The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-15

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I once had sweet little girl, dears,
The prettiest doll in the world;
Her cheeks were so red and so white, dears,
And her hair was so charmingly curled.
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Her cheeks were sored and so white, dears,
And her hair was so charmingly curled.
Kingsley.
The doll show under the auspices of
Oxford street school opened yesterday
successfully, to continue during the re-
mainder of the week at $50 Main street.
Inc international doll collection is all
that it has been described and more.
Nothing like it was ever seen in Wor-
cester, and it will we'll reward a visit.
To mention all the curious or other
wise interesting dolls is more than our
space allows, but among those that
seem peculiarly worthy of note are
Priscilla Alden, who was given by Jor-
dan, Marsh &c Co., and christened by
the children of Massachusetts,; the
Roumanian doll given by Queen Car
men Silva and the Hawaiian doll given
by Queen Lii; the Bosnian dolls, the gift
/ OF the prime minister of Herzegovina
and Bosnia; the ancient homely dolls
from the Aleutian islands and Alaska;
the large collection of colored dolls; the
Indian dolls, and the two "'poor white
dolls from North Carolina OF course
this is merely the expression of one
taste; other tastes would select other
| dolls.
All the dolls stand erect, held up by
metal supports, and all are distinctly
| labeled. The labels are expressed in
the first person and give the personal
| history of the dolls There are com
paratively few boy and men dolls in
| the collection.
The patronesses of the exhibition yes
| terday were Mrs. Leander Hastings,
Mrs. George Geer, Mrs. E. B. Disco,
assisted by Miss Adelaide N. Disco,
Miss M. G. Griggs, Miss Edna Day, Miss
| Helen Waite, Miss Lucy Southwick,
Miss Wy; n
| sure. A policeman was on duty at the
! exhibition all day; if he is detailed to.
| the position for the remainder Of the
week he will know more about dolls
than he ever knew before.
| Mrs. Maude G. Learned announces a
| Christmas sale and exhibition of china
and oil paintings at her studio, suite 2,
Wilcox building, Wilcox street, today
and tomorrow afternoon and evening.
! Miss Frances C. Morse gives a small
tea tomorrow afternoon for Mrs. Joseph
Rice.
The quarterly tea meeting of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society
of Trinity church was held yesterday
at the house of Mrs. John Legg, with
a large attendance. The afternoon
program included a discussion on
What has the year brought to me?"
led by Mrs. Flora 1. Barker and a
Christmas study entitled His star
and sceptre." Then there was supper
at $50 o'clock, followed by two-part
discussion, What the Woman's For
eign Missionary society has done for
woman" by Mrs. Alice P McKinstry,
and what woman has done for the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society"
by Miss Gertrude Brooks. Also the
two closing chapters of Trinity Sketch
book, "A day in rare atmosphere Ill
lustrated). by Mrs. Edith Kinney Do
ten and Nothing by ]. K. Greene. |
The exercises were interspersed byl
duets and solos in charge of Mrs. Chas.
L. Clark.
1t was voted to give a reception to
the Little Light Bearers Of the church !
the second Thursday in January at the !
parsonage. Mrs. F. A. Amidon has
this in charge.
Felix Fox. the pianist, and Frederick |
Blair. the 'cellist, who have both been |
heard at George N. Morse's recitaIs in
Worcester, will give a concert in Me- |
mortal hall on the evening Of Jan. II. |
Both are accomplished musicians.
Mrs. William H. Coe. who has cards |
out for an at-home on Monday, with |
a talk on "Stevenson's Samoa" by Is |
abel Strong, Robert Louis stevensons
stepdaughter, has received the follow |
ing letter from the s. S. Mcclure |
Lecture Bureau:
Dear Madam-We regret to state |
that Isabel Strong has just undergone |
an operation for appendicitis, and |
though she is out Of danger. time must |
be allowed for recuperation. She re-
turned from Boston on Saturday and |
was Frustrated shortly after getting
home. A postponement of her lecture |
will therefore be necessary. We |
should think that by the latter part of |
January or early in February, she will |
be strong enough to resume her en-
gagements. We believe that by Mon |
day Jan. g. or 20, she could be with
you"
Mrs. Coe desires that this notice Of |
postponement answer until further no.
tice
At meeting of the local auxiliary |
to the McAll Mission. at the house of |
Mrs. Lyman F. Gordon, yesterday, Rev. |
Arthur st. James talked on "The re-
iigious condition and the religious need
of the French. In beginning, he said
that although he had never been in |
Paris he had been interested in the |
McAll work and had long worked |
among the French in America. Are |
the French a clean and upright people !
morally? he asked and answered his |
question by saying that probably no |
other civilized nation was so degraded |
He instanced the Latin Quarter Of
Paris 8 rrOOf of this Mot yo,oro
than one-third of the French are
churchgoers, he said: the other two
thirds do not hesitate to say that they |
have nothing to do with the church.
The one-third who are churchgoers are
about equally divided between Prot
estants' and Roman Catholics. The |
latter are degenerating rapidly; they
are not even good Roman Catholics.
Religion is left to the women and |
children and the congregations are
small.
AS for the Protestant portion, with 1t
the forms of religion count for more
than the vital truth Of q new life. |
which is seldom recognized even among /
religious people With regard to the
eFtitude of the ministers toward it, the
SPEAKER said that the McAll mission |
undoubtedly draws people away from
the churches, and that therefore the
clergymen do not give it their support,
but that If the movement could be
joined to church work. the success
would be assured. The mission halls
attract strange crowds for the hold
of the priests is slight Here, on the
other hand, the French are closely /
watched by their priests In conclu-
sion. he spoke of the danger of neglect
ing the French people in America "Dis
lance lends enchantmeDt to the view ;,
but there are $4,000 French in Worcester