New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-21

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will hold a Christmas festival on Satur-
day afternoon, December -. at the Muir
~ay Hin Lyceum East satin street, IN
stead of the usual Christmas dinner
Seven hundred little mothers will be IN
vitod from the poorest sections or the
city, where the association maintains
home making circlcs-South Ferry, Gas
House District. Hclrs Kitchen and the
factory districts Of Brooklyn.
\ musical programme will bc gwen
ard there vill be moving pictures under
the direction OF Nrs. G. /. Kerr. AS
usual the c1ildren will take part Ike
freshmcnts will be served, and as the
children pass out each one VIII be given
a dressed doll handkerchief. bag or
candy and toy The stage Will BE- dec
Grated with green's ana christmas trees.
Miss Louise Schroeder is chairman.
The December meeting OF the Maine
woman, club OF New York was held at
the Waldorf on Saturday afternoon
Decemher 90. II Vas guest day for club
children and the entertainment con-
sisted OF songs, dances and Rotations
by the little folks. Mrs. Jeremiah ;.
Ferguson arranged and managed the
afternoons ontcrta
The December social meeting of the
Womans Press club Of New York city,
Mrs Haryot Holt Dey, president, Will
bc held in the Astor Gallery Of the Wal
dorf-Astoria next Saturday afternoon
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presidents day, and the programme of
the afternoon is IN the hands OF Mrs.
Dey. Among those who will speak are
Miss NJ j.. McOuat. Mrs. Emma Sheri-
dan Fry Mrs. Tda Bentley Judd. Dr.
AIyron r. Scudder AMI Miss Grace
Tabor.
The Graduate club Of the Normal Col
lese, Mrs Ernest Burz. PR sident, held
it, third meeting f)r the season at the
residence of Mrs. Morris cooper. No. 9s7
Madison avenue. on Saturday afternoon,
December %. Mrs Gu,zon Borglum in
troduced .Djeysd Eyoub. who spoke OF
Turkey from new point OF view.
The annual Christmas tree and chill
bIell pldN l'l TIC bfte iAoAhf dii' 9N'pc'
for Crippled Children will be held on the
afternoon OF Wednesday. December "a, in
the lecture room OF the Lenox Avenue
Unitarian Church. l2lst street and LenoX
avenue.
1t the British bail. 10 he given at the
Waldorf on January .. the embassy box
will be occupied by Sir Cecil and Lady
Spring Rice and the attache OF the British
Embassy. The hostess will be Mrs. J. FL
lot Iangstaf In the official box will be
the Canadian guests. and hostesses will be
Mrs Gustav Stromberg. Mrs. Frederick
E. Whitrdgr and Mrs. Carl Won Pustau.
To the consulate general box have been
invited the six consus general in the
United States and their wives, and the
hostcsses will be Mrs. James T. Roob,
Mrs. George Quirk, Mrs. Frederick ;.
Noodcock and Mrs William d. Mitchell
Boxes have been purchased b. Mrs. Harry
n, Pike, Mrs Frederick SHIRLEY. Mrs
4. J. Squier. Mrs George Massey. Mrs
Arthur Elkins. Mrs. Charles Freeourn'
Mrs. Austin Finegan and Mrs. Henry
Rowley.
The New York Browning Society. Miss
Florence Wer Gibson, president, dis
cussed last Wednesday at its December
meeting Browning and Music" The
poems for study were Charles Avison
c'Parleyings'O. "A Toccata OF Galupri"
Master Hughes Of Saxe-Gotha' and
"Abt Vogier." William Lyon Phelps Pm.
n. professor Of music at Yale, had charge
OF the programme. Assisting Professor
Phelps was Walter Ruel Cowles, in
structor in pianoforte playing in Yale
University, who played march oy
Charles Avison, dating back one hundred
years: the toccata OF Galuppi. which was
OF the seventeenth century; fugue In L
minor by Bach. the supposed subject or
Master Hughes OF SaXe-Gotha, and the
Palace OF Sound as illustration OF Abt
Nogler's improvisation.
The date was chosen for president 8
day and the Astor Gallery OF the Waldorf
Astoria was filed to the limit of its ca
pacity with members and guests of the
society The social hour was In charge OF
the hospitality committee-Mrs. John Is.
Stanchfield. chairman; Mrs. w. w. Head
rick. Mrs. James +. Stewart, Mrs. John a.
Lefferts, Mrs. Charles A. Terry, Mrs.
Walter f. Woodford, Mrs. John Holley
Clark, Mrs. Simeon II. Newhouse, Mrs.
John Lewis Chids. Mrs. II. c. NJ lnSra-
ham. Mrs Bern II. Gallaudet, Mrs.
Thomas r. Slcer, Mrs. Thomas J. Vivian
and Miss Mabel McDousall.
The National California club Mrs.
Thomas j. Vivian. PRESIDENT held a meet
ing last Tuesday at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Preceding the musical programme and
following the clubs newly adopted rule.
there was ten-minute talk on Current
Events" as given by Mrs. G. Upton Hal
lett, and paper, giving the history OF
Santa Clara County, written by Mrs.
the chairman OF California history, Mrs.
4 A. Fisher. on the reception committee
were Mrs. Wallace Munro Mrs Louis w.
Butler Mrs. Emanuel Elias. Mrs. Fred
erIck Wolf, Mrs. Charles x. Lipman, and
Mrs. Milton V. Snyder, chairman.
The National California Club will give
its first dance on Tuesday, December So
at p. m. at the Hotel Plaza. Among the
patronesses are Mrs. Thomas j. Vivian,
Mrs. William X. Stewart, Mrs. @. Upton
Hallett, Mrs. Louis G. White. Mrs. Joseph
T. Nounnan, Mrs. Charles A. Beck and
Mrs. Charles T.. Houghton. The AFFAIR
will be under the craftsmanship OF Mrs.
w. r. Stewart, OF No. 125 Riverside Drive,
from whom tickets may be obtained. As