The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-15
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to q close, and without a single effort to
redeem itself. After all 1t seems as
though Lent had a monopoly of the social
functions. though in the properly quiet
way. The card parties this season have
been especially attractive, but are now
drawing to a quiet close, with but one
exception, the Afternoon Euchre Club.
which gave its final reception last even
ing.
The various departments of the Wom-
ans Club are shutting up shop for the
summer, and there are no invitations out
for any large affairs whatever. Even the
brides have been scarce this year, Easter
week producing but one wedding of any
size, with very little promise of any inn
provement this spring. AT present Miss
Potts marriage seems to be the only one
society holds in anticipation.
Who can doubt the good lone by the
Woman's Club of the day, when it is
teaching woman to grapple with the
labor question in such a mastery way
that when the Eight Hour a Day
problem was brought before a recent
feminine club meeting, one lady present
demanded, IF they only work eight
hours what is to become of the other six
teen?'
Then, too. the woman's club is active
in creating new professional occupations
for woman. These ~frequenters of the
club have suddenly discovered that they
do not know how to use their ongues,
until today it is not unusual to find adj
vertisements announcing the formation of
classes wherein women may learn how
to TALK,
There is certainly a marked improve
ment in the condition of the streets in
Jersey City, since the club women have
taken hold of the matter. Yesterday
sweepers were at work all over the city,
and ash carts are now covered when con-
veying ashes to the dumps. 1t is as
though a cyclone had struck the city,
leaving it in an almost unacceptable
condition. Streets that have not been
swept in twelve months are beginning to
t0Ne on an air OF cleanliness, and all on
account of the women.
There will be a meeting of the Town
Improvement Committee Tuesday after
noon at Hasbrouck Institute, when the
ladies will tell how they lave accom-
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There are 70 be but two more meetings
of the Browning Study Glass. That on
Monday next at the residence OF Mrs. E..
w. Newbury, No. 81 Clifton place, when
Rabbi Ben Ezra will be studied after the
conclusion Of .In a Balcony which was
left unfinished at the meeting of the club
held last Monday ar the residence of Mrs.
Tl1- H. W n
street.
The final meeting. on account of numer-
GUS engagements, will be postponed to
May 1. instead of April %, and a most in
iteresting programme for the occasion is
in progress of formation. There will be
papers on the poems studied by various
members of the class. including Mrs.
Walker. Mrs. Heating and Mrs. Carrie
Shepard. with possibly a. recitation by
Mrs. Marion Leland, under whose direc-
ton the class has studied. while music
will enhance the programme.
Pie Literature Department of the Wom-
ans Club is also about to close its season
in view of which fact a programme for
the ensuing year was outlined at the
meeting on women in Poetry" hello
Wednesday afternoon.
Next years programme is on Italy and
the Renaissance" and includes several
interesting discussions, one of which is a
debate as to whether art or literature has
had more influence upon humanity. In
this Mrs. Heating has been assigned to
the literary side of the question and Mrs.
Henry Harrison the artistic side.
Other ladies who have consented to con-
tribute to the programme are:-Mrs. Jonn
A. Falker, Mrs. Joseph A. Dear, Mrs.
Spe fer Weart, Mrs. Carrie Shepard, Miss
Ada p. Fuller, Miss Underwood. Mrs.
Jam Erwin and Miss Margaret Lacy.
TIL programme Will be completed a.
e. aeeting.
Another social organization nearing It's
close is the Travellers Club, which meets
OF Tuesday evenings fortnightly. Last
Tuesday it met at the residence Of Miss
Ada Fuller, on Clifton place, and on April
Is, it will meet for the last time this
season at the residence of Mrs. George R.
Hough, on Summit avenue, when the pro-
gramme will be of unusual interest. Mrs.
Marion Leland has kindly consented to
favor the club with a recitation.
And now there is no more Lenten Sew
ing Circle. 1t ended its prosperous sea-
son on Monday last with a tea at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Woodruff Cendict, No. $40
York street. In the neighborhood of five
hundred garments were contributed, each
marked in plain English, by the donor, TO
Just what charity they should go! and the
Tendance was excellent notwithstanding
the fact thai IN several cases the invita-
lions were accompanied with the reques.
to bring five dollars and wear u best
clothes"
One of the finest concerts of the sea-
son was that given by the Haydn In
strumental Club, last Monday evening, in
the First Presbyterian Church. The
members of this club are:-Dr. Julius Pc
tiers. violin, director; Messrs. Henry Har-
rison, violin; Richard R. Schmidt, viola;
John Lange. violincello; Alexander
Buechner. double bass; Arthur Small,
flute; Robert T.. Dale, clarinet, and Chas.
Schlegel, piano. The club plays princi-
pally for charity.
The Ramblers met as usual Wednesday
afternoon in Hasbrouck Institute and de-
voted most of their time to a discus
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