The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-27

( It Is Lent, and society is doing PEN
| ance accordingly. The largest event OF
| last week was the recital OF the Ladies'
| Musical Club on Friday afternoon. the
| programme being rendered by the men,
/ bers OF the Ladies Musical Club Of Ia
| coma The luncheon rendered the Taco
| ma ladies before the recital was an ela-
| CANT one. The cotillion set gave it's last
| dancing party before Easter on Monday
| evening at Morris hail.
Seattle women do not suffer from nery-
| Gus prostration because of the busy sea-
| son between Christmas and Ash Wednes-
| day. They don't have the season. One
| or two dancing parties month, the
| weekly meetings of the card and literary
| clubs, and perhaps single afternoon re-
| ception in the two months is hardly cal
| culated to wear out a society woman
| This is about all Seattle women have had
| to go to this winter.
| The society woman's church and prayer
| book will receive considerable attention.
as is right and fitting, during the Lenten
| period.
In the Hinckley block. on Columbia
| street and Second avenue, there is a spe-
| ciai Len;en service held for a few min
| utes at noon on every week day. The
| three Episcopal minister's Rev. J. p D.
Llwyd, Rev. II. III. Gowen, and Rev
| George Buzzelle. have these services in
charge. They consist Of a ten-minute
sermon preceded by short prayer serv-
| ice. These noon services are being very
| well attended. At 4:30 o'clock every af-
ternoon the guild room of st. Marks
church sees a large and representative
| gathering of society women.
| There will be no dancing parties until
| after Easter. Is the decision that has
| been reached by every society club In the
| city. Not all Of the dancing members Of
| society keep Lent, but SO many of the
| women do that party without them
| would hardly be a success. Nearly all
| or the card clubs will continue their me- ct
| tngs during Lent. although some Of the
| members drop out until Easter releases
| them from church duties. There prom
ises TO be large number Of theater rar-
| ties, followed by small chatting dish par
| ties and dinners, during the religious sea-
| son. This will be the popular form Of
| entertainment. Drawing room lectures
| will receive considerable attention for the
| next six weeks. Rev. II. II. Gowen CO M
| mences a series of such lectures on
| Dante" on March at the residence of
| Mrs. j. G. Haines on Sixth avenue and
! Union street, which will be attended by
the ladies OF the older set. Rev. George
| Buzzele of st. Clements parish, will
| on March commence a series of lectures
| on THE Life of Christ" which viii be
| continued throughout Lent. The literary
and musical clubs will of course continue
their meetings with probably better at
| tendance and more interest than ncfore.
Such is Seattle's Lenten programme.
zee
the Lenten amusements of Eastern So
| clety women are somewhat Indifferent
| They have very busy season and find
| themselves
verge OF prostration at its end The
| wealthy Eastern woman fills her trunk
! with al outfit Of dimIty. duck and drap
| dete and goes off to the Mediterranean
to do penance under the palms Of Alglers
or float up the Nile in a dehabeeah The
| Bermudas, Venezuela, California, Mexico
/ and Florida also get their contingent of
Eastern society.
| For those who are too tired 10 travel
| there is still another way It is said that
number of New York and Chicago vom-
| en- will spend the six weeks following Ash
| Wednesday clustered in the depths OF a
/ convent. making what good Catholics call
/ retreat. There IS nothing frivolous
/ about convent retreat according 20 the
| story Of an Eastern girl who accomplished
/ one in an aristocratic Paris convent. This
| is the way II is done:
The visitors who have retreated from the
! world are required TO rise at s. 20 tub and
| dress in their cell within half-hour. TO
/ attend morning prayers, early mass In the
/ chapel. and a simple breakfast at 20.
! Their mornings, unless religious exercises
/ intervene. may be passed in sewing for
/ the poor fancy needlework, the reading
/ OK books OF p!ety, letter writing 20 rela-
| tives and exercise In the open air. The
/ afternoons are almost ditto. Any study
may be taken up as desired. The diet,
! Aye. there's the rub. Plain even 40
] 7e d.
/ for visitors three times a week and eggs.
eggs eggs, until one could never abide
/ the sight Of a hen again also redund-
( anCy Of spinach. Good bread and butter =
! Yes, bat the bread crusty and two inches
thick. on holy Saturday one finishes
! and comes out OF retreat rested physic-
/ ally mentally and nervousiy. and 50 hun
cry
An Eastern society writer sizes Up the
/ New York Lenten season by SAYING:
IN New York the moment Lent arrives
/ an epidemic Of classes breaks out. all
I carefully arranged beforehand. To the
/ favored cards fall ike a furry Of snow
for riding classes. roller skating and BAD
mntor clubs. thea,er clubs and sewing
! classes
The sewing class Is unique A early
( as the 1st or January two or three popu-
( Jar girls with large bumps OF executive
( ability secure six or seven patronessa :
! VINO are WlltirE 10 nave a sewing class
/ meet at their house once during Lent. on
! these occasions tea and petit pours are
( served in large quantities After the pat
rcuesSes have lent their names and hos
! pi;aiity a list q twenty-five girl names
/ "a made out aad passed upon by the or
I ganizeTs
Popular girls belong % two CT three
/ sewing classes. The more he raerrier
7 The girls assemble al 3 o'clock n some
/ ones drawing room and hnd huge piles
/ Of stout cotton STUFF and red flannel wait
/ luE for them. Each girl selects a com
! pete OUTFIT for a woman or child and sets
I - work with a needle and jaWeled thin
/ bic A. 6 O'Clock when outtonhoies begin
! 20 yawu and seams begin % zlgzag thel-
! slow lengths over thu garments the
| blessed men begin % amble 81. The swaE-
| ger sewicE bee ends IN tea and a walk
| home in the cleaning. For Il f. the high.
! est fashion 10 wax often and much in
/ these days The real sewing - finally
dore ~ she girls maids or searlstr~sses
and The class ends with 4 smart dance
! CT a hszaar-