Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26

Quiet being restored. the Rev. DR.. F. C.
Igiehart said: Il am surprised at Mr.
f. jerome. He tells us that the enforcement
OIL the sunday excise law entails political
appropriately and ruin. But Mr. Roose-
ven closed the saloons. / therefore ask
MI jerome If the subsequent history OF
the republican party and the popularity of
MIR. Roosevelt does not prove that a nuhIIc
oIiicer can safely enforce the law as il now
exists?'' - 0
Others made remarks in opposition to Mr.
Jerome who. however. received a formal
vote of thanks for his speech at the close
of the meeting.
New York's Lenten Season.
That section of New York society which
prefers to remain al home during Lent ia
amusing itself I'm the usual staid and dec
orous manner which is thought to befit the
season. Cards and musicales for charity
are the rule, but the more devout permit
themselves only such innocent and helpful
diversions as sewing classes While II Is
not strictly part of the Lenten program.
many women are utilizing the period of
rest and devotion by physical exercise cal
culated TO Increase their beauty and insure
new conquests when Easter arrives. The
antf-fat professors are particularly busy
ana physical culturists of all schools are
finding Lent a golden time of plenty.
glance at the social program for the
week shows its general character First
Will be Mrs. Depeyster's sewing class, which
meets Mondays, and the postgraduate and
The pro-cathedral and the Others Then
when Tuesday comes every one goes to
MISS Learys. She has the Belvue class
and music. Mrs. Richard Irving has the
fresh-air sewing class on the same day
and on Wednesdays takes place the meet
ing of the helpers. Then there Is a skip
II one doesn't include the many meetings
OF bridge classes and some musicales, until
Saturday, when two Badminton clubs have
their innings.
Miss Gertrude Barnum, national secre-
tary of the Woman's Trade Union League
who has come to New York to strengthen
the labor organizations among the work.
ing women of the city. is a new type of
the labor leader. Although one of the
hardest worked of working women Miss
Barnum is not of what Is generally known
the working class" She is the datIgh- {
ter of former Judge William H Barnum
of Illinois, and before she went into this
movement was one of Chicago's exclusive
social set. After her graduation from
school she went into Hull House. the set
tlement founded by Miss Jane Adams, as
many of the fashionable young women of
Chicago do. for the sake of the experience
Becoming interested in sociological prob
lens, she took up with earnest purpose the
study of scientific economies. Then she
became convinced that settlement work
failed to touch the real difficulties of the
DOOR
In accordance with the great evangelical E
movement all over the civilized world the t
ministers of Greater New York have PLAN
ned a comprehensive campaign for New
York and vicinity.
1t Is proposed to raise and expend $50. 0oe s
in the work on Manhattan Island and $3O.-s
900 more in Brooklyn. The revival to con-
sst largely of epen-air meetings. will be
begun June Is. and 1t is planned to erect
twenty or more large tents in open lots
and parks of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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