The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-18

guage who have not been reached BY
special invitation are invited to attend
Miss Won Noight's next talk, March
3, at the house Of Mrs. F. p. Goulding.
A limited number of tickets will be on
sale during the week at Lelands and
at the door on the day of the talk.
The third lecture recital at the Wor-
cester Pianoforte school will be given
Monday at 40 O'Clock by Miss Tucker.
The subject is Beethoven, and the pro
gram Will include his sonata Quasi una
Fantasia, op. 27, No. ,; Bagatelle in c;
minuet in E fat, and sonata, op. 81,
No. ..
Mrs. William ]. Hogg gave a large
card party yesterday evening.
Memorial hall was filled yesterday ev
ening, when pupils of Mrs. ]. H. How
ell gave recital there, Miss Ruth I.
Brewer, viohnist, and Miss Mabel 3.
Jennison, accompanist, assisting. The
stage was beautifully decorated with
palms and exquisite pink azaleas, and
the young girls who took part wore the
prettiest of evening gowns. A program
" ~ lLAl4bClS W DE- RISSSllttu NEl u tul-
tably, and to the satisfaction of the
audience, which was liberal in its ap-
plause. Miss Barbeau's absence was
the only disappointment. The per
formers were Mrs. Stella Gay, Miss
Bertha Arnold of Leicester, and Mrs.
John Childs, who opened the concert
with a trio: Mrs. Charles Clark Of
Ware, Mr.. Arthur Bond of Ware, Miss
Ludivico GuilbeauIt Of Ware, Miss Bes-
sic Nahigian, Mr.. B. B. Stone of Bel
chertown, Miss Lizzie Norton. Mr. Ed
ward Bates, Mr.. John Thayer of Au-
burn. Miss Grace Fulton of Ware, MI
Oliver Arnold of Leicester, and Miss
Matte Howell of Leicester. Miss
Brewer played Wieniawski's "Souve-
mir de Posen" and Hauser's "Ungar
lsche Rhapsode" in brilliant manner.
The program concluded with a chorus,
Praise of the Father" by Gounod
DR.. Eva March Tappan is the author
of a brilliant article in the January
number of Pedagogy. just issued upon
How to make the most of the course
in English in secondary schools 1t
was prepared for a teachers convention
in Springfield, and read there some time
last fall In it Miss Tappan criticises
very frankly the course in English, af-
III iiiiiS NIIdl III reality the lHutHUltt,
vague study of English which goes on
in high schools, sometimes for one hour
a week, sometimes for five, can hardly
be considered a course" at all. Sug-
gestions follow, based upon her own
successful conduct of classes in the
English high school.
Miss Tappan insists upon free discus
sion as the best way to arouse and de-
Velop thought to be expressed, although
! ho1 tasar L,
niteness of aim and preparation. and
urges the necessity on the part Of the
teacher of emphasizing the right thing
in each author. 1t is interesting to
note that she also recommends the
practice known among the simple
minded as Swimming" Miss Tappan
calls it rapid selection in reading. " and
suggests with fine disregard for the
conVentionalities, a course in easy
story-books" for the cultivation of this
very power to appropriate what inter
ests us and skip what doesn't. In
listening TO an address, she SAYS. we
know after few sentences whether we
wish for 1T all or not. Why not go
on with our own thinking when the
speaker is tiresome, and trust to some
well-trained ganglion to wake us up
when he is saying something that may
belong to us?
~hlSS oPP0ll > paper is So Keen. Wltty
and sensible, that it should be read en-
tire, instead of being presented in the
homeopathic quotations possible to a
newspaper.
The three-act comedy drama.
Breezy Point" presented by the Ale
theta Society of the classical high
school, in the school building. last
night, was a complete success The
young actresses carried out their
rather difficult parts without a single
mistake, and showed training worthy
of professionals. The cast was as fol-
lows:
Miss Florence Mcmahon as Aunt Alb
Die Dexter; Miss Helen Edison as Eli
nor Pearl; Miss Minnie Troy as Ash
rael Grant: Miss Mabel Troy and Miss
Florence /. Powers as the Hardscratch
twins; Ruth Boyden as Mehitable Doc
little; Miss Daisy Sherwin as Bernica
vernon; Emma Kneeland as Iaura
Leigh; Miss Margaret McManus as
Edith Norton; Miss Margaret Wrav as
Clarice. Fenleigh Miss Anita A. w.
MartIne as Fantine and Miss Rose
Woedcock as Old Glen.
After the play, refreshments were
served, and informal dancing INDUCED
IN. In charge Of the entertainment was
Miss NJ NJ. Spaulding.
"Colinette," the play in which Julia
Marlowe will appear Thursday eve
ming, was adapted from the French nv
Henry Guy Carleton. and deals with
the passionate days Of the French rev
olution and the restoration. Lenotre
one Of the authors of the original. is
an ardent antiquarian with a perfect
knowledge of the history of the epoch
and a genuine love for old things. He
collects bric-a-brac and delights in odd
ana picturesque detail. Accordingly.
he has filled the comedy with real but
fresh anecdotes and dainty hts Of 70