The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-12
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Have YOU heard the latest wrinkle?
The women vote like men,
In their dainty little club world
Where the seaglesis q hen
At every new election
A ballot bog is brought
From City Hall or Court House,
And How to Vote is taught. g
The trusty teIlers take the keys;
Each ballot must be rolieq,
And eftentimes 1t takes a DAY
Before those votes are loio.
II has even been requested,
That if a woman's We'd
she sign herself as Mrs. Ann
Instead of Mrs. Ed.
For when. in the near future,
Their legal votes they draw,
ssThe man name is not valid"
ACCORDING to the law.
And so they nave begun to train
Fer thai election day.
When fair women get the ballot
To vote-as their husbands say.
The TWoman's Club are seriously con-
sidering the idea Of adding to their many
branches by the formation of a musical
club. There is already a music eommlt-
tee. but the ladies feel the need OF a
sort of school or class wherein they may
be trained to serve on, or rather serve
this. committee.
The Keramic Artists have done nobls
with their war ~qlacques. Not in the
number Of these portraits submitted. but
in the subjects chosen and the art in por-
traying them. The was, at the heramie
meeting on Monday. MORO Castle BY
Miss Isabel c. Wightman, which took ehe
prize. 1.-THE New York in Action, taken
from the cover of "MunseyFs Magazine,
by Miss Louise Darling; THE Brooklyn,
which received honorable mention, by
Mrs. Irwin; s.The Texas by Miss Hattie
yreeland, and "A Cuban Village" by Mrs.
L. All these plaques VIII
probably be on exhibition at the art
carniva the Keramics have decided 70
hold December is and 16 In the parlor OF
DIR. Hers Church, on Emory street, as
wen as many other beautiful pieces, both
salable and unstable.
And now the Keramic Artists have dis
covered that painting is not their only
talent Like ssSilas Wegg," they have
also began to "drop into poetry rms
habit wal first discovered at their meet
ing last Monday when the Misses wight
man, two Of the very best artists In the
club, presented Mrs. Priestman with a de-
scription of the clubs visit to her studio
on Staten Island, all in rhyme and artis-
-tically bound, with a sketch of the studio
on the cover. OF course, Mrs. Priestman
was greatly surprised and pleased with
the gift.
The Keramic Artists, like the Ladies'
Afternoon Musical Club, wish 10 keep up
the pure. artistic standard of the club,
and resort to very much the same plans
that of first trying a candidate for mem
bership. Whenever a lady's name is pro-
posed for membership to either OF these
clubs, her artistic career, either from the
standard of painting or music, as the case
may be, is taken into consideration, ard,
in the case Of the Keramies, a trial is
given to hand and brush, which, whether
satisfactory or unsatisfactory, settles the
question to the advantage of the club. SO
in the Afternoon Musical, If a candidate
can neither sing nor play 10 the clubs
satisfaction, she is not accepted. This is
an excellent plan, and one at which no
person, possessed of good. common sense,
should take ~offense, as 1t keeps up the
standard. of the clubs, making each just
what they should be-the one an artists
and the other a musical club. Amateur
dramatic organizations would do well to
adopt the same rule.
Society has at last actually started out
on horseback. The Horseback or Riding
Club seems to nave lost its older heads,
in whose massive brains it had its birth,
and fallen to the younger set" whit
have now given place to another younger
set. So far the youngest set has moved
UP the ladder of sets" a couple or
rounds. There are about twenty mem
bers, all full of life and spirits, only
eclipsed by the steeds they expect to ride.
AS yet many of them (the club mem
bers, not steeds} are new at the business,
last Monday night being their first lesson,
and leaving them somewhat stiff the fol-
lowing day in consequence. But then at
that first lesson the club had plenty of
fun, and fun is always the con-
sequence, If not too severe, be-
sides which Mr.. Hexamer, at whose rid
ing academy the lesson was taken, is
very encouraging, so that the club feels
the time is not far distant when it may,
az a whole. test its equestrian powers in
public without danger Of adverse criti-
oism.
Both the Odd Volumes and the Ram
DiSio Will uCt LfSAt tAN chS
TO study France and Germany" at the
residence of Mrs. John Headden. and the
other to study Siberia" at Hasbrouck-
And after their trouble, to say nothing
of the half holiday. the High School pic
lures are no good. To begin with, the
photos do not Ifiatter. The positions of
the various members of the class of '99
are anything but graceful, and even the
likenesses are not good. All this, how
ever, the class might be able to put up
with, were il not for the presence of
a great big policeman. probably to this
day inocent of his presence in the
background. The class is indignant. That
policeman must come out. and I'M order to
avoid such a catastrophe a second time
the young ladies and gentlemen have de-
cided to go direct to Churchman'S Office,
notwithstanding the sentiment expressed
In a picture taken on City Hall steps,
and probably some fine day next week
the photographers office will be turned
topsy turvy by that peaceful, quiet class
OF '9s. who pronounce the police super
fuous.
All arrangements ave been completed
for the High School class of '99 entertain