The Jersey City news., 1901-09-14


The novelty of going away, coming
home and the summer vacation even in
Its reminiscent stage is wearing off, and
society is beginning to turn its attention
to plans for the winter. One by one the
various clubs are getting into line, ant
with the dawning of Octobers first week
there is scarcely breathing space for the
popular clubist, both club woman ant
euchre fiend.
The first club of Importance to open Its
season will be the Odd Volumes, October
2 probably at the residence of Mrs James
Robottom on Harrison avenue. This is
the oldest as well as one of the most Sc
lect among women's clubs in the city.
Though it numbers but thirty-five. limit
ed. it is the mother of the Womans Club,
numbering nearly four hundred unlimit-
ed. Its president, Mrs. Cecilia Gaines
Holland, was the first president and or
iginator of the Woman's Club But un
like its big daughter, it confines itself
strictly to a literary career, taking up
from year to year a course beneficial only
unto itself, save as it is made public
through the press.
German thought and its influence upon
the world is the subject of study for the
ensuing year in the Odd Volume Club, and
very interesting programme of eighteen
meetings. extending from October to May,
has been prepared. The first meeting,
on October 2. will be for business and the
annual election of officers. This will leave
seventeen afternoons for the study of Ger
man thought which has been divided up
as follows:-
October 1e-German Folklore and Ira
dition-Karl the Great.
October 30-Meister Singers-Hans Sachs
-Albrecht Durer.
November 1s-Martin Luther-German
Hymns
November H-Klopstock-Wiela
der-Lessing the Reformer
December l-Goethe-Schiller.
December 1S-Jean Paul Richter and
the Romantic School-Heinrich Heine.
January Sherman Novelists-Women
Writers.
January 22-Liebnitz, Wolf, Thonasius,
Kant, FIchte Schelling, Hegel
February PHILOSOPHY, Astronomy,
Natural Science, Medicine.
Bischof, virchow, Helmholtz, Haeckel,
Heineman.
March 5-Travels, A. Won Humboldt, Ex-
plorers. Geographers.
March cheology-Schlieman, Beck
er. Brugsch, Ebers.
April 2-History, Ranke, Perlz, Wirtz;
Philology, Gesenius, Lepsius. Grimm, M.
Muller.
Gymnasia, Universities. Conservatories.
April 9o-Miracle Plays, Dramatists,
German Architecture.
May 1-Influence of German Sociology
on the World, The Military Factor in
German Life. Germany as World
Power.
The Odd Volumes will doubtless end the
season with breakfast, as has been Its
custom in former years, with the excep-
ton of last when Mrs. Holland, the
President, was unable to attend.
The very next day after the Odd Vol
umes opens it's season, the Woman's Club
will fall into line with a mass or social
meeting in Hasbrouck Hall, on Thursday,
Octobers3. Just what all this meeting
will be about is not yet known. The pro-
gramme arranged last May was to be
Town Improvement meeting. but with the
Town Improvement Chairman. Mrs.
Franklin Whitney having resigned on ao-
count of i'll health, and the acting Chair
man, Mrs. Hudspeth-Benson, in Canada
with a sprained knee, it is probable that
some other of the clubs eight depart
ments will have to lead, unless a miscel..
ianeous programme be arranged at the
executive meeting which is booked to oc-
cur September "a With this and the pro-
gramrne for the club breakfast, which is
to take place on Saturday, October 49, on
its hands, the Executive Committee will
have its hands full.
Following the Woman's Club comes the
Keramic Art Club, which opens its sea-
son on Monday, October Z, at the resi-
dence of Miss Ehlers, No. 43 Fulton street.
Newark, the assistant hostesses being
Miss E. Scales and Miss I. c. Wightman.
The subject of the day is to be Water
Colors," and Miss Horlocker of New York
will give an illustrated lecture.
Other clubs which will open their sea-
son next month are the Ramblers, club
formed from the Alumnde Oh fdSDfouch
Institute, for the study of literature; the
Open Hand Club, formed of benevolent
women of the Hudson City section, and
the New Literary Club, formed of mem
bers of the younger set' in society, for
the purpose of encouraging short story
writing and essays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Livingston Clifford, of
Bentley avenue, have returned from their
summer home at Bernardsville, N. J.
The Rev. and Mrs. John L. Scudder of
No. 3S1 Bergen avenue, have returned
from their summer home at Shelter
Island.
Mrs Walter Jones of Bentley avenue,
has returned from the South, and is
among the early patronizers of the golf
links.
Mrs. James Robottom and Miss Robot
tom of Harrison avenue have returned
from Asbury Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stevens of Clifford
avenue. have returned from the Adiron-
dacks for few days prior to their trip to
Lakewood. where they will spend the
-f( (l<,tA Ar.zr.