Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-13

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L Sewing Glass of St. Barnabas's
Hospital met this afternoon at
the residence of Mrs. Chahncey G.
Parker, of Mt. Prospect avenue. The
work Of sewing on articles needed at
the hospital was completed During
Lent the members have accomplished
a great deal Towels, bed and table
linen We're the results of their work.
At the conclusion of the meeting tea
was served and a social hour enjoyed.
Those who have attended some of
the meetings are Mrs. John w
Howell, Mrs. Robert Gilchrist, Mrs.
Wallace NJ. Scudder, Mrs. j. Lewis
Hays, Mrs. John j. Wright Clark,
Mrs. John Battin, Mrs. Edward H.
Wright, jr., Mrs. J. Laurence Boggs,
Mrs. Wainwright Ripley, Mrs. Beck
man llsley, Mrs. William p. Field,
Mrs. F. w. Talman, Miss Mabel Lit
tell, Miss Beatrice Firth, Mrs. James
Turnbull. Miss Conger, Miss Grace
Peters. Miss Elizabeth Woodruff and
Mrs Halsey Peck
Miss Elizabeth butcher, a member
of the Woman's Trade Union League,
will speak at the meeting of the
Woman's Political Union April at
the headquarters. Her subject will
be THE New Education of the
Woman"
At the meeting of the Gordon
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
held yesterday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Frank n. Utter, of 1876 Bruins
wick street, arrangements were
made to have Miss Christine Timing,
of Virginia, a national speaker, at a
meeting here in April. She will be in
Newark for a week. Her subject will
probably be Scientific Temperance"
Mrs. Margarine Garfield, the presi-
dent, presided at the meeting yester-
day and spoke on the work of the
union. The annual meeting will be
held on Wednesday afternoon. April
26, at the home of Mrs. Garfield, 101
Wright street.
Mr.. and Mrs j. r. W. Littell have
accompanied Mr.. and Mrs. Penning-
ton Day on a three weeks trip to
Floridaa
Invitations have been issued by the
Woman's Political Union of New Jer-
sey for a house warming that will
take place Monday afternoon from
to at the new headquarters, 10 Hal
Sey street. There will be a program of
addresses and a social hour will fol-
low with tea. Miss Anna Skinner and
Miss Florence Haines are members in
charge of the arrangements.
Mr. Antoni Petrone will give an
address at the all-day meeting of the
Women's Unions of the First Con-
gregational Jube Memorial Church in
the church parlors on March 20. A
short business meeting will be held
in the afternoon
School problems were discussed at
length at a meeting of the Civic Club
of Arlington in the Lincoln School,
that town, yesterday, with Albion
Hale Brainerd, principal of the
Kearny High School, and Miss Flor
enee Sibey, special teacher of defec-
tives in the Lafayette Street School,
this city, as the principal speakers.
Mr.. Brainerd's subject was the
Social Life of High School Pupils"
and he dwelt on the necessity of in
stillng the spirit of democracy into
growing girls and boys, and of dis
couraging the forming of fraternities
and secret societies that tend to fos-
ter class distinctions.
Miss Sibley, who is a graduate of
the Vineland Training School, told of
the progress the country is making in
the treatment of defective children.
She declared that in spite of the
strides forward only 1000 of the $1,000
mentally defective children in New
York were in special classes, but that
each year found better conditions and
broader scope for the work Miss
Sibley told of the value of light and
air and good food in the training of
a defective child, and expressed the
opinion that it was decidedly wrong
to permit a child of IA or 10 to leave
school if his mental development was
that of a child of 5.
Herman Dressed, jr., superintendent
of the Kearny schools. presided and
introduced the speakers. Miss Char
lotte Heath, supervisor of physical
training, presented a number OF her
pupils in a series of dances and eX-
ercises to illustrate the work in that
line that is being done in the Kearny
schools. The numbers we've a
military drill and story gym
nastic exercise by 2B, Miss
Christine Lock, teacher; Danish
dance of greeting and shoemaker
dance. by "a, Miss Mabel Reynolds;
regular classroom exercise by GA, |
Miss Jane Holmes, and wand drill
by the High School class. Miss