New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-08
SPRING COSTUME.
THE DAYS GOSSIP.

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Dean Emily James Smith will give reading on
The Greek Novel" to-day at $50 o'clock In the Ella
Weed Memorial Room, Barnard College. One-hun-
dred-and- nineteenth-st and the Boulevard This Is
the second Of a course Of Ave readings given undeI
the auspices Of the Associate Aiumne OF bslHa'u
College for the Ella West Memorial Room Fund
Life IN the English Colonial Period" is the sub
ject OF Miss Lalla Baldwin Morton's lecture to DO
given in the Assemb'y Room OF the Waldorf-As-
torfa this morning at n:% O'CLOCK
Miss Ada Webster Ward will begin series OF
Len;en talks at the home Of Mrs James w Pin,
chot. No. Gramercy Park. this afternoon at
o'clock.
A course OF lectures entitled The History Of Mu-
SIC" Will be given Tuesdays during Lent by Miss
S C, Very The first ono will be Survey Of the
Art" and VII! take place AZ NO, East Fifty
fourth-st. at o'clock this afternoon
A paper on Abraham Lincoln Will be read by
Mrs. J. c. Morton before the Society for Political
Study this afternoon at o'clock at the cluorooms
tho Tuxedo. Fifty-ninth-st and Madison-ave
Scenes from The Prisoner of zenda' and selec-
lions from Dolly Dialogues" Will be given by MISS
sades We're Milne at the Waldorf Astoria at
o'clock this afternoon. There Will be singing by Mr.
Waterous.
Miss Georgina Roberts will lecture "A Divided
O'Clock at Sherrys.
A lecture Oh The Philosophy Of the Dance"
illustrated by music and dancing. Will be given by
Elizabeth Bioren Duncan this afternoon at 8 o clock
at No. 10 West Seventy second-st
At lecture-concert, to be given this evening
under the auspices Of the Ushers Association Of the
Central Presbyterian Church, Marcy and Jefferson
ayes Brooklyn. Miss Mary Proctor Will lecture on
Flowers OF the sky"
REGULATIONS from King Henry w. will be given
By Locke Richardson at sherry's this afternoon at
o'clock
The Motley in England Club Will meet this after
the home OF Mrs Gleason. No. 1853 Ross Est.
Brooklyn. paper on the Lake District" Winde
and Ambleside will be read by Mrs. Gleason.
and Miss Alice Dean will give an article on Der,
wSntwater anG Coniston The discussion to follow
Will be openei by Mrs ManVcy.
Mrs. Chambe:s-Ketchum will give her third lect-
Creation and Civilization" this morning at
80 O'Clock at Mrs. J. f. Reads home No. sl7
Seventn-ave. China. Babylon, Phpnicia and Egypt
Will be consldered in their early development. to-
gether with Hebrew. Persias and Hindoostan ad-
vancement in thought.
Nurses OF the New-York Red eros. Hosp,tal and
Training School. AZ No. 233 West One hundredth-st
are In readiness TO leave for Cuba should war 10
declared against Spain Before Dr. A. Monae Lesser
departed for Cuba he vaccinated several of the
be needed Two hundred nurses could be sent TO the
field at once
Two cen,enarians have Just died whose long lives
have both ended in New-Jersey. at Matawsn
and the other at Trenton. Aunt Lie" Eliza Wal
len. reached her 10th birthday the anrci-
patton Of which IL Is said kept her alive until she
saw It's dawn. Anna jamie King. who born
slave l0i years ago, buried on tho same day
Each Of these old women retained her faculties
TO the last.
The meeting called by the sympathizers
Of this New-Bedford strikers. and which met on
Sunday afternoon at the Grand Central Palace.
OF Shay at Re Il u S 81 h
party.
The establishment by ConsuI-Genera Lee Of an
asylum IN Cuba for the destitute little orphans Of
that country has touched the hearts OF patriots Of
the Island His assurance to the State Department
nat money ga sent Tor the purpose WI be used 70
lovers Of humanity. whether or not they are Cuban
sympathizers
Aaron NJ Powell president OF the American pur-
ity Alliance. ana Mrs. Anna Rice Powell CORE
spending secretary were appointed at the meeting
Of the Executive Committee held March as rep
resentauves 10 the International congress to con-
vene in London in July. This congress will be held
under me auspices Of me national Federation
which organization Mrs. Josephine f. Butler is
honorary president
Eva A. Wood. Of No. % Johnson-st. BROOKLYN.
sworn in yesterday by Mayor Van Wyck as
typographical draughtsman in the Department OF
Taxes and Assessments.
The Bedford Political Equality League held its
March meeting last night AT the home OF Mrs p p
Hackstan. No. 2s2 Jefferson-ave., Brooklyn. There
were addresses BY the Rev. Frank Wheat Nrs
Catharinc p. Wheat. OF Woodhaven and Mrs Har-
r.et May Mills
The annual meeting Of the Urban Club will be
held this afternoon az o'clock at the home OF
Mrs A. J. Perry. No. 20 First Place. Brooklyn.
Mrs Franklin y. Merriam and Mrs. Elwood Car
penter Of Mount Vernon. gave a large whist party
last week FOR the benefit OF the Bureau OF Charities
The game lated from o'clock in the afternoon
until g. and hftytwo people participated The prize
winners we're Mrs Daniel DE witt. MIS- {. a.
Young Mrs Il. ". Reeves Mrs Horace Granneld
Mrs + A. Coleman Mrs q. Hamilton, MIS- Ihom-
A. Dennlson Miss sadie Wheaton. Miss Morehouse
and Miss Iattmer. Refreshments were served our
ing The game and a musical programme was car
rid out The affair was a gre-t success, Doth
tall