New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-10
LADY ABERDEEN VISITS
AN EAST SIDE SCHOOL
With Miss Violet AsquIth She
Sees Folk Dancing by the
Little Girls of No. 1888.
VISITORS ARRIVE LATE
Programme, Under Way, Is Be-
gun Again for Their Benefit
Guests of Academy
Of Medicine Later.


Niollie Felt and Minnie Itzkowitz and
rrioda KocniG. and Belle Sehoenbereer
were proud little girls Yesterday. They
10; only led he Kamarinskaia. that in
,ricate Russian dance. for the delight of
adv Aberdeen and Miss Violet Ascuith.
who visited Public School 1SS. at Hous-
ton and Sd streets. Yesterday. but Miss
tsquith gave them the flowers she wore.
They gave Miss Asquith :heir Public
schools Athletic League badges. and she
told them that she would take the badges
hack TO England with her and keep them
always
There were l,7S6 other little Girls in
the dances. which were arranged hur-
riedly. as the teachers and the officers of
the league didn't know until late on
Wednesday that Lady Aberdeen and Miss
Asquith were coming. But all the little
girls we're ready. with their hair i'm curls
and their dresses clean and whichever if
some OF the mothers did have 10 sit up
all night 10 wash and iron them-snd
such big topknot bows that the eighteen
hundred little heads looked like garden.
There are twenty-five hundred girls and
twenty-five hundred boys in Public School
iss 50 a good many girls and all the boys
were left out of the dances. And. judging
BY the number of boys who hung around
the big school and eagerly escorted the
visitors 10 the entrance, some OF them
wouldn't have minded being little girls
themselves that day.
Lady Aberdeen and Miss Asouith were
late. but Public School ISIS begins things
on time. The programme was started
promptly at a quarter past g. The girls
vent c0nscientiously through the deep
breathing drill. which was No. l on the
list. and then gave three cheers for our
English visitors at the END OF the DIN.
even though our English visitors were
not there.
The echoes of the cheers had died away
and the little girls were half through
dance when Lady Aberdeen. all in black
velvet and ermine. and Miss Asquth in
green cloth suit and A greenland, GLOW
hat. appeared. with Mrs. Henry l,.pPs.
who had entertained them at luucr,. 2
the Colony club.
The eighteen hundred little girls stood
At attention while the visitors were led to
the seats Of honor by District Superin-
tendent John w. Davis aud Miss Ellen
Phillips the principal. and then they be-
gan II all over again. giving the deep
breathing drill and the three cheers for
our English visitors" at the end.
Very prettiiy did they do the dances
that followed. those mites OF girls Of from
nine to fourteen years. Lady Aberdeen
said afterward the thing that most i'm
pressed her was the enthusiasm Of the
children and the way they seemed TO Ell
JOY il all And they did. Eyes spanked
cUris bobbed small arms waved as these
children tripped through The "F1allnas-
polska'' ana the OK dansen' and the
"Sursprinc" and the Gustav skoal
Miss Elizabeth Burchenal chief genius
OF the folk dancing department in the
public schools. said there was only one
hing she regretted. and that was there
couldn't be any English dances in honor
~ the visitors. as there was no time for
rehearsal or preparation.
There were lots OF visitors there be-
sides the two from England Eserton l.
Winthrop, jr and Mrs. Winthrop anu
their daughter. Muriel; Mrs. Alfred NJ.
Goats. Miss Margaret Stimson, Miss
Martha Draper. Mrs. Alfred Seton Post.
Mrs. Charles Van Rensselaer, Miss Cath
crime Ieverick and many others.
Lady Aberdeen said she hoped 10 be
4 bic to introduce folk dancing in the
schools i'm ireland. She had been more
delighted with the exhibition than she
could express Miss Asquith told Miss
Phillips. the principal, she wished she
lived near so she could come I'm often
and see the children dance. Miss Phillips
rodded solemnly. as if she were wonder
ing how Miss Asquith would like living in
an East side tenement house
The dancing took place in the big base
ment playground OF the schoO! ana wnen
II was ended Lady Aberdeen and Miss
= s0uith were whisked up 10 the Acad-
crot az Medicine. No. II West 18th street.
whore the tuberculosis PreVentorium Tor
children al FarmiuSdale. y. j., had d
meeting I'm honor OF Lady Aberdeen ana
nor work for tuberculosis children in Ire
land. The stage was decorated with irish.
NJ. Marks. president OF the preHentoI1un.
made a speech giving Lady Aberdeen
lot of statistics about tuberculosis IN New
York Controller PTendergast told Lady
aberdeen how glad ne Was 10 see her,
because he was Irish. too. ana Dr. Her.
man NJ. Bisgs spoke for the Boald OF
Health Then Mrs. j. Borden Hartman
made short speech. saying that Lady
Aberdeen's work had been an inspiration
10 her
Las; OF all. Lady Aberdeen. who sat
during the meeting beside Nathan Straus,
made a brief speech or thanks for all the
pretty things that had been said 10 her.
and telling little about the Tubercu-
losis Preventorium in ireland. which. she
SAID. owed much TO the counsel ana as