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residence of Mrs. Livingstone Clifford, No,
20 Bentley avenue, Wednesday, afternoon.
April III Those invitations are respon-
sihle for a great deal Of joy as well as
the usual amount OF heart-burnings. 1t
is almost incredible. To think that the
few dancing men will for ONE evening be
reinforced by sixtyi To think that these
sixty men are coming with the avowed
intention of making it pleasant, for one
night at least, for Jersey City girls! 1t
is enough to set Jersey City girls in a
whirl. 1t is seldom indeed that they AVE
such a prospect of enjoyment. The few
men 10 be seen at Jersey City dances as
a rule prefer the task of holding up the
wall. One of the Yale women spoke
only the truth when she naively said:
we thought the Jersey City girls might
Ike it to have some new blood infused
into society.
At the dance which follows the concert
given by the Yale clubs the young women
of this city will nave the chance of their
lives The leap year dance. arranged
with an eye to revenge, is as nothing to
the opportunities of the Yale dance. At
the leap year dance the young girls had
to ask the men to dance, they had no
alternative. AT the Yale dance they can
lSlOIe JtISGy Olly lu6Il-dl1Q some art
already planning to do it-and dance
solely with Yale men. 1t is a night of
delight for the girls. But the men of this
city are beginning to think this importa-
ton of Yale men not such a boon as at
first it seemed. They fear that as at
military dances dress suits are at a dis
count and uniforms only are desirable.
At the Yale dance only the college men
will enjoy themselves. Under ordinary
circumstances the Yale men would nave
to run the chances of late dances. But
the afternoon reception gives them the
advantage.
1t was a brilliant idea that afternoon
reception. BY its aid the Yale men and
the Jersey City girls will become toferably
acquainted and all the dances may be
arranged before the evening. Then. too,
it is possible that the afternoons ac-
quaintance nay sufficiently familiarizes
the men with the girls SO it will not be
necessary for them to go about search
ing for the girl with the striped waist;
have you seen her?"
Indirectly the afternoon reception helps
the concert. The audience, the younger
part of it that is, will be much more in
terested in the programme after a slight
acquaintance with the clubs. Taken all
in all the reception is something for
which the Jersey City girls are heartily
thankful and they are deeply grateful to
the Yale women:-Mrs. Horace C. Wait,
Mrs. Livingstone Clifford, Mrs. j. w.
H~ardenbergh, Mrs. William A. Durrie,
Mrs. Harold R%oorbach, Mrs. John L.
Scudder. Mrs. M. F.. Stires, Mrs. Harm
sted, Mrs. Seward Davis, Mrs. William
]. Hunt, Mrs. Thomas Pope and Mrs.
Edward Davis. The other patronesses of
the concert, they who are not so fortu-
nate as to be wives of Yale men, are
Mrs. S. R. Forman. Mrs. c. D. Ridgeway,
Mrs. ]. J.. Detwiller, Mrs. F. M. Lock
wood. Mrs. Hannah Cairns, Mrs. j. A.
Dear. Mrs. George s.. Bennitt, Mrs. S. D.
Mackay, Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. R. M. Jarvis,
Mrs. G. w. Case. Mrs. William Martin,
Mrs. Edwin Bennett, Mrs. F. j. Koonz,
Mrs. John Headden. third, Mrs. Augustus
Creveling, Mrs. Marcus Beach, Mrs. Ell
lot Eager. Mrs. Thomas H. Williams,
Mrs. Scion Palmer, Mrs. G.. M. Bumsted,
Mrs. Thomas G. Kinds, Mrs. Charles
Herr, Mrs. Carrot Van Horne, Mrs. w.
w. varick, Mrs. N. Shafer, Mrs. H. Nc
Bride, Mrs. B. P. Craig, Mrs. o. H. Perry,
Mrs. w. ]. Toffey, Mrs. E. B. Kiersted,
Mrs. C. B. Bliss, Mrs. Edlow Harrison,
Mrs. G. Holmes. Mrs. George Wilkinson,
Mrs. w. H. Speer, Mrs. j.. Hamilton,
Mrs. J. Wilkinson, Mrs. George B. Will
son, Mrs. M. Adriance, Mrs. E.. M. Dixon,
Mrs. D. A. Bishop, Mrs. Joseph Bedle,
Jr., Mrs. Spencer Weart, Mrs. 3. F. c..
! Young and Mrs. James Palmer.
An affair one week later that is occu-
| pying the attention of the younger set is
the dramatic entertainment and dance
| given BY the Lenox Dramatic Club,
Thursday evening, April 20. Since the
Apollo Club, which died after a starry
career-one might almost say because of
| the starry career-there has been no
| dramatic club. Though many people
who cannot see perfection in the per-
Torrance of a company of amateurs were
disposed to be thankful that there was no
dramatic club, there were others who
continually lafnented the lack of bright
farces. Now there is a dramatic club.
It's initial performance win be given
April %. May good fortune attend it!
May the popular fate of amateur clubs,
too many stars, be long withheld from
it, May the club live long and pros
! peri And may it give performances
as truly good as sTulu,'' "A Box of
Monkeys" Our Boys the popular
plays of the dear departed Apollo Club!
The Jersey City Keramic Art Club
made a new departure at it's exhibition
this year. Several members of the club
who act as Reception Committee. dress
in the costumes of figures on fine china
Where it Was practicable the costumes
were copied after those on the figures.
In others. the costumes were of the colors
of the china. An instance of this is the
| gown worn by Miss Emma Conklin.
| chairman of the Costume Committee. She
represents old Venice ware, and her gown
though not like those on the china, is in
the colors of the ware, red with gold
scrolls. Miss Edith Buschman, repre-
senting Beleek ware, is gowned in white,
and she wears her hair powdered. Miss
Eva Niese, the daughter of an honorary
member. Mrs. H. E. Niese. represents old
Holland ware. She is the little Dutch
maiden from the wooden sabots on her
feet to the gilded cap with its funny lit
tie knobs and ornaments Elizabethan
china is represented by a gown of the
Elizabethan period and Miss billiard in
a Dresden gown represents Dresden fig
ures. Other costumed member are:-
Mrs. Eleanor Price. Delft china; Mr..
Paul Ewh, Turkish costume; Miss Annie
M. Ramsay. Egyptian pottery; Miss
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