The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-03
A DAY OF MUSIC.
Woman's Club Talked Of
Glees and Listened to
Them Yesterday.
FOUR ENTERTAINING PAPERS
Excellent Vocal and Instru-
mental Performance
Makes Meeting a
Success.

For the first time since its organiza-
ton, FIVE years ago. the Woman's Club
gave a music social day in its pro-
gramme yesterday. 1t was under the
management of Mrs. Garwood Ferris
Chairman Of the Music Department, and
proved a great success.
OF course there were several papers,
but there was also much more music than
usual at these regular club lays. Mrs.
Ferris started the programme with a rev
words of Introduction in which she SAID
an address was expected, but as the
department wished to impress the CLUB
with its ability to close at the appointed
hour, five o'clock, rather thar with IT'S
ability to make speeches, she would sim
ply introduce the participants
The first number was, VINO IS
sylvia?' which the Glee Club executed
beautifully, then Mrs. John eadde
third, read a paper IN History Of Giee
Music in which she said
n1suther.v SAYS. swhoso despfses music,
as all fanatics do, with him am NOT
pleased, for music is a GIT q GOO anu
not an invention of man. II drlves Envy Ky
the devil and makes people cneerIui- We
look back TO Luther as a devout lover
/ and true critic of the spiritual ana ar
mission of music. He wished inns art 70
| enter IHE ser lCt III AtAO
Mrs. Headden then gave a short his
tory of music as cultivated from the Re-
formation through the time OF Eliza
beth to the present day. "The term glee'
continued she, docs not seem to nave
been used until a century later Che sew
enteenth), at which time a glee was de-
fined as a sons of three or more parts
upon a gay or merry subject In which all
the voices begin and end together sing
ing the same words any Instrumental
addition with due respect to the WON
ans Club Breakfast) to the glee Is ao-
~solutely iilegftimate because pernicious III
effect except in a case of unsteady per-
formers. when the use of a pianoferte is
advisable as an evil of less magnitude
than false notes and broken time"
The next selection was an old English
Glee. 1907, Ford by the Glee Club. which
Mrs. Ferris explained would be sung as
Mrs. Headden said it should be, "just to
show the club could do it." and It did
very cieverly.
Miss Currie then sang the "Madrigal,'
by Victor Harris and responded TO an en-
core.
Mrs. Frank H. Hall executed
rWalther's Prize Song CNagner), on
the violin. with piano accompaniment, BY
Mrs. Headden, first, however giving a
cleverly written little sketch of 'The
Meistersinger,e the opera from which
the song is taken.
Miss Currie again sang giving "Ber-
ceuse." from Joscelyns, and responding
to encore, n Miss Elizabeth Ferris, read
a paper on THE Origin OF Music" trac-
ing it back to the early Scriptures, say
ing:-
"The origin of music is involved in such
obscurity. that it would be easier to tell
what one does not know than what one
Lucretius that the birds taught man to
sing, and that the invention of musical
Instruments OF the inAatile kind was sug,,
gested to him by the sounds produced
from reeds when the western wind blew
over thern:-
" The birds instructed man. and taught
him songs before his art began;
And while soft evening gales blew DER
the plains.
taught tie SWANS:
And. thus the pipe was fram'd, and tune
full reed
This is certainly very poetieal what
ever reliance We may place on it. But
the italian saint. Thomas Aouinas. dis
dams to leave the origin of music to
chance, and informs US that the first man
was endowed by the Creator with everv
kind of knowledge and that he exeelled
in music, as well as in all other arts and
sciences. But. guessing and fiction aside,
we find Jabal, the seventh in descent from
Adam. mentioned in Scripture as the
father of such as handle the harp and
organ These terms must not be under
stood literally however as they refer to
all instruments of the stringed and tube
kind. Nearly all that is known of the
music of the Hebrews has been collected
from the Scriptures. and It is nearly GER
tain that they acquired their know'edge
generation of Israelites led forth by Moses
from their captivity were born in Egypt,
ard Rea s i was qhat after we m saflr VIA RSs5 tbs e Of the the
corded song"
The Glee Club then sang ''The Snow"
by Edward Elgar, accompanied by Mrs.
Hall and Miss Harvie, violinists, and Mrs.
John Headden, third. pianist.
The four delegates to the Atlantic City
Federation gave reports as follows-Mrs
John L. scudder, on the first mornings
session. Mrs. G. w. Clerihew, on the
first afternoons session; DR.. M. F. De
Hart, on the second mornings, and Miss
Ada D. Fuller, on the second afternoons
session.
Mrs. Scudder, as an introduction to her
report on the regular proceedings. said
"on october 2s; at 5:15 in the early
stars were still shining when | closed the
door of my domiciie. and everything was
enveloped in the darknes of night. Only
a stray newsboy or an early milkman en-
livened the scene, and l had to say to my
self. Never fear, new women are brave
or / should ave trembled at thoughts of
footpads. I went thus alone because |
like to show that club life and club out
ings can be conducted without discoTn-
fort to the rest of the family. There are
some things that women must be eman-
cipated from. The modern waist, some
of you know to your sorrow, does noG
permit OF dressing alone, so 1t was rot
until I joined Mrs. Clerihew that every
nook was made fast. We had adjoining
rooms at Atlantic City, and DR.. De Hart
was the only one who needed no assist
ance In her toilet. I would not like to say
she had more sense than the rest of US,
but II You should feel that way ] shall
not eeusure you.
'In the Keystone Restaurant we saw
some fine looking women, who appeared
exactly as club women should, and so II
proved they were, for we saw their Fed
Grafton pin and soon introduced ourselves
to them. And on the train we were
/ joined by others, and we journeyed on to-
gether to the city by the sea. which we
reached at about eleven. We drove to the
beautifui Casino. which over1ooks the
ocean, and listened to the programme of
| the morning with somewhat distraeting
thoughts of breaking waves and hopes
for an early luncheon