The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-18
THE ODD VOLUMES.
Met Yesterday at Mrs. Con-
diets Breakfast Today.

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Seldom, if ever, is an odd Volume meet
ing postponed. The programme Is ar
ranged at the beginning with great care
and foresight, and unless the need is un-
avoidably urgent that programme Is re-
ligiously adhered to, so that even though
at this moment the Odd Volumes en-
joying a sumptuous feast of reason dhis
being the date of their annual breakfast
at the Carteret Clubhouse, that fact was
not allowed to interfere with the regular
club meeting date. which fell upon the
seventeenth, yesterday, and the members
met at the residence of Mrs. Henry v.
Condict, No. 81 Clifford avenue.
The afternoon was devoted, according
to programme, to Religious Progress,
more properly speaking philanthropy
The attendance was excellent, only SIX
member being absent, besides when
there was the usual complement Of guests,
including Mrs. E. F. C.. Young, Mrs. VIM.
G. Bumsted, Mrs. Cubberly, Mrs. Chopper,
Mrs. Black, Mrs. Sidman, Mrs. X. v.
Schenck, Miss Van Mater, and Miss
Snyder, president of the Pen and Point
Circle of Caldwell, N. j., who MADE a
very pretty congratulatory ADDRESS IN
! which she spoke of her own club, saying
in many things it had followed IN the
steps of the Odd Volumes and had even
| listened to one of the Odd Volume papers,
| through the agency of the Federation
Reciprocity Bureau.
The other speakers were Miss Doremus,
whose paper on THE Protection OF Chit
dren and Animals had been postponed
from a previous meeting, and Miss Hafrl-
son, who read a paper on "Practlcal
| Philanthropy" Both papers were very
bright and interesting, stating facts as
| they were, but clothed in the ready wit
peculiar to the Odd Volumes, and with
few statistics, and both Miss Doremus
| and Miss Harrison evidently believed in
"Brevity as the soul of wit"
Miss Doremus' paper spoke of the
cruelty practiced upon children more in
the past than in the present. especially
in the mining districts where they were
required to drag heavy loads, citing sew
eral instances as examples, and went on
to show how the cruelty was slowly being
| abolished through the efforts of the
| various ph~ilanthropic societies.
In espeakin of cruelty to nimals
| especially horses, it was the result more
of ignorance than of vice. That the
drivers of overloaded trucks drays and
| horse cars did not realize what they
| were doing when they beat the horses.
1t was the duty, however, of the police,
| she told the ladies, to prevent this evil,
| as she herself had taken the pains to
| find out, and that none of them Ghe
LADIES' need ever be afraid to speak to
| these uniformed peace keepers, as 1t
was their place to note all complaints of
| the kind. Vivisection was mentioned as
an unnecessary cruelty because it has
been proven by physicians as not especi-
| ally beneficial to the profession.
Miss Harrison read a clipping on Little
| Mothers and then proceeded with her
paper. which spoke particularly of the
work which is being accomplished by the
Institutional church, with its various de-
| partments, giving st. Georges of New
York, as an example, and the philanthro-
| pic societies, in connection with which she
mentioned the work of Florence Nightin-
| gale, which has eventually developed into
| the Red Cross Society. The Newark Fee
male Aid Society, d. O. Mills of New York
| with his lodging houses, and George Pea
body, were also mentioned among the
| phiIanthropists.
+ At the next and last meeting, which
| occurs May 81. the programme for the
| ensuing year will be submitted, and Mrs.
caoree w Case Miss Adriance, Mrs. H.
oeo-se - pa1,h;++ and Ngrs
B. Eaton, Mrs. II. y. baooile ~ -
| n ". Condict were appointed a commit
49, s,hiects The programme will
lee on u4anaru oharactar
The member present yesterday were:-
oe,ss Aar;anoa Mrs r q. Rabbit. Mrs.
Miss ,r;s. p,,efa++
Marcus Beaeh, MISS Bowel Miss
| Mrs. Cornelius Brett, Mrs. George case,
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