Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-29


dent Of the Mt. Holyoke Alumnae AS
ISOLATION, and Mrs Coonley-Ward, a for
mer president of the Chicago Womans
Club. Maidenhair fern and roses deco
rated the house, and at the refreshment
! tables We're the vice presidents, Mrs.
Frank e. Haywood and Mrs. George r.
Bliss, and the chairman of the social
committee, Mrs. L. P. Goddard. The as
sistants were chiefly from outside the
| association.
I The central event of the afternoon was
the charming talk which Mrs. Benrotin
gave upon education as she had expert
enced 1t 80 years ago in France, England
and Germany. 1t was nothing more or
less than the story in outline of her
! girlish days in foreign schools, conclud-
Ing with Characterization of American
higher education for women and a sug-
gestion for the future.
Her Paris school, Mrs. Henrotin
likened to a prison. The pupils slept 80
in one dormitory; their dress was uni
form of black alpaca which looked
like long black bag. On coming into
the school they handed their wardrobe
| to the head of the linen department and
never saw it again until they were ready
to leave Three times week towel,
three Observation-Disclosures and UNDER
clothes were laid on the foot of each bed
and the impersonality of this act was a
type of the impersonality which per-
vaded all the relations Of the officials
and the students.
In all the time she was there, Mrs.
Henrotin said she never heard one low
ing word exchanged between teacher
and pupil. The instruction was of the
best. 1t comprised chiefly French litera-
ture and language, history and writing,
and in these branches it was far super
ior to anything to be obtained in Eng
! land or America. No woman under
stands her surroundings so well as a
| French woman, said Mrs. Henrotin.
Many of the girls-they were Polish
and Russian as well as French-did not
| go out of the grounds more than three
or four times while at school. There was
one girl who had not seen her parents
for six years, and another who had not
seen hers for II (she was 10 years old.
At the Isle of Wight the instruction
was as poor as it had been good in
France Beyond spelling, reading and
writing, the girls learned nothing, and
| the books which they were permitted to
read were of the mildest description.
Yet there was much that was fine. The
were truthful and reverent. AS a sample
of the naivete which existed among
| them Mrs Henrotin said that the great
est treat a girl often knew there was to
| have supper in the sehoolroom once a
| fortnight, with fresh bread and jami
| Everything was very simple, and what
she had seen there had helped her to
understand a certain childlike attitude
which she had since come across in
many English women.
| At Dresden the instruction was very
advanced, with lectures from good pro-
fessors, quite as If they had been boys.
Embroidery, sewing and darning were
added to book learning, but nowhere,
any more than at the school in Paris,
| did they come in contact with real life,
and everything was just as cold and inn
| personal.
And now, said Mrs Henrotin, if l look
at the tendency of our own institutions,
does it not consist in putting education
apart, instead of treating it as means
to an end? Perhaps this is due to our
| being in the first flush of the movement,
and yet we have had the higher educa-
! ton of women long enough now to find
our leaders from it. Still, we do not
see them. SO many of the movements
| Of the day would be bettered could col
| lege women be leaders in them. I wish
| | could see more college women leading
| in the women's clubs, and the univers-
| ity extension and college settlement
work If the Association of Collegiate
| Alumnae could cooperate with tine Gen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs, what
might not be accomplished in co-ordin-
ating forces? And coordination is what
| the world, after specializing in religion,
| science and life, is now ready for.
| After Mrs. Henrotin's talk, many of
the ladies went on from Mrs. Baldwin's
house to the reception of DR.. and Mrs.
| Archibald McCullagh. At the reception
in the afternoon Mrs. Henry S.
Pratt, Mrs. George Gould, Mrs John E.
Day, Miss Fannie Morse, Miss Rosie
Fish, Mrs. Charles Gates, Miss Jennie
Bradley and Miss Eleanor Aldrich as
sisted Mrs. McCullagh
In the evening Mrs. C. c, Baldwin
and Mrs Henrotin received with DR..
and Mrs. McCullagh. Mrs E. l. Co
Minis, Mrs j. H. Robinson, Mrs. Chas.
A. Marble and Mrs. C. f. Marble served,
and Mrs William F. Whipple, Mrs. N.
f. Marble, Miss Nella Marble, Miss
| Frances Morse, Mrs. Emma A. Porter,
Mrs. ]. c. MacMurray, Miss Emma Nc
Harriet Bliss and Miss Georgia Bacon
| assisted.
The wedding gift of the Woman
Club to Mrs. McCullagh was displayed at
the reception. 1t is a carbon photo-
graph of Leroll's famous picture of the
shepherdess and his sheep in the Lux
embourg, handsomely framed in gilt.
The club also sent box of lilies of the
valley and carnations
Mrs. c. G. Baldwin gave a small din
ner Friday evening for Mrs. Henrotin.
The sociology class of the Woman's
Club meets Monday afternoon.
Miss Molie Cushing and Miss Annie
Louise Gushing of Lowell are visiting
their grandmother, Mrs. D. H, Eames.
Rev. John e. Tuttle has engagements
to speak at the Worcester South C. e.
Union, Feb. 10; at lenten services in
Newport, March 80; and in Providence,
March 81
Mr.. Irving Swan Brown, manager of
the Boston Store, and Mrs. Brown threw
open their charming house at 10 Ham,
mond street. Friday night, for an infor-
NAL reception to the buyers and section
managers of the Boston Store and their
wives The company numbered between
so and 60 persons. Mr. and Mrs. A.
Swan Brown received with the host and
| hostess but the affair was more of a
reunion of persons associated day by
day in common occupation and inter
est than a reception.
or course there was music as befitted
the home of Swan Brown, and delight
full music it was, too. Mr.. William
Heinrich sang Lassen's Thine eyes so