The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-28
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N1GAE NEkC
Jersey City club women who this year at
tended the fail Federation meeting, prob
ably on account of the distance between
this place and Atlantic City, 1t was
nevertheless the most important event OF
fine weed, and those who did go were
eagerly monopolized by their club felioWs
nnon their return last evening and today
They have talked till they are tired, teiiing
frsf one and then the other of those two
days proceedings; nor is that all, they
n,,,st LATER come before their various clubs
ana tell it ali over again. for nearly all
were delegates from the respective or
panjza4ious which claimed them as mem
hers. But it was all most delightful, this
trip to the seaside for a couple of days
and well worth all the talking these rep
resentatives can do for some time 10
come.
Among the Jersey City clubs represented
were:-The odd Volumes. by Mrs. George
w. Case and Miss Adriance; the open
Hand Club, represented by the president
Mrs. c.. L. Wright, and Mrs. J. >. Al
paugh: the Allegro Club of Bayonne,
whose president. Miss Helen Gennert, and
the secretary. Mrs. Thomas ]. Kennedy,
were the delegates; the College
Club. whose report will be made by Miss
Mary PhiIbrook. and the Woman's Club,
represented by Mrs. John L. Scudder,
Mre. q, W. clerihew. DR.. NJ. F. DeHart
and Miss Ada d. Fuller. Miss corneiia
Bradford, who represented Whlttler
House Mothers Club, and Mrs. A. j. New
bury. who was among the speakers, were
also present.
Mrs. Wllliamson's address at Thursdays
afternoon session was strong and full OF
good advice. IN one part particularly she
struck the keynote to the success or non
success of women's clubs sociabillty, or
the lack of it, when she said
1--WE are fast losing the conventional at
our club meetings. | remember that
when first belonged to a club, thought
I should have to resign, because, before
Yhe meeting was called 10 order, each
woman took her seat in such a solemn
manner; there was a general air Of ex-
pectaney, as if some great event was to
occur which prevented friendly inter-
course. How different in a mans club,
where the president raps for order many
times before they can begin. A general
feeling of good fellowship prevails with
the hub-hub of conversation which neces-
sarily follows. This. am glad to say, is
becoming the way with cur club meetings. !
But we may still learn from our
brothers,
Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden also gave
the women some excellent advice when
she said
Il must say that the Utopian princesses
are recalled to my mind whenever ] hear
of a woman's club making IN advertise
ment out of its alleged Dissemination for
newspaper publicity. l say alleged disin-
chnation' advisedlys for experience has
taught me that there are few men and
fewer women who do not enjoy seeing
their names in print. associated with any
creditable undertaking or activity"
Mrs. Alden speaks from experience. She
has met the woman, that trial to report
ers, who "shrlnks from appearing in
print" and yet takes particular pains to
call the newspaper representative back
just to remark that she is most par
ticular about the spelling of her name"
Doubtless also she has met with the
Club Press COMMITTEES" afflicted with
the same bashful disease Club as well
as society women viii do wen to heed
AIRS. Alden's advice off,
The newspaper is the diary Of the
worlds progress. You cannot get along
without 1t. It ann get along without
you. Remember this when a reporter
comes to see you and asks you ques-
tons. Frank submission to legitimate
and proper publicity is wise in any wom-
an. In the club-women 1t is absolutely
Indispensable"
She must surely have been part and
- > A. -TvA-.ay- U1,.I ~b1 ,1,-+
have belonged to the Town Improvement
Department, so eleterly did she discharge
her accidental duty.
It was on the GreenviIle trolley. She
was both neatly and becomingly dressed
on either side of the car was a framed
notice-claimed as a result of women's
club work-prohibiting, or purporting to
prohibit, the habit of expectorating up
on the car floor, under the ponderous
penalty of the law Next her sat a
man who persisted in relieving his overs
abundant supply of saliva. The young
lady first drew her skirts close about her,
then glanced upward, first at the pro-
hibftory sign on the one and then at it's
facsimile on the other side of the car,
then down again at her tormentor.
Eventually. after trying the experiment
several times without success, she quiet
~ motioned the conductor. It took effect
the expectorator suddenly saw the sign,
remembered that 1t was here he desired
to get off, made a bolt for the door and
dropped off the platform without stop
ping the car. The trolley was nearing
the Junction.
..Wnl you kindly give me a transfer"
asked the young lady when the conduc-
tor approached, but nobody, with the ex-
ception of an observant passenger on the
opposite side, noticed that she never made
use of the transfer, and smothered a
smile.
Among the regular society events of
each s~eason-alraost as regular as club
meetings and euchre clubs and quite as
eagerly anticipated-are the lectures and
musicales given by Major Pond from
time to time during the season, when he
Introduces to Jersey CITY the various
dramatic, musical and literary artists I'M
der his management. Such was the en-
tertainment at the Majors residence last
Thursday evening, a rare treat for which
New Yorker must pay the penalty of adj
mission and might wen envy the pleasant