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having been planned Tor the AeAe -
DAYS. though of course the regular ciup
meetings will be held as usual even
where cards are the attraction
soeiety needs that time known as HOY
week, TO prepare for Easter, and the
ensuing week will find the average WON,
an dividing her time between milliner ana
modiste-"a love of a bonnet ana a gown
..inst too dear for anything" especially
when the bill comes home.
One of the pleasantest events of the
mast week was the Cosmos dinner. helo
Monday evening at Hotel Wasnlngeoh'
when Mr.. HelNs, of the American ousai
Refining Company. spoke on German
Literature causing quite a discussion os
declaring Goethe a greater thon SNAKE
sleare. Shakespeare won.
The Browning Class met, as usual MOI
aav at the residence of Mrs. E. W. New
bury, No. 81 Clifton place, and interpre.eu
..Tbe Statue and the Bust" ROBERT
Rrowninr really ought to hear some OF
these interpretations of his poetlcal Ell
forts. They are so original ana eh'nusS
tically complimentary.
Ihe next HleSlllS~
held Monday, March 81. also at at mrs
Nevburv's. when "Clive'' will be the
poem under discussion.
Gentlemen were admitted to Miss Beas-
toms final lecture last Tuesday evening
at the residence of Mrs. A. j. Post, NO.
1as Magnolia avenue, and made a manly
showing. The Current Events Glass
has heretofore held it's meetings in the
afternoon. but, as though to give Their
husbands a taste of what they had
missed. the members invited them to the
final meeting.
Miss Beaston was really most interest
ing. She spoke on Capital Punishment
in a way to awaken the thoughtful ana
set the needless to thinking, and handled
s.Embalmed Beef" in a most straight
forward and daring manner.
Never is the average woman's club so
nroud as when it has for it's guest a
member of the opposite sex. Several
members do not make SO marked a diner
ence. but one member certainly honors
and is honored by the club women ana
the odd Volumes on "Wednesday last,
when 1t entertained Lieutenant Eaton, OF
the United States Navy, was no excep-
tion to the rule. Lieutenant Eaton told
the ladies. all about navigation. explain
ing the use of the various charts, samples
of which he passed round, and of the snip
log. using a small model of this invention
also. His mother. Mrs. George Eaton,
spoke on Commerce"
At next meeting. On April 5, at the resi-
dence of Mrs. William Pierson, No. "
Mercer street, the club will a ZIP the
study of Sociology" Miss Doremus read
ing a paper on the subject. Under this
head will come Treatment Of the Grim
inal Glasses and Insane Protection OF
the Defective and Delinquent Glasses"
protection of Children and Animals
.SPublic and Private Hygiene, Sewerage
and Quarantine"
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Omen Hand Club, held Tuesday afternoon,
Mrs. James Parker was elected to MEM
bership.
The club also listened to interesting
papers on New England Life, by Mrs.
Frederick Frambach, who told about
Miles Standish and the first year of
Puritan life in Plymouth, and Miss sturdi-
want, who spoke on the New England
E 0dDudlu.
There was a meeting of the Town I'M
provement Committee Tuesday afternoon
at Hasbrouck Institute, and the ladies
now have a plan by which they intend 10
start in at once and improve the town.
Twelve ladies' nave been chosen as chair
men of the twelve city wards and are
to choose their own helpers, one for each
- +1a 1odiac no all
busy with maps trying to find out just
where their respective wards and pre-
cincts end and the other ladies' begin,
whether in the middle of the road on the
other side of the street. Really the Town
Improvement should have a surveyor.
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Among the ladies of this city interest
ed in the Home Hotel Association are
Mrs. E. w. Newbury, Mrs. Althea Bedle,
Mrs. Peter j. Koonz and Mrs E. F. c.
Young. The purpose of the association
is to found a home for artists, writers and
other professional women in New Jersey,
who either do not care for or cannot
afford hotel life in the large cities and
nave no homes of their own.
Besides the above named ladies the
association includes on its Board of
Directors, Mrs. Carrot A. Hobart, Mrs.
John w. Griggs and Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land.
Mrs. Brice Collard has been compelled
to discontinue her cooking class at st.
Andrews room, Grand street, on account
of the illness of the teacher, Miss
Fielitz.
The young ladies of the Wednesday
Afternoon Club, connected with the Ber-
gen School for Girls nave done well. The
proceeds of last Saturdays fair for the
benefit of Christ Hospital, net in the
neighborhood of s4o0.
The Ramblers will meet on Wednesday,
March 49,. at Hasbrouck Institute, and
discuss "Current Events with Russia's
relations to other powers. Further ar
for the Russian tea with
which this club intends to close its season
will probably also be made.
Mrs. J.. D. Bedle. OF No. So Glenwood
avenue, entertained the Evening Euchre
Club at her residence Thursday evening,
Mrs. Walter Wilkinson also acting as
hostess.