The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-05
OUT AND ABOUT.


Mr.. and Mrs. P. w. Moen and family
have returned to town from their. coun-
try place in Shrewsbury.
Mrs. T. c. Mendenhall gave a tea
yesterday afternoon for the Tech pro-
fessors and their wives and friends.
| The annual meeting of the Worcester
local board of the Baldwinville hospital
| cottages was held with Mrs. H. C..
| Fisher rs John street, yesterday after
noon, with a large attendance. The
| reports for the year were encouraging
| The following officers were elected:
President, Mrs. Abbie A. Bigelow; vice
president, Mrs. Hattie Kendall; clerk,
Miss Anna M. Moore; treasurer, Mrs.
Maria H. Parker; auditor, Mrs. George
l.. Clark After adjournment refresh
ments were served by Mrs. Fisher.
Yesterday saw the opening of nearly
every sewing school in the city. The
schools Connected with Hope church and
the Church of the Covenant and the
school in the meadows, which are I'M
der the auspices of the City Missionary
society, opened most successfully The
school in the meadows opened with the
phenomenal number Of 120 pupils, with
Miss L. A. Giddings in charge. Fifty
/ seven girls came to the school at the
Church of the Covenant, where Mrs. E.
S. Cutting is in charge, and more are
expected next week. The teachers here
are from Union church. Mrs. L. M.
Bassett has charge of the school at
Hope church. When the school is
opened at Emmanuel church in about a
fortnight, it will be held in beautiful
room, quite the finest of any of the
sewing schools.
AS stated in The Spy a fortnight ago,
| course Of lectures is to be given this
| winter under the auspices of the KIN
dergarten club. The mothers clubs of
| the city have been interested in the
enterprise
The lectures are to be given in Sails
bury hail. and speakers, subjects and
dates are as follows
Mrs. William L. Rutan, story recital,
| Nov. 10, at Ais o'clock.
Miss Ellen Gray, of the Prince school,
Boston, "Childrens games," Dec. 2, at
1890 O'clock.
Miss Sarah Louise Arnold. primary
| supervisor, Boston, Primary school
and the kindergarten, Jan. 6, at 1870
O'Clock.
DIR. G. Stanley Hall, president of
Clark university, date and subject to
be announced later
Mrs. Susan S. Hartman, late Of
North Adams state normal, Relation
of school and home,' Feb. 6, at AIS
o'clock.
Miss Caroline t. Haven, School of
Ethical Culture, New York city, "Chil-
dren's literature" Feb. 20, at Ais
o'clock.
Miss Laura Fisher, kindergarten su-
| pervisor, Boston, 1.-The moral training
of children" March 6, at 4.15 o'clock.
Course tickets, 81 each, are on sale
at Putnam, Davis & Co.'S. The course
is an exceptionally good one, and ought
to appeal to all people interested in
education, for the speakers are leaders
In their several lines. The Kinder
garten club and Mothers clubs are not
giving the course to make money, but
merely to increase the interest in
kindergarten work and in the better
understanding of children, and they
deserve cordial support.
The Woman's club Browning class
| met yesterday and began it's study of
''The Ring and the Book under Miss
Vida D. Scuddder of Wellesley college.
The next meeting will be in class room
A, Y. M. c. A. building, Nov. II, at 945
O'Clock. The class now numbers about
| 40 in membership
Miss Won Voigt's German talks gain
in popularity. Old and young were in
terested yesterday in her pictures of
and talk about "Shipwrecked on the
high sea- Snow white and the seven
dwarfs, THE prince and the dragons"
STANLEY in Darkest Africa" Funny
Dutchmen," ''The house builders and
the blacksmith, THE seven swans"
About so pupils of the Worcester
school of elocution and delsarte en-
joyed Halloween german yesterday
afternoon at "a Front street, from to
5 o'clock. Several figures were danced,
with English walnuts containing con-
| undrums for favors, and there were
Halloween games and cake walk. A
| ghost dance, for which the hall was
darkened, while Jack'o' lanterns fur
nished rich twilight, and the boys
and girls were draped in sheets con-
| cluded the program.
Mrs. lockwood Hoar and family left
yesterday to spend several weeks in
Pomfret, CT.
The Adamowski trio will present the
| following program when it gives it's
COHCeTL OH the evening OF Dec. unQer
| the auspices of the Friday Morning
| club.
Trio in A minor (by request). .Tchaikowsky
Gin memory of a great artist.)
| Allegro moderate. Nicholas Rubinstein
Tema con variazioni.
/ Finale.
Soil for cello:
1a( Elegie ...........,.............. Faure
| (b) Gavotte No. 2....,..... Fitzenhagen
Mr.. j. Adamowskl.
| Soil for pianoforte:
(a) Pastorale.
| kpJ Capflcclo ...............,... Scarlatti
| (c)Nocturne in minor. Chopin
I'D Valse .........-..... .Strauss-T ausig
(Man lebt nur einmal.)
Nine. Szumowska.
| Soil for violin:
| I'D Fanfare Experimentation. Sauret
Mr.. 7. Adamowski
| Elegla and scherzo. ...........,.A. Arensky
(From trio, Op. 92.)
"The servant problem is part of the
modern discomfort of women. 1t is a
| sign of progress. What is needed is not
shorter hours or the introduction of
trades union principles, but fraternity
| between the mistress and maid" said
| Prof. Cummings of Harvard tlnivarc;txy