Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-06
WOMAKS PRESS
CLUB LISTENS TO
CH|MM|E FAOOEN
Congressman Elect Edward W.
Townsend Tells Difference Be-
tween Sketch and Story.

Newspaper Experiences and Illus
trations of a Short Story and a Sketch
were given yesterday afternoon by
| Congressman-elect Edward w. Town
send ("Chimmie Fadden") before mem
bers of the New Jersey woman's Press
| Club and their friends, who were guests
of Mrs. william C. Ward, of 67 Glen
wood avenue, Cast Orange, a former
president of the club. THE short
| story" said MI. Townsend, land the
| sketch are a cross section in COMPARE
son with a book which deals with o
| story as a whole
To illustrate his point Mr.. Townsend
chose three of his stories. explaining
the different periods at which they
might have ended to be merely incom-
plete sketches, which caves the reader
to imagine the end.
by Whom the offense Cometh' was
the first. and dealt with the downfall
of a girl of foreign birth and parent
age, who had received a very little edu-
cation through the sacrifice of a strug-
Cling family, and who became the tool
Of a ~pickpocket and later a slave to
opium. The story was simply and
powerfully drawn, with no attempt at
the quaint humor which turks In most
of the genial authors writings. The
second was Ann Eliza's Triumph" a
story of a country girl who made a
great success as a singer in vaudeville.
ignoring the outbursts of outraged
pride of her clerky fiance, who after
ward resigns his job when Ann Eliza
marries and supports him in royal
style. The last, 1.-The Man Outside
was the result of an observation made
by the author himself, who saw, on
day, in a well-known restaurant, a
man-about town, who was popular in
society, eating at the expense of a
woman who was not a member of his
own family, her purse being slipped to
him under the napkin.
others Add to Entertainment.
Added enjoyment was given the pro-
gram by Signor Salvatore Miceli, tenor,
of New York, a prominent member OF
the former Manhattan Opera Company,
| and who he been heard much in con-
| cert in the East n in Chicago, who
sang an aria from I'll Pagliacci," by
L~eoncavello; Non Ever" by Tito
| Mattel, and If" by Luigi Denga.
| Signor Miceli has, besides a command
ing presence, a singularly sweet, pure
voice of wide range. which he employs
with a careful technique and much
temperament. He was accompanied by
Mrs. Clara A. Korn, a well-known COM
poser and member of the club. Fur
ther contributions to the program were
made by Miss Irma Harrison, OF
Bloomfield, who pleased the guests
with JEAN" by H. T. Burleigh, ac-
companled by her sister, Miss Eliza
beth Harrison. The latter also con-
tributed a piano solo, Paul Lecome's
Hungarian Impromptu." The presi-
dent, Miss Marie =. Ryerson, was in
the chair. A social hour followed, hen
ices were served by the hostess.
Among the guests present were Mrs.
Frank Bliss Cotton and Miss Katherine
A. Young, of the Woman's Club, of
Orange; Mrs. Maurice s. Decker and
Mrs. william B. Donnell. of the Orange
Political Study Club; Mrs. Edmund
Kuhn and Miss Annie Rhinehardt, of
the Monday Topic Club; Mrs. F. N.
Brown, Mrs. David Slayback and Mrs.
Wilfred S. Harrison, of the Isabella
Literary Club; Miss Kate Dickinson
Sweetzer, Miss Smithson and Miss
Marion Couthoy Smith, of the Serb
lers; Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Alderman,
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Roberts Northrup,
Mrs. Robert C. Ryerson, Mrs. Sophie
W. Smith, Mrs. Claude Boyle and Mrs.
Frank S. Hampton, recording secretary
of the New Jersey State Federation of
Women's Clubs, and a member of the
Travellers Club, of Roseville.
Mrs. r.. d. Carter Next Hostess.
Owing to the fact that the first Mon
day in January will be New Years
Day, the next meeting will be held
Monday afternoon, January 8, when
Mrs. Raymond D. Carter, of 1853 Broad
street, will be the hostess, and the pro-
gram will be Presidents Day. as ar
ranged by the chairman of the COM
mittee, Mrs. Adeline Stanley Carrick-
Wells. Mrs. Arthur S. Boughton, of Sc
Washington avenue, will entertain the
club in February, when Howard r.
Garris, well known as an author of
short stories and stories for boys, is
expected to speak.