New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-30
NE THE DAYS GOSSIP.

Thu Demorest Womans Christian Temperance
Union will hold its regular monthly meeting this
afternoon at 2So o'clock at the home Of Mrs
Martin s Payne. No. l35 West Seventy-eighth-st
Miss Lucille Corbett will give two piano selections
and Miss Harriet Louise Norton. whistler VIII be
present and add 70 the pleasure OF the occasion OCCASION
Events in Relation the Purity and Temperance
Questions"
Al the waldorf-As on Saturday. January I,
M II n m there will be given by Mrs. Sarah
Brownson How a richly illustrated lecture on TIE
history Of New-York City from lIsS 70 hel ior 'he
benefit OF the old Marion-st Maternity hospital
Mrs George Howes and the Misses Howes. or
No go West Fifty-seventh-st.. announce an "at
home for this a.srnooo from sn unt O'CLOCK
end for Thursday afternoons III January
Walter A. Wyckoff whose resignation Of HE
OF luxury IN order 10 make himself practically ac-
uuainted with conditions involved In labor ques-
rHading a. Chickering Hall this afternoon on The
The proceeds are e 60 be sySn to the
P,aI leader and author speaks from personal in
ferest and knowledge OF his subject.
A, the I.oretto Lyceum. No s2S Madson-st..
17rooklyn. the Holy Name Society Of the Church
of Our Lady Of Good Counsel will give progress
sve euchre party this evening an s Pr an
Church
Miss Joseph,ne Walton will give the sixth Of her
,.ctures on Current Events" at the home of Mrs.
Charles E. Orvis, No. Il West Eighty-hrst-st.. this
morning at II O'CLOCK.
Marshall parrach's Shakespeare recital at Carne-
Hte Lyceum this evening will be Macbeth.
chudren.s entertainment for the benefit Of tho
Hebrew Technical School for Girls will be held this
afternoon AT 2:3o o'clock In Carnegie Lyceu"'
hist
h.neot for little Hazel the nine-y ear-old grand
daughter of the late Charles w Couldock Will be
given q. the Knickerbocker Theatre this after
noon The entertainment has been arranged by
Josenh Jefferson Daniel Frohman and Joseph
Brooks sketch Of the lfe OF the actor c9ndio o
written by Jefferson vii v Se pay' Piancon viii
eng Mrs lie Moyne VIII read and Others VINO WI
take part vii be isaSeG da sporg and Edward
J. Morgan
The American Chemical Society, before which
c..arles f. Tr,pler performed some wonderful oem-
cns.ra,ion. with nquid air at a meeting In Column
Ma University on Wednesday. visited the profess
eor's laboratory at No 12l West Eighty-ninth-s'''
last night.
The third Thursday tea at the Portrait Show took
place Yesterday afternoon. Several prominent
actresses been asked 10 assist the patronesses
different Thursday afternoons Inc e"n'0i''o'
will continue some time
Thu neonl. o. B!nghanton think that twenty
I'VE DAYS III prison too severe a sentence FOR
Belle Bradley who has Just been released MISS
Bradley. who ~ working girl was sentenced be
cause She "s.5rched' a bicycle without clutch
Ing tho hancia-bars
Much sympathy is expressed in Pelham for Mrs.
Katherine J. Merritt the posmistress os that
place who was arra,gned on Tuesday before United
States Commissioner Shields. charged with en-
bezz,ing ,7;7 81 Of the postofSce funds in her
tody When her husband was killed few years
ago the widow found. upon examination OF his
hooks that lie was a defaulter TO the amount OF
. E7oN and she sold little property she pos
sessed borrowed money and denied herself every
thing bat bare necessares un'i. her 40
manGod that his loan should be paid, ana she Dor
rowed the sum from the Government funds. hoping
thus TO avoid publicity, and trusting TO he anie 70
removed her from her place
one OF the most interesting and delightful Christ
mas dances was given TUESDAY evening al the
Ellerslie In West Onc-hundred- and twenty SIKH
Eight young women well known IN soclety
were the hostesses They will give second oahce
after Easter The ballroom was hrusucaHy oeco-
rated with Christmas greens ana Tbe guests
were received by the patronesses MIS- N9li nran
Williamson. Mrs. Emmet X Olcon, Ms Ms f,,icb
r. Van De Water. Mrs. j. y. simpson nIs, i'''e''
cock Mrs Osborne and Mrs. John Bottomiey'
Miss Caroline z. Dennis, one OF the ''oc-p'eS'
dents OF the General Federation Of women 'iuoS'
died on Wednesday in Auburn. n. y, at the City
Hospital OF which she had been presiden,o io'
many years Her death was was. ou sc,iye club mem.
,eeT1 during the meeting OF the Teoe'e"S" 49, ~