The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-12
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something who does not frequently COM
| plain she wished Lent were over" Why
1t is it is a little hard to determine. If
it were New York or Brooklyn or any
city where there was any active social
life in the other 325 days of the year one
could understand the aversion to Lent
that Jersey City girls constantly express.
But in this peculiar city it is Lent the
| whole year round so far as social gaieties
are concerned. Once in a wilhelm a very
| great while--there is some diversion and
it never fails to electrify the city. 1t is
so seldom that any of the society ladies
gives a reception or lance or ever an at
home that when such a thing occurs it is
heralded far and wide, 1t is talked of be-
fore, and it is remembered long after the
usual nine days. Why in the face of all
this do the young people think Lent an
especially dull or quiet time? There are
lectures, the usual diversion of this city.
Lectures are quite appropriate to Lent
no one could prescribe them.
Apropos of lectures. 1t was at the last
Parliamentary Law lesson. Miss Fielde
had been telling the class not to talk at
all times. She said it was a popularity
of woman that she always had IN idea
on every subject and was so sure her
thought was the best that she could not
refrain from telling 1t to everyone. At
this a bright member of the class LOOKED
as If a long clouded point had been clear
ed up and she said, demurely. That must
be the reason we have so many lectures
here
The only amusement that is too wicked
For. T o,f &C. n = "a t1x-{, rno+ ..,-+ -
it! That is the reason poor Lent is an
athernatized. The city has gone euchre
mad and in ~nseque cannot brook
a few weeks of enforced quiet. One evil
dence of the effect euchre has a here
is that the number of clubs that continue
meeting through Lent is much larger thar
ever before. The Six-Handed Euchre
Club, the Oldest club in the city, has
hitherto stopped card playing in Lent.
This year the club plays on. The penance
is done in the Lenten Sewing Circle,
which is an outgrowth of the club. The
Downtown Afternoon Euchre plays on.
TIL Friday Afternoon Euchre Club pays
no attention to Lent. Neither does the
Fortnightly Euchre nor the Thursday
Evening Euchre.
There is one good thing about Lent
that is Lent as observed by society folk
1t gives proper opportunity to make prep
aIation for post-Lenten affairs. There
are five or six post-Lenten events that
are being arranged. The Yale Banjo, Man
dolin and Guitar Club will give an enter
t~ainnnent in Hasnrouck Hall, -paltrcnized
by society ladies, the Rutgers Glee is ar
Ranging for ancthers also under suitable
patronage, and the Lealox Dramatic Club
is also deep in arrangements.
~.
The Lennox Dramatic Club is a very
new and almost unknown Jersey City
Club. 1t has been organized by the young
er set, in fact, he very young set,
two of the prime movers mot yet
being out. Onlookers, remember
ing the fate of the old Apollo Club,
are Inclined to prophesy failure,
but the young people will not hear of 1t.
A Dramatic Club they must have and a
Dramatic Club they will have. This club
will start with an entertainment for sweet
charity. After LENT a dramatic entertain-
ment will be given for the Home of the
Homeless. The p~atrIonesses are now being
secured. Miss Forman Miss Werts
are the Committee ON P-atronesses. They
now have the names OF Mrs. George T.
Werts, Mrs S. r. Formarn, Mrs. Joseph A.
Dear, and Mrs. john L. Scudder. 1t is to
be hoped that Lennox Club will not,
like the Apollo, lose its stars and be
Obliged anwillingly and lingerirgly to die.
The Musical Club met yesterday at the
rerf6nrauao ~f hFx-z r ,,alo r1u--- ~ ooo
Bergen avenue. This club is the only one
of it's kind in the city and it is most in
teresth1g. It Is the most informal and In
it's inforrnality hes one its charms.
The club might almost be called the
Practice Club" for it's idea is to en-
courage practice. 1t is a rule that each
member shall learn for each meeting a
song or piano piece by a given composer.
This stimulates interest and keeps THE
members in practice. There is no set
Programme. Each member makes her
own choice of a piece and. plays or sings
it without formality. There is always
more or less talk about uhe ompose
and the pieces. Mrs. John Headden,
third is President and Mrs. Philbrook,
Secretary. Among the members are
Miss Nelson. Mrs. Frank Calvalli, Mrs.
Hugh HaIitshorTe, Mrs. Blauvelt, Miss
Jessie Marvin, Mrs. Platt, Miss Simpson,
Miss Munson, Miss Clova Pope, Miss Lily
Scott, Miss Reuta Smith Miss Waldron,
and Mrs. John Bradley Tanner. The club
will meet on March %, at the residence
Of Miss Nelson.
Unique win be the silver tea given after
Lent by the Peoples Paiace Day Nursery.
1t will be like all silver teas, SO far as
the offering is concerned and tea will be
served to the visitors. But in addition the
babies In the Nursery will be given THEM
tea while the visitors are present and viii
show what they do every day by way %
amusement. Over 1900 babies nave beer
cared. for in the Nfrsery this year. The
good work dome then is remarkable and
the Nursery has SO many friends that il
is probable that the tea win be largely at
tended.
Mrs. Horace c. Wait will give an Illus,
trated lecture before Lent is over for tn,
benefit Of the Newman Industrial HON,
and Mission. The lecture will be giver
either at the residence of Mrs. Reinhard
Van Reipen avenue, or Mrs. Kent, Sum
nit avenue.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson is t,
give a parlor talk on Why We Work,