The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-28
SOCIAL
 AND PERSONAL

|& PERSONALLY
 The Copurn Players will present "As
 You Like It.. Twelfth Night and
 ''The Canterbury Pilgrims, at Brook | lawn Country Club June and 4, un- der the auspices of the Fairfield Coun- l ty Anti-Tuberculosis Association. Two | plays will be given on June 3, one in
 the afternoon and one in the evening. | Friday evening, June 4, ''The Canter- | bury Pilgrims will be presented for
 the first time in this country. The | play is described MT. Percy Mac
 Kaye's poetic comedy.' The people
 are asked to cooperate with the as-
 sociation to make the evenings if
 nancial and a. social success. Tickets
 may be had of pr. D. c. Patterson. AT | State street. chairman of the enter | tainment' committee. The patronesses | are:
 | Mrs. George w. Jackp1an, Mrs | Henry A. Bishop. Mrs. Henry Lee
 Mrs. Lucien T. Warner, Mrs. Henry | HI. Tweedy, Mrs. Fessenden L. Day, | Mrs. M- H. Ford, Miss M. l.. Higby,
 Mrs. George M. Bames, Mrs. Arthur
 T. Whitman, Mrs. H. H. Pyle, Mrs. T.
 |. Ellis, Mrs. Augustus S. May. Mrs.
 William R. Webster, Mrs. George c.
 liam T. Hincks. Mrs. Henry Blodgett,
 Mrs. R. I. Neithercut, Mrs. Charles c. Godfrey.
 | in Park Street church, Sunday even | ing, Judge John H. Light of South Norwalk will speak upon Men and Incidents of the Civil War; and a | mems chorus, directed by Harry H. | Whitaker, will sing. '"Tenting To- night on the Old Camp Ground" and other stirring melodies.
 | The address of Harold EC Corst he. fore the Contemporary Club, on 'fThe | Curse of Education" last night was a denunciation of prevailing systems of | education under which children are | educated in common topics, and forced
 along prescribed lines without consid- | eratiOn of their several talents and in | herited inclinations. The heads of the | children, he said. are stuffed with dry | facts. and their ina gination left un- | developed. The meeting was at the | residence of MT. and Mrs. Calhoun Gorst is an author and private secre-
 tary to the British Minister of educa- | tion.
 | cert given by the Schwaebisher Maen- | ner Chor, last night, in their hall, 37 | French street. Especially enjoyable | was the rendition of 'Abend F'rieden," | the prize song which the chorus will | sing in the great competition soon to l take place in Madison Square Garden l New York City. The 40 voices ran 1 clear and true, interpreting the music with sympathy and certainty under the | direction of J. H. Keller of Meriden. Present were ten members of the Stamford Turner Liederafel who as- sisted. The concluding number was by 60 voices. A dance followed the con- cert. Arrangements were completed l for real German outing, to be held June F.
 A splendid time had the 13O boys who
 met last night about the hospitable
 board annual spread for them in the made the banquet hall a boys para disc. Rev. John Emory Parks made an address devoted to showing how important a boy really is. The con- clusion was a little disappointing to some of the boys however, because they discovered that their chief business is some day to be a man and that ''just a boy" is not otherwise so big ah item. MT. Parks is pastor of Grace Methodist church. The boys themselves had interesting things to say. Earl Barto told about the visit to New Britain. Alfred Noel related experi- ences of camp life of last summer. He also spoke of the camp that will be conducted a t Mt. Tom Pond in Litch- | f1eid County. this summer. Paul Vol colt awarded prizes in the savings de- | partment and Wilbur Batchelor in the physical department. George F. Hyde, | who vas until within a year long boys department secretary was cheer ed. The banquet was largely arranged | by Charles Hartman. assistant boys secretary and Mrs. Walker, chairman of the boys department committee of the Ladies Auxiliary.
 In behalf of many of his admirers | William Cogan presented Dennis Ke- hoe, newly appointed to the police force, with a solid gold watch and chain, last night. at a social session of Court Iranistan. F. of A., which the latter received with grateful speech | MT. Kehoe also has been recently hon. | ored with the office of grand recording | secretary by the Foresters of the state. |
 Rev. D. J. Craft gave a recital at the Hotel Stratfield, last night. which | was we'll attended. The revenue re- | ceived was divided between the church | branch of the Sunshine Society. The | tonic was, Anthony and Cleopatra. A discussion of what is historically | known of the famous rulers, was fol- lowed by readings from the plays of Shakespeare.
 The Ramona club. Y. W. c. A., gav~ an entertainment for the fund to send | delegates to the Silver Bay conference. | in the parlors of South Congregational church last evening" Those who con- tributed to make the program sue cess were MT. and Mrs. F. B. Grannis, | Kee1er Ladies' quartet, Master Joseph | Mayne, the Misses Carney, Mrs. Lucien | T. Warner Miss Mildred Gould Booth, | MT. William A. Tomlinson. The ac- companists were Mrs. Elmer Beardsley | Miss Frances Carney. and Messrs Grannis and Stegeman.
 Mr. Robert G. Whitney, of 321 Maple wood avenue. is rejoicing over the ar rival of a. little girl who made her ad- vent on Monday last. This is the third daughter the family.