The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-19
year old son, was allowed.

Headed by Elsie French Vanderbilt, the divorced wife of Alfred Gwyne Vanderbilt, Mrs. Ogden Mills, and Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt. society has talk en up a new form of amusement The novelty is intended to add zest, life and color to the more or less prosa1c winter dances at Sherry's and provides for the reproduction of some of the more popular coStuning effects seen at the Broadway shows. A few weeks ago. "The Quaker Girl'' costumes were adopted and last week those used Tn Elsie F'erguson's play The Fifst Lady in the Land'' furnished the subject for costumiag. Elsie French NanOer- bilt assumed the role of Elsie Fergu- son. who in the play impersonates Dolly Madison" and wore the pretty of that play. Mrs. Mills had for her costume a. copy of the dress worn by the wife of the British Minister in the production The men were sarbed as Aaron Burr, Thomas Jef- ferson James Madison and Beau Pinckney. By both the younger and more settled members of the society contingent the effect was hailed as the end of the season, which will break up about the end of next month, sim liar entertainments will be feature of each fortnight.
 A belated feature of the homecom- ing festivities in honor of Cardinal Farley is exciting much interest here among bibliophileS It is in the form of a cardinal edition of the histori- cal work, The Catholic Church in the United States consisting Of eight heavy volumes containing 6.0OO,OOO words of text matter and 5000 half tones of the principal church build ings of both a religious and secular character in the country. What lends the work it's particular interest to uookworms is the fact that it repre- Ioh af co-Iaborators, which establishes a rec ord without a precedent in the history of the world. Of these co-authors all but about twenty lay writers are members of religious orders, monks. nuns, etc. It has taken something like five years to complete the work and involved more labor it Is said than any publication of it's kind ever and monastic orders, whose history 1t contains have never before written anything for the world concerning themselves To induce them to CO., operate in the preparation of the his. tory the interest of the Papal house. hold had to be enlisted and through its assistance the Superior Generals of these orders, resident in Rome, got traditional silence and furnish the data desired Two volumes Of a spe- ciaI de luxe copy of the work were presented to the Pope a little more  vividIy impressed him with the po- tentislity of the work of the Amerf- can hierarchy that it served as a nov ing factor in his determintian to give the United States its three new car dinals. Because of his active CO., operation in it's production, it was de- cided some time ago to make Cardinal Farley a present of the first com plete copy of it as a souvenir of his elevation to the Sacred College The presentation will be attended by are interested in the work as a piece of enterprise of unsual character and value to the student and future his torian.
 Civilization is moved less by sen timent today than it was in Dickens time according to William Watson EngIand's greatest living master of verse who has been lionized by the literary set as well as by society since he came here last week to attend the Dickens centenary celebration. Dick ems struck the mid-Victorian note,' said phIlanthropies, great humanitarian purposes-a time when man and wom- an wished to be told of wrongs in order to right them. Today the read ing public is more cynical. In Eng lend fiction now tends toward the prurient, the crotic, the discussion of problems, which are only met with in fiction. Many persons in England, dislike this freedom or license of con- temporary fiction. but they cannot help themselves. Life itself is less sen timental than in Dickens time. This may account for it.''