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persuade the moro timid members that
The I'll should give a breakfast. Now
these members have whak they have been
working for and the Jersey City woman's
ciub will give a breakfast. The Constitu-
ton. that much talked OF Constitution, of
the Club calls for an annual celebration
in February. But because of the illness
OF the President, Mrs. John L. Scudder,
the usual reception was postponed and
the month has slipped by withodt it.
Now that Mrs. Scudder is recovering her
health the Club has decided 10 hold its
anniversary in May.
In 1885 the Woman's Gu celebrated its
first birthday by a reception ITO women.
only Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin, then
President of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs. was present and made a
speech and the embe went about
smiling and congratulating each other
that, all predictions to the contrary, the
Club had held together a year. Then an
other birthday came and more courageous
this time. the Club invited the husbands
and fathers and brothers and treated
them to a triumphant account of what
the Ciub had done. was doing and intend
ed to do. The next tirne-last year-the
Club gave a Colonial reception and again
invited some of the opposite sex. But
even a Colonial reception, with a supper
and a dance did not satisfy the more am
bilious member and they continued to
clamor for a breakfast. This breakfast.
like other club breakfasts, will be held
somewhere around two in the afternoon,
some fine day in May. All the orange
ments viii be left to the Reception Com
mittee of the Club, which has not yet
been appointed for the next year.
Last year. a number of young women
in the city decided they would throw off
the yoke of the Lenten lectures under
which their elders rneekly bowed and ere
ate for themselves a harmless annuse-
ment all their own. The result of their
cogitations was four delightful after
Moons. Miss Edith Cairns. MisslEdna Ed
wards. Miss Mary Head, who was then Wis
iting Miss Cairns; Miss Irene Phillips and
Miss Goewey Fraser resolved themselves
into a committee and they invited their
friends all over the county to attend four
readings given by Miss Carolyn Paddock.
The first reading was from Shakespeare.
the second from Browning, the third
from Shakespeare again, and the fourth
NAo OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. MI CoAlA aAISA AOOAt
before the reading there were two or
three musical selections, and after the
reading light refreshments We're served.
ABOUT one hundred young women sub
scribed for the course, and every one was
sorry when the last one came
Now that Lent is again upon us these
same young women besieged the commit
tee to arrange again for a course of read
IT, sol :, ,a =, NT;cc Co;rpr acSrun6d the
responsibility and she is now busily en-
gagged in inviting the same subscribers to
attend the readings. There will be but
three this time. There will be a Tenny-
son afternoon. Tuesday. March q. a mis-
c-elianeous programme March 20, and a
Shakespeare reading April 5. Miss Pad
dock. now Mrs. N w. Pratt, of New
York, viii of course, give them.
The Clifford Avenue Neighborhood
Euchre Club is one of the clubs that do
not give up playing cards in Lent. From
early fall until late spring the n%eighbors
play euchre once in every two weeks. The
club was entertained last night by Mr..
and Mrs. S. G.. Negus, at their residence,
No. 80 Clifford avenue. Mrs. Charles
Frederick VOTERS, of Rochester. who is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Negus.
was the guest of the club. Among those
present were:-Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Mcbride, Miss Jean Mcbride, Miss Lucy
Mcbride, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry E Niese.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas G. Kinds, Mr.. and
Mrs. Heck, Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Hazard
Perry, the Misses Perry, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Kinds, Miss Leila Kinds, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Hilton Williams, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Stevens, DIR. and Mrs. P. J..
Koonz, Miss Grower, Miss Anna Koonz,
Mr.. and Mrs. Garret v. r. Brinkeriloff,
Mr.. and Mrs. Churchill Howard Slater.
Mr.. Charles Negus and Mr.. Willard
Negus.
The Lenten Sewing Circle was enter
tanned yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Henry
Z. Niese at her residence, Clifford avenue.
The ladies sewed for the usual time, and
then. refreshments were served. and there
was the weekly chat. The ladies pres
emit were-Mrs. Nathan Woodruff Con-
diet. Miss Matilda Condict, Mrs. Henry
~Traphagen, Miss Anne C. Traphagen, the
Misses Dixon, Mrs. Riddick, Mrs. Rice,
Mrs. Watson, Mrs. Roy Inglis. Mrs. Lee
Condict, Mrs. Mcbride. Miss Jean Nc
Bride, Miss Lucy Mcbride. Mrs. Frank
Stevens, Mrs. Carrot ". r. Brinkerhoff
and Mrs. Howard Slater. The Circle will
meet again next Friday.
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The Rambler Club will continue the
study of American history next Wednes-
day at the meeting, held in Has
sbrouck Institute. The Ramblers, at the
meeting priVr to the lecture by Major
Pangborn on abraham Lincoln dis
cussed the slavery question and the
events leading up to the civil war, and
they will take up the subject again at
that point.
The Odd Volumes will meet again We'd
nesday afternoon. March %. at the resi-
dence of Miss Louise Bowen. No. lS5
Academy street. Greek art will be the
subject of the day, and Miss Grower, who
is an artist, will give one of the papers
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry B. Day have closed
their house, Britton street and Paramount
avenue, and are having a most delight
full trip through the Southern States They
will go as far South as Florida and will
be gone several weeks. When they re-
turn to this vicinity they will stay for a
short time in New York and win then go
to Europe, where they win stay for some
time. Mrs. Day, because of this trip, re-
signed her position as chairman of the Re-
ception Committee of the Woman's Club.