The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01
OUT AND ABOUT.

OOA AlNO ADOOI.
The first meeting Of the Friday Morn
ing Club will be held Wednesday in the
club room. No. 81 Day building. and
the following program viii be given;
John Sebastian Bash-16S5-175O
Sketch of life
Miss Pratt.
Concerto in e, two pianos.
Miss Bacon, Mrs. Hunt.
songs .................. Mrs. Mitchell
Italian concerto $1,000 Miss Ingraham
SOLO from "A stronghold sure"
Mrs. Johnson.
Solo from Christmas oratorio,
Mrs. Bassett.
flaho sOlo .-.,...............M Miss Morse
Song, my heart ever faithful"
Mrs. Harris.
Orchestral suite in d,
Mrs. Prentice, Mrs. Simpson, Miss
Starr, Mrs. Brand.
Cowper's old red house at Olney. in
which he accomplished his principal
work, is said by the London Daily
News to be a dismal and desolate
house. 1t is to be let for something
under hundred dollars a year. The
World-famous garden, with the little
old summer house in which Cowper de-
lighted to sit, is no longer attached to
the premises, and the garden has passed
into the possession Of one Of the local
butchers, but the old summer house is
still standing, though it has had to be
shored up to keep it standing.
write in a nook that 1 call nv
ooudoir, said the poet in a letter to
Joseph Hill. ut is a summer house
not bigger than sedan chair: the door
Of 1t opens into the garden-that is now
crowded with pinks. roses, honeysuck-
ies-and the window into my neighbor's
orchard. 1t formerly served an apoth-
scary as q smoking room; at present,
however, 1t is dedicated to sublime
uses; here 1 write all that I write IN
summer time, whether to my friends
or to the public. 1t is secure from ali
noise, and refuge from all intrusion. .
The garden is still full, it is said. of
old-fashioned flowers and fruit trees.
and the summer house itself looks as
though the poet might just have
stepped out of it to go across the or
chard to his friend Newton, at the vic
arage. 1t has white plastered walls
seat on each side of the door. and nm
der the window is a rush bottomed
chair and a small table, with bar
ber's block upon 1t for the poets wig
when he was at work and the weather
was hot. There is a visitors book
on the table, and every square inch Of
the plastered walls and ceiling is filled
with the pencil scribbling of those who
have come to pay their devotion at the
little shrine Of the poet
The Olney people have been asked
TO lead in pOYl1 m am ora tine
nary OF Cowper's death next April. but
there does not seem to be sufficient en-
thusiasm among them to insure any
action.
The last Of the music festival social
festivities took place last night, when
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Stone gave a bril-
liant at-home for their guest, Miss Flo
renee. About 100 friends Of Miss
Florence and intimate friends of the
family We're there, but no invitations
were sent out, and the evening was
made very informal. Miss Florence and
her mother Mrs. D. R. Houghton of
Boston, received with Mr.. and Mrs.
Stone. There were no ushers. Through
the evening. delightful music was given
by Miss Florence, w. Al. Rowland, Mrs.
Caroline T. Shepard of Boston, Miss
Luella Flagg, w A. Heinrich of Bos-
ton, and Arthur J. Bassett The rooms
were charmingly decorated with palms.
ferns, sweet peas and roses, and the
table from which the ices were served
in the dining-room was trimmed with
pinks and smilax.
Miss Florence and her mother leave
Worcester some time Monday for Bos-
ton, where Miss Florence will spend the
time prior to sailing on the 14th for
England with her relatives. She does
not expect to sing there, but will sing
at the Hanley festival on the 26th. and
between that date and Dec. Is she has
rs engagements. Worcester people will
be sorry to hive Miss Florence go, for
she has many warm friends here who
fear 1t will be long before they see her
again.
Mrs. John E. Tuttle is one of the
Wellesley alumnae who will attend the
inauguration of Miss Hazard as presi-
dent Of Wellesley College, Tuesday. The
exercises will take place in the Hough-
ton memorial chapel at II o'clock in the
forenoon, and will be preceded by an
academic procession from College hall
to the chapel, which, 1t is said, win be
the most elaborate thing Of its kind
ever seen at the college.
The escort Of the procession will be
formed by undergraduates and alumnae
of the college, the seniors and graduates.
in academic cap and gown. Following
them will be the present and past mem
bers of the faculty aYd former profess
ors. Delegates from New England coll
leges and from the American Collegiate
viii proceed in the order Of
seniority Of the college in Incorporation.
The representatives of fraternal, state
and town authorities and the clergy of
Wellesley will close the procession. AS
not only the faculty but the visiting
are expected to appear In aca-
demic costume, the procession will be
stately and beautiful in appearance.
Bishop Lawrence will preside at the
inaugural exercises in the absence of
DIR. Alexander Mckenzie, president of
the board of trustees. The insignia of
office, the charter and the keys, will be
presented to the incoming president by
Mrs Pauline A. Durant, and brief ad-
win be made by Miss Hazard
President Eliot Of Harvard and Presl-.