The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-09
NEWS OF SOCIAL WORLD.
The Kneisels-sooiety Gossip From Lon
don and New York.


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cations are that an audience as large
as the hall can accommodate will wei
come Mr.. Kneisel and his associates
back to Worcester next month, The
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Miss Mary Barnard, Mrs. L. N. Kin
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Mrs. Albert Wood, Mrs. Edwin Brown
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p Goulding, Haneck Bartlett, Mrs
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Mrs. j. H. Goes Mrs. G. A Bigelow
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Russell, Mrs. c. A. Allen Mrs. w. A.
BAILEY, Mrs. William Perry
To the Princeton College man, Mrs,
Grover Cleveland is q sort of patron
saint, a goddess or idol in human form
She goes to athletic games with her
intimate acquaintance among the pro-
feSsors wives, and sits in the front
row. Sometimes a collegian occunies q
position of honor at her side, in which
case he is the object of much chafine
at the club that night at dinner.
Mrs. Cleveland lives out of doors al
Princeton. In a trap behind a tandem
team she drives over every Jersey road
within 20 miles, and the country people
come out in front of the farm houses
to see her pass. She is a prominent pa
troness Of college sports, and. armed
with brassey and nibblick, she is fam
liar figure on the university golf links
Before the advent Of the Clevelands
Princeton society existed in hot houses
and its most violent form of athletics
was the tea fight. Mrs. Cleveland
came, was amused, and played tennis
fashionable outing skirts and played
tennis, too.
Mrs. Cleveland is personally aequaint.
ed with most of the upper classmer
in the university, says the Philadelphia
Press.
81 met Mrs. Cleveland on the front
campus this morning" said a junior
and she called me by name Say, but
she's a peach!" This is the experience
and opinion Of a majority of the stu
dent body Mrs. Cleveland will stoI
sometimes to talk with an undergradu.
ate acquaintance on the quadrangle
Then some unfeeling scoundrel will lift
his voice and cry, Veal and some one
else calls, Heads out!' The fortunate
respectful distance and grin, and the
students grow red in the face and wish
es he were in the tomb of his ancestors
or in some equally remote spot.
Through it all Mrs. Cleveland wears a
look of serious innocence that is per
picking.
The Germania Verein will hold it's
first meeting this fall, Tuesday, Octo-
Der II, at O'Clock, with Fraulin Won
Voigt, IS Chestnut street. The pro
gram Of work for the winter viii be dis
cussed.
| Emperor William has had unusually
good sport at Rominton, killing one i'm
mense stag of A points, and several
Of "a and rs points. The empress for
the first time shared in his stalking
and made some lucky shots.
Mrs A. c. Geteheu is at the White
Mountains for few days, enjoying the
autumn foliage.
Henry James says this of London So
ciety in his latest novel: but beauty
! in Misunderstanding, glaring, obvious,
knock-d down beauty, as plain as a pos
ter on wall, an advertisement of soap
| or whiskey, something that speaks to
| the crowd and crosses the foot-lights,
fetches such a price in the market that
| the absence Of It, for a. woman with a
| girl to marry, inspires endless terrors
and constitutes for the wretehed pair
| to speak Of mother and daughter alone
"a sort Of social bankruptcy. London
doesn't love the latent or the lurking
has neither time, nor taste, nor sense
for anything less discernible than the
red flag in front of the steam roller. 1t
wants cash over the counter and let
ters ten feet high
President and Mrs. Mckinley gave
reception at the White House Friday
afternoon.
Fishing has been the fad at Newport
the last week, and mackerel and blue
fish parties are being made up every
day. Society is thinning out, as the cot
tagers leave for Tuxedo. Lenox and
Lakewood, which is opening the season
unusually early this year The last in
the series Of Newport dance recitals
was given among the plants in the con-
servatorfes of J. NJ Hodgson. Upon
entering the doorway, the guests were
ushered into veritable fairy-land, The
floor was covered with new-mown hay
and bullrushes, while the straw sofas,
easy chairs and divans, heaped with
bright cushions, and arranged In cosy
hooks under the palms. lent a needed
bit of color and gave home-like air
to the whole. The recital was Of Men
delssohn's music of Midsummer
Nights Dream" done into dance" by
Miss Isadore Duncan, the recitative
being by Miss Elizabeth Bioren Duncan.
The patronesses were Mrs. Astor, Mrs.
Calvin Briee, Mrs. I. Townsend Bur-
den, Mrs. Burke Roche, Mrs. Potter
Palmer and other society leaders.
Lenox was In the first flush Of it's
autumnal glory last week. The fall sea-
son opened about the first Of the month
when the number of guests and tourists
was larger than ever before. The Curtis
hotel is entertaining guests in twenty