The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-14

decade feasts have descended the scafe,
from teas to breakfasts. viii the next
ten years show an ascension or will
womanly ingenuity invent something
newg AS for man he is past all hope.
Even in this enlightened age Of higher
etiquette. he still demands his dinner.
"Faint heart ne'er won fair lady yet.
Does this apply to man as wells II eer-
tainly did on one occasion not long ago,
and the man was no less a person than
Superintendent of Schools Snyder. When
SIS was appropriated by the Womanss
Gu for a prize to be awarded TO a mem
Der of the graduating class OF the High
School for the best essay on Woman
two ladies were appointed q committee
to see Mr.. Snyder. Unfortunately one OF
them saw him accidentally before the APP
pointed time n quite incidentally
brought up the question of prizes. Exactly
what the superintendent said will never
be known. save, as was reported, ne
wishes to abolish the system of prizes as
far as possible. Whatever he said SO
frightened the fair one that upon con-
sulting with her sister they concluded it
was best not to approach Mr.. Snyder on
| the subject, and the prize was never
offered.
Euchres and euchre clubs have about
| closed for the season, that is some OF
| them. Some have died a natural death
and some have disbanded through rup-
ture. Connected with the Church OF the
Holy Cross is a euchre sadly threatened
with this latter calamity. And all on ac-
connt of Mr.. E~lmendorf's troubles with
Mr.. Thomas Smith. Mr.. Elmendorf on
! the occasion of the election of junior war
den. it will be remembered, challenged
Mr.. Smiths vote, and now the trouble mas
extended to the euchre. Some of the mem
| hers side with Mr.. Smith, who is a mem
Der of the club. and some with Mr.. Emen-
dorf who is not. So, although the mem
| bers have played euchre together for sew
eraI years, and always agreed. it's ex-
tremely unlikely the club will last an
i! other season. "A house divided against
| itself cannot stand" Neither can a
euchre club. The member are:-Mr. and
! Mrs. Gilmour, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. =.
| Thomas Mr.. and Mrs. j. Allaire, MI.
and Mrs ]. Dickinson and Mr.. and Mrs.
T. Smith.
The ladies of the Lenten Sewing Circle
! wish to thank the gentlemen of the Palma
| rI,b for their courtesy in extending to
then, the use of its clubhouse, with all
its appointments. Much comment has
been made on euchre playing for prize
| land especially on charity euchres) IN
| connection with the anti-gambdng laws.
| But .~There are things 'twere better lett
| unsaid." and this is one of them Charlis
| as well as love must be blind. 1T rams 20
| see where it is breaking the Jaw Wieh
such a grand work as 1.-THE Home OF the
| Homeless, or 1.-The Lenten Sewing Circle
is benefited. A game Of progressive
| euehre. in the eyes of the players, is an
right. but the appellation of charitable
sinners is neither right nor just, they
say.
The Players Club has been running
| three rehearsals a week for THE Guards-
man." This does not include the re-
| hearsals in which the men do not par
ticipate. Three of the young ladies, MISS
| Ida Jarvis. who takes the part OF
| Daphne. Miss Ethel Potts, who takes the
| part of Lucy. and Miss Bertha Anness.
who takes the part Of Josephine, have
twentv pages of the manuscript all to
| themselves. and. with the exception OF
| Mr.. Douglas S. Houghton, the coach, not
| a man is allowed to these afternoon re-
| hearsals. Twenty pages sounds IKE q
| great deal, almost as if the ladies had a
| monopoly of The Guardsman," but when
you take into consideration the fact thai
| the manuscript is typewriter, with All
the stage business between the lines, ana
about five spaces between each speech, II
| does not s-.ount to quite so much. How
ever the young ladies feel well satisfied
with their progress and their coach says
they are studying hard and constantly
improving.
And now another difficulty confronts
the PLAYERS What will the club do for
| scenery? The Jersey City Clubhouse has
| been chosen for the play because the
| stage is roomy, but the -scenery-well, it
! might possibly do to represent a VAN
derbiltS or an Aston residence on Fifth
avenue. but for Ny Lady Jones palatial
parlors in don-nev Then, too, the
| first act calls for a park. and the club
| house scenery affords no park. Were 1t
| van fOESl VI ~IldihitloN 80
| Square, Union Square, or even Central
| Park. the scenery, with some few alter
ations, might be made to do. But this
is a park in London and calls for great
exactness in its reproduction, else the
| Jersey City audience will criticize it un-
mercifully.
The Ramblers are evidently afraid of
| wet weather, judging from the attend
ance at their meeting on Wednesday last,
| when, as there was not even a quorum,
| all business had to be postponed.
The Odd Volumes will meet on Wednes-
| day Of next week and may even accom-
pEish greater wonders. covering more
| space in less time. At their last meeting
they covered a period Of 1900 years in
| about an hour.
Last Wednesday Miss Florence Irene
Gritten was married in st. Marks Epis-
! copaI Church to Mr.. Louis Forrest La
| Roche, of Brooklyn. AS Mr.. and Mrs.
| La Roche will reside in the City of
Churches Mrs. La Roche will be greatly
| missed from the social circles in Jersey
| city. and especially from the Ramblers
Club, of which she was a member
Miss Agnes Collard Is to be married to