The Jersey City news., 1899-12-15

Successful Affair Given Last
Night by Ladies' Of Or.
Herr's Church.

A church supper may or may not be
great bore 1t all depends upon the
management. Quite as much Is due to
good service as to good cooking, but
where both are combined the result is
perfection. Such was the annual supper
given by the Church Home Society of
the First Presbyterian Church, last
night. Everything went or splendidly, a
result none too well deserved because the
ladies' had worked hard.
To begin with, the supper was held
down stairs In the church parlors. These
rooms had been beautifully trimmed in
green and red. Scattered all over were to
be found palms and ferns. while the pill
lars were all wound with red crinkled
paper, red and green most appropriately
representing the season of the year.
There were number of square or OBJ
long tables grouped round a round centre
table This table was in charge of Mrs.
George Wilson, Mrs. Willard Fisk and
Mrs Manning Stires, Jr 1t also was
trimmed in red and green, having in the
centre a number OF potted plants sur
rounded by ring of smilax twisted with
red ribbon, white along the outer edge
Smilax twisted itself to form each in
dfviduaI place.
The other tables were also very prettily
decorated with smilax, ferneries ana
caldelabra, mostly in red and green, with
handsome centre pieces rose bowls ana
cut glass They were in charge OF,
among others, Mrs. Sidman, Mrs Perine,
Mrs. Watson, Mrs Dickson Mrs
but he could never grow out of one. His
Mrs John Smith, Mrs. Robert White,
Mrs. Charters Ridgway. Mrs. English,
Mrs. Austin, Mrs. Charles H. Miller, Mrs.
Arbuckle, Mrs. Peake, Mrs Dikes, Mrs.
Merritt.
All this was very pretty to look at
but the proof of the supper lay In tine
eating thereof The menu was excellent,
and included everything, from creamed
oysters, turkey and cranberry sauce to
ice cream and cake. The service was
excellent and if anybody did go away
hungry he had only himself TO blame,
taking it for granted such a party was
of the masculine sex, from which source
such complaint usually rises
After supper the assemblage adjourned
upstairs. where chalk talk was given
by Mr.. Anthony Fiala, of the Brooklyn
agle.n Mr. Fiala began with the text,
ssMan looketh upon the outside whicn,
he said. was the only way man could dis
cover the inside, and then proceeded to
give a number of drawings showing the
development Of character, beginning Witn
the ape and ending with Dewey, though
with regard to the ape ne said he did not
believe In the Darwin theory: that man
might possibly degenerate into an ape,
but he could never grow out OF QUE ttis
whole lecture went to show that man
life was depicted in his face just as ne
'- He talked as he drew, and did both
rapidly, but upon its taking little longer
to complete Dewey's features than the
other pictures, he remarked, You see Il
takes longer to make good than a bad
face" whereupon the audience appiaud-
ed heartily. The artist ended his talk
with the scene Of a ship by moonlight, re-
marking that the faces one met were ike
SHIPS that pass in the night.
Upstairs. where this lecture was held,
was a candy table, in charge of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Perkins. Jr, and tended by
the Misses Margaret Herr and Helen
Perry, who did well, taking In about ten
The officers of the Church Home So
ciety are Mrs. Mix, president: Mrs. Camp
bell vice president; Mrs. Stratton. treas
urer; Mrs. Bull, recording, and Mrs.
Ready, corresponding, secretaries.