The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-15

kalendar, which contain the usual ar
ray of interesting information connect
ed with the observance Of Lent at All
Saints church.
The Worcester League of Unitarian
Women meets today at the South Uni
tartan Church to discuss Municipal
housekeeping" This will be treated
under three heads: Abroad" "At
Home" and Municipal Ownership" In
the forenoon a paper will be read on
the "Curfew," under the auspices of the
committee on current topics. All wom-
en- are cordially invited.
The weekly meeting of the College
Club this afternoon will take the form
of a musicale at the club room in the
Day building. Mrs. Batcheler of Bos-
ton will sing, and Mrs. Louis D Erville
Ware and Miss Disco will also take
part.
Miss Won Voigt's German tea talk
Friday afternoon at the house of Mrs.
lockwood Hoar is being much antici-
pated as the first of the lenten talks of
which there will probably be more anon.
1t is not necessary to take your Lent
very strenuously in order to find such
social-literary functions agreeable.
The Girls Club among its other en-
terprises conducts very fourishing
class in dressmaking and plain sewing,
but the work of this class is being sad
ly curtailed by the need of a sewing
machine. 1t is believed that If this fact
were known, there are kindly-disposed
persons who would interest themselves
n assisting the club to get a machine.
1t is no uncommon thing for a family
to have an old-fashioned or halfworn
machine which they continue to keep
long after its day of usefulness to them
is over because they do not know what
to do with it. Any one who would be
willing either to give a machine or to
lend one for a limited period would be
doing a real kindness to the girls of
the club.
Owing to the continued atrocious
weather it has been decided to push
along a week the course of historical
lectures which Mr.. William j. Mann is
to deliver ON consecutive Thursday eve
nings, in Memorial Hall. The first one
in the series, which was to be given on
be postponed to the 23d. The dates
for the others win be March 2, and
16.
Mrs. John C, MacMurray gave a
small luncheon at the State Mutual
restaurant Saturday, after the Brown
ing lecture, at which there were present
among others Judge McAtee of Okla
homa and DR.. Philip S. MoXom of
Springfield.
Lakewood, n. j., is booming. The
hotels are filled, with nearly every room
engaged in advance all through the
season, and the prospect of cots in the
parlors and corridors over Sunday for
men guests in the near future. (The
cot in the parlor is the hotel proprie-
tors equivalent for the theatrical sign
standing room only.") The demand
for cottages has exceeded expectations,
and there is a call for building sites for
next summer.
Visitors after this season will miss
the Laurel House, which was the
pioneer of the big hotels at this popu-
lar winter resort. 1t is to be torn
down at the end Of the season and a
modern structure is to be erected.
When it was built, about % years ago,
the general opinion was that it was
quite too big for the place. For more
than a decade it was the only hotel
in the place; the Lakewood was added,
then the Laurel-in-t the Pines, and
finally the Lexington and Palmer ho-
tells were built The patronage of the
place has increased with the growth
- hotels, on the familiar principle that
'Pappeut Went en- mangeant," and
Lakewood has now no equal as a spot
Of fashionable sojourn during Lent
and the winter season.
Boston in getting up its Scotch ac-
cent in anticipation of the visit of Ian
Maclaren early next month. DR.. Wat
son is at the present moment she'd
ding sweetness and light along the
Pacific coast.
Miss Carrie Houghton will read a pa
per on the art Of the 10th century
before the Second Parish Club, tonight
at 7.45 o'clock. The paper will be il
Illustrated. All persons interested are
invited to be present
Scion ]. Kinsman of Uxbridge and
Edna N. Lyle Of 59s Main street were
quietly married, last evening, at the