Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-24

TOMORROW will be a gala day fol
4 members Of the New Jersey Stat'
Federation of Women's Clubs. wher
they will gather in Nutley for theii
semi-annual convention as guests OF
the Woman's Club of that town. The
meeting will be largely social. Only
two department reports Will be given
that of the legislative department, OF
which Mrs. Harold Buttenheim Is
chairman, and that of the sub-com-
mittee on the State college question
of which Mrs. W. S. Douglas, Of Jer-
sey city, is chairman. The rest oil
the day will be given over to social
intercourse, with one of the famous
federation luncheons as feature.
The more important papers of the
day will be those presented by Mrs
c. K. Hoard, of Brooklyn, on 'Ihe
Drama League" DR. II. A. Cotton,
of Trenton, on Mental Hygiene, ahd
SUPERINTENDENT j. r. Beachler, OF
N1itlev. on vocational Guidance.
Mrs. William T. Ropes, of Montclalr,
the federations new president; VIII
address the federation as a body for
the first time.
I. Leonard Mason. secretary of the
Board of Playground Commissioners,
-ae tho sneaker at the first meeting
Of the season of the Philitscipoma
club. at the home of Mrs. Edward
Gray. > Stratford place. Yesterday
afternoon. Mr.. Mason discussed the
moral, physical and social beneht
omanating from the Fairgrounds, de-
clariag chat the larger the sum spent
in their Improvement the smaller the
snm to be spent for maintaining juVe-
nile courts. He told of the benefit Of
the Fairgrounds to middle-class chill
dren as well as poor ones, saying that
they gave the boys and girls definite
place to go and play, and work off
their youthful energies in healthful
manner
Mr.. Mason sketched the work of
the department and the play
grounds showed what the city is
doing through the Schools, Parks and
City Fairgrounds Commissions. He
pointed out the need of more money
to carry on the work and the neces-
sity for arousing public sentiment in
favor of the Fairgrounds and for CO.
ordinating closely all the allied inter
ests such as municipal dance nails
and concerts.
The musical program consisted OF
vocal solos, slave Song" Del Rlego;
Daisies" Hasoley, and ITO the END
Of the World anonymous, by MISS
Helen Moulton, accompanied on the
siano by Mrs. William II. Mckin-
nev. Miss Moulton also gave mono
logue, AT the Piano
Mrs. James NJ Seymour presided,
in The absence of the president, Mrs.
John II. McCrackem. Mrs. Henry Z;
Ward was chairman of the day, ana
her assistants were Mrs. George w.
Case. Mrs. James c. Corlies and Mrs.
Edgar II. Quinby At the social hour
that followed Mrs. Corlies and Mrs.
Case presided at the table, Wnere
yellow chrysanthemums prevailed in
the decorations The same flowers
were used IN the decoration OF the
library, and pink chrysanthemums IN
the reception rooms.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. +. Williamson, Of
\ orth Carolina. are guests of Mr.. and
.srs HERBERT W. Post. of North Fiji
teenlh street.
Members of the American Girls
Club attended the play given " me
Young Folk Players in the KRUGER
4 auditorium Wednesday night. Those
resent were: Miss x. +. Alanlor;tz,
,iss ] H. Krilow, Miss l.. Cooper
nan. Miss e. L. Rosenthal, Miss p. y
IsashkoVer Miss Il. II. kraemel. Miss
z. Kahn. Miss K. Cohen, Miss y.
( essler, Miss III. Strauss, Miss S. |
4yirschorn. Miss c. Newman ana Miss |
T. Ostrosky.
A pretty wedding. the color scheme
If which was carried out in yellow,
averder and white. took place at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kuhn. 27J
South Eighth street, last night, when
heir daughter, Miss Louise Kuhn,
md Gustav d. Whitehead. son of Mr..
and Mrs. Dewey A. Whitehead. of
North Sixth street, were united in
marriage by the Rev. Joseph Hunter,