The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16
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summer is DER n the scent of tbs
moth ball is in the air. Society is return
ing to its city home. taking from chest
and drawer, together with its religion, its
heavier Sunday garments, in consequence
Of which each church witnesses a cam
phorated sermon twice on the Sabpatn
Day.
But Society Is drowning its winter garb
in another direction, and simultaneously
with clothes and religion, fresh from tne
camphor balls, so to speak, comes the
club woman. with her club programme
and winters work all mapped out.
First and foremost comes the Woman's
Club. the full programme of which was
given in a recent issue of THE News
the Keramic Art Club, also published IN
.aThe News a few days Ago.; the Odd
Volume Club, the Afternoon Music Club,
the various euchre clubs and a dozen and
one others. all ready to open in October
October 4 win witness the opening of the
Odd Volumes at the residence of Miss
Buffet, on Bergen avenue. It will be the
annual election of officers, and the day
on which all arrangements for the year
are to be completed. A short time ago
It was thought that the Odd Volumes
stood in danger of losing two of their
foremost members, the president. Mrs.
Holland, nee Gaines, and Mrs Harriet B.
Eaton.
Mrs. Holland is now a resident of Cold
Spring-on-Hudson, but q constant visitor
to this city, and still retains her interest
in the Odd Volumes. AS this club has
known no other president since its organ
Ization, over ten years ago, It is extremely
unlikely the members will depart from
their established custom of re-electing
their former president on February 4
next, and it is likely that Mrs. Holland
will still retain her maiden identity under
the role of the Little President"
Mrs. Eaton, who, on account of her
son. Lieutenant Eaton, has removed to
Pennsylvania, was not permitted to re-
sign at the closing meeting of the Odd
Volumes, and is booked for a paper on
sswomen of Today in Astronomy during
the year
Leaving Flashlights on the Nineteenth
Century, ex~tinguished, the Odd Volumes
have, this year, chosen for their course
of study .sRecent Literature for which
the programme win vary a little from
the mode of former years. in that, in adj
dition to the two papers read by mem
beers, there will be a discussion on each
by three other members, according to
their alphabetical standing on the list.
For instance, at the first meeting aside
from the business meeting), October II,
Miss Adriance and two members whose
names begin with a 'B," have been book
ed for discussion on 'China Transforma-
ton (C%oIquhoun), while three others are
to discuss philippine Islands" Qala),
making. with the two members to whose
lot fall the papers. eight to participate
in each meeting, their place upon the
programme dependent on whether their
names begin with A, B, C or v.
October IS will be devoted to Cuba and
Porto Rico Robert D. HID n 'Kitch-
ener to Khartoum' (Stevens). November
l will be devoted to Recent Civil War"
Dana) and western Movement Dustin
Winson)-
November Is will be France Bodley)
and Ave Roma Immortalis'' Of. Marion
Crawford).
November 2s will be ''Fiske Day. "Old
Virginia and Her Neighbors'' and "Philo-
sophical Essays and Biography being
discussed. This will give two meetings
to war and three to history.
December is will be devoted to Music
Is Good Music Henderson, and
music and Manners in the Classical Pc
(KrehbieD being under discussion.
December 27 will usher in the two meet
ings devoted to biography, when Auto
of Bismarck n story of
GTo5-+ooot~ 7 fFoss ,-;1f - sr~,%-o -
date, with Life and Letters of Lord
Tennyson.' and Letters of Robert and
Elizabeth Browning" on January 10.
January "a is to be given over to Art"
what Is Art and Modern Painters"
by Ruskin.
Fiction will require four meetings, the
first of which, February Z, will be de-
voted to critical essays on Kipling,s
poems and fiction. February II will con-
sist Of critical essays on Mrs. Humphrey
Ward and James Lane Allen March 7
will bring a discussion on New England
Novelists' and Southern Novelists,"
while March u will furnish fiction with
a general discussion on Best Recent
and James N. Barrie"
April 4 will be devoted to American and
poets.
Sociology win be the subject for the
two following meetings. April IS, "Civili-
cation and Progress" (Crozier), "Women
Economics fStetson). May 2, "Ang-
lo-saxon Superiority Demolius) and
Control Of the Tropics
May 1s is to be a day of Science"
when Mrs. Eaton win deliver her paper
Women Of Today in Astronomy" and
some one else will deliver a paper on
"Great ~Observances.''
Evil Animals I Have Known ernest
Seton, ~Thompson) and ~How to Know
Wild Flowers are the final subjects for
discussion on May 80, after which, of
the season will end with the usual
breakfast.
The Afternoon Music Club will open its
probably the second Monday in
October. This year the subject will con-
of selections from Beethoven. with
comments on current musical events and
a miscellaneous programme at every other
meeting.