Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-01

ANE OF the recent engagements Of
~ interest to many Newarkers was
that of Miss Eugene Ambrose
Philbin, daughter of Justice and Mrs.
Mugene A. Philbin, of New York city.
TO Arthur Russell Jones, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. w. Strother Jones, of New
york and Red Bank.
: Mr.. and Mrs. Burnett w. Strauss,
of so Thomas street, viii sail for a
two months tour OF Europe, Wednes-
day morning on the Lusitania Of the
Cunard line.
The members of the womans I'm
Jon Of the First Congregational lube
Memorial Church will be entertained
srhursday afternoon at the home Of
Mrs. Elizabeth Kuhn, of SIG Clinton
evenue.
A Christmas sale will be given
Thursday from to o'clock and
xrom 10 10 o'clock at the home Of
Mrs. George H. Simonds Of 684
aIighland avenue under the auspices
Of st. Margaret's Guild Of St Marks
Episcopal Church. Tea will be
served In the afternoon.
Mrs. simonds will be in charge
of the fancy work, infant wear and
doll table and will be assisted by
Mrs. Percy II. Papps, Mrs Robert
Parker. Mrs. c. B. Chisholm, Mrs
Walter Toms, Mrs. Edward Van
Wagenen, Mrs. Edward Wyckoff
Mrs. George Griswoid and Mrs. #. Fl.
Van winclkle. Mrs. William Dimond
win be In charge of the utility table
and her assistants will include Mrs.
J. L. Thompson, Mrs. G. B. Johnes
and Mrs. FL. IL. Sawyer.
Fresh courage was stirred in the
hearts OF the audience yesterday af-
ternoon at the weekly tea which is
given under the auspices of the
Tvoman's Political Union, at 70 Hal
eey street. The speaker for the day
WAS Rev. Edgar Swan Wiers, Of
Montclair. at always gives us
fresh start" declared Mrs. Minnie j.
Reynolds after the meeting, when
Just such a talk is given by man"
Mr.. Wiers, who is a firm believer
OF women suffrage, said "that the ar
rival of the new woman, the new
home and the new State makes the
political Acknowledgement of women
Inevitable.
III the woman Is going TO be the
protector of tho home she must go
out into the source of things" said
Mr. Wiers. 1.-THE statement that
women should go back to the home
might ring true IL those who make 1t
would begin by sending back to the
homes the women and children who
are now laboring in the factories.
There Is the new woman whom we
can't deny, the new home that we
can't control within four walls and
the new State that has changed 80
materially since its only relationship
with its citizens was @ military one.
The new functions of new State,
which Ia no longer simply police
man, are essentially maternal, deal
mig with things which woman has al
ways understood better than men
have With every extension OF func-
fion the State is reaching out into
municipal and governmental house.
E,leaning and housekeeping, which Is
womans work. You must build the
new State on two pillars IL you would
have II stand"
Mr.. W1erS spoke or The WouQerIuil
transformation the movement is
making In the women themselves.
lifting many from concentration on
self into a larger, broader sphere.
The speaker characterized as un-
usual the "obey'' left in the marriage
ceremony by the nations BRIDE"
and added that he would not care to
be present when there was occasion
70 enforce that part of the promise.
Mr.. wiers read '"rhe Tides" by Ella
wheeler Wilcox, and concluded his
talk by assuring his audience that 1T
SIS a splendid thing to be in cause in
Its lighting days.
Mrs. william p. Sutherland, jr, and
Miss Florence Haines were the hos
tesses. Mrs. Minnie J. Reynolds an
nounced the suffrage ball to be held
at the Palace ballroom next Monday
evening under the auspices of the
wnion.
Equal Suffrage in California" will
be the subject discussed next Sunday
by Fred M. C. Choate, OF Los An
geles Mrs. George Carpenter and
Mrs. Harry c. Faulkner win be the
hostesses
Mrs. Frederic L. Johnson, Of 71SI
Clinton avenue, was hostess Saturday
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