The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-05
HASBROUCk POPULAR
Scene Of Three Feminine
Club Meetings Yester-
day Afternoon.
NOVELS, PAINTING RUSSIA
Discussed BY Literature Com
mittee, Keramic Artists
and Ramblers-Woman's
Journals Condemned.

Hasbrouck. Institute is an adaptants
c~ommodious building. Yesterday AFTER
noon it was the scene of three woman :
club meetings, all going on at once, pc
hind closed doors, and not in the leas'
disturbing Zach other. These were the
Keramic artists. who met IN the kinder
garten room on the ground floor; the
Literature. Committee of the Woman
Club, which met in room ], second noor'
and the Ramblers, who met in the class
room just across the hall from the Lltera-
ture.
The meeting of these three clubs at the
same time is something unusual, caused
on this occasion by the postponement 81
their respective meetings over the holi-
days.
Novels, political and religious, was the
subject under discussion at the Literary
Committee meeting of the Woman's Clup'
yesterday afternoon, at Hasbrouck IN
stitute, Mrs. ohm A. Walker in the chair.
To Miss Ada d. Fuller fell the address OF
the afternoon. 1t was a written address,
not exactly upon either the politlcal OF
religious novel, that was left for the other
members, and there were plenty 70 LIZ
up the subject, it being What = usuanH
aGGTHlEu III w . III =
meeting but upon womans Journals ~
general. Miss Fuller described wittily,
graphically, and with just a little Ioucn
of sarcasm, the sort of stun 70 pc louia
in these periodicals, as for instance IN the
Literary Shop for January, IRON tne
Choosing of a Husband" to Going 70
Europe, and in another magazine, OWL
efs of Famous Cats" with cuts accom-
Gifts. with a description OF paper, eeru
and what not to be used" Then attack
ing IA certain monthly journal, Ine
Articles in Fashions. for WHICH patterns
cannot be had because the designs are
original and, continued Miss Fulter,
thank Goodness they cannot because
there are enough freaks walking round.
Not even was the ladies Rome Jouf5
nall which the speaker said ranked
among the best, spared. and wherein sne
criticized such articles as Advice About
Calling Cards, ssHow long q young man
shall call upon a young lady before ne
may address her by her first name etc.
Even Ruth Ashmore's bones We're not
allowed to rest in peace, u Jots from
her advice to Girls were qu9lea as
superfiueus. Whites as for Mr. BoK, BIS
he a condemned the CLUB woman as
unified to grapple with politics.
To this, not the political criticism, Mt.
Box has evidently hurt the club woman
Ruth shmor and the Ladies Home
Journal in general. the majority Of those
present TOOK exception. There were many
girls they said, who needed just such al.
wee as Ruth Ashnore gave. Most OF
the ladies take tlleNjournal mentioned but
do not read it. Many people. they also
said. liked to read just such things as had
been criticized. The short stories. too,
which Miss Fuller held it a waste ri time
to read. were considered by the laAes as
harmless. Mrs. walker expiaired that
"a person fed on perfectly good digestip.e
food viii die, but if mixed with q little
ssawdust or something quite as use,essShe
will live So it was with literature. 5aes
also said in pnoteetion of this class %
literature: 1--WE can find failt with the
public taste. but we cannot blame people
for catering to that taste
The political and religious novels were
oplnion ii turns sc5uo vadis2S was meu-
toned as faithfully portraying the politi-
cal and religious standire of tho tire IT
represented and with which aH ne eaaI.
was criticized as having no set TeliFtaa55
ideas. keeping the reader eareering abe'it
ana leading him Nowhere in the end. Sir
Waiter SCOTS works and these or
Charles Lever were also mentioned aa be-
Ing true to- t1e politics Of the times tney
book brought into discussion asTeprcse1t-.
the present time, but melody seemed
to understand the character cf John
storm considering him for the most part
a religious fanatic.
The distribution eff invitatifns fer Sltss
Gaines' lecture. women Nevalists.' which
the Literarv Committee have arranged
for January IS. at Hashrosicls Fail, com
Guided the meeting, and the ladies' went
home 10 study I'm .sWorren's Journals
IN order to find cut for themselves
whether or no it was time wasted.