New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-25
THE DAYS GOSSIP.

Mrs Ruth McEnnery Stuart viii give an authors
reading before the Cosmos Club In the lectureroom
OF the FRS, Presbyterian Church. Fnory-st
Brooklyn. this evening AZ O'Clock.
The General Society. Daughters Of the Revoiu-
ton which has formerly held its annual meeting in
this city vii. meet in Boston to-day and to- NOR
row Members will he tho guests % tho Daugh-
tiers Of the Commonwealth OF Massachusetts and
to-days meeting VII Re held in Paul Revere HAL
Huntington
The international Health Exposition wifi open
this evening at the Grand Central Pa.ace and last
until May 81. It's main feature will be the trained
nurses educational exhibit. In addition TO this
there will he n psychological station. model
French dning-room and kitchen ana many other
interesting and instructive exhihis
Professor William Knight. OF St Andrews Uni
vers.ty Scotland VIII lecture IN Milbank Memorial
Chapel Teachers College this afternoon at $40
o'clock reception will be rendered to him
afterward.
concert for tho bencnt OF the George Washing
ton Memorial Association viii be given IN Memorial
Hall Young Women az dHno Association hro0F
The women's Auxiliary OF the University setue-
ment No. % Delancey-st-. has arranged for me
production OF In Persian Garden at me noine
noon at 2 30 O'Clock
Tho annual meeting OF the Women Conference
OF the Society for Ethical Culture viii take place
az the society house No eSs Mad'son-ave. to-day
2:so o'clock
Miss Grace Gregory and the Prahrn. Quartet VIII
give a musical to-day AZ $50 O'Clock - No AZ Yves,
Fifty -seventh-st
Elaborate plans have been formed ror Tho srnnd
entertainment benefit OF the Iying-ln Hospital At
tho Waldorf-Astoria this evening. There will IA
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gramme danGns ana grqna sgpgSTv NJ, s
and n a certain sum Of money is raised this even
ing j. Pierpont Morgan viii give sl""c"
Mrs Sarah Brownson How VII give a reading
to-day at 2sO o'clock At Miss Marie Pages
studio No % Clinton-st Brooklyn. Her subject
will be Kate Douglas Wiegin and Her Most
Popular Stories
The Church Periodical Club Will rv. a tea with
music and Rotations by Miss Louise Forsyth, To-
church. No East Fif'y-'hrd-st
IT,. National American Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation will hold a two-day convention IN Brooklyn
to-day and tomorrow IN the chapel Of the Poly
,echn,c institute There Will be afternoon and
evening sessions Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait will
open the meeting this afternoon with Introductory
remarks and VIII be followed by Mrs Florence
Howe Hall on Suffrage" and Miss Adele Fields
on The Work Of the League FOR Political Educa-
ton in New York" Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake
will speak tomorrow afternoon Suffrage"
and Miss Harriette A Keyser on The Paste Prob
lem 0, Industrial!srn" The Rev. Anna shaw Will
respond 20 question box.
This evening Wi! be given 70 the Hon Hugh "
Lusk a member OF the New-zealand Parliament.
speak on Woman Suffrage IN New Zealand and
Mrs Gait on True Democracy"
Tomorrow evening Will be given 10 short
address by DR.. ] II. Darlington. OF Christ Church.
and the Rev. Anna Shaw. Tho afternoon SEES
sions VIII begin promptly AT o'clock. nnd those in
the evening at o'clock
Tho wonen's Friday Night Literary Circle. Of
Mount Vernon had meeting and supper at tho
home OF Mrs Joseph 8 Wood No l25 South
Second-ave.. on Friday evening. Among those
present were the Rev. DR.. and Mrs W. 4. Granger,
Henry 2 Rhoades, Mrs. Arthur Williams and Mrs
G. II. Stecker
The Column bia College Musical Society will give
benefit entitled Vanity Fair for the Mothers
and Babies Hospital at tho Waldorf Astoria next
Friday at $50 p. m.
The Santa Clara League VII, give a musical nj
the Hotel Majestic tomorrow afternoon at $50
o'clock Edward Payson Cone IS chairman OF the
Entertainment Committee and is assisted by Mrs.
Edward z. Harper. Mrs Franklin Fyes Mrs.
Archibald Turner and Mrs. II. y. Fraser. The
ushers are Miss L. OBrien Miss Leila Larendon
Miss Ada Fisher Miss Hufcut and Miss Edith
Fraser Tickets are 8 each and may be had from
Mrs. Cone, No Sl4 West Ninetieth-st. or at tho
Majestic
formed for the support Of the Santa Clara Home,
In the Adirondacks. established for the benefit OF
corsumptive working girls. II Inns been success
fulIv carried on for several years. and Is one OF
Tho most deserving charities. Mrs John Elderkin
Is the president
The women's Emergency Corps Of the 18th Reg-
,nent extends thanks to the Shrimpton Manufacture
ing Company for donation OF n thousand needle
hooks for the Housewife Sewing Circle. The next
,neefin4 OF this organization Will be held at the
armnry Sumner and Jefferson aves.. brooklyn. this
afternoon at 2:3o O'Clock
s.v.nteen women members OF the senior law
oIsss of the New York University have declared
.hat tbay are ready TO go TO the front as nurses.
4 WOMAN DIRECTS COLLEGE, or LAW.
Miss Florence Higgins native Of Francesv!llc.
Ind who has just accepted the chair OF oraiory
and the dictatorship OF TINT department In the
Northern Indiana College OF Law. Is the first
woman 10 hold such place in college OF law
Graduated AT the age o. thirteen from me eIocn-
,,on course at the Valparaiso Normal College, she
rursued her studies at the Chicago University with
( II Clark and at the Conway school OF Acting:
a, Tho age of seventeen she became instructor OF
1alitocu,Ion and rhetoric at the Northern Indiana
Normal School. Her brilliant career IS sfikihg
avamnIe OF what natural endowIncnts. unuring
EFFORTS and courage can accoWP"s"