The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-24
OUT AND ABOUT.

Mrs. George w. Chadwick will be IN
Worcester for the entire festival, and,
with her husband, will be at the Bay
State. Mrs. Horatio w. Parker will
probably be up for one or more days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick S. Converse VIII
also be at the Bay State for the Week.
Mr.. and Mrs Francis Batcheller Of
North Brookfeld will be in Worcester
for the festival, and will stay at the
house of I. c. Bates.
The extension work of the Woman's
club will be begun the last of october
by Mrs. c. H. Brockway, the chairman
of the committee, who will call meet
ing OF Dr. Eldridge Mix, the superia-
tendents of the sewing schools and tbs
committee on extension work. Mothers
meetings will be resumed at Hope, Cow
enant and Emmanuel churches on the
first Wednesday in December, but just
what line they will follow has not been
determined
Carl Zerrahn has written to the
managers of the festival, saying that
he does not think it will be possible for
him to accept the invitation to be their
guest next week, but President Charles
M. Bent has written again, and it is
still hoped that Mr.. Zerrahn Will be
here for the week,
Miss Caroline Hazard, president OF
Wellesley college, brings out, through
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., THE Nara
gansett Friends Meeting in the XVIIIth
Century" another Of her careful mono
graphs resulting from researches into
the history of her native state.
Somebody on the staff of the New
York World-or is it the Journal?-
claims to have made the brilliant dis
cove1y that David Harum' is one of
the most candidly vulgar and stupid
books ever proffered to the pigly taste
and clamwise understanding of that in
finite ass, The General Reader "
A trip to the garden of Eden viii
soor figure on Cooks tourist itineraries.
if the English syndicate that has Sc
cured a concession from the sultan
builds its proposed railroad through
the Euphrates valley to the Persian
gulL. It's said that apple trees and
snakes are scarce there
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Miss Grace Preston, who was among
the first of the festival soIoists to BE-
engaged, has consented to add TO tha
strength of the Creation cast, and
Will sing the contralto part in the clos
ing quartette. She has been booked for
many important concerts this year and
success is anticipated for her here
IL Is hoped that Edward Schuecker
who is expected to arrive in New York
from Europe, Tuesday, will be in Wor-
cester for the festival and like bis
brother, Heinrich Schuecker of tba RS
ton symphony Orchestra. win ba tba
guest OF Hon. Stephen Salisbury In
FEBRUARY Mr.. Schuecker went TO NOV
leo with his trained attendants hut bie
pulmonary difficulty not yielding to tbe
mild climate, he sailed in June for HI
rope intending to spend the summer
~ me hign attitudes of Switzerland. He
is said to be in excellent health
Mr.. Schuecker is the father of q vow,
gltted and extraordinarily handsome
boy, who, though only II wears of o.a
cnarms people with his harp plavine
he has the face of an artist. full of
strength, beauty and poetry. and nao-
pie stare at him and nudge each ofber
as they meet him in the cars and
street. anu
Mrs. Retaliation received a letter
last week from her son, Dwight law
ton, who is in Manila. 1t was sly u,ael,s
old, but Sergt. Lawton was well 1vbo,,
ne wrote. He has been advanced ~ AZ
rank of battalion sergeant-maior and
lives with the regimental staff. He saws
that the Americans are booming Manila
Wnlcn now is almost like a Euronean
cIty' Ohiy per cent of his men were
III, he said, but IL the rainy season con
tinued much longer, that nronortio,,
would be increased. Sergt Lawton has
peen stationed about 40 miles from
Mania He writes that the scenery
there is marvellous, and that the nro-
ductivity of the land where il has beer
cultivated is something extraordinary
he thinks of visiting China, Japan and
australia before returning to America
steamers now leave New York every
week for Manila, it is interesting to
know. ~
Have you shook the new handshake9
II not, 1t proves that you have not been
consorting with the swells at Newport
this summer for there they all do If
Ine hlgn hand handshake disappeared
long ago. and last winter people shook
hands in the normal way, but a new
society shake has been devised, and If
you care about doing these little things
correctly, of course you will begin TO
practice right off
And this is the way: The person who
offers the salute holds out his hand
palm down, a about the level of his
waistline. The other person grasps If
lifts It high in the air and bends over Il
slightly then let's 1t go. 1t is simply a
Jerk upward and the hand is released