New-York tribune., 1896-12-08

Taylor. Miss Ethel Weeks. Miss Georgia Fairfield
Brisham i MISS Miss Florence f Johnson Miss Maude
Harmon; Miss Mabel Roe: Miss Gertrude Smith.
Ruth Babcock and Miss Agnes Hall. The patron
s. esses were Mrs McAndrew Mrs. Yarringtoni Mrs
Elizabeth Spalding, Miss Hobson, Miss Althous
and Miss Bull.
The Business womens Auxiliary has secured the
rooms it has been looking for so long They are in
the Hamilton Bank Building hundred d-and-
tweniy-hfth-st. and Seventh-ave.. and last nights
session was held there The arrangements were COM
peted very suddenly and there was just time TO
notify the members before the meeting.
Miss e. Marguerite Lindey. OF this CITY, gave
comprehensive and instructive lecture Saturday
morning Graduates Hail. Albany. 'Recrea-
tive Sports" This lecture was arranged by the
women and girls OF the society OF the State capital
and proved a great success.
As Introductory to the several topics discussed,
Miss Lindey took up individual introspection OF
physical conditions resources and limitations. and
then considered bicycling a craze and a Ma
tional pastiTe. setting forth clearly the relation OF
rider to the wheel and vice versa Under this head
the transition easy and natural to practical
illustration Of handkerchief bandagng for injured
ankle and wrist.
The pros and cons of golf bowling and rowing
adroitly treated. and demonstrations OF sup
Elementary gymnastic exercises for home practice
were given The lecture closed with feasible taik
on ''The Ethics Of Dress"
There has just died In the county house OF
Cayuga County. y. Y. old colored woman.
Aunt" Eliza Jackson Van Dwyer. aged ll3 years.
She born Staten Island In 1888 on a plan
tation owned by Isaac jacques. and although.
cording to her story Mars jacques was a kind
man an treated us slaves mighty good there was
an overseer there who piled the whip vigorously
as any OF the Southern ante-belum "Legrees."
When Eliza was nineteen years old she succeeded
In making her escape. and had reached Baiiston
Springs when she was captured by man named
To ohns vybo adj cd her n Again
cruelty treated she effected her making her
"li A,housh ' ASnt za had had BEEN been an inmate the
county house for the last thirteen years. ana al,
away the old negr-ss pleaded TO the last to be
taken back to Syracuse. saying II poor os Mar, MATS
and get their old aunty" Her great dread was
dying In the poorhouse. and she often begged 10 De
sold to the doctors: so can be taken away from
here TO be buried"
Several members OF the New-York Free Kinder
garten Association FOR Coiored children recently
paid a visit, to Mrs Henry Willard at Dobbs Ferry.
on the Hudson. Mrs Willard IS much Interested In
the schools and in the advancement OF the co'ored
race She Is n daughter OF William Lloyd Garri-
son of abolition fame ,, ,,.u.
and It IL doing good work. Mrs Morse Is ASSISTED
In her managemsnt OF the school, ,, Gy ME- rs MORSE
wrote the anti tslavery novel entitled hachei STAN
wood
The Monte Relief Society will give Its annual en-
terianment and ball tomorrow at the Lexington
Opera House. Fifty-eighth-st. and Lexington-ave.
The entertainment will consist OF elaborate pro-
duction OF tho comedy Pink Dominos performed
by a company OF professional artists under the d.
rectior OF Wright Huntington. A unique entertain
mcnt entitled Celestial Ballet" will be INTRODUCED
II includes The Rainbow" ensemble dance;
and solo dances for the sun. moon and stars, All
arranged by Edward Newberger; The affair prom
ises TO eclipse any Of the societys former sue
cesses The proceeds are furnish poor families
with a Christmas dinner.