The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-24
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Again ON Tuesday next will the sweet
girl graduate be in evidence. This time
she issues forth from the High School
and her name is LEGION" She has tri-
umphed over the male members Of her
class not only in overwhelming numbers,
but in the gray matter of BRAIN
Already has she taken all the honors
and appropriated all the prizes save one,
the Forensic medal (which will be
awarded to the essayist having the best
delivery on the evening of June 20. ana
even for that her chances are eight 10
one, there. being but one male essayist
among the choseH nine. Then, too, 1t is
quite unusual for a young man to win
the Forensic medal. even though he be
a member of that society. last year.
when Mr.. Wilbur wilding came out VIC
torious, being an exception.
The essayists are:-Miss Clara Ecker
line, Miss Alexandria Weaver, Miss Mar
earet L. Keane,. Miss Henrietta SUIT
cliffe. Miss Grace Tilden, Miss Minnie
D~eutschberger, Miss LILLIAN Taylor, Miss
Dorothy Kloes, and Mr.. Walter SIM
mons.
Miss Dorothea Kloes won the valedie-
tory medal, the gift of Mrs. William L..
Dickinson, and deserves special credit
as she had to compete with two large
classes. Miss Kloes is a member OF the
January class and stands ahead of Miss
Clara Eckerline, valedictorian OF the
June class and the winner of the Leon
ard Gordon prize.
Miss Elizabeth Cannon, whose name,
through an oversight, did not appear IN
the High School list. is a graduate or
the January, '9s, class.
So
The bride of the week was Miss Cecilia
Gaines. whose marriage to DR.. John
Arnold Holland took place Wednesday at
high noon at the residence of the brides
mother. No. 20S Summit avenue. DIR. and
Mrs. Holland will reside at Cold Springs,
New York.
And now how is the Jersey City woman
to be lectu~ed? Surely the lecture field
has lost its SAVIOR since its two lecturers
have flown to pastures new Some there
are still, to be sure, who can give adj
dresses, but none who can compare with
Mrs. Horace c.. Wait and Mrs. John
Arnold Holland, nee Gaines, both of
whom have left the city since the close
of this seasons club work, and both of
whom may well be termed public edu-
Gators.
While Mrs. Wait has been educating,
refining and cultivating the public taste
to a true appreciation of art and liter
allure, at the same time keeping it in
touch with the current events of social
and political note, both domestic and
foreign, by means of her classes, Mrs.
Holland, better known as Miss Gaines,
has acted as an educator in matters of a
more public nature, comprising every
thing from a free kindergarten to a
woman's club, until it is hard to tell
which will be most missed.
Surely, Jersey City has suffered from
an Ill wind. while New York and Cold
Springs are the gamers. But as neither
of these places is very far away perhaps
after all the loss is not so great as both
Mrs. Wait and Mrs. Holland can con-
tinue their good work by an occasional
visit to this city. besides which there is
some likelihood of Mrs. Wait continuing
her classshere next winter and Mrs. Hol-
land is still President of the Odd Vol
umes.
IF there is one thing worse than a
woman persisSe ntly keeping on her hat
in the theatre or music hall, it is when
she quite as persisfently appears on the
bali room floor adorned with a pretty
but inc~onvenient picture hat. For this
there is absolutely no excuse, and the
master of remonies should thus inform
her.
But more annoying still, as well as dis
respectful, is the man who for pure wan
ton laziness, appears at a full dress affair
in a business suit. Both should be boy
cotted, but, strange to relate, both I Sc
individuals made themselves conspic, bus
at a dance of the kind given recently IN
this ETY., and both had their dance orders
well filled.
For the enlightenment of those apt to
think that Miss Mabel Smith of this city
showed d~isrespect to her class when she
appeared in a white shirtwaist at the
Barnard College reception, it might be
well to state that Miss Smith was either
the victim OF a practical joke or a down
right theft or a combination of both.
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preparation upon her gown as any of the
other girls and it looked exceptionally
pretty as it lay upon the college dormi-
tory bed with a number of others ready
to adorn its wearer. But, alasl Nobody
but her d~ressnaker ever knew how well
the dainty affair of lace and insertion be-
came its owner. When the time arrived
for dressing, the bodice to Miss Smiths
dress was missing, and has never been
heard of since, while nothing else was
touched. Naturally it had every appear
ance of a joke. but if such was the case
the perpetrator evidently discovered that
he had acted not wisely but too well. and
Miss Smith had either to appear in her
~shirtwaist or not at all. Being a young
lady of firm character she did the latter.
It was on the Montgomery street car!
She Hooked as though she might belong
to the Town Improvement Committee,
and her words confirmed 1t. Look
said she to her companion as the car
passed City Hall, where, though quite