The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-11
OUT AND ABOUT.

The chapel chorus choir of
Greendale will give Gabriers or
atorio cantata Bethlehem" at
the Greendale Baptist church next
Friday evening. The cantata, con-
sisting of 10 numbers, contains a va
riety of spirited compositions, the text
beginning with the creation of man and
concluding with the birth of Christ. The
choir will be assisted by Miss Josephine
A. Stowell Of Park church.
There will be some special music at
Lincoln Square Baptist church tonight.
These selections will be given: Seek
We the Lord" from cantata of Main. by
Homer Norris; "Hark, bark, my soul,
Shelby; contralto solo, quintet, and L
waited for the Lord The choir will
be assisted by Mrs. Inez Buss- Knowles
and Miss Alice Tilton of Leominster,
contralto.
The shirt-waist season has opened
with unprecedented vigor this year and
is now upon us with a severity un
matched by former Junes. This is about
the ninth summer of the shirt waist
a most convenient, comfortable little
garment, be it said, but one that is
sadly abused by its wearers. That
it has stood the strain of this abuse and
preserved its position of respect in gen
teel society speaks volumes for it. Any
bOdy-Queen Victoria, if she can get
one to fit her-may wear a shirt waist
with impunity in the morning, but TO
wear one IN the afternoon is TO brand
oneself as negligent about ones person.
Thus far has the shirt waist Travelled
on the downward path TO destruction.
But it will probably be many years be-
fore its downfall is complete and it is
consigned to that limbo of Oblivion that
is reserved for the once aristocratic be-
come vulgar.
Every year it seems to be necessary
10 remind the women who will wear
cotton shirt waists on Main street
afternoons that they ought to look to
their waist lines and plaquets before
leaving the house. Half the women look
as If they were coming IN two under
their belts, while the number of pla-
quets that unexpectedly cape is more
than you could shake a stick at. There
is nothing uglier or more undignifled
than this last, and it is astonishing that
nice women can show such a lack of
reserve as to permit The danger of it
has been somewhat lessened by the adj
vent of the ornamental fastening to the
plaquet but it still exists, more's the
pity. Do, ladies, fasten yourselves up
securely enough so as not to come I'M
done prematurely. If you only knew
how untidy and absurd you look as you
promenade Main street, with your skirt
swearing at your belt and the bottom
of your shirt. waist sticking out of your
plaquet you would make a New Year
resolve tomorrow never to let it happen
again.
Miss Octavia H. Vaughan and Miss
Lucy Lewiston are planning to start
within two weeks for a two months
trip TO Europe.
| Robert Taber, the husband of Julia
Marlowe, and the brother of DR.. Henry
Taber of Clark university, is about to
| join the ranks of actor-manager so it
| is said. MIR. Taber has been in retire
ment nearly the whole season, owing to
| serious illness, but Lawrence Irving has
written for him a play that IS said to
! inspire great hopes. Mr.. Taber has Sc
cured a financial backing sufficient to
| put himself al the head of a company
and take a London theatre, and there
are also rumors to the effect that a re-
Cancellation is taking place between him
and his charming wife, with the result
| that she will appear in London as a
member of his new company.