New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-17
Jersey LITERARY CLUBS.
THEY STUDY MANY ABsTRUsE AND
PRACTICAL QUESTIONS.
THE CHOICE or FLORAL EMBLEM 'A'''N'
rITTLE-PINKs AND VIoLETs POP
ULAR EMBLEMs.

rITTIE-PINKS AND NIOLETs FOr-
UrAR EMBLEMs.
Tho A,hanian club Of Railway. y. J.. so divides
ia work that alternate meetings are literary si'
the others historical. II meets on fr'days i,o"'
| septenlber 10 June and once In eacn month d
meeting il devoted 70 current events PAP. .ns
| eli ova- he world This year the las meeting VII
I be held June H. and the season Will ciose "'''
. 4 social gathering.
History both ancient and modern. has been
,avorite study with many literary clubs THIS VIII
- . aa,,or,,g preference being shown for Amer-
On, history. The Charlotte Emerson Brown OIuV'
90 East Orange spent the year In studying Inv
/ DEVELOPMENT OF America feature OF 'ne Ciu0
meeting especially in all small societies anu ""e,e
The work f. purely literary. Is the auo'a''oN ="
answer 70 rolicar and this makes an attractive
part Of the day programme. As = otteh me q,
the mutations are from the particular author 20 Ds
studied on that day. which makes the cusl0H O0
/ educational and enjoyable
/ a.. ., 80 few clubs OF women 70 hold meetings
/ IN ne evening IS the Woman's Research cluo' Oh
/ Atlantic city y. J.. which has memoership Oh
thirty This club has done some earnest WORK 'hls
! las, winter on the subject OF Great women anu
| Their Contemporaries" Tho list begins win Cleo-
! ,atr, and includes Helose. Joan OF Are. Ehzaoe'h
| ~ England the Duchess % Marlborough. Nine
| Recamier Nine De st1e. Hannah Moore ana ana
GDor-s Eliot A long list o. books and perlodcat,5
- giIen with the names for reference to their
lives and deeds
~"
Ano,ha- club has CHOSEN as a topic the current
history and n;erA,4re Of countries which lie near
America including Canada. Cuba. Mexico. the
Sandwich Islands. the Bermudas' ETC. unde' 'he
,,iA ~ "Our American Neighhors." An Afternoon
z an on L0I4r} D lS4 Fcfon the EXPO
zen, - F1,;' arc he names OF some papers 70 be
road az The outcome 81 a winter 5 WORK on the
subject OF English History
The Sesame club OF Newark. has been having
course OF lectures on famous literary people by
Leon II vincent the last one, on George SAND
b.,ng given last week The club will close It's
go vear with 4 lecture by II Z. Krehhlel on
,nrtl u or wandering Ballads" This club IS
comnosed OF earnest women. who. rather than
study some abstruse topic while they were IN doac,
re c ngs, Town and state and thereby gained
much knowledge Of their own surrounS SSs al"
startsd 4 revival In patriotism In every nome
Som. Of the topics discussed by the Wednesday
,e.orroo, club OF Montclair this year have been
,yyha, % Read and How 20 Read II. HOY 20
-, ne Best In Art" What Constitutes a COCO
Story" and Papers on ne lo'Alore VI iA''@
Germany an1 Scandinavia
Tho following plan vas adopted by literary club
,.,,h IN, ,Av members: Each took one author 70
s,,av and 20 report upon his life and work ana oy
80 .oars all became thoroughly acquainted WIN
the writings Of one , mar an Much interest was
aroused each member trying 20 eT,ei nnrber ~
10 the amount Of research ard me III 80, in
| anecdotes AMI unfamiliar s'0''0' '
about her author.
.,,h IN CRAWFORD y. J. besides Its regular
,rt ~ studv!ng the Development OK America !"
-,ss,esrth century subscrioes for nine OF me
go ,.,,,es for the use of IFS members ana
49,, month has meeting called G sl an-
ONE y NJ" n which each OF the memoers Is eN-
teTr9l 10y ',nfrt5uIe concerning something OF gem
p,ai interest going on IN the "o'N'
>,.,~,, all Of the clubs studying the work OF
the Mothers Congress rs aims anu -, ,hs
~ will send delegates 10 the n,ee.t niso,or in
nan 49, congress TO be held In washington III
May
. orr, 4 few States have mothers con-
~,,v cities and towns and nearly al the
So - have a mothers class. talks ~
parts and meetings Of the mothers ana h nownr
a. regular intervals. so as 10 hIie" '"' wv
80 mould the child nature for go0u'
a., ,r,as Reppler Mrs Alfred Courseh' MISS
-. s,,,b Jacob R'is and Mrs. Margaret sahs
,sr have been giving lectures unasr me .Imhs on
ment OF one OF New ;en i,Istory 'The Kinder
ts The Condition OF the Poor etc
,,r,o,,s noint in club life is emphasized oy ooN
~ quantity Of year books ana courses -
, 9 While great diversity is SHOWN ~ "e
,oc,,on of the topic for study ana IN tne oiuo
- raneng from ancient Greece 10 modern
the ~ - srudy work and from red: the mrs.
soclo'osS tho prism 10 Nile green cerise ana Sis
newest shade OF purple IN eo'olI .arlv every club
cup me- the carnation pink IN one snsr so OF sbe
other, only naming III, vloeI are the favorites
color IN, parnb,sms no matter what the Color
as tne or nurpose Of organization may DC