New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-09


strangers in the mountains OF Southwest Virginia!
The address is Mrs. Janet Gemmill. Pulaski Va.
THE DAYS GOSSIP.
The Junior Luther League of ST. James, Luther
an Church. Madson-ave and Seventy-third-st. will
hold Christmas sale In the Sunday-school room
to-day and tomorrow. in the afternoon and
Santa Claus booth.
A branch OF the Silver Cross Circle will give
tea and Christmas sale this afternoon and evening
tho home Of Mrs. *. f. Warren. No. La West
SiXty-eighth-st, In aid Of the Working Girls Va
cation Fund.
Miss Very's last Of the five music lectures. given
at the home OF Mrs Arthur Gilman. New ghton
Staten Island. vii. BE- delivered this afternoon on
the subject Music Of To-day" Illustrated by the
French horn
In the special law lectures to women delivered at
the Brooklyn Institute by Mrs. 'C;prIelia X HOOD.
Parent and Child" will be the subject considered
to-day
Glasses for the study Of Hebrew conducted
by the Rev. Or. Perera Mendes every Thursday
afternoon at o'clock in the annex OF the Spanish
Portuguese Synagogue. Seventeth-st. and Central
Park West. The classes also free 10 Genties
and may be attended in connection with the lect-
given Monday evenings. announced on
the "Gist and Geist OF Jewish History.
Miss Florence Do Zouche Patton will give a read
ing from the poems OF Dante Gabriel Rossetti this
afternoon AT $50 O'Clock In Studio No. ss4 Carnegie
Building.
Al the Knickerbocker Athletic club. Madison
ave. and Forty-hfth-st.. this viii be ladies' day.
the reception being held from o'clock in the AZ
ternoon until 70 o'clock at night
The Nineteenth Century Club will hold meeting
Sherry's this evening for the purpose Of listening
to discussion on the question. Why is Systematic
Charity DlskedY' by the Hon. Robert Treat Paine
OF Boston; Miss Jane Adams OF Hull House. chi
cago and DR.. John Graham Brooks. Of Cambridge
The first concert Of the Women's String Orchestra
Society Of New-York will be given this evening
Mendelssohn Hail. Broadway and Fortieth-st..
beginning at 8:l5 O'Clock. Fraulen Leontne Gaert-
will be the voloncellist and Miss Blanche
Sanders. Of Baltimore the pianist. The concerts
OF this society not open TO the general pubic
only foun .ers associate members and their friends
being admitted
Miss Marie Antoinette Ney. a former student At
Cooper Union. having made residence OF
length at Pasadena CAL has made a collection
Of studies OF the old missions of California and OF
IN" flowers Of that State. An exhibition Of these
Rooms Nos. 20 and e. from 10 o'clock in the morn.
ing until o'clock in the evening. There Will b. an
exhibit Tuesday and Thursday AZ Miss Neys
studio. No a. West Seventy-first-st.
In Room No 80 ~ Schermerhorn Hall. Columbia
University lecture will be given this afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock on La Poesie Lyrique France. with
illustrated readings
The Committee Literature and Art OF Chiro-
pear x meet at the home OF Mrs. Griswold Deni-
SON No. 40 Bedtord-ave. this afternoon At
o'clock The subject for discussion Is The Early
American Novel"
The Education Committee OF Sorosis will meet
this afternoon the home OF Mrs. Thomas. NO. 3l5
V.s, Flghty-fourth-st The subject for considera-
ton is THE Standard OF English. Written and
Spoken"
grand concert By the choir Of the Lenox Ave
nue. Union Church One-hundreda -nineteenth-st
and Ienox-ave will he given this evening begin
ming al s:l5 o'clock
William L. Toml!ns musical director. OF Chicago.
will lecture a. Teachers College. Mornnsside
Heights and One hundred and-twentieth-st.' this
afternoon at $50 O'CLOCK
Mrs Mary Scott Rowland will give an hours talk
this afternoon at o'clock in the parlors and
laboratory at No l23 Fif,h-ave. on the Hyeienlc
care and Preservation Of the skin and SompieN-
ion a subject upon which she is an authority
A bazaar meeting OF the Professional Woman's
League will be held at League House TINS AFTER
noon at o'clock
v-s William J. Turner and Miss Turner VII!
give a reception at their home. No. rs west 're
hundreds nd-twclfth-st this afternoon TON ~
until o'clock Mss IuEne WS w,l' and nd MIS- Wood
Miss Agnes Rcpplier will deliver an address 'n''
o,,ernoon on "A Question In Finance" at the
meeting OF Mrs: Fields club 70 De ne1n a. sne
home OF Mrs o. r. bea'n' NJ ~
Brooklyn.
An annual entertainment was given last evening
at Ncw-Utrecht in aid OF the free library OF 'he
place. The Committee Of Arrangements was Mrs.
Fanny culver Tredwen Mr.. James NJ Ed
sail Mrs Frederick 3. Upper Mrs. Townsend =.
Van Pelt Mrs. NJ T.. Bennett: Mrs Th9mas r.
Carman. Mrs. Peter Bogert ana MIS- 'ohn r.
Berry
Miss Mary Proctor will lecture at Bishopthorpe
School South Bethlehem Penn, on Tho story OF
the Stars.
Mr.. James Renwck Brevoort. Miss Brevoort ana
Miss Florence Brevoort give reception TINS AFTER
noon from to o'clock. at their country pi pace:
on Thursdays during the winter
The Philll,scipoma Club. Of Newark. y. j.. hoids
its regular meeting this afternoon. the second
Thursday in the month. The hostess OF the Gay 10
Mrs Robert A. Osborne. and the subject Is sci
ence representinc the third syllable OF the name or
the club This ingenius ;itlc is made up or the
initial syllabes or letters of the principal topics
philosophy. ltera 'ure. science,
poetry and music. The club enjoys ." privilege OF
having the Rev. Phahe \. Hanaford a. Its presi-
dent.
The Young Peoples Society OF 81 Pauis German
lutheran Church Mount Vernon il 10 give an en-
tertainment to- night in the Sunday-schoo hall IL
will consist Of piano. violin and vocal solos. recita-
tons tableaus. duets and farce. arranged by the
young women. They will also serve refreshments
later In the evening The society was organized In
March and at the annual meeting. on Thursday
evening last the officers we're elected. Including the
following Entertainment Committee: Misses l..
X lpin and NJ. Barron. and A. Ripple. The CLUB
expects TO have a reading room and parlor IN the
spring The young women have organized free
sewing school for the benefit Of the Sunday school
attendants