The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-22
OUT AND ABOUT.

Oiln ClAFK or worcester, mas just pup
| lished through the American Tract So
ciety new book entitled Father Je-
rome: A Story of the Spanish Inquisi-
| ton. The scene of the tale opens in
Saragossa In the year 1858 The story
| follows the fortunes of a little group
of Professionals amid the horrors of the
inquisition, and ends with the marriage
Of Father Jerome and the heroine, a
beautiful Spanish girl, who fees to
Wittenberg, where he establishes him
self at the university, and with the
death of Philip H.
Mrs. Clark has been awarded the
George Wood gold medal for PRO
| Christie" which was adjudged by the
American Tract society, the best book
Of the year. PRO Christie" headed the
sooiety's book list last year, as Father
Jerome" heads it this year.
The Wednesday Club of All Saints
church will give an entertainment at
the rooms Of the Worcester Girls club,
l Vernon square, Tuesday evening, at
8 o'clock.
An attractive course of lectures has
been arranged for the coming winter
by the Worcester Art society, and is
announced by a committee composed
OF Rev. A. S. Carver, president of the
society c. F. Aldrich, clerk; and Ze-
Totes Wood Coombs treasurer.
There will be, as usual, one lecture
| each month from November to April,
with the exception Of the month of
March, which is not yet provided for.
The full announcement is as follows:
Tuesday, Nov. IA, Professor Charles
Eliot Norton of Cambridge will read a
lecture on 1.-THE culture of the magma
| tion''
Professor Kuno Francke Of Harvard
University whose lecture last year on
| the "Ghent Altar Piece" was listened to
with so much satisfaction, has been en-
gagged to give three illustrated lectures
in continuation of the same course.
They will occur Friday evenings, the.
| dates and subjects being:
Dec. Is: Masters OF the Rhenish,
Franconian and Swabian schools"
Jan. 49,; "Durer's biblical iliustra-
| tons
Feb. 16: "Holbeins dance of death"
These lectures are intended to illus
| trate the part taken by religious paint
| ing in the general development Of Ger
man culture during the fifteenth and
| sixteenth centuries. They deal less
with the technical execution Of the
works considered than with the spirit
manifested in them. They describe
| phases of the intellectual development
which finally led to the religious refor-
nation.
In the month of April it is expected
| that Professor Norton will again honor
| the society with his presence, and lee
! ture on Art in America"
| The teachers of the public schools
have shown their appreciation of the
| privilege of attending the lectures Of
the Art society, and a cordial invita-
ton will be extended to them again as
| in previous years. To all others not
members of our society, the lectures are
open on the payment of an admission
fee of fifty cents for each evening.
|
Horace Wyman and Miss Wyman
have returned to their house on Har-
ward street.
Miss Won Voigt's first illustrated SER
mon talk for children was given yes
terday afternoon in the Y. w. C. A.
class room, before an audience of be-
| tween so and 60 ladies, children and
| young persons. Miss Won Voigt told
the story of Georges dream and i'm
prisonment in the cellar with the ogre,
as well as the story of the Cat in the
| bag" both of which caused much mer-
riment, while signs of sympathy for
1
and obs for the princess and the
wicked fairy were relieved by laughter
| for the funny Dutch children who
| rubbed noses.
Miss Won Voigts second talk will &C.
cur next Saturday, at 2S0 o'clock, at
the Y. w. C. A. building, when the
fairy tales and funny scenes win be
continued.
Prof. and Mrs. Lea Luguer of Column
bia college have invited Miss Won voigt
to give a German talk at their resi-
dence in New York city. Mrs. Luguer
is a niece of President Seth Low Of Co
lumbia. Miss Won Voigt's subject will
be, johanna Ambrosius, the German
peasant-poet'
The Homestead club, an organization
composed of contributors to and read
ers of the New England Homestead,
held its fourth fall meeting and ban
quet yesterday at the Commonwealth
hotel. Thirty-fopr members and guests
sat down to a handsome dinner at
o'clock in the hotel dining room, those
present being the following persons:
Mrs. Upham, Sturbridge; Ida, Aunt
Violet, oxford; Uncle Abe, Fitchburg;
Mrs. E. P. Clapp, Mrs. George w. Tour
tellotte, Willimansett Mrs. j. r.
O'Keefe and Miss O'Keefe, Mrs. JOHN
son, Mrs, Ada l.. Warner, Mr. and Mrs.
H. R. Kinney, Worcester; mas girl,
Mrs. M. A. Russell, Mr.. and Mrs. F. G.
Sawyer, Gladys, Juanita, Heliotrope,
Worcester; A. e. Todd, Woonsocket; n.
E. Leland, Miss Fanny Leland, Graf
ton; Mrs. A. c. Thompson, Hampden;
Mrs. ]. B. Rawson, Miss j. j. Allen,
Auburn; Mrs. S. A. Gibson, oxford;
Mrs. Elsic Dresser, Gardner; Mrs LII
liam Ward, Hopkinton Aunt Patty
Fitchburg, Patty Crofut, Smiths Fer
ry Mrs. Ella A. Lyman, Jenny Jane
son, Springfield; Nellie B., North Al
tleboro; Miss Mabel Rounds, North At
tleboro. Three of the officers of the
club were present.. Mrs Mary Waters
(Patty Crofut) Smiths Ferry, presi-
dent; Secretary and Treasurer Aaron
F. Greene, Fitchburg, and Hostess Mrs.
A. B. Shepardson (Aunt Violet, OK
ford
The other officers are: Vice-presi-
dent Mrs. George Brewer (Aunt sue),
Longmeadow; chorister, Mrs. Lizzie
Engle (Auld Lang Syne), Chicopee
Falls, and historian, H. Annette Poole,
Pittsfield.
After dinner there was music by
Aunt Violet and others, the reading
of original verses by "Laurestine'' and
others, toasts BY "Juanita' and "Ad-
AliIdl 1SUISe OeWey ana CIuD DuSi-
ness. Late in, the afternoon the party
broke up with the Homestead club
parting song, written by Aud Lang
Syne."
The regular fall meeting of the MI.
Holyoke Alumnae association was held
in the upper parlor of the Y. w. c. A.
building yesterday afternoon, with 30
members in attendance. The meeting
was called to order by the president,
Mrs. Daniel r. Gay Many matters of