New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-24

Miss Georgiana Roberts begins series OF illus
trated Talks for the Children" at Sherry's Thirty
seventh-st and Fitth-ave., this AFTERNOON at :
o'clock The subject Miss Roberts has CHOSEN 'or
The Education Committee Of sorosis will meet
this afternoon at Mrs. Archibald Shaw's. No. Is
Manhattan Square. The topics tor discussion are
zaton In speech" Colleges for Men and Women"
and THE Value OF the Study OF Shakespeare"
Miss wars;el will give talk on the Yellowstone
and Yosemite Valley" this evening in the draw
ing-room OF Mrs Lillian Gilbert Fsh's home. at
No. a West Twenty-seventh-st. The lecture will
be Illustrated by one hundred and fifty stereopticon
Views.
Mrs. E. J. Bacon the finder OF the noted "Por-
trait Stone" will give the story OF her find and
exhibit the stone, which Dana and Max Muller
both declared was never touched by human tools"
the home OF Mrs Taft No. $40 Lexngton-ave..
this afternoon at $50 o'clock The proceeds OF the
lecture will be used FOR charity.
The Rev Ida c. Hultn. OF Moline H.. will lect-
in the assembly hall Pratt Institute this after
noon at $3.50 o'clock Subject: rs the World Our
Debtor?" All members of the Institute and their
friends are cordially invited
A mos, Interesting series o, lectures upon deco
ratve art has been planned by the Society OF Deco
ratve Art. TO be given Thursday afternoons during
Lent at Sherry's, F.tth-ave. and Thrtyseventh-st.
The first lecture will be this afternoon at o'clock
BY Dan Beard on The Arms and Legs OF the
Fish" Among the other lecturers are Professors
Cooper Hewitt and Mrs Candace Wheeler.
The fifteenth annual meeting OF the Florida
Womans Christian Temperance Union convenes
to-day at Sanford and continues in session over
will be duly represented
meeting Will DO held to-day at the home OF
Place. Brooklyn. to decide the date and place
FOR the annual convention Of the Long Island
Federation Of Womans Club Tho arrangements
are in charge OF a committee. which Is composed OF
the following well-known club women: Mrs. J. d.
Dunn. Of the Jamaica woman's Club; Mss
Miss Eliza Macdonald. Flushing Good Citizenship
Hasge Mrs John tew c6 6s Mss va al 'e
Brown and Miss Elizabeth Perry. OF Brooklyn.
The willing Workers Society. the headquarters
OF which is at No. 1904 Bushwick-ave Brooklyn
will hold a mass-meeting IN the Central Presby-
terrain Church. Marcy and Jefferson ayes this even
Ing.
Addresses will be delivered by the following
speakers: The Rev. J. r. Carson. the Rev W. H.
Layton the Rev. L. K. Morse and the Rev c. ".
King who will preside. Professor Tallie Morgan
and a chorus OF thirty trained voices will furnish
the music.
kathleen
Mathew of Queens Gate Garden London. will give
a talk thi. morning at Il o'clock at the home OK
Mrs Daniel p Ingraham. the Strathmore. Fifty
second-st and Broadway. This r. TO be the first
OF a series Of talks public questions and things
OF literary interest, given under the general ute
OF Topics OF the Day" Miss Mathews lectures
will be all given on THURSDAY mornings III MiS.
InRrahams home
II was rumored in Brooklyn yesterday that the
pavrolls OF the Brooklyn School Board were being
nushed through as rapidly possible. so that the
Controller Coler has been taking personal in
terest In this payroll and II was pushed through
the Board OF Estimate and Apportonment last
week.
In the lecture the FIRST Of the course on Shake
.neare Goethe and Browning. which Mrs. Lillian
C;,tbs-Key, will give this evening at the home or
Mrs Guernsey No. 80 Central Park South, the
subjects especially considered will be: Evolution
of Thought In Schools OF Philosophy. Commencing
with the Greeks; THE Renaissance and Shake
s,eare " German Influence and Goethe" Brown
ing and Nineteenth Century Influence Snakee-
sneere Goethe and Browning as writers Morais,
ilts Scientists Philosophers and Relgionists' ana
The Future Poet.
An Interesting display OF art in metal 10 now on
xb,b,on In the Art Gallery OF the Pratt Institute
prooklvn and may be seen daily from TO o O'CLOCK
and from 7:3o TO go o'clock. until February :"
rh,s .,bitit,on which is unique In kind Consists
=, ,nronght iron work loaned by John Williams OF
Saw York. bronze and brass Tork loaheu ~ ~
n,ars y caldwell q Co. and examples oi jap