New-York tribune., 1898-12-22
THE DAYS GOSSIP.

The New-York County Woman Suffrage League
will give the seventh annual Pilgrim Mothers Din
ner at the Waldorf-Astora to-day at 1870 o'clock
The arer-dnner toasts will be responded TO by Mrs
Mary Seymour Howell president Albany County
Political Equality Club: Mrs Mary Grinnell Meares
Mary z Trautman. President Woman's Health Pro-
tectve Association; Mrs Ada NJ. Brown president
Chiropean; Mrs Talbot Perkins president, Bedford
Political Equality League. Mrs. Fanny Humphreys
Gafrney president Society for Political study and
other distinguished women
bazaar for the Little Mothers Aid Society is
announced 10 open to-day at Happy Day House No
3ei East Twentyhrst-st.. and will be held from 2
70 o clock The proceeds are to be devoted TO
meeting current expenses.
Ihis Will be Ladies' Day al the Knickerbock.r
Athletic Club. Madison-ave and For.y-fourtbs,
competition will be held in the gymnasium at
4;3o and at there will be a tank drama which ia
10 De enacted partly over the water as well as in
ana on H. In the evening a vaudeville performance
Hr De ever The clubhouse will be open TO the
o'clock. W Until y
industrial Problem as II Affects Women and
Chlidren is the title OF the paper that will be
given to-day before the West End Woman's Renuh
iieah ASSOCIATION, which meets at 3l5 p m. at No
AT the East Side House Settlement Seventy
siNth-st. and East River the Fellow citizenship As
s13ciatIon will listen to lecture this evening "A
History OF Our Country.s Songs" with musical
Illustrations. by the Rev. r. W. f. Merrlngton
The French lecture by Professor Cohn at Column
bia University to-day will be on "LAnnee 1898 en-
France" The public is invited During the Christ
mas vacation these lectures Will be suspended bu,
VIII be resumed on January g. 1897.
Al the December meeting Of the New-York City
Indian Association Miss Sibyl Carter gave some
Into rastfp
she has taught TO support themselves. and said
that the Indians not only need to be taught-thev
need wages. one woman. she said. walked sixteen
miles with her baby on her back. seeking teacher
who would instruct her in lacemaking This indus
Try Is largely followed. and there is demand
movement 10 provide homes for the aged help
less poor OF New-York. Kings Queens and Suffolk
counties has resulted in the drafting OF bill 10 this
effect 70 be presented shortly before the Legislat
Poor Department OF Public Charities drew up the
l oli MI Bair IT. thinks this class Of the espe
ovp The homes are 10 be non-sec,arian.
To-day Will be gala day at the Academy Of De-
sign. will every Thursday hereafter until the
exhibit closes Tea will be served during the after
in the old library at the right OF the main en-
trance by special committee Of women among
whom are Mrs. Charles 3 Alexander. Mrs. John
Hobart Warren and Miss De Forest who have in
yited Miss Suzanne Adams and Mrs. Sarah Coweli
lie Moyne to assist them An Hungarian orchestra
VIII play from 10 o'clock
A truckoad Of Christmas eatahles- donated by
residents Of Hoboken s already on It's way to the
members OF Company NJ 4th Regiment New Jersey
Volunteer Infantry, at Camp Wetherell. Greenve
$. c. The roster Of goodies includes barrels OF
Of canned peas and corn three boxes Of cake, a
barrel Of apples. and cigars. tobacco and pipes
The women OF the Health Protective Association
Of New-York and Brooklyn feel that something has
been accomplished II the Board OF Health has Al
"EXpectoration in the Is a menace TO health"
Muphy Of 0F the Boars Of RHa hSs
taken the matter In charge, and a much-needed
cleansing and fumigaton is being attended to-
Word comes from Exeter " H. that Al a meet
ing Of the Board Of Trustees Of the Phillips Exeter
Academy last night letter read from Edward
F Rice. Of Boston. Offering give library OF six
thousand volumes Of Napoleonic literature 70 the
its reception A TO erect fireproof building 10
cost not less than 100000 at once passed by
the trustees.
The temperance women OF this city interested
in the report from Lexington. KY. that 1O1 retail
liquor dealers OF that city have been indicted by the
Womans Christian Temperance Union for violating
the Sabbath As there are only l1p licensed saloons
In Lexington. the few that left like cities
upon a hill. The women, doing nothing by
halves have also procured the Indictment OF Mayor
J. B Smrall and the four Police Commissioners
for allowing saloons he kept open Sunday. A
member Of the Grand Jury, in telling how 1t nap nap,
presented list OF all saloons they had found
doing business on Sundays. naming persons In the
saloons the time the inspection was made. the
amount OF their purchases. and other data which
made 1t impossible for the jury Ignore the facts.
II the women keep the work up at the February
Of the court and the succeeding terms they
viii certainly keep the saloons Of Lexington closed