The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-02-01

at think women's clubs break up
families, keep wives and mothers away
from home and result in the neglect of
their children, if they have any,, and
their household duties"
This Is the opinion of a woman ~
years old, who has lived in Newark all
her life and has seen it grow from a
little village in 1926 to the present me-
tropolis of New Jersey.
Mrs. II. b. Pierson. of ~Irvington, is
her name, and she is now spending an
indefinite vacation at the home of her
niece, Mrs. Una Vreeland, in the Fed
eral Apartments, Broad and Parkhurst
streets. The statement concerning
women's clubs was made in the pres
ence of her two nieces, who are them
selves members of several clubs.
Mrs. Pierson is a bright, active, clear
intellectual and cultured
woman, and despite her great age, has
kept abreast of the times. She really
looks much younger thar her age would
indicate and speaks intelligently on
many subjects concerning the develop
ment of Newark.
l8 LNCll llOE cli0 laNC2 Wv
in the municipal and moral economics
of the city and its people. Mrs. Pier
son believes in every modern improve
ment, invention and useful discovery
with but one exception. h has no
use for a sewing machine, that which
every women believes to be one of the
most Indispensable of household pos
sessions. Neither does she want any
part OF the honking auto.
II think said Mrs. Pierson frankly
to the EVENING STAR reporter, "it
has spoiled the women of today, who
before this thing was invented had to
learn to sew, but who now, many Of
them, could not sew a patch on their
husbands trousers, let alone make or
mend their clothes like the women of
olden days"
what do I think of the moral tone
of Newark? Well, I'll tell you frankly.
Newark needs cleaning. If ! had the
money / certainly would do all in my
power to help. But how can you help
it when the laws are unjust, when men
can be bribed with money to make any
law they please when other men
! are too cowardly to enforce the decent
laws that are made. Nothing short of
"A modern Moses who will rise up and
clean the city and people, like the man
of old, win ever clean this city, l be-
lieve,'' said the venerable nonogenarian
with considerable animation.
Mrs. Pierson was born in 1916. The
house in which she was born stood in
q field through whicl has been cut the
present Buen avenue. AS a girl she
played in what was then a wooded
country-now %Irvington. 1t was a rare
treat for her to ride in the rough one
horse wagon to town (Newark). When
a little girl a young oak, then four
feet tall, stood before the door of her
home. 1t had been planted by her
father. Today the tree overshadows the
house and is a mighty oak. In 1888
she married and moved to Newark.
Mr.. Pierson was a varnish manufac-
turer, and his factory stood, as near
as she can remember, or the site of the
present Murphy Varnish Works. The
couple lived In Commerce street. In
speaking of her old residence place
Mrs, Pierson said: "Myl What a street
1t was. We used to see the children
playing in mud scows in the middle
of the street after rains"
Always a lover of music, and con-
sidered a singer of unusual excellence
In her childhood, she studied vocal and
instrumental music, mot as it is done
today, a little time now and then, but
for hours a day. and keeping at it,"
She became a member of the Clinton
Street Congregational Church, of which
the Rev. DR.. Brown was pastor. She
also sang in st. Pauls M. e. Church.
She was invited to join a choir in st.
Johns r.. c. Church, the Oldest Cath
Ollie Church in Newark, but declined
because she did not nave sufficient con
fidence in herself. She considered the
invitation an honor. however. as st.
Johns Church then had the best choir
in this section.
Mrs. Pierson is ~passionately fond OF
music, and never a day passes that
she does not spend some time at the
piano. but she prefers an organ the
Kind of an instrument she was taught
to play on in childhood.
Time n again her relatives ant
friends have tried to coax her into ar
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