The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-26
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The next fortnight will probably see
but little of a social nature to enter
tain either young or old. All gaiety
will be reserved for Easter week, when
the festivities will necessarily be brief
though merry, If they are to be graced
by the presence of the college visitors
and their friends. Much is expected of
the Glee club concert on the 18th, which
will not begin until SIS, owing to
church wedding on the same evening.
The lecture given by the courtesy of
the Monday Morning club on Thursday
evening was one of exceptional pleas
ure not alone from the valuable nature
of the discourse, but because of the
audience, over the feminine portion of
which no hats were to be seen, only the
tiniest bonnets doing duty as a head
covering. The general effect was not
only better, but the views on the plat
form were thus rendered visible to all.
"5e was good to the poor" said an
old lady last night, as her trembling
hands dropped the paper wherein she
had read of the death of Mr.. William
T. Smith. She knew personally of some
benefactions of the man whom we can
scarcely believe has gone away for
ever, and her tears fell as she remem-
bered. 1t is something to have lived
and died and to have ones memory
hallowed by the loving tears of the
wretched one has aided.
The event of the second week follow
ing Easter will be the Symphony con-
cert when the great baritone, Max
IJpinripb iG n ha
Mr.. Paul B. Belin will give a fare
well dinner Monday evening" previous
to his departure for Buffalo, where he
Will enter the firm of Green & Wicks,
the well-known architects. This firm
has left a memorial in Scranton in the
shape of the beautiful Albright library.
Apropos of the Yale concert, it may
be said that college songs sS,nd apart
by themselves, being the natural out
flow and eXuberance of youth express
ing itself with a naive and Unconscious
art. From the early student songs of
the middle ages there has been ira
dition in form and spirit which is in
herited by successive generation of
students. and which has preserved its
integrity, and exists today with the
same force and spirit that character
ized ii from the first. 1t is a tradition
Of gaiety, good-fellowship and advent
ure, light loves celebrated in simple yet
delicate poetry, graceful and gay, some
times sad, yet sad with the insouciance
of youth. Read the old Latin students
songs as they are admirably translated
by John Addington Symonds, and mark
how perfectly the spirit of them is
preserved to our own day. The stu
dents of the middle ages and the rem
naissance wandered about Europe, ac-
cepting the chance adventures of their
wanderings, drinking gaily in the taV-
erns, and paying for II when they had
the money, and treating the landlords
to some happy Joke when lacking it.
At times they picked pockets as did
! Francois Viflon. The modern student
\ travels in a private car while playing
the troubador, but the same spirit ami
INMATES the songs Of both.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. #. Connell gave an
Aformal dinner last evening.
r and Mrs. George Russ will en-
ain at dinner this evening.
$. Edward Jones entertained ID
u party composed of Scranton
n (at' her home in Olyphant last
AT @
rtr. joseph M. 'Boies gave a dinner
nanG4eXening in honor of Mr.. Paul
fNBfllN Covefs Were laid for eighteen.
thefguests- were lMessrs. Paul b. Belin,
A II. Hun 'ngtonA b. e. Watson, L. b.
Fuller. r, Nolds Bedford, Selden
Kingsbury, H.. b. Merrill, Laurence
Bliss, j. b. Neale. T. S. Fuller, A. f.
Hunt, jr., II. w. Boies, J. II. Brooks.
John Kemmerer, L. Il. Thorne, James
Blair, T. C. Fuller.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. j. Kelly entertained
a number of little people last Saturday
in honor of their daughter Cornelia.
Mr. and Mrs. f. II. Parrott entertain
ei at cards Thursday evening.
~, knong the guests were: Mr.. and Mrs.
{. Z. Wade, Mr. and Mrs. j. 5. Kirk
patrick, Mr. and M very, Mr.. and
Mrs. /. f. Megargel nd Mrs. Eu-
gene Healey Mr.. and f. l.. Crane,
Mr. and Mrs. r. F. Pen.nan, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Hayes, Mr.. and Mrs Barker, Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. w. Lowry, Mrs. Thomas
Sprague, Messrs. C. L. Chittenden and
Drinker.
Rainy day skirts were frequently
seen on our principal thoroughfares
during the early part of the week, and
even the conservative critics must ad-
nit that there were some women who
were not freaks in the short sensible
dress. The majority will, however,
, probably go on until the end Of time
Vtching the back hreadths of their
ms, and performing veritable Jug
vs feats in endeavoring to carry
Umbrella, book from the library,
material for a silk blouse, with per-
haps pie or box of charlotte-russe.
Mrs. Louise Seymour Houghton gave
the most beautiful lecture Of the series
yesterday at the home of Mrs. L. S.
Moffat on 1.-THE Love Stories Of the
Old Testament" Her description OF
Solomon's song as a drama was a tri-
umph of rare powers of delneatlon.