New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-16

Nfrs Nav Banks Stacey, Mrs George E. Poole and
At the next meeting Mrs Charles OConnor IT.
| win will lead a discussion on Current Events.
THE DAYS GOSSIP.
The League for Political Education will hold It's
regular meeting to-day at No. % West Forty
fourth-st J. w. Kelgaard will speak on The
! Cooper Union Labor Bureau"
II is said that the Theosophists were thinking
OF appointing W. Q. Judge as the successor to Mrs
Jingle
Miss Alice C. Decker gave a reading last evening
at the Y W c. a. Hail. Twenty-third-st. ana
| Fourth-ave
The St Zita's Home for Frendess Women, in
I East Fifty-second-st. was founded by woman
| The chief occupation OF the inmates Is laundry
work and many prominent women Of the city
| have their linen Numbered there. The Board or
| Estinata has appropriated 50 a week for each Of
the inmates Of the Home at the request OF Colohei
George Bliss.
Al a meeting of the Health Culture Club OF
Brooklyn the other afternoon Mrs christine
Iurnsdon the president said: "A visitor here TINS
afternoon has expressed surprise at seeing no snort
skirts 7 think It is shocking that you nave all
| ,a,laa N have the courage OF your convictions,
esneciallv on such a wet snowy day as this The
skirt should be six inches from the ground TO-DAY
and In ordinary weather three 10 en ,2I -
the adoption Of sensible costume espeo LILY -
to the length OF the skirt Is the CHIEF onJegt OF
ms club The officers af Pre' Mr T Edwin "f e
Clear: secretary. Mrs. A. w Brown There re- Is
s1so ci pUat PAYNE. Mrs Samuel Blackwell
schenck and Mrs. Frank Washburne
A., entertainment and ball will be given on
n-.a,asday next AT Lenox Ilyceum for the bene
1T of the Beth Israel Hospital. No 2o8 East Broad
way.
The public is invited 70 attend the annual meet
two ~ the Vomans Branch Of the New-York City
Mission which will be held in the assembly nall
OF the United Charities Building. Twenty-second-st
and Fourth-aye Monday morning al t Il g9cs
Addresses will be made by the heV howa VAT -
Bliss and the Rev. Dr A F. schau III ana 'ise
Dbri H number of children from the Virginia
| Day Nursery will sing.
The second ladies' night OF the booksellers
League was held last evening In Hardman Hall
! Professor 7 r Russell lectured Yesterday morn
ing on Agents Attorneys. Factors and Brokers
| before the women OF the New-1orK UNIVERSITY
! Washington Square.
The Professional woman's League will hold IFS
annual election on February Il. The installation
will take place at the Waldorf on the afternoon OF
February 9s and for the first time IN me history
| Of the club men will be allowed 10 De present
>,ss y whitney OF Lancaster. Mass" Is
J 90 IA nudge Of ST Bernards and Nevfoundlands at
the twenty-first annual dog show or the Vest
minister Kennel Club 10 be held in Madison square
Garden during the week commencing on Nashlhs-
toms birthday.
--n. voman.s Clubhouse Corporation held It's an
| nual meeting In Boston the other day. with Julia
! Ward Howe in the chair. The following Board OF
| Directors was elected: Treasurer Miss A NJ Lou
gee clerk Miss Florence Everett iirectors-Mrs r.
Florence Barker Miss Cora A Benneson Mrs Sv'
T,,i;a Ward Howe Mrs Sara r : Leighton Mrs
Isabella a. Potter Mrs Alice NJ Slsoee Ms HT i
Ives > Breed Miss Mary Ladd and Mrs. Elisha Con-
verse.
T. e reported that a Kansas representative Will
introduce into his State LEGISLATURE M maxim
II A misdemeanor for women 10 wear o''oii''9 ~
besfride their bicycles.
Albert G. Mcdonald. ex-Corporation Counsel in
hts address, before the wOman's law class Of the
,,l,., r,s-itute said: The real estate rolls of
proo,lvn are filed with the names Of wcmcn WHO
GUN and derive income from this class OF property.
No business man would undertake 10 ntil th,9e
vast estates without Intelligent Understanding y''
women will deliberately imper their rest TO tn9
Requirement OF any glib talker near,S '9''ii'e'u
and indorse this legal instruction to women.
The International order OF Kings Sons and
Daughters will hold special services mex week on
"wednesday THURSDAY and Friday in tho Madison
Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. IN Sixteth-sD
The Normal College has another society almost
identical in purpose with the A b. G II Is called
the philomathean, and its president IL MISS May
sch,anel The meetings Of the societies are
held on the same days and at the same hour In DIFF
ferent lecture-rooms They do not conflict In any
nv as both are large that one lectlre-room
could no; accommodate them II United lhere are
he ween 900 and 30 members In eacn
There is every likelihood that the Day Star In
dusfrial Home of which Mrs Charlotte Draper is
foundsr and manager. may suspend operations
oyine N the inability OF the Board OF Managers 10
agree with the FOUNDER
pa,r,o,,su, and war have always seemed TO have
some necessary connection with each other. and the
history OF hereditary patriotic societies In the
rnIted States has not done much to prove the con-
trarv Tho last 10 be added 10 the Ils or those
100 .trouble" In their ranks is that august
49,, r,orr a. the Holland Danes. To be- sure. the
srtct,on comes from outside In the shape OF rival
aDd eyy,d,re the anront IN silence. Mrs. Dempsey
The founder OF the new organization asserts that
rhev can DO nothing as she can prove that she was
also the founder OF the other
,uss Frances willard has finished the speech
which she was " able to prepare for the National
W T T. Convention. held IN ST. Louis In NO
yor,bsr In the concluding portion Of it, she says.
she expresses the spirit Of the w C. T. L. The
words follows:
1T can wish for myself and for you nothing moro
heavenly than that may hear the cry OF the
said ~ us when we have worked out our lives ana
passed awav These they who heard the cry OF
Miss Wizards convention speech is usually
nrinted and distributed among the loca! unions
where IL becomes subject for much study ana us
cussion
The artists who have quarters in the old studio
Building. In West feminist. will hold to-day tne