The New York herald., 1922-02-26
" News an9 Sidelghts of Society," ~
Sewing Glasses
Arrange to Start
Work for Charity
Lenten Custom Long Estab-
liShed to Be Revived
Early in March.

sewing classes will be resumed
during the season Of Lent, which will
begin on "Wednesday, and invitations
TO join them already have been issued
and the membership promises to be
up 70 the standard previously set.
One of the long established classes,
which works in behalf Of the Fresh
Air Association of the Cathedral or
st. John the Divine, will hold it's first
meeting of the season on Tuesday
morning, March Z. with Mrs. William
It. Manning. Bishops House, Cathedral
Close, at 10th street and Amsterdam
avenue. The subsequent meetings will
be held Oh March with Mrs. NJ
Orme Wilson. 8 East Sixty-fourth
street; March 81 with Mrs. Harold
Irving Pratt, 5S East Sixty-eighth
street, and the final meeting with Mrs.
Edward r. Stettinius, 1921 Park ave
nue., on March IS.
During the progress of each meeting
there will be singing or recitations
and at the first the artists will be
Miss Amy Ahrens. violin; Miss Edna
Wagner, mezZo-soprano, and Miss
Geraldine Sheppard, piano.
Mrs. Frank Hunter Potter is president
Of the class. The other officers are Miss
Julia G. McAllister, vice-president; Mrs
George Livingston Nichols, treasurar.
and Mr.. Frank Hunter Potter, secretary.
Among the directors are Mines James
Herman Aldrich, J. Tuckerman Tower.
Joseph c. Baldwin Stephen c. Clark, T.
Hull Browning. William H. Crocker.
Paul Degener. A Bradhurst Field,
Barnes Schirmer. Morgan Jopling and
Bard Squiers. Misses Caroline l.. Nor
gan, Clara Richards and Isabel Shotter
Another of the classes is that formed
by the clothing committee of ST. Lukes
Hospital Social Service at whose meet
ings garments are made for invalids
and those who have been sent back to
| their homes after treatment in the hos
| pital. The meetings will be held In the
morning and the first one on March
will be with Mrs. Harris Fahnestock at
IS East Sixty-sixth street. Subsequent
l.. Lewis, % West Fifty-second street
March IA Mrs. Charles b. Dickey 81
East Fifty-first street. March 81: Mrs
William T. Manning. Amsterdam avenue
and 10th street March rs; Mrs. Nicho-
las Murray Butler. 60 Morningside
Drive. April 4. and Mrs. Charles Law
renee Riker, SO East Thirty-ninth street,
April IL.
Mrs. Edward Swift Isham is chairman
OF the class and Mrs. Edward B. Bruch
vice-chairman. The directors are Miss
Elizabeth Beebe, Mrs. T. Halsted Myers.
Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler. Mrs.
Charles Lawrence Riker. Mrs. John Dou-
glas. Miss Mary Rogers. Mrs. Robert
Ellis Jones, Mrs. J. Langdon Schroeder.
Mrs. Darwin p. Kingsley and Mrs. r
Tileston Wells.
Probably the oldest OF these sewing
classes is the one organized in behalf OF
! the New York Nursery and Childs Hos
pital. an institution that has been in
existence about one hundred years. IL
is for the benefit of this hospital thar
each year the Charity Ball is given and
the directors of the ball ore also deeply
interested in the sewing class. The first
meeting will be held with Mrs. Frederic
Ashton de Peyster. 1l5 East Sixtieth
street. on March Q. The subsequent
meetings will be with Mrs. James W.
Gerard. 1915 Fifth avenue. March 1s;
Mrs. Hamilton Fish. $40 Fifth avenue
March %: Mrs. Lawrence L. Gillespie,
II East Eighty-ninth street. March 30.
and Mrs Frank S. Witherbee, Fifth
avenue. April s.
The linen closets OF the hospital are
! much In need Of replenishng. and u
Is earnestly requested that those who
| may not be able to attend the classes
L rKFff tr0
donations. Such contributions will aid
| in the purchase OF articles much needed.
There Is yet another class that has
been meeting for years during Lent in
behalf of the Rev. Mother Katherine
| Drexers Auxiliary. For the coming
season it's meetings will be held each
Tuesday morning with Miss Mary
Bowler. IL West Forty-sixth street.
! This class Is for the benefit OF negro
and Indian missions that have been
established in many parts OF this coun-
! try. In former years meetings were
held at homes of the different members.
but for the coming season II has been
considered better TO hold them with
1 Miss Bouvicr.
/ 1t has been decided to resume the
sewing class formed last year by the
tuberculosis auxiliary and the social
service committee OF the Harlem Hos
pital. There is need OF funds TO carry
/ on the work. and efforts will have to
be made to repenish the hospital stores.
/ The places of meetings have not been
definitely settled but the first will be
held on March 13. Among members of
the social service committee are Mines.
/ Lewis Iselin. George Blumenthai.
Arthur Butler. william A. Greer.
Franklin c. Hoyt. Joseph r. Dilworth,
Fairfax s. Landstreet Clarkson Potter.
Charles Miller. James w Gerard and
j. Denison Sawyer.