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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1901
Page
24
A devotional meditation on gratitude noting that prayers rise daily while thanks are scarce, urging recognition of joy and rescue from sorrow. The piece ends with a signature, Bessie Hart Adams, and a mailing address for the Tribune Sunshine Society in New York City.
An article guides home hosts on a seasonally appropriate veranda luncheon with simple, home grown fare. It recommends a fruit centerpiece with pineapple and strawberries, spinach soup with cream, salmon cutlets with tartare sauce, pea and rice dishes, ice cream, cottage cheese, and a clover-hunt prize. It emphasizes plain decor, fresh garden ingredients, and practical, step by step preparation details.
A reception at Pelham Manor Clubhouse hosted by Mrs Hazen s school pupils featured a performance of As You Like It by the schools dramatic club. Decorated setting, pretty costumes, and admirable scenic effects highlighted the event. A Riley pope reception followed in honor of Mr and Mrs R C Black of Pelham Manor with many prominent attendees.
No. 1 East Thirtieth Street tailor Knettel offers a limited time sale of $75 suits reduced to $54 made from finest cloths with rich silkenings and a perfect finish. Includes golf wheel and pedest in the general price reduction.
The Long Island Council of Women's Clubs holds its sixth annual meeting at Long Beach on Saturday in June. Welcome by Mrs. Mary Haight and Miss Elizabeth Brenton. Talks cover civic life ethics patriotism home life education and settlement work. Luncheon 12:30 to 2:30 with music by the Chiropean Carol.
A look at chic summer novelties including shirt waist sets with four brooches, turquoise and baroque pearls, and a larger throat piece. It describes a French bathing wig using Angora hair on waterproof caps, plus ornate pieces like mousseline boas, Persian chamelion taffeta jackets, and velvet bow sets for gowns.
The New York State Teachers Association annual convention will be in Buffalo the first week of July with a four day extension for New York City teachers. A Niagara Falls trip is planned along with an informative program on teaching methods and studies. Social gatherings will include open discussions on grading, school management, nature study, manual training, psychology of teaching and commercial education. Membership cer tificates can be obtained or renewed by writing to treasurer W H Benedict Elmira NY. those from New York City may join the special party by contacting transportation agent James H McInnes 45 East Twelfth St.
The New-York Flower Mission marks its thirty second season distributing flowers fruit and delicacies for hospital and tenement sick. It operates Mondays and Thursdays at 164 East Twentieth Street with free express delivery within a hundred mile radius. Donations of money jars and help are welcomed including jelly jars and palm leaf fans for hospitals.
Indications of summer bring attention to a new outside Venetian blind by James G. Wilson of 5 West Twenty-ninth St. The blinds offer shade and ventilation, operate from inside, extend as an awning, and keep light and air flowing. They are storm resistant and tailored for piazzas, claiming superiority over Japanese blinds.
At an East Side spring flower show a teacher heard a boy remark to a Dutchman's breeches dicentra while pointing to the plant, joking about German pants with the boy saying Say, ike, here are them German pants.
A Western town hosts A Darning Club where young matrons mend stockings and linen while debating art music literature and philanthropy. Prizes reward the best darners with official club positions, proving practical skills can lead to leadership roles.
A Rhode Island member requests reading matter and schoolbooks for a Southern family that lost their home in a fire last year and now live far from educational resources. Miss Delmar will send a Bible. Jennie Kinzer Woods will forward Youth's Companion copies. Contributors should notify the office to avoid duplications.
Mrs. S. Bernstein, state president of Pennsylvania, reports that in May she received thirty eight Communications related to Sunshine matters and distributed good cheer to 106 members. The gifts included books letters flower seeds plants bulbs pictures silk pieces embroidery and clothing, and every recipient felt the warmth of sunshine remembrance always brings.
The article lists items donated for cheer including unfinished fancy work from Mrs. Walter 8S Comly, illustrated reading from Mrs. H. J. Fieron, booklets cards and unfinished work from A Friend at Dobbs Ferry, scrap pictures from E. A. Tompkins, and three packages of clothing shoes hats games from Mrs. Anna S. McClure, all to spread sunshine for others.
Miss Ella Antrim describes sending reading material to Mrs. Wood since January, receiving three grateful letters in return and enjoying their T. 8. S correspondence. Mrs. H. L. James offers woollen goods from her husband’s mill to be shared among three invalid members who can use the material.
Miss Agnes Gnade of Rutherford New Jersey leads a Sunday school class that offers ten trimmed hats for Little Mothers and a day at Rutherford with outdoor games luncheon and an early tea before returning to the city. Transportation expenses are paid by the general office. A box of pansies from Mrs Lord was given to a member ill with nervous prostration.
Major John M. Smith notes the weather improving at Peekskill State Camp as cavalry drills run smoothly under Major Bridgman and General Roe. Troops 1 and 2 play a 12 to 8 game, polo ponies arrive for a planned 2:30 polo match, and the staff chess match promises intramural rivalry at Lake Mohegan.
Three cases of smallpox were reported in Worcester Massachusetts on June 4. Victims include Dr Charles B Stevens a leading Worcester physician Dr Campbell of Marlboro a Worcester City Hospital house officer and Alfred Guibert a Boston vaudeville performer. Guibert arrived in Worcester two weeks earlier.
Four of five West Point cadets recently dismissed for insubordination sailed yesterday on the Panama Railroad steamship City of Washington. They head to Ecuador to join the engineering corps of the Guayaquil and Quito railway, now across the Andes. Names include Richie C. Mahaffery of Texas, R. A. Linton, F. Keller of New York, and H. L. (incomplete) heading to the project.
A patient with chicken pox was hospitalized and recovering slowly with discharge planned. Pr. Campbell became violently ill, followed by Dr. Stevens. All three cases were found to be smallpox. Guibert remained in isolation while doctors maintained rounds and patient exposure concerns increased.
The Pennsylvania Railroad begins placing new Pullman parlor cars into its passenger service between major hubs, enhancing comfort and luxury for travelers aboard established routes and schedules.
The polo match will feature commissioned staff led by Captain G Howard Davison and non commissioned staff headed by Sergeant Major R C Lawrence. Major Hridgman will referee and a New York dinner prize awaits the winners while field day events continue Thursday starting at 2 90.
A German society aids impecunious actresses by providing costumes, with branches in Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Stuttgart, Carlsruhe and Mannheim. One joint committee of wealthy women and leading local actresses runs each city branch. Demand for costumes exceeds supply, spurring greater activity.
An American physician declares he has discovered the key to extreme longevity: unwavering conscientiousness throughout life. He argues that steady ethical conduct and strong moral habits are the true secret to a long, healthy life.
Pattern No 3799 from the New York Tribune offers a tissue dress for warm weather with adaptable styles. It requires 5 yards of 21 inch wide material for an eight year old, or 3 yards for 32 inch and 24 yards for 44 inch fabrics, plus edging and insertion details. Pattern includes sizes for girls four to twelve and can be obtained by sending 10 cents to Pattern Department, New York Tribune.
Philadelphia and this city are among the sites for a new fifty forty or more long Pullman parlor car designed by Pennsylvania Railroad officials. The car spans seventy feet, features Tuscan red with gold trim, wide vestibules, burnished mahogany interiors, marquetry, self raising shades, large windows, and an open uncurtained interior for better ventilation.
The Morro Castle arrived from Havana with passengers including Michael J. Cady and Dr. C E Finlay son of the proponent of the mosquito theory. Young Dr Finlay outlined that yellow fever is infectious not contagious and spread by the culex mosquito.
In Nebraska news, the second class lists members and notes former Cadet Cleveland was summoned to Tennessee on Monday night due to the serious illness of his fiancée. Friends gathered to bid them farewell, with Linton's father and Keller's family among those present.
Chicago reports beef prices climbing for cheaper stock as retail butchers raise prices to customers. Beef carcasses up nearly a dollar per hundred pounds in two weeks due to warm weather and scarce grass fed cattle from the West. Packagers blame higher spring costs and wider demand for cattle.
The Rev E M Stires to become rector of St Thomas Church New York arranged a $100 life policy through Mutual Life Insurance Company to fund Grace Episcopal Church Chicago. Church Endowment Society led by Rev E W Hunter aims to build diocesan endowments financed by interest to support bishops and reduce annual assessments, with broad aims beyond one diocese and no expense to the dioceses.
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