The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-18
Social and
PERSONAL

The coming fortnight will be alive
with gaiety. Beginning with Thursday
evening when Mr.. and Mrs. Il. c. Won
Storch will give a dancing party at the
Bicycle club few evenings are devoid
of some elaborate function. Christi
mas eve Mr. and Mrs. a. d. Blackinton
will give a very large party at the
same place for their nephew and
niece, Mr.. and Miss Galpin. Saturday
will, of course, be devoted to family
festivities and the private entertain
ment of many out of town guests
Monday evening is the date of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Jermyn's dance. Tuesday
evening Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Belln
jr., will entertain.
Mrs. II. NJ. Boies has issued invita-
tions for an at home Thursday after
noon for Miss Boies while Colonel and
Mrs. Boies will give a reception and
dance on that evening. also To an
nounCe their daughters debut The
climax of the merry week will, OF
course. be the New Year ball, of which
so much is said a this time. These,
together with the Assembly and un-
limited dinners and luncheons Will
make a busy holiday season indeed.
Cards for the New Year ball Friday
evening, Dec. 81, were issued yesterday
bearing the names Of the committee
members: Messrs. James Blair, Paul
Il. Belin, joseph NJ. Boies, Lawrence
3. Fuller and Theodore $. Fuller. The
patronesses are: Mrs. James Arch
bald. Mrs. Henry Beln, jr.. Mrs II.
NJ. Boies. Mrs. j. j. Dimmick, Mrs II.
NIpg S.st.1 II ..,,
Mrs. II. p. Simpson, Mrs. A. II. Storrs,
!. Mrs. f. B Sturges. Mrs. Everett War;
q, rem, Mrs. T. IL. Watkins, Mrs. T.. n.
Willard.
Mr. and Mrs. C. II. Zehnder gave a
dinner at the Country club Saturday
night when the following were present:
Colonel and Mrs. II. NJ. Boies.
DR.. and Mrs. c. l.. Frey, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. H. Storrs, Mr.. and Mrs. Bower,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. C. Rose, Miss Eliza
beth Zehnder, Mr.. May.
The "art lecture course" recently
doomed in this city is the most re-
markably piece Of enterprise in the
way Of a book agent scheme ever work.
ed on a long suffering and easy
community. Ladies who We're en-
Unused with the prospects Of attaining
TO a height of art knowledge in "A
course of twelve lectures agreed to re-
linqush their twelve nice round dol
lars for the same eruditiOn with a lot
of lovely pictures to be thrown in.
They went to one lecture one stormy
day last week and were informed that
the remainder of the course and the
pictures would be forwarded from the
bureau wherever or whatever that
may be. When the eagerly awaited
parcel arrived it contained a book
bound in blue and white and this was
both lectures" and pictures The vol
ume is illustrated with small repro
duction in Indifferent half tones of the
works of American artists Sometimes
there are as many as i've illustrations
on a moderate sized page. and the text
which is neither VQluminous or very re-
plete with information, constitutes the
art lectures" None of the pictures
are available for portfolio or framing
purposes, as both sides OF the leaves
are utilized with text aud illustration.
Just before Christmas, and twelve
nice. round dollars for book that
satisfeth not; and yet you will hear
some people declare that there is no
art. feeling in Scranton. Wen, in
decd, there is plenty of it in certain
quarters just'at the present time!
MIR. and Mrs. Henry Belin, jr.. have
issued invitations to a reception and
dance at the Bicycle club December 2S
Mr.. Edward Blair and his friend, Mr.
Parsons, of New York who have been
guests at nc home of Mr.. j. \. Linen,
left this week for the city. After the
holidays they will go South for a few
weeks prior to an extended stay
abroad.
Mrs. G.. dubois Dmmick sang at the
missionary meeting at the First Pres
byterian church on Thursday an ex-
quisite rendering of "CantiQue lie
Noel by Adam.
Some one asks Shall read His
Grace of Osmond?'" The advice here
given is Don't" 1t has added moth
ing to Mrs. Burnett's fame and is 81
palpabIy a final clutch after the loaves
and isnes that it deserves no recOgni.
tion. The story told in "A Lady of
Quality" is repeated in every detail ad
nauseum, the scenes which in that
book made strong situations and gave
pathetic touches in the companion
volume are merely Vulganty and
bathOs. There was no possible excuse
for writing His Grace of Osmond
any more than there was for repeatedly
Juggling into its chapters the disgusting
description of the Thames incident
when the hero, clothed a la-Trilby
saves a bride from drowning. not his
own but some one else's bride
Mr.. c. Philip Smith, the wen known
artist of New York, gave lessons to a
class of ladies at the home of Miss
Anna *. Scranton during his stay in
this city. Mr.. Smiths wonderful eff.
fects in wat'r colors and ceramic art
are known only in the metropolis
but in almost every large city of the
country.
Miss Marilla Mott entertained the
Tuesday Afternoon club of the West
Side in the rooms of the Scranton clul
Tuesday afternoon, which were pret.
tily adorned for the occasion. The
ladies present We're: Mrs. George w
Phillips, Mrs. w. w. Phillips, Mrs
Charles A. Burr, Mrs. George b. Rey.
nolds, Mrs II. c. Wallace, Mrs. Robert