New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-20

been issued. During the year the women have dis
bursed sO65 o. and sent 1880 garments to charta-
BILE and penal institutions. at a cost OF 1915 H.
sewing school with membership Of sixty children
and a boys club with hfty-four members, have
been conducted The officers are MISS I4tsoi,T'
president: Mrs. John Ervings, and Mrs. waiter !.
urer; Mn. H. y. Davis. corresponding secretary.
and Miss Emma NJ. Thompson, recording secretary.
Many of tho prominent women Of Rye are on the
Board Of Managers and committees.
There has been for long time in contemplation
the making Of a handbook OF women's clubs and
associations The matter has nov been taken up
by well qualified in every respect to carry the
work TO q successful finish Mrs May Banks stacey
with her collahorators has undertaken to bring
out an annual handbook containing all clubs and
associations OF women in the United States with
the names and addresses of officers and all other
information concerning them that may be OF IN
terest - clubwomen This work is 10 be more
than mere directory, as II will contain articles
by the leading women in each State, with portraits
OF many Of the prominent ones MIS- stacey Is
meeting with The most gsneious ana Soroa' iii he
published at a price within the reach OF the lhou-
sands of cubwomen interested.
The monthly meeting Of the woman's Institute
Club Of Yonkcrs was held on Thursday evening
with Miss Mary Marshall Butler the president.
in the chair Miss Fannie Watson read an inter
estlnc report on the work 81 the Glee Club and
musical Circle Mis- iss1s E EyU RppstTce Butler
nc OF Men MSn"eisS2l b,' Isaobn's chihood
This Wa followed by several musical ls elections
from that composer by Miss Butler. Mrs A L.
Iiver1nore and Miss Fannie Watson
"The Fornghty." a literary and travellers club
Of young Brooklyn women. was through the gra-
cous hospitality Of Mrs George Henry Conklin OF
No 10 Kent-st Brooklyn. enabled on Thursday
received by The president Of the club; Miss El %a-
beth Perry. and by Mrs. Conkin and Miss CohK-
Miss Perry made pleasing address OF welcome,
and music Tho artists were Miss X. $ Carhart
pianist. Mrs. f. A Barr, vocalist and Miss Dunn,
an interesting talk given by Miss Dunn illustrated
10y original water-color paintings me SP9 a en-,
ricd her audience with her 10 various lctniesdue
historic places in The old World At the close Of
the formal programme a reception was heIu ana
supper served
The committee In charge Mesdames Della
van. Pierson and David Morris. and the Misses
ogden. WhittemOre and Barlow
Mrs. Florence Howe Hall gave last week at the
home If her mother. Mrs Julia Ward Howe, No.
2n Beacon-st Boston. tho first Of series " in
formal talks The subject spoken on was The
Progress OF Women in the Nineteenth Century
Mrs Hall attributed the great change this age
has In the position Of women 10 Industrial de-
volo9ment and 10 democracy. Quotations were
given from the works Of Maria Edseworth Sid
ney Smith and Charlotte Broute to show what
ideas were held years ago in regard 20 woman
education. The $50 colleges now open 20 women
and girls and The branches OF study pursued ny
pupils in them alone viii mark the great diner
once the trend OF thought The physical con
dition OF women was another direction. Mrs. Hall
said. IN which change was marked, ana burdens
had been lifted by the advance in Industrial AipN-
ances II also shown that according io sra
tiffics. marriage among working women Is on me
increase. rather than the reverse, ana the OUTLOOK
was declared TO be altogether hopeful one.
At the open Door Mission for Women No 70
Allen-st just above Grand. lturgical service
is held nightly during Lent under the leader
shin Of Colonel Hadley assisted by Miss Wray.
Mrs Hines and other workers. These meetings are
well attended 10y both men and women ana II Is
said that many Of them profess 10 have abandoned
lives OF SIM Many women apply here Tor tenn
uorary aid while trying 20 reform bur all OF them
cannot boz accommodated Half the rooms upstairs
are empty because there is no money win "hlch
10 run the house.
Mrs. william G. Smaller president Of the New
York Household Economic Association. entertained
the members ar her home. 40 30 West One-h hun
teachers of the tenement-house cooking schools
managed by the association were present and gave
interesting accounts Of their work
Mrs Mary Elizabeth Lease, the Kansas reform
lecturer delivered a lecture Friday evening under
the auspices Of the Quid NInc club. No lN Ienox-
ave. on Certain Un-Amorican Tendencies An
audience Of about a thousand people was In at
tendance. Among the aphorisms given ny ,he lect-
with the bone has seized the dish and is devourns
all the mutton.
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