The Jersey City news., 1899-05-19
ODD VOL UMES EAT
Over Eighty Ladies Break
fast Yesterday at Car
teret Clubhouse.
DIAMONDS OF WIT
And Pearls of Truth Set in
Golden Ring of Silence by
Mrs. Walker.

With their usual good luck in the
weather, the Odd Volumes yesterday
afternoon were able to dodge the rain.
1t was the annual breakfast of the club,
he'd at the Carteret Clubhouse. and while
outside pedestrians were mistaking zephyr
blown fruit blossoms for fakes Of snow,
within the clubhouse all was summer,
even to the president, who presided in
a dainty gown of white organdie and
white hat.
The hall of the clubhouse where, just
in time for luncheon, the breakfast was
held, was softly, artistically and daintily
decorated with the emblematic modesty
Of the club, violet. Strips of violet bunt-
ing were festooned across the ceiling,
canopy fashion, while over every door and
window hung draperies of wisteria blos-
SONS and lilac The platform was a
bower of the same flowers and palms.
enriched by handsome new curtain of
soft green, hung for the occasion. The
tables, of which there were any number,
each seating four. and one long affair for
the president Miss Ceceiia Gaines, and
guests of honor, were handsomely ar
ranged with wisteria, violets, violet shaded
silver candelabra violet and white bon
bon baskets and bonbons of the same
color, while at each place was laid
souvenir programme of violet paper, hand
painted in the favorite flower, by Miss
Lillian Pitcher, and bound with silver cord.
The menu consisted of the usual dainty
viands to be found at such a feast Of
reason and flow of soul.' minus the
or yuf1a ia
ladies sat down to table, an hours re-
ception having preceded the breakfast,
and three o'clock before the speeches
began.
Miss Gaines, of course, made the ad-
dress of welcome. She was brief, witty
and to the point. Her quotation was
Welcome shall they be;
And all the honors that can fly from US
Shah On them settle,
and comprised nearly all she had to say
save that she spoke of the violet as the
club flower, because modesty always was
a part of the Odd Volumes.
Mrs. Harriet G. Walker Of Englewood
came next Her subject was, "a Flash
light on Present Day Literature and
her quotation, ''They shall safely steer
who see" She spoke very beautifully of
the unity of space, time and life, saying,
''Since the universe is one, connected, CO.
herent in its each part. then there is a
part in it for each of u.s." AS Mss Gaines
SO aptly afterward remarked Mrs. Walk
er crowned the Odd Volumes winter
work and swept the whole horizon"
Mrs. Jennie Toffey Koonz was next in
troduced, or rather welaomed in her new
fTr1lir,
sweetly to the accompaniment of Mrs.
Frank Cavalli.
Club Fellowship by Mrs. Sarah E.
Temple, ex-President of the Vermont
Fedora ton, had for its text
Spread the soft intercourse from soul
to soul.
And watt a sigh from Indus to the
Pole Pope.
Mrs. Temples speech was Characters
tically and saucily witty. She cornpli-
mented the club on it's President, "even
though she did require a foot stool and
pushed the vase of flowers aside that she
might not be hidden from view,'' as we'll
as in several other things
Mrs Scudder came next. Her subject
was Snapshots at club functions" the
functions meaning women and Burns
Ines
20 wad some power the giftie gle US,
To see oursels as ithers see u.s.
were fitted in most apropos. She YER
bally photographed the erratic club wom-
an from ''she who uses her brain for
everything except her dress to the
club pig. In speaking of the authoress
of "Ships that pass in the night" Mrs.
Scudder said '.As I looked at her cos
tune I could not help but think that the
ships were WISE
'rhe woman who can never be heard,'
continued the speaker. eff you like pan
tonime you will like her. She is called
Miss Number. How men hate to see her
take her place on the platform, and yet
what an excellent wife she would make
with her soft modulated voice.
Miss Lose-Her-Place, with all the
leaves of her address misplaced but the
last one, and Miss Lose-Her-G Glasses, .
who "has eyes but she sees not were
next snapped at, together with 1.-THE par
liamentary woman who presides, knowing
nothing of parliamentary law" and .The
know-it-all- all-parliamentary-W woman, who
Rules we begin to wonder if she will not
be called to take his place at Washing
ton, now that he has come to live in New
York. The club singer, who sings "Oh!
would I were bird. while the audience
wishes she was, and some wicked man
Would ! were a gun.' was
also photoed, while Mrs. Scudders de-
everything at the feast from bonbons to
was most amusing.
"A Pinch of Attic Salt by Miss Louise
Farrant was the next number. She took
for her text Milton's lines.-
s'What neat repast shall feast us, light
and choice,
OF attic taste?"
Among the Greeks and Romans" said
she, ''the word salt was used for wit
and so the idea came to me of wit deli
cately clothed to meet the taste" She
then took the Odd Volumes for de-
lightful trip through Greek mythology
and Athens, giving views of the beauties
of that city as well as of the American
tourists doing Athens with a weary
Mrs. H. E. Fields, of Orange, THAT
basket of oranges Of which New Jersey
brought "A Fruitful Topic and read
some beautifully appropriate verses
Miss Gaines she said has such a
happy, persuasive way of saying thingsr'
It certainly seemed SO when, after Mrs
Anna FL. Moulton, accompanied by Mrs
Frank Cavalli, had rendered most charm
ingly My Rosary" Nevin. The little
president scarce waiting for Mrs. Mo,ll-
ton to be seated, said:-"We will now
have q musical moment
"A Musical Moment" was the theme
She also took her text from Milton,