The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-10
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a wear ago there was q long siege o.
callers. callers, callers. Long after the
reception was 4 thing of the past the
calls continued. So Mrs. Young Ia self
defence this time adopted a fashion which
IS in vogue IN other cities. She added
in the left hand corner of the card for
the At Home Thursday, January 6 and
49, These mysterious dates mean that
on those days Mrs. Young. Mrs. Smith
and Mrs. Edward l.. Young will receive
the calls which must be paid after the
AT Home And thereby hangs a tale.
Innovations in Jersey City are often
risky. particularly If they are unexplain-
able. Had Mrs. Young added the eX-
PLANTATION of those two extra dates there
would have been no trouble, but OF course
that was impossible and equally of course
there are in this city many people who
never heard of such a thing as special
days for party calls" There are really
and truly some people who think Mrs.
Young is to have three "At Homes"
| each SURPRISING the former in grandeur
and magnifcence, and these people have
expressed their determination to go to
the last "At Home because they think
it the best. What will their feelings be
when they find they have missed the
flowers and music and tea and grand
toilettes? But experience they say is the
best teacher and when some one else
follows the fashion set by Mrs. Young
these u~nfortunates will know the mean
ing of the calling dates. 1t is only an
other instance of the many peculiar hap
penings in society here.
The Golf Club is now firmly established
on a solid basis. Not only has the club
house been rented and the ground taken
possession of but an instructor has been
engaged, temporary links have been made
and Mr.. Willie Collins, the champion
and expert. has pronounced the grounds
everything that is desirable and the pros
poets for excellent links alluring. Mr..
Collins has spoken so favorably of the
proposed course that the members of the
club are all co~ngratulating themselves
and each other and are beginning to talk
of the charming possibilities. If the
course is made one of the best in the
country, as Mr.. Collins. so the members
say, has limited, what may not happen?
May not, some day, the great Champion
ship games be played here?
L Has ms iuSl QtlOi was IL NlSS
stroke. What members Of a golf club
likes to admit he or She does not know
what a tee is or a bunker" or what
the many sticks with their queer ends are
for? They all think, of course, that they
can get over the course with ~miraculously
few strokes, and, in fact, beat the profess
sional record at the start. All the other
players have failed, for some strange
reason. but it must be a simple thing to
knock a ball from one flag TO another.
Anybody could do it, you know. The in
structor isn't necessary for that. But
then it woul be so embarrassing when
one had made the record breaking tour
to be unable to use the technical terms
SO one instructor is useful.
The House Committee, Mrs. Burdette
Post Craig, Miss Ann G. Traphagen, Mr..
William C. Post and Mr.. John Headden
third, are busily engaged in getting the
clubhouse ready. 1t is probable that an
opening reception will be given at a very
early date.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. C. Negus, of Clifford
Charles Frederic VOTERS, in Rochester.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hilton Williams
and Mrs. John Hilton were present at the
Musurgia concert in the Waldorf-Astoria,
New York, Tuesday night. Mr.. Frank
Hilton is a member Of the club.
Miss May Florence Park left this city
Monday night for her home in Maine,
where she will be married Tuesday, De-
ce1nber p, to Prof. B. K. McIntire, of
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Moore were cat
denee, No. 1863 Carteret avenue.
The Odd Volumes will meet again next
Wednesday afternoon and continue the
study of Greece. The members of the
Odd Volumes must be very learned by
now. 1t is about ten years since the club
was formed and in that time many re-
markable things have been studied.
Proof of their strong-mindedness is found
in the fact that they do not shrink from
the titles of the papers, titles hat would
scare ordinary women. Take for Instance
the paper to be given by Miss Buffet,
"Graeco-Persian War, First and Second
Invasion Under Darius, Marathon,
Miltiades,' and that by Mrs. Hartshorne,
Third Invasion Under Xerxes, Salamis,
Plataea, Myceale, Conditions of Athens,
Themistochs,'" both at the next meeting.
Doesn't it give one a headache in advance
to think of hearing all that in one after
noon?
The Rambler Club meets next Wednes-
day afternoon in Hasbrouck Institute to
hear an address by Mr.. William P. At
kinson on THE Literature of the Revo-
luton AT the last meeting the Ram
blers appointed Miss Maud Williams, Miss
Nellie Holbrook and Miss Evelyn Foster
a committee to select a wedding present
for their former. president, Miss Park.
Til gift will be shown to the Ramblers at
their meeting Wednesday,.
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The monthly meeting of the Keramic
Club held last Monday was unique in that
it was the first since the organization of
the club that no china has been exhibited
The club decided to hold another exchange
of china next month, as the one held a
month ago was SO successful.
ZION BAPTIST'S FAIR.
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