Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-29
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nnittee in charge of furnishing the en-
tertalnment for the evening will serve
tea at O'clock. They have hung col
lection of steel engravings, which be-
long 70 the club, and are taken from
the old masters, Rubens, Raphael, Tit
ian, Van Dyek and others The COM
mittee is composed of Mrs S. B. Meeser,
Miss Hildreth and Miss Jeanne Lea
Southwick.
"On New Years day l called upon
our representatives at the Italian court,
General and Mrs. Draper" writes Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe in a chatty letter
from Rome to the Woman's Journal.
They are established in the fine Piom-
bino palace which they have furnished
with a magnifcence besuiting so state
~ a residence Mrs. Draper is very hos
pitable and cordial in her manners, She
allowed me to visit the whole of her
beautiful suite of rooms. In the ball
room still stood the Christmas tree
ton of the daughter Of the house,
child Of six years. Among the belong
ings of the household is a gold table
service, which was used by Mrs Dra-
per's father, VIM. NJ. Preston of Ken
lucky. when he was minister to Spain,
many years ago"
Mrs. WI H. Rutan, one of Boston's
prominent Undergraduates, gave a talk
upon "The art of story telling" before
Miss Rusts kindergarten and normal
class, Friday afternoon, at the Froebel
class rooms, on West street
Her talk was conducted throughout in
charmingly magnetic manner, which
fl1O1&0IIo-hIxr i1,fe ted, i
which fully illustrated the fact that
story teller is always listened to in pref
erence to a story writer, if the story
teller is interesting.
The object, said she, in telling story
is to stimulate, strengthen and uplift
the mind. Experience, history, and the
ory should all be combined to make a
good story teller She inStanced Alma
Tadelna's picture of the Greek story
teller, so familiar to ALL where tine girls
are hanging breathless upon every word
which is uttered by the narrator. One
interesting thing about the talk was the
parallel which she drew between Homer
and Nansen. Homer, said she, doubt
less treated Of things which We're to the
early Greeks as are Nansen's stories of
the frozen north to us.
The Worcester County Music School
was crowded Friday night, when a mer-
ftoriouS recital of vocal and Instrument
al music was given by the pupils The
program follows:
Miss Katherine Leavitt, Reverie ORR
entail, Lacks; Miss Mary NIcGrath, Jesu
Cristie, Murray; Miss Amy Robinson.
Jensen Etudes. op. 80; Miss Lizzie Bout
well, My little girl" Mayhew Miss
Mercle Uplham lmpromptu, Bohm; Miss
Minona Taylor, Winter Lullaby Del
koven; Miss Irma Bates, Tarantelle.
Mills; Miss Lizzie Calhoun Linden
Tree, Helmund; Miss Leavett, violin So
To- Scherzo; Mss Florence Scott. Dear
home land; Miss Sadie Godinski. Noe
turne g: nine Chopin; Miss Ethel Bri-
eiiy Dream of paradise" Gray;
MISS cara Wheeler, Wil-o-the-wisp,
Jensen, and Nocturne, Schumann.
Thursday evening, by invitation of
Judge J. H. Burke. president of the
Catholic Union of Boston, Mr.. and Mrs.
banlel DoWney of Boston gave con-
cert IN Catholic Union Hall before an
audience of members and their friends.
tlat not only crowded the hall, but filed
the parlors and vestibule, while many
were unable TO gain access to the build
ing
The artists were Mrs. Daniel Downey,
soprano; Mrs. NJ. p McGrath. contraIto:
Mr.. G. Frank Monroe, tenor; Mr.. James
y. norman of Salem, basso; Mrs Anna
Athy Heffern of Boston, reader; Mr..
Joseph r. Rogers, violinist, and Mrs.
Downey and Mr.. Norman, accompanies
Mrs. Downey, who was in beautiful
voice, sang Ardittiis "Se Seran Rose"
and Mr.. Monroe surprised even his old
friends by the purity and freshness of
Ia al,
and polonaise by Vieuxtemps and Hau-
ser's ,Rhapsodie Hongroise'' eXcellently
Mrs. McGrath sang ballads by Hawley
and Harris One of Mrs. EIeffern's read
ings was Aux Italiens." There were a
number of quartets.
At the conclusion of the concert, judge
Burke in a happy speech thanked Mrs.
Downey for the fine entertainment she
had given them. A reception was subse-
quently rendered to Mrs. Downey in the
parlors.
French lectures are no novelty in Wor-
cester, but the course of German lee
lures which DR.. Albert Schinz of Clark !
University announces for consecutive |
Thursday afternoons in February and |
March will come as something new and ,
desirable to German scholars and stu
dents and to those perSons-more nu- |
merous than may be supposed--who |
have little German which they are
anxious to keep up"
Dir. Schinz would appear to possess the
prerequisites for making his lectures in
structive and entertaining. He is a pro-
fessor at the University of Neuchatel, |
Switzerland who has come to this coun-
try to study the language and institu-
TONS
The lectures will be upon ''Three rep
resentative authors of the German liter
ature of today and two lectures will
be devoted to each author. The subjects, |
dates and places of meeting are as fol- |
lows:
Gottfried Keller, Feb. 10 and IT, at the
house of Miss Mabel c. Gage, so Pearl
street.
Sundermann, Feb IA and March 8, at i
the house of Miss Mary f. Sargent, IA |
Hammond street.
G. Hauptmann, March 10 and II, at the !
residence of Mrs. James B. Blake, so
West street.
The hour of the lectures is o'clock
A PUPILS RECITAL.