Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-20
OUT AND ABOUT.
UNITARIAN LEAGUE AND WHAT
IT STANDS FOR.
/ Suburban Correspondent Objects to
Innovations-Th League No Place
for Self Advertising - Hot Cross
Bums-Tribulations of Smith College
Girls-Other Items of Interest.

We are in receipt of the following
letter:
"As you, dear Out and About, seem to
be the champion of the distressed, 1
presume to beg a little space in your
valuable column, in regard to the last
meeting of the Unitarian League.
II have been for some years a mem
Der of the league, living some distance
from Worcester, and have always re-
garded it as one Of my privileges to be-
long to and to attend the meetings.
II receive the program card regularly,
and then put myself in an attitude to
understand and enjoy the papers and
discussions of the day 1t was, then,
somewhat of a disappointment last Wed
neSday to find the program of the day
so changed--one paper which should
have been read the month before, being
interpolated into the afternoon program;
and another paper, which should have
been upon THE outcome Of physical
culture for women" changed. into a. de-
scrption of the human spine and its
abuses.
THE first paper was so altogether de-
lightful that it well deserved the large
audience that listened to it with marked
pleasure, even if it was an interpola-
ton; but the same can hardly be said
Of the second, and Of the antics that
followed it, which would have been more
appropriate in a gymnasium than in the
pulpit of place of worship, and Were
only brought to a close by the ir1terven-
ton of the president, to the relief of the
audience, which was anXiously waiting
for the last paper-one really Of weight
and dignity.
1T was, to say the least, a new de-
parture, and a great surprise to those
who have watched with admiration the
work done in the league, its fidelity in
adhering to it's early ideal of the reH-
gious, ethical and philanthropic. The
management has always been chary of
admitting matters eXtraneous to these
subjects, and it was with sorrow that
the writer beGleld the great departure
from this tradition and the platform of
the league made medium for adyertis-
ing purposes.
IF man who had been invited to
speak upon the great grain-growing
west should turn mis- lecture into a
prolonged puff for shredded wheat. OF,
any other commodity which he had for
sale, we should feel that he had violated
the elements of good taste. The case of
the speaker at the league was identical.
"Millbury. March 49,"
80
Worcester audiences have had sew
eral mercies to be thankful for this win
ter, one Of the chief of which is the
promise of Mr.. Thomas orchestra and
the great Ysaye tomorrow night. Ysaye
was the star of the benefit concert for
the Maine sufferers, at the Metropolitan
opera House in New York, last night.
This is said to be his last season in
America
The next meeting of the Woman's
Club will be Wednesday. The literary
program, which is in charge Of the edu-
cation committee, Mrs. Emma C. Marble
chairman, will consist of an address
upon mature study by Mrs. Alice
Freeman Palmer of Cambridge.
The current events class will meet
Thursday at Ais. particularly inter
esting program has been arranged.
Mrs. A. Y. Briggs will give the lit
erary news; Miss E. A. Kimball, dra-
matte; Mrs Sarah c. Sears, art; Mrs.
Ellen F. Woodbury., scientific; Mrs. An
''AC L. NndChu LIE DOOkS III Lfle new
Congressional Library at Washington.
Mrs. Emma G.. Marble, copyright laws,
national and international perhaps
Arctic" will be Interested to attend.
Five-minute discussions will follow the
presentation of each subject. Members
are requested to bring items of inter
est.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. S. Maynard are re-
ceiving congratulations on the birth Of
a son.
AS Good Friday, with its accompani-
ment of hot cross buns, is approach
ing, the following receipt for this eccle-
siastlcal and culinary classic may he
welcomed by Spy reading housewives
While the number Of places in the CITY
at which buns of the Good Friday va
riety may be obtained has increased of
late years. many families would like to
make their own if they only knew how
The way most of our bakers carry on
their business, no one buys their bread
or cake unless driven to it by some un-
foreseen domestic calamity.
Here, then, is one rule, and a good one
to make the hot cross bun:
Scald 3 cups OF milk and when cool
add Y cake of dissolved compressed
yeast, 1-S cup butter 1 cup sugar and /
cup tepid water with enough flour to
beat up into a stiff lather. Cover and
keep warm over night, then add Il tea
spoon of soda dissolved in little water
and enough -four to roll like biscuit
Roll till about X inch thick, cut into
smallish rounds with a cooky or biscuit
cutter, and lay on creased tins to rise
When light, cut a deep cross in the TOP
of each and bake till light brown,
when they are to be brushed over with