The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-16
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"A iauy SalQ q lew lays ago, IN SpedkiuS
of Miss Gaines, President of the Wom-
ans Club and the Odd volumes:-"It is
| simply impossible to get her to speak of
anything but that Federation meeting
What was said of Miss Gaines might be
said with equal justice of all the mem
bers of the three clubs entertaining the
Federation, the Odd Volumes, the Ram
bier and the Woman's Club. Federation,
Federation, Federation is the subject of
all the club meetings.. When two club
members meet anywhere Federation is
the subject Immediately Introduced, All
the women in the city who are club mem
bers are talking and planning about the
Federation meeting. The business meet
ings and the afternoon speeches are of
little Importance to Jersey City women.
OF course they want to hear the speeches
and they are interested in the business
of the Federation, but. with one excep-
ton, the interest centres in the evening
reception given by the Jersey City clubs.
Thursday evening, October %, Miss
Agnes Repplier win deliver a lecture to
the Federation. This lecture will be fol-
lowed by a reception in the lecture room
of the church (the Bergen Reformed).
Tickets will be issued to both the lecture
and reception, and no one will be allowed
to attend either without the magic cards.
Miss Repplier has gained a reputation in
the literary world for her prose essays.
and is said to be an interesting speaker.
At the reception which follows, Mrs.
Henrotin, Mrs. Yardley and many dis
tinguished women will be present and
will shake hands with all present. This
Misunderstanding is felt to be a great in
ducement to attend the reception. The
honor is so great that 1t is only second
to White House receptions.
The one exception is the election of
President of the State Federation. This
does interest Jersey City women, for it
has been boldly asserted that Miss
Gaines, our Miss Gaines, as she is
ahectionately called, is the one and only
woman for the position. Miss Gaines
emphatically denies-now-that she will
take the Office, if elected; but who knows
what may happen before October 20?
Miss Gaines might find it hard to give
up the Presidency of the Odd Volumes
and the Woman's Club, as some say she
would have to do; for there really are
people who say one small woman ought
y doAo tiAC ella Ol NlIct oISdulZdllOuS
SO closely related in her little hands.
But where there's a will there's a way.
and if Miss Gaines makes up her min
that she wou like to be President of
the State Federation of Women's Clubs,
Miss Gaines VIII be President. So much
for the power of "our'' Miss Gaines.
When Mrs. Horace c. Wait announced
to her history class last spring that she
would have no class this year, many
We're the queries. There were few who
believed that Mrs. Wait would be able
TO hold to her determination and the
large majority of Mrs. Waits friends and
acquaintance expressed their conviction
that Mrs. Wait would have a class of
some kim this year. The few who had
firm belief in Mrs. Waits will power and
in her ability to hold to a determination
whispered in awed tones that Mrs. Wait
intended taking the time devoted hitherto
to her class and write a book. The
book. it was said, was to deal with a
great deal relating to England and its
literature that mere ordinary writer's had
left untold. The book may or may not
be in embryo. The whispers about it
are still heard In some quarters and
these whispers are still awed. The ma
jority, however, was in the right. Mrs.
Wait will have a class. This class is to
be in all respects superior to those Mrs.
Wait used to hold. 1t is, it is said, to be
more select" only a chosen few of the
hundred and fifty are to be admitted
within the sacred precincts. All Jersey
City has been under the impression Ina
Mrs. Waits former classes were .'se-
lect"-nothing, so Jersey City has
thought. could be more SO. But it only
goes to show how little is impossible.
Mrs. Wait is going to do what many nave
considered an impossible task-hold a
class of ladies' more select than those
of former years. The reason for this
decision IS well known to many member
of her class. A little bird has whispered
many times how at one of Mrs. Waits
lectures, held at the residence of a mem
Der of the c1ass-well, perhaps it would
be unfair to tell what happened-the lit
tie bird only whispers it with bated
breath.
The class is to meet in the mornings
instead of the afternoons. It is to meet
at the new residence of Mrs. Frank D.
Grey on Bergen avenue, near Emory
street. 1t would, perhaps. take too
much time away from that book of hers
If Mrs. Wait had the class at her own
home, but holding it at Mrs. Grey's resi-
dence relieves Mrs. Wait of much care
and enables her to devote almost her en-
tire time to her book. Mrs. Watts travels
in England this summer were over tina
part of the country which her book is
said to deal with. Mrs. Waits efforts to
discriminate among the select" will
probably meet with the proper recog-
milton.
The wedding of Mr.. Albert irving
Drayton and Miss Sarah Conselyea Trap
hagen has been one Of great interest in
the social world. Mrs. Drayton, as Miss
T~raphagen. was most popular in Jersey
City society. She had hosts of friends
who expressed their sincere pleasure at
the news of her engagement to Mr..
Drayton about eighteen months ago. Mrs.
Drayton was presented with a number
Of handsome presents. Among the many
beautiful things displayed, an oak linen
chest, containing Mrs. Draytonis stores,
came In for a great deal of attention.
All the linen had been marked and EN-
broidered by the bride most exquisiteiy.