The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-18


Miss Roster, Mr.. and Mrs. e. c. Mix
Mr.. m Mrs. Charles Miller, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. A. Bliss.
A class for the study of Robert Brown
ing has been formed. under the auspices
of the Literature Department of tht
Woman's Club. The class will be under
the immediate direction of Mrs. Marion
Leland, now In charge of the Voice Cul.
ture Glass, and win include elocution les
sons, with the Browning readings.
The first meeting will be held at the
residence of Mrs. John A. Walker, No
260 Montgomery street. Monday after
noon, February 20, at four o'clock. The
course will consist of ten lectures, tt
which any woman, whether or not a club
member, is eligible Mrs. Leland is a ca
pable lecturer as well as an able teacher
and those who have been studying voice
culture in her Saturday class find them
selves much improved as speakers.
So
The Ramblers met Wednesday in Has
brouck Institute and spent "A Day with
Russian Authors" Tolstoi and T~urgenefi
being the two discussed. Miss Margaret
Page read a very interesting paper upon
Turgeneff, touching particularly upon his
home surroundings and his mothers tenn
par.
The programme for next meeting, Wed
nesday, March l, is, Life at ST. Peters
burg with a study of the social classes
and their customs and dress, upon which
Miss Sarah Moe will read a paper.
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The next meeting of the Odd Volumes
will take place Wednesday, February p
at the residence of Miss Pitcher, when
1.-THE Science of Warfare with side
lights on the Army and Navy" "Arbi-
t~ration," and International treaties. will
be the subject under discussion, Miss Jean
Mcbride and Mrs. A. Denniston reading
papers. Mrs. Robert Lyle will also give
a talk on Current Events"
The Travellers Club arrived in Switzer-
land last Tuesday evening at the residence
of Mrs. E. w. Newbury, No. 81 Clifton
place. and learned all about travelling ex-
pepnses, money, diligences n several
cities, from Miss May Oakley. who
translated a French authority on the sub
ject.
On the last evening Of this month the
club will study Lucerne and Lake, Burn
ing Pass, Intertaken, Grindewald, Mont
Blanc and Rhine Glacier, also at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Newbury.
So
On account of the Indictment weather
there was but a small representation from
Jersey City at the tea given by Mrs. Run
yon of East Orange to the New York
Branch of the Morayian Alumnae Thurs
day.
Among the members in this city are Mrs.
Peter }. Koonz, Mrs. James Noe, Mrs. Ed
ward T. Mclaughlin, Mrs. Edlow Harri-
son, Mrs. George Holmes, Mrs. Lowell
Purdy. Misses Katharine Grower and
Kate Mallory.
Mrs. Spencer Weart will represent the
Frelinghuysen chapter of the Daughters
of the Revolution at the National Con-
vention of that order in Washington
D. C.
Mr.. J.. F. Mangels, of No. 36 York street,
a prominent member of the Palma Club.
has left Miami, Fla, where he was stay
ing for his health, and gone to Havana,
where his daughter, Mrs. James H. Noe,
expects to join him in the course of a
week or two.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Stratford, of Gar
field avenue, have been spending the past
two weeks at Lakewood, N. J..
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Mr.. E. C. Mix, of Bramhall avenue, has
just returned from a trip to California.
DR.. and Mrs. Bull are preparing to move
into their new residence. Bramhall and
Madison as soon as the weather
permits.