The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-18
OUT AND ABOUT.
Mr.. Horace Wyman and Miss Wyman
leave next week for Quissett.

Mr.. Horace Wyman and Miss Wyman
leave next week for Quissett.
London has been discussing the ques-
ton who are the best dressed women
in it's fashionable society. OF the four
that are placed at the head of the list
two are Americans. They are Mrs.
Sloane and Lady NaylorLeyland, who
was Miss Jennie Chamberlain of Cleve-
land. Lady Warwick and the Duchess
of Portland share first honors with
them Miss Goelet, another American,
is said to be one of the best dressed I'M
married women.
Miss Moen returns to Boston today
after a three weeks visit to Mr.. and
Mrs. P. w. Moen.
He: And SO you love me because / am
not like other menf And how do you
know 1 am not like other men? She
You are the only man who has never
told me he was not like other men.
Miss Anne Tsuda the young Japanese
woman wing will address the Worces-
ter Woman's club on the S1st, is ma
tive of Toxic and a graduate of Bryn
Mawr college, having, during her resi-
dence of two years and a half, been ex-
ceptionally successful with her college
work. So greatly did she appreciate
what an education at an American col
lege meant that she tried to interest eV-
cry one she met in forming an Amerl-
can woman's scholarship committee to
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of higher education and Christian in
struction.
During her last year at the college
she spoke in the parlors of many Of the
Philadelphia homes and her appeals re-
suited in raising the sum Of 1854, which
was placed in the hands of 10 Philadel-
pha women of different Christian de-
nominations for investment.
This committee holds competitive eX-
aminations in Japan every five years
and selects the best qualified candidates
out Of the many presenting themselves.
It raises in Japan enough money to
meet the travelling expenses to and
from Philadelphia and to purchase an
American outfit for the successful can
didate. 1t furthermore endeaVors TO
secure for her on her return an oppor-
tunity for the widest usefulness.
The family of the successful candi7
date, who. of course, know nothing of
woman's higher education, make their
contribution by allowing their daughter
to go from home for five years.
Miss Tsuda, who has visited Philadel-
hphia within a few months, reports that
the effect of this scholarship has been
far greater than she. thought possible,
that 1t is known far and wide through
out Japan, not only to girls schools and
to those interested in education, but to
Japanese girls living in distant parts of
the island, and that it has spread
among the women of Japan the Chris
tian ideal of American education and
culture.
The scholarship has now been in OPP
Grafton for six years, and the first
scholar of the committee, Miss Mich
Matsuda will receive her degree at
Bryn Mawr college. in June, 1899,
The committee is now endeavoring to
raise the endowment fund to $4,000, as
the interest on the original sum does
not pay the expenses incurred.
Mrs. S. E. Retaliation entertained
the inmates of the Home for Aged Men
and the Home for Aged Women, at her
home, IL Institute road. yesterday af-
ternoon. There was a program of in
teresting music, and a pleasant time
spent. In the evening the honorary
members of the Wednesday Club of
All Saints Church listened to the pro-
gram heard by the active members
Tuesday evening.
The Friday Morning club presented
one of the best programs ever offered
at a private recital in Worcester, yes
terday at its last recital The program
embraced much rich and dramatic mu-
sic that drew a large audience. The
opening number was the Tschaikowsky
symphony, No. 5. played by Mrs.
Charles H. Prentice. Mrs. H. F. A.
Schmidt. Miss Mary L. Starr and Miss
Nellie Ingraham. This piece is one of
the numbers selected for the next mu-
steal festival. and the audience was
eagerly attentive yesterday.
Mrs. Inez Buss-Knowles sang Ala
bieft's 1.-The nightingale" charmingly
A prelude by Rachmaninoff was de-
lghtfully played on the piano by Mrs
Carrie King Hunt. Mrs. F. W. Puggles
sang "Hagar in the desert" a dramatic
scene and aria by Rubinstein. Mrs.
Louie f. Ware played a Tchaikowsky
violin nocturne. with Mrs. John L.
Brand as accompanist.- Mrs. George NJ.
Bassett and chorus sang Water
nymph." and the recital closed with