The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
GRANDMAS' FINERY.
Women's Club Members
Give the Contents Of AM
cient Trunks an
Airing.
WITH POWDER IN THEIR HAIR
Up-to-date Girls in 0ut-of-D Date
Rigs-Living Poems and Lives
ly Dances - Supper
on Parade.


The Colonial Reception of the Jersey
City Woman's Club was held last night il,
the Jersey City Club House. The Colonial
dancers were few in number AT the last
minute the club members seemed to be
afraid to risk the gowns of their ancestors
and SO they came in their own. In some
cases it was difficult to tell whether the
gowns were colonial or 1897. The rule to
prove the date seemed to be powdered
hair. Those ladies who wore powdered
hair were colonial ladies'; the others, their
were amusing; Every one with an old
time bertha or hair comb or pair of ear
rings seemed to think last night the time
to wear them, and consequently there
Were a number of modern gowns bedeck-
ed with something ofd-fashioned, the
wearers fondly hoping its use made them
colonial. The ladies who wore out and out
colonial gowns, powdered hair and all. and
who acted as Reception COMMITTEES.
were:-Mrs. H. B. Day, Mrs. Spencer
Weart, Mrs. James 3. Throckmorton, Miss
Haigllt, Miss Kate Speir. Miss Alice Scud-
der, Miss Addie Scudder, Miss Jennie
" Horsley, Miss Louise Bowen, Misses
Muirheid, Mrs Ada Fuller, Miss Frost,
Mrs. Fairchild, Mrs Falkinburgh. Miss
Falkinburgh, Mrs. J. Slater and Mrs. John
A. Walker.
Promptly sIt $50 the orchestra played
an overture. At it's conclusion the stage
curtain was raised and Miss Cecel1a
Gaines, president of the club, stepped
forward to raake an address OF welcome:
Miss Gaines wore a colonial gown II
was made with a square cut low neck,
edged with a. deep puff of silk. From the
puff about the neck the skirt hung full
style. Miss Gaines golden hair was
puffed high on her head, and, alasi for
colonial traditions, 1t was not powdered
She wore pair OF immense noop ear
rings said to have been worn by Madame
Bonaparte Miss Gaines said she had
been chided last year for not telling about
the club work, and she would avert
second scolding by briefly describing the
work of the committees. She told of the
work accomplished in various lines ana
said the club would work for a new High
School and q school for manual training.
She then read a poem recently written
by a Newark woman about a New Jersey
woman of Colonial days This colonial
dame, so the poem said received WORD
from her husband that the soldiers had
no shoes and stockings, SO she went
about in a cart from door to door collect
ing stockings and knitting as she went
The drop curtain at the back OF the stage
in her cart, with an unfinished stocking
in her hand. Miss Lucie Nelson sang ana
Miss Grace Foster recited Grandma at
the Masquerade Miss Foster then re-
cited "Dorothy O." and a picture or
Dorothy a. was given. Miss Caryl Case
posed as Dorothy. She was dressed as
was the same 1t was most charming
tableau and. it received hearty applause.
The other i.ableaus were:-' Ancient and d
Modern Spinning, Pau Reyerers s,,S. Rtaet de-
disclosed Miss Addie Scudder In colonial
gown seated at spinning wheel. In the
second Miss Addie Scudder was seen RID
ing on a bicycle, the kind of wheel. as
explained by Miss Gaines, the modern
girl spins AS the curtain was raised g.
second tims Mrs Scudder gave an fius-
tration of scorching- Paul Reveres
Ride was a most modern adaptation Of
the story. Mr.. George Harrison was seen
in this astride a hobby horse which he
vainly urged on. These three pictures
were evidently copied after a vitascope,
for they were decidedly active. A very
pretty tableau was THE Point in Ques-
tion,'' showing the discussion between
Betty Ross and washington as M. 70 Inc lne
tableau wss Of Mrs. John L. Scudder as
Martha Washington. The picture was
faithful reproduction OF Lady WasnIng-
gracefully posed and artistically arranged
In each instance the background was in
keeping with the picture. AT the con-
clusion of the programme Miss Lulu Jor-
dan danced the minuet.
Some amusement was caused as the
entertainment progressed by the waiters
who carried the supper along the gauery
plain view to the audience and at eacn
appearances of piles of sandwiches and
loaves of bread a ripple of laughter was
heard. Supper was served in the gallery
Immediately after the entertainment. The.
orchestra played dance music and the
young people danced while the older
people talked to the colonial danes.
Among those present were:-MrS. M. r.
De Hart, Mr. and Mrs, Augustus Crevel-
ing. Mrs George w. Clerfhew, Mrs. A. J,
Newbury, Mrs. Lyman Fisk. Mr.. and
ward Case, Miss Case. Mrs. Briee Col
Harrison, Mr. George Harrison. Mrs. s.
G. Negus, Mrs. Hubbard. Mr.. Wesley
Negus. Mrs. G. " R. Brinkerhoff, Mrs.
o. H. Perry, Miss Jessie Perry. Miss Jane
Scott Dr. Florence De Hart, Miss E.. e.
Burdick, Miss NJ. F. Park, Miss Edith
Hunt, DR.. and Miss MacNaughton, Miss
Harold Rohrbach. Miss Rohrbach, Mrs
Miss Edna Brown, Mr.. John Holland, Mr.
Charles Eumsted, Mrs. Fountain, Miss
Crowen, Miss Lillian Fuller, Mrs. Robert
Muirheid, Mrs. William Cummings, Mr.:
and Mrs Harry Louderbough, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Stevens Mrs. Solon Palmer,
Mr. Louis Ames, Miss Kinds. Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph A. Dear, Mr.. George Ches-
ley, DIR. and Mrs. Talbot Chambers, Mrs.
Sarah FerneI. Mrs; Hetherington. Mrs.
Hudspeth Benson, Mrs. A. T. Clements.
Esher, Mrs. H G. Fisk. Mrs. George
Holmes, Mrs. Mclaughlin, Mrs Keating,
Mrs. r. g. Lyle, Mr.. and Mrs. Maroon,
Miss Mason, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Pear
son, Mrs. o. S. McCabe. Mr.. J.. A. Walker,
Rev. and Mrs. ]. L. Wells. Mrs. Jennie