterday afternoon in thu
Woman's club house on Belmont ave,
niue. Miss Nelson. accompanied by Mrs
Lyle, sang ..Hark. a Voice Rejoicing
and as an encore, Spring Voices In
making the report for the Exchange
i Committee, Mrs. Lyle said the Exchange
will be open during the entire summer
Mrs, George w. Case laid for the Ex-
~ecutiye Committee that it had decided
to print a monthly club paper to be
known as the "Club Outlook" in place
of the "Club Annual Mrs. George w.
! Clerihew for the Membership Commit
tee proposed the names of Mrs. Howard
Slater and Mrs. Orlando MeCabe. Mrs.
Rohrbaok said the regular meeting OF
the Educational Committee would be
held ON May sixteen and she invited all
club members to attend. Miss Gaines
said the report of Mrs. Collard for the
Philanthropie Committee would be read
by the Secretary. as she. unlike the
Sybil of old was there. ''all but her
voice. ?, OF which a severe cold had be-
reft her. She said the Girls' Fortnightly
Club wanted a library and asked for
contributions of such books as Louisa
NJ. Aacott's works, Mrs. A. D. T. Whit
ney's books. Hawthorne's Wonder Book.
and the Arabian knights. These books
may be sent to Miss Martin, No. 1886
| York street, or Mrs. Coilard. No. &c
| clinton street. "A st~ereopticon talk will
be given by the Rev. J. Lester Wells
next Wednesday evening in the club
house. The proceeds will go for the IL
brary of the Girls Fortnightly Club.
Miss Gaines said the State Federation
was very a~nxious to nave the question
Of the State Federation color and flower
decided and had asked for the advice of
the Woman's Club. After some dis
cussion the club decided in favor of the
lily of the valley. and pale blue for the
\ color.
Miss Gaines then said the Woman's
| Club had been appealed to by some of
the educators tmen) of the city, to do all
in their power to procure a new High
| School Building. Miss Gaines told of the
eramped quarters and terrible stairs of
the present High School Building. It
\ " IS 4CStQCA - IL 10y viz = - ~ SrAAN
nifty petitions drawn up which were to
be signed by the members and to which
the members we're then to procure the
signatures of Influential citizens.
MRS. BELTS Address.
Mrs. Lillian Belts of New York, was
the speaker of the afternoon. Her sub
ject was .'Friendship in Club Life and
she; discussed it in an entertaining man
terested her audience from beginning to
end. She safd:-
| years ago. / thought at that time that
I knew something Of the life of the poor
through my long association with Work
| thing until / lived six weeks in Riving-
ton street. My first awful experience
was hearing the sounds at night. The
Women, and the screams Of the frighien-
I began o do a little visiting. Never
tsaps : had Cd s ! known Some the , horror Tb that
of keeping house for from two to six,
| and never knowing where the money is
coming ,q from t. pay t the f debts b Of be M1II
/ be no money. Then think of the mother
| with the thought always before her
that. slave th0Yggh she does she and
| And the monotony of these women's
! lives. Kept awake all night by a crying
baby while trying to rest among four or
| morning to get her husbands meals.
and then caring for these same trouble
| some children all day. Most Of these
ton, But of what use ha it been to
them? It is not the right kind for the
workingwomena While in Riyington
/ were mothers. they had an average in
come OF ninety-seven cents a day, and
out Of these ~ one could cut and make
knew how to make bread, and one made
| it, and 70 per cent. of these were edu-
| Gated in the public schools,
i~ngwomen. and we invited. twenty wom-
cup Of tea. All accepted the invitation,
| and nine came. 1t is a code of the East
Side always to accept an invitation and
then, 20 If you want to. OF course we
have to learn the codes. We organized
that afternoon and our subject fer dis
| oussion was, How long is 1t after hair
has been taken from curl papers before
It Is becoming?' Not q very weighty sub
| j6ct, some of you think, but it set them
| thinking and made them sec what we
| wanted them to-, namely, as hair is put
into curl papers so as to make its wear
| err more attractive, the papers must be
| taken off in time so that the husband
will arrive ct Just the proper moment
week and this money was expended for
eoffee and cake at tho meetings: / want
to tell you q little incident VIII
| SlOW ySu liz vel iAC ~ tAc HSSA,
side Of a poor mans family. An old
to me one day and asked if l thought
| CONS for q birthday party. She said
| she would be sixty-two on her birthday.
and had never had a party. but had al
ways wanted one. 1 said, certainly,
when; is your birthday And she said,
! Next SATURDAY.. but I'll have the party
on the club day.
III THE OLD WoMAN'S PARTY.
"A day or two before the party her
husband came to me and gave me IS,
telling me to get her something nice,
because she had always been a good wife
to him. The day of the party came and
l~evaryoue of those women brought a little
/ Gift. Three cents worn rave purchased
many or them. hut not their kin wishes.
We took the children around into an
other room where they could see the
| oake with it's sfKty-two candles. and told
Il them 10 say When the door was open,
Wish you many hapny returns of the
day. They did so and when their little
voices piped out she cried, %, God, What
have 4 don that you should be SO good
Mrs, Belts said. she dian't know hich
Esary when they had an evening and
II invited the families. She told Of one
imam who ssaid TO her that It was. the
HTst time in eighteen years he had beeg
saloons were. the, only places they had,
Mrs, Bates said she didn't know which
jsfhropiafs. She thought clubs should moi
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