Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-20
OUT AND ABOUT. !;
Continued From Fourth Page,


lated 1t would be Impossible to dis
.iaguisn between the actors so natural
| ly, gracefully and piquantly did each
act her part. The whole performances
as you must have guessed by this time
was series of bright, entertaining cpl
sodes delightfully."- rendered Those who
/ see it for the first time two weeks
! hence-not less than those who will see
1t for the second time-have treat in
store.
! The play was followed by an after
noon tea in the vestibule and parlor.
Mrs. N. F. Rogers served lemonade.
| Mrs Calvin Stebbins and Mrs. E. I. Co
minis poured coffee and tea, assisted by
Mrs f. L. Dean, Miss Gertrude Wood
Miss Nella Marble. Miss Coombs, Mrs
R. f. Taylor and Miss Lavinia Hough-
ton and others.
| The table was decorated with a. CEN
tre-p piece of pink carnations and maiden
hair, surrounded by pink candles in tall
silver sticks, and was extremely pretty
| Mrs. Helen Henrotin, president of the
General Federation of Woman's Clubs,
will not be able to be at the next meet
| ing of the Worcester Womans Club on
the evening of the 9th, but it is expect
! Sd LIoLI she Will attend the reception OF
| Dr. and Mrs Archibald McCullagh to
the Woman's Club on the afternoon and
evening of the 2Sth. While in Worcester
Mrs Henrotin will be the guest Of Mrs.
| c. c. Baldwin.
Tickets for the lecture by Col. Geo, e.
| Waring Of New York city, in Associa-
| ton Hall, next Thursday evening. are
on sale at Steinert's music store at so
| cents each.
The Woman's Club class in deep
| breathing will meet at 10 O'Clock this
morning in Red Mems Hall, Day build
ing, Main street.
DR.. and Mrs. Archibald McCullagh
give their second at home today from
until and from until 10 o'clock.
The first concert of the Allen Club oc-
ours tonight in Horticultural Hall.
Invitations go out today for the we'd
ding reception of Miss Mabel Ann Rich
ardson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. o.
| Richardson, and Mr. George Augustus
Loud. ON the evening of Feb. 2, from T
to O'Clock, at Woodland street The
wedding ceremony, which will take
place at Q o'clock, will be private. Mr..
| and Mrs. Loud will be at home after
March 15 at 507 Pleasant street. About
800 invitations have been issued for the
reception.
The Mothers Child Study Circle met
Wednesday with Mrs. ]. c. Ellis, the
program being in charge of Mrs. Henry
L. Parker, Jr. Nurseries was the
topic for consideration. Mrs. Parker
gave a talk in which she slketched the
ideal nursery, and Mrs. Nelson gave a
mother play. Feb. 2, when the circle
meets with Mrs. Clellan w. Fisher.
MRS. Edgar E. Thompson will be in
charge of the program, which will have
to do with ''Children's rights"
Christianity in modern literature"
was the subject of the January meeting
! of the Worcester League of Unitarian
| Women at the First Unitarian Church
! wednesday, but the papers and discuss
sions We're preceded by a series of read
lngs upon "The growth of religious toll
! erance," by Miss May of Leicester I'M
| der the auspices of the philanthropic
and religious news committee. Miss May
first gave parts of Rev. Lyman Abbott s
article on this subject in a recent Fo-
rum, and closed with a short, original
1 paper by Rev. Nathaniel Seaver of
Millbury. The tone Of both was opti-
mistic. Mr.. Abbott thought that we
/ had grown not so much tolerant as more
| Catholic, and that this change was due
to the transference of popular interest
from doctrinal to ethico-spiritual mat
| ters; to the rise of numerous nom eccle-
| siastical topics of interest, such as tenn
| perance, woman suffrage, citizenship,
capital and labor, evolution and science,
and finally to the influence of the pub
lie school system. In MIR. Seaver's opin-
ion the defeat of slavery meant the de-
feat of religious intolerance in this
country.
There were three papers upon the
subject proper to the day. Miss Elean-
or Whiting gave the first on 'Marius
| the Epicurean;' Miss Ellen A. Kimball
| followed with one on "Quo Vadis.' The
1 last paper was written by Miss Frances
Hill and read by Mrs. A. S. Carver.
"Marius the Epicurean'' is the story
of one that, living under the Antonines,
walked in shadow, communing with
himself; that hung upon the lips OF the
| Emperor Marcus Aurelius; that could
learn only through the eyes and hold
existence for a drama that will not come
again, yet was so loyal to the spirit
within him, so delicate and pure as to
fulfill the saying he had never heard,
Greater love than this hath no man."
and to lay down his life for his friend
The essayist sketched the few events in
the life of Marius, with especial en-
/ phasis upon his adoption of refined
form of Epicureanism as his philosophy,
his revulsion from the cruelty, injustice
and tyranny which were permitted in a
civilization dictated by Stoicism, his
longing for something abiding and per-
sonal in the drift Of things, his satisfac-
ton in the Christian character and rit-
ual, and finally his death as a martyr
to the new religion.
In speaking of the book from the his
torical and religious point of view, she
compared it with "Quo Vadis." STEM
kiewicz, she thought, had been biased
J in his treatment of early Christian his
tory by his strong Roman Catholic
synpathies; on the other hand, Pater,
while for the most OF his lie a pagan,
and always an ardent classicist, has
been accused Of unfairness, not to
Christianity, but to paganism. Again,
4 Sienkiewicz has laid the scene of his
novel in a time of tremendous storm
and stress for the Christians; Pater has
chosen a later period when security and
serenity prevailed, for the most part.
In "Quo Vadis," the church is infinitely
more dramatic, more tragic. 1t is the
innocent gaiety of the church, her es-
thetic charm, her gracious comeliness,
! that win Marius. In concluding, the
i question was raised whether such a
4 transition from spaganism to Christian
\ ity as is here pictured could have taken
4 place.
Miss Kimbal began the consideration
IL.