The Jersey City news., 1898-03-26

Immediately after Lent will begin again
the marriage and giving i'll marriage"
Easter week and the next week there Will
be weddings of social importance two on
April II and the third April 10. Tuesday
seems to be a popular day this year.
Apropos of the marriage question list
of lucky bridal days may be of use to
those who have not as yet settled on the
important day. 1t is just as well to be
on the safe side, You know. and be sure
that fate, at least, is not against you. Old
superstitions have it that the follow
ing are favorable days to embark on
ones matrimonial career:-March 6, II. IA
and 30; April s, II, 10. % and Is; May 2. 4,
1s. 20 and 2S; June l. 3, IL, II and q; July
i. 5. 70, 10. 21 and 81; August 2, II, 49, 20
and go; September l, 8. 16 and IS; October
j, s. IL, II. q and 20: November 5, II, is. p
and 25: December /, s, IA. IS. 2S and y;
January 8, II. Is. n and 81; February 2,
9, % and IS. 1t is large assortment
and from that list it ought to be possible
to find a7convenient day and date. Even
May. the unlucky month for weddings,
has a La e share in the luck with five
bridal Z rs, and July October and De-
cembs Share the honors with six each.
V few weddings take place in Lent
in Ia .s city at least though there are gem
orally number of them Immediately af-
ter. Last year about this time there
were two very large weddings, that of
Miss Alice Scudder and Mr.. Frank Hill
man Hall Immediately after Easter. and
little later Miss Maude Brett and the
Rev. w. H. BoococlS. The three to take
plase in the two weeks after Easter are
Miss Jessie Marvin and Mr.. Fred Bennitt
on April T. Miss E,fiie NewlSirk and Mr.
VIII Martin on April u, and Miss Maud
Williams and Mr.. John Rowland, April
19.
Miss Marvin and Mr.. Bennitt will be
married in Grace Church in the evening,
and the ceremony will be performed by
Mr.. Bennitt's father. the Rev. George ).
Bennitt The ceremony viii be followed
by reception to thee families of the
bride and groom. Miss Marvin is an
exceedingly accomplished young woman
She is a member of the Monday Musical
Club and of ST. Agatha's Guild Of Grace
Church. She has played number of
times for the Jersey City Woman's Club.
Of which she IS member.
Miss Newkirk and Mr.. Martin will also
be married in the evening and will have
a very large wedding and reception at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Newkirk, Ber-
gen avenue.
Miss Williams and Mr.. Rowland will
be married in ST. Johns Church, in the
evening Of the nineteenth. A large num-
ber of invitations to the wedding will be
sent After the ceremony there will be
a reception to the families only of the
bride and groom. Not even the most in
innate friends will be invited. Miss Will
Jams is one of the most popular girls in,
the city. She IS an earnest worker in
ST. Johns Church and she is also char
ter member of the Rambler Club.
Other weddings to be looked for are
those of Miss Jessie Dixon and Mr.. Nc
Coy. Miss Ethel Potts and Mr.. Oscar
Gubelman, Miss Ida Lembeck and DR..
Horace Bowen.
Al, the arrangements for the three
readings to be given by Mrs. Carolyn
Paddock Pratt have been made, with the
exception of part of the musical pro-
gramme. The first reading will be given
next Tuesday afternoon, March %, at the
residence. of Miss Cierihew. siss Retta
Smith viii play and Miss Elizabeth
Speers will sing. Mrs. Pratt will read
from Tennyson. On Tuesday afternoon,
April 5. the reading will be held ait the
residence of Miss Forman. Miss Carolyn
Yeaton will play and it is expected that
there will also be both a soloist and vio-
lInist. Mrs. Pratt will read from Sid
ney Laurier and Eugene Field and will
17,,.
The third and last reading will be given
at the residence of Miss Clerihew. Miss
Alberta Fisher of New York viii sing.
The other musical numbers are not yet
arranged for. The readings will be from
Shakespeare. The announcement of the
readers have been sent to the subscrib-
ers-
Lectures lectures, lectures! And still
they go on. Some of them are worth
hearing they are about something that
isn't known TO everyone ands are told in
an interesting way. Take for instance,
the lecture given by Major Pangborn on
Abraham Lincoln 10 the Handlers and
their guests. That lecture was not taken
from the encyclopedia; it was not a
stringing together of the sentiments of
half dozen other people. II was origi-
nal and it was told interestingly. And
then the lecture Mrs. Wait gave Tues
day on Pottery Mrs. Wait had stud
led the subject and she knew what she
was talking about and she told what she
knew in such way that oshers not so
fortunate knew something about It. And
the lectures Mrs. Wait gives about the
places she has visited always tell some-
thing and tell 1t originally.
The great trouble with the lectures
generally given the long suffering Jersey
City public is that they are generally a
collection OF other peoples ideas, or they
are Il collection of encyclopaedia facts. A
lecture given recently in the city is a fair
sample of these dismal affairs and it well
deserved the criticism made by a lady
who listened to It. She said:-"I thought
! was to be told something l didn't know.
I expected bright address, full of origi-
nal ideas. And we were tol1 a series of
stories about different myths that l can
read any day please in the encyclopedia,
for l have them, though. suppose, the
lecturer thought no one else had. Why,
i've known about Helen Of Troy since
was fourteen.
The lecture Mrs. Wait gave Tuesday
u-ae fbe last of her course 70 hers Liter