The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-13
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most, of course, was the State Fedora
ton of Woman's Clubs, held in Ruther-
ford, Thursday, which was attended by
an unusually large delegation of ladies
from the Jersey City Woman's Club and
Odd Volumes, among whom We're Mrs.
8 G.. w. Clerihew, Mrs. Mark Miller, Mrs.
Howard Fisk. Mrs. Hudspeth Benson.
Mrs. Spencer Weart, Mrs. Brice Collard.
Mrs. Nichols, Mrs. Samuel Drayton, Miss
Ada D. Fuller, Mrs. Marcus Higginboth-
am. Mrs. Garrick, Mrs. Frank Whitney.
Miss Barlowe, Mrs. E.. w. Newbury, Miss
Cecilia Gaines, Miss Katharine Grower,
Miss Enness and DIR. M. F. De Hart.
The second State meeting was that of
the Home Hotel Association, held in the
Carteret Clubhouse of this city, yester-
day.
That Mrs. E. f. Williamson makes a
charming president of the State Fedora
ton cannot be denied. Thursday was the
first public meeting held since her in
a~uguration last November. She is a
woman of excellent executive ability,
with, as Thursday proved, a knowledge
of parliamentary laws and usage that
might well rebuke the average officer in
woman's club world. Not least among
her virtues is.the ability and determine
ton to close a meeting on time, another
virtue sadly lacking among club women.
Aside from this she is a woman of
enormous political influence and hospi-
tally itself. Perhaps it is due to this
fact that she makes such a charming pre-
siding officer. Even on the platform
there is about her an interchangeable some
thing which makes her not only at home
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home with her. She is a woman who
can afford to cater to the club holding
herself aloof from no one.
There was an interesting discussion
Thursday morning at the Federation, on
that inexhaustible question, 1.-The Servant
Girl There is a movement afoot at
present in feminine club world to estab-
lsh schools where servants may be taught
to cook and keep house artistically, and
after a number of ladies had aired their
own virtues and ventilated the faults of
their servants, Mrs. Platton of Plainfield
made an excellent point when she said:
Good mistresses make good servants,
and it might be well TO have a training
school for the mistress instead of a cook
ing school for the servant"
The Rev. Mrs. A~ntoinette Blackwell also
made a very good point when she said:
Make every servant feel your home is
her home.
Consistency thou art a jewel" Tt was
at the State Federation of Woman's Clubs
in Rutherford, Thursday. A lady rose to
speak. "Who is this?" asked the presi-
dent. Mrs. King. of New York. came
the answer, Il represent the Rainy Day
Club Here all eyes were turned on Mrs.
King. Outside the church the rain was
coming down in torrents, but the cos
tune of the Rainy Daisies was missing.
Mrs. Kings skirt swept the floor and only
a small badge marked her loyalty.
$50
As Atlantic City has been chosen for the
fall meeting of the State Federation, it
is not likely there will be as large a dele
cation from Jersey City as at Rutherford.
Thursday.
"Mohammed was a wise man. When
the mountain would not come to him he
went to the mountain" just so with the
Ramblers, only in their case matters were
reversed. They could not go to Russia,
SO they brought Russia into themselves,
through the agency. eyes and experience
of Madame Ragozin, and gave a Russian
tea.
The Ramblers, as is a we'll known fact.
have been studying Russia all winter, and
are, of course, in great sympathy with
the Russians as a prosecuted race, espe-
cially the Russian peasant, so this year,
as an appropriate celebration of Club
Day" decided to give a Russian tea,
and last Wednesday saw the tea" plan
carried out most successfully. 1t was
an afternoon affair. Madame Ragozin
gave a most delightful, accurate. informal
Russian talk on the Russian people. their
customs and characteristics, and then re-
~freshments were served. The tea was
made Russian by means of the Bermuda
lemon, caviare sandwiches were passed
as a great Russian delicacy, but the Ram
blers had neglected to cultivate a Russian
taste for aught else but literature, and
the cream and peanut buttered waters
were taken in preference Daffodils orna-
mented the table, but the bread and salt,
the completing feature of a Russian feast,
was missing. Altogether it was one of
the most delightful Gu Days the
Ramblers nave ever experienced.
So
One point made at the Russian tea was
in the spelling of the word "Tsar.' When
Madame Ragozin was asked whether the
word should be spelled T-s-a-r or C-z-a-r,
she said the former was correct, as the
latter was the Polish mode of spelling.
and the ssCs' in that case should be pro-
nounced sK." T-s-a-r, she said, was dis
tinctly Russian
Tuesday afternoon the Literature De-
nartment Of the Woman's Club were en-
tertained by Miss Ella Carr, of No. Is
Magnolia avenue, not at a regular meet
ing of the Department, but at a special
social given through the courtesy OF Miss
/, Carr as an appropriate ending to a de-
lghtful season.
This department is the very largest and
most sociable of the Woman's Club sub
divisions. Mrs. John A. Walker is chair
man. and the size and success Of the de-
partment is probably due to her efforts
as much as tanything else. She is a
chairman who throws her whole heart
and soul into the work, never sparing her
self an inconvenience at the expense of
the department..
The Travellers Club met Tuesday even