Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-23
progressive whist party Tuesday after
noon. There were 12 tables.

progressive whist party Tuesday after
noon. There were 12 tables.
Their fourth annual Washington's
birthday hop was given in Terpsicho-
rean Hall Tuesday night by the alumni
members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity of the Massachusetts Delta
Chapter, and as on former occasions
when the fraternity has entertained its
friends, the affair was most pleasant and
successful. Mrs f. Walter Smith and
! Mrs. Herbert l.. Wheeler were the pat
ronesses, and the ushers We're Mr. Frank
e. Harrington, Mr.. Harold B. Irons, Mr..
Samuel Willis and Mr.. H. Bardwell Lin
coin. Chaffin's orchestra was in attend
ance, and the excellence Of it's music
| added not a little to the enjoyment of
the 90 or more young people who were
there. Zahonyi served the refreshments.
The only attempt at decoration was
seen in an elaborate piece of electrical
work arranged at one extremity of the
hall. and consisting of the fraternity
emblem outlined in glittering electric
jets. The effect was at all times strik-
ing ana elegant, but especially so dur
ing the fifth dance, waltz, when, the
other lights being lowered, it shone out
IN run nagnif1cence, guiding by it's rays
the steps of the dancers.
Miss Helen A. Davis has gone to New
YORK to secure the spring and summer
designs in childfen's garments.
glance at current fiction proves the
ten commandments to be quite obsolete.
Good folk are out of vogue; the worse
the characters the better in fiction.
drama. and even poetry. Do not Mr..
Hardy's people daily degenerate, while
our newest Millions revel in jail and gut
Ter studiesY Virtue went out when Bret
Harte came in, and with half a dozen
strokes OF his wizard pen, made us the
slaves of vice and blackguardism, and
the adorers Of brutality dashed with
sparks of benevolence. Faintness of
heart steals over the average living sin
ner on closing the brilliant pages of Mr..
hlpling; dependency weighs upon him.
we cannot all be ruffians," he sighs;
such heights Of profanity and vice are
attainable only by the few A serious
lapse from villainy is a frequent motive
IN this writer's dramas; but it must be
said for his characters that they are
rarely, if ever, guilty of responsibility.
AS for the pen but now laid down in
Samoa, what rascals it limned! What
double-barreled villany in the brothers
u DetIalItlde' DeSIllllHS WIN a single
scoundrel, the story gradually brings
the good brother to an almost greater
badness than that of the wicked one
The virtue of DR.. Jekyll is faint and
feeble, but Edward Hyde is a fiend. In
The Ebh-tide there is not one decent
character. Women are usually omitted
from the writer's evident conviction of
the irredeemable goodness of the sex
We cannot hope for continuation of
;e
pricious in fiction as in clothes and man
ners; politeness and virtue will doubt
less come in again (without crinoline, let
us hope, and respecta bility lie upon us
With weight, heavy as frost and deep
| almost as life,"-The New Review.
The special meeting of the executive
board, the chairmen of the women mem
bers of the Society of Antiquity, Tues
day afternoon, was attended by Hon.
Stephen Salisbury, Mr.. Nathaniel Paine,
| Gen and Mrs. A. B. r. Sprague, Mrs. C.
| c. Baldwin, Alderman B. w. Potter
Mrs. L. A Ely, Mrs. F. A. Mcclellan,
| Mr.. S. E. Staples and Mr.. and Mrs. C.
F. Darling. The president, Mr.. F. L.
| HutchinS, was in the chair. He an
nounced that the meeting held Friday
morning at Salisbury Hall had resulted
| in over 120 ladies signifying a desire to
join the society, and that these and any
other names received by March l would
be presented at the March meeting and
voted upon at the April meeting. Several
of the persons present spoke strongly in
! favor of reducing the annual member
ship fee to SO, and making this the same
| for both men and women, and several
changes in the constitution were pro-
posed, one member going so far as to
suggest changing the name of the
society, which name. he said, he had
never liked. All action was deferred till
the next regular meeting of the society,
| in March. MRS. C. c. Baldwin, Mrs. L. A
| Ely and Mrs. A. B. r. Sprague were ap-
| pointed committee to suggest to Hon.
Stephen Salisbury additional commit
tees which it might be advisable to FORM
Here's an odd receipt for tea making,
given by a cooking teacher: One ounce
| of tea finely ground is moistened with
cold water and allowed to stand for 20
minutes A scant pint of boiling water
is then poured ON the tea, and at the end
of one minute it is ready to serve. A
| very little cream used with this brewing
| of the tea is an improvement.