The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-15
OUT AND ABOUT,
SELECTED ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Friday Morning Club Lecture-Harold
Frederick and His Hat-Mint Leaves
Choice Chat.


The Friday Morning Club. which in
past years has won the thanks of the
tublic for the delightful entertainments
IL IL mas given, IS about to add to that
evening will be given under its ans
plceS by Mr.. III. E. KrehbieI of New
ofk. Mr.. krehbiel occupies a. lniaue
position among the musical critics ne
the country while Mrs. Krehbiel who
Wall assist with a number Of folk SONGS
OF Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Fin
LAND, is gifted singer and an artist
Well known in musical New York. Mr.
krehblel has prepared a new IaotI1ra
for the Friday Morning club. to coTaS =
the work that the club has outlined for
lts winters work-the Scandinavian
school-and his remarks will embrace
the musical characteristics of the above
mentioned countries from the folk
songs 10 the present modern songs.
Harold Frederic's self-confidence and
power Of dominating strangers stood
him IN good stead in one Of his first
Vlslts-if not his very first visit-to Ber-
I'm, says the Saturday Review Tho
incident as he related it seemed natural
enough to an American not brought nm
IN awe OF military caste, but to those
VINO knew Germany, it was almost sur
pFlslng that he came through it with
ms ne. He had been paying some
formal diplomatic calls, and in the eve
ming dropped IN at the Cafe Bauer in
the unWonted glory of frock coat and
tall silk hat. This hat was careful
~ hung on q hatStand, and Frederic
SAT down to read an English newspaper
just arrived. Enter particularly fine
specimen of the Lieutenant booted and
spurred and sworded and epau-
letted. He brushed against the
hatstand, knocked Frederic's hat
over INTO the sawdust, and
staggered to his seat without SO much
as looking around. The slight to the
hat was more than Frederic could en-
dure.
In a towering passion he went to the
lieutenant, stood over him, and point
ed to the object on the floor "Pick
up that hat, sir!" he roared. The Off
Ger stared amazed, the walters were
paralyzed with terror at hearing one
so much more than human so addressed
by civilian. "Pick up that hat" re-
peated Frederic in, a tone more nenae-
ing than before. And the lieutenant
did what he was told He was as ir-
resistlbly dominated by the courage and
force of the man as a schoolboy before
his master; or perhaps he thought
Frederic carried the customary West
American revolver.
Boston has g new baritone and Mrs.
Jack" Gardner new protege. Mr..
Theodore Bayard is an Englishman who
met with great success in London last
year. and was honored with the com
nIand 20 sing before Queen Victoria.
He will make his first appearance in
America Nov. %, and an afternoon con-
cert in Steinert Hall, Boston, yet ~al-
ready he is called cn Boston) "the
great English baritone"
The members of the Art Students
Club still know how to make it hot
for their friends at their exhibitions.
st. Louis is the latest convert to the
curfew bell. The resurrection and ap-
plication of this old medieval regula-
ton by an intensely practical and up
to-date people like the Americans is
worthy of note. There appears to be
approximate unanimity between the
east and the west as to the efficacy of
tho curfew bell as a conservator of the
public morals.
If one may be permitted to criticise
the handsome facade of the new thea
tire, it is that there is no ledge broad
enough to be of any assistance to the
fire department. 1t is to be hoped that
there will be no loss of life in conse-
quence of this oversight on the part
of the architect.
Candied mint leaves are one of the
latest and smartest bon-bons that my
lady can nibble with her pretty teeth.
Like all these crystallized sweets, can
died violets and rose leaves, for in
stance-they are frightfully dear, cost
ing 80 cents a pound, and they weigh
heavy, too. But they are novelty and
chic, and when that's said, alPs said.
OF course, the clever woman who for
principle or necessity chooses to econo-
mize little, can crystalline her own
mint leaves and rose petals and violetS.
Any cook book will tell you how things
are crystallized, for it Is simply mat
ter of boiling sugar just right and
dipping and drying. There is knack
about it, to be sure, but there is that
about nearly everything that is worth
while in this world. AS for the mint
leaves, why not arrange two or three
boxes in the kitchen and grow mint in
them? Then you can have candied
mint leaves as an accessory to your
dinner table all the year around-and
mint sauce to your lamb, too, if you
want Il.
Cards are out for the marriage of
Minnie Elizabeth, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. ]. O'Leary, to John Joseph
Shea. The wedding will take place at