Eleventh anniversary at Holiday House with Little Mothers
Dozens of Little Mothers greeted guests at Holiday House Pelham Bay Park for the eleventh anniversary feast. Many were delayed but a “left over” party will occur tomorrow for ticket holders. Volunteers including twelve cooking-class children served lunch while others performed songs, recitations, and a calisthenic drill. Brooklyn auxiliaries began with a $300 gift from a Daisy Ohana club and expect two thousand children to visit the park. weekly excursions run June September and twice weekly in July August. Entertainment from X L M clubs and an operetta tour, Florinda, is planned in multiple towns. Mrs Alma Calder Johnston chaired the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holiday House
Pelham Bay Park
Albert Hepp
Kittie
Happy Day House
Second Ave
Hol‘dey House
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Aux
Daisy Oh
Payton's Theatre
Lee-ave
Taylor St
White Plains
Mount Vernon
Alma Calder Johnston
Sergeant Mary Owens Enforces Child Labor Law in Chicago
Mary E. Owens, a twelve year veteran sergeant and Chicago’s only woman in the role, coordinates with the Board of Education to supervise underage workers and truants. She patrols stores and factories, investigates false ages, and notes increased cooperation from the public over time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary E. Owens
Chiago
Board of Education
Owens
oMeer
Mts
Donna Vittoria Colonna Engagement and Family Ties
Donna Vittoria Colonna, announced engagement to Prince Teana, eldest son of the Duca di Sermoneta, is one of Lady Walsingham’s granddaughters. Her mother, the Duchessa di San Teodore, married after the death of Lord Burghesh. The two daughters, Donna Vittoria and the Marchesa Chigi, mostly live with their father in Rome, while Donna Vittoria is described as very dark with clear features.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donna Vittoria Colonna
Prince Teana
Duca di Sermoneta
Walsingham
Burghesh
Duca di San Teodore
Duchesa di
Ialy
Donna Vittoria
Marchesa Chigi
Rome
Donna Fe
Rome Charity Ball Highlights Beauty and Grace at Taverna Palace
During a recent charity performance at Taverna Palace a winter theatrical event featured a dance by eight of Rome's most beautiful girls. Donna Eee was universally praised for grace and beauty, carrying off the palm in the night’s spotlight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ures
Taverna Palace
Rome
Donna Eee
Grace
Auty
They Do More Than Quarrel Patriot women push historical work nationwide
Patriotic women's societies especially the Daughters of the American Revolution are preserving records, marking graves, funding lectures, and supporting libraries in states from Connecticut to Montana. Chapters raise funds for monuments, prizes for student essays, and public access to historical education, with efforts in Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, and beyond advancing civic memory and patriotism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daughters of the American Revolution
Connecticut
Farmington
Derby
Faith Trumbull
Norwich
Lafayette
Ruth Wyllys
Hartford
John Fiske
Georgia
Savannah
Council of Safety
de Shaw
Boone
Iowa
Francis Shaw
Anamosa
Lady Knox
Rockland
Mary Dillingham
Lewiston
Auburn
Massachusetts
Harvard College
Wrnter
Old Bay State
Lowell
Benjamin Franklin
Minnesota
Natchez
Mississippi
David Reese
Oxford
Missouri
The
Osage
Sedalia
Laclede
Montana
Butte
New York
North Carolina
Dorcas Bell Love
Ohio
Cincinnati University
United States
Yivania
Rhode
Southern Woman's Building in Memphis Provides Club Space
The Woman's Building in Memphis Tennessee offers an auditorium for six hundred, a prettily furnished office with feminine knick-knacks, a library, dancing hall, studios, club rooms and business offices rented by women. Insurance agents, physical culturists, dressmakers and musicians use the space, with nearly every local women's club having a room there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
Practical Temperance Work at New Zealand Union Meeting
Sixteenth annual convention of the New Zealand Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Wellington urged practical action over speeches. Leaders urged municipal and educational reform, housing with gardens, open spaces, suburban move to reduce drinking, and cheap public halls for wholesome recreation to occupy leisure time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New-Zealand
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
New-Zealand Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Wellington
America
Deere
Harvard Baccalaureate Sermon Urges Duty And Self Sacrifice
Cambridge June 16 Harvard seniors attended the baccalaureate in caps and gowns as Rev Dr William De Witt Hyde of Bowdoin preached four personal imperatives. First give your best fit yourself for a career. Second pay full price for what you do not gain by favors or debts. Third be brotherly avoid swelling with wealth or status. Fourth be self sacrificing serve the larger good and loyalty to human brotherhood. The sermon urged practical virtue, clean living, and respect for all, in a crowded chapel setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
College Yard
William de Witt Hyde
Bowdoin College
John Gully Cole
Couture Notes From A Parisian Summer Fashion Parade
The article surveys chic empire coats in black glacé silk with white moire collars, and dainty gowns for Newport in wood brown veiling with ivory chemisettes. It highlights gowns, lace, and jewelry trends, including black lace throatlets, guipure, and diamond-studded accents, plus new accessory ideas like lace trimmed fichus and pearl buttoned oblong ties.
Bread economics and kitchen dessert tips from Atwater era
A short survey notes a bread cost for a six person family at 35 cents daily vs 11 cents if made at home. It offers practical kitchen guidance from Professor Atwater and detailed recipes for foamy suet sauce, fruit cookies with raisins, and a strawberry Bavarian cream including sugar cream eggs gelatine and chilling steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atwater
Rosa Bonheur Statue Erected in Fontainebleau Square
A commemorative monument to Rosa Bonheur in Fontainebleau, presented by M. Gambart, was created by Isidore Bonheur Hippolyte Peyrol and Alexandre Jacob. It features a bronze bull atop Lorraine marble with a Rosa Bonheur medal and reliefs of The King of the Forest The Ivernais Ploughing and The Horse Fair. The sculpture stands about five metres tall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosa Bonheur
Fontainebleau
M. Gambart
Isidore Bonheur
Hippolyte Peyrol
Alexandre Jacob
Lorraine
A Tiny Seed of Grace Becomes a Precious Soul
A short, modest verse by duenry van Dyke compares a sick child’s life to a bare box of earth on a dusty window ledge. Despite barren days and tears, a single bloom of spirit appears, pure as snow, in a narrow room. The poem is reprinted here at the request of an invalid reader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duenry van Dyke
Sunshine Picnic Postponed in Arlington NJ This Saturday
Rain caused the Junior T. S. S. branch of Arlington to postpone its Sunshine Picnic to Saturday June 22. One hundred fifty children look forward to a sunny day and cheerful faces once skies clear.
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Arlington
N. J
Sunshine members aid after illness in family note
The father writes that a Board of Health doctor has pronounced the children well after scarlet fever. The kids look forward to a temporary outing in the park after weeks of confinement. He thanks Sunshine members for their goodness and sympathy during their time of trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
Sunshine
Sunshine visitors from Nassau call on office bearing gifts
Miss Nellie Duncombe of the Bahama branch and Miss Paterson a Nassau teacher arrived Friday, delivering sisal work and fancy articles to be passed on. They sailed Saturday on the Campania for Europe. Miss Paterson returns in three months. Miss Duncombe may stay abroad a year, staying active in Sunshine work wherever she goes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Duncombe
Miss Paterson
Nassau
General Office
Sunshine
Campania
Europe
Miss Duncombe
Late Friday office flowers from several donors
The Flowers that arrived too late for Friday acknowledgment included a box of roses from Mrs G W Marler of New Jersey and a nameless box of daisies and clover. Saturday offerings came from Carlton McDowell Purchase NJ and Mrs S Keightly Coopersburg PA with a mix including red and white roses yellow lilies peonies and more. The Saturday deliveries were taken to the Ninety ninth street playground for the enjoyment of hundreds of children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Marler
New Jersey
Carlton McDowell
Purchase
N. J
S. Keightly
Coopersburg
Penn
John W. Post
Long Island
Ninety-ninth St
Miscellaneous Donations From Various Donors
The contributions include a barrel of miscellaneous reading, silk pieces, cards and pictures from EF W V New Rochelle, a package of magazines from Mabel C Smallwood Pennsylvania, a box of trinkets for a child from M E P, flower seeds from Jersey City, magazines hymnal books from an unnamed donor, children’s religious papers from M M Gibbs, clothing and useful articles from James G and William Pettit, and pictures from Bridgeport Conn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EF. W. V
New Rochelle
Mabel
C. Smallwood
Pennsylvania
Miss Brockett
Jersey City
M. M. Gibbs
James G
William Pettit
Bridgeport
Charitable Clothing Distributions Reach Multiple Branches
A large array of dresses hats and other items from Louise M Harbison and Dorothy Joyce of the New Brunswick branch and Jersey City branch filled a press box sent to the Littl Mothers South Ferry box The X H M Club received items while Crippled Children's branch gained picture books and kindergarten work A box for Manhattan branch aided needy members Flowers magazines and other goods went to Schoharie Oneida Rockville Conn Hampstead Large Island Tyler Hill Conant Fla Jersey City Brooklyn and Manhattan A birthday greeting went to Miss Florence Poucher of Sodus New York The East Side box contents were distributed among four poor families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise M. Harbison
Dorothy Joyce
New Brunswick
N. J
Jersey City
General Office
South Ferry
Littl Mothers
X. IL. M. Club
Second Ave
Crippled Children’s
Manhattan
Schoharie
Oneida
N. Y
Rockville
Conn
Hampstead
Large Island
Tyler Hill
Penn
Conant, Fla
Brooklyn
Florence Poucher
Sodus
East Side
Travelling library boxes reach Lyndhurst Junior Branch
A new shipment of bound books begins a travelling library tour to Lyndhurst New Jersey Junior Branch led by president Miss Florence Griffin. Books will be labeled T S S by branch members and circulated to other branches after readers finish. Miss E L Dorr donated material for fifteen white sacks she made with pleasure but cannot finish buttonholes due to a finger injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyndhurst
N. J
Florence Griffin
lMbbrary
E. L. Dorr
Miss Dorr
Women and Young Women’s Christian Association Chautauqua Room
The International board at Chautauqua, N Y has set up a summer headquarters room for the W Y W C A. All organizations are urged to send literature samples and building photos. An informal talk occurs weekly, with prayer meeting and scripture exposition. Parcels go to the International Board at Chautauqua with return postage stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s and Young Women's Christian Association
International Board
Chautauqua
International Board of the Women's and Young Women’s Christian Association
N. Y
Dressy aprons for children protect frocks with style
Patterned dressy apron design covers the skirt leaving sleeves exposed and may be worn with guimpe or over petticoat for coolness. Material options include white dimity India linen or lawn, with needle work trim. For an eight year old, three yards of 82 inch wide material are used, plus specific trims. pattern No. 385 costs 10 cents and is mailed on request with age given.
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India
Madras
Lehigh Commencement Sermon Urges Faith and Inner Work
The Lehigh University commencement week opened with Rev. Dr. George R. Van De Water delivering the baccalaureate sermon. He urged students to seek faith as essential equipment for a successful life, inviting them to believe in Jesus Christ, keep Him as a constant presence, and place trust in Him above all else.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem
Penn
Lehigh University
George R. van de Water
St. Andrew's Church
New York
Columbia University
van de Water
Jesus Christ
Christ Jesus
Stevens Institute Graduates Hear Sermon On Knowledge And Life
The Stevens Institute of Technology graduating class attended a Trinity Church Hoboken service where Rev James Clayton Mitchell preached on Knowledge and Life. He urged that character defines life and urged graduates to seek being over having as they enter the world amid stress and striving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevens Institute of Technology
Trinity Episcopal Church
Hoboken
James Clayton Mitchell
Baccalaureate Sermon at Rutgers College in New Brunswick
The baccalaureate sermon for Rutgers College seniors was preached by Rev. Dr. Edward P. Johnson of Albany at First Reformed Church New Brunswick. The talk titled A Perfect Manhood, the Supreme Ideal of Life urged that the supreme duty is to make the most of one's inner self beyond any chosen career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New-Brunswick
N. J
Rutgers College
First Reformed Church
Edward P. Johnson
Albany
N.Y
Johnson
Huxley
Carnegie
J. Pierpont Morgan
Phillips Brooks
Washington and Lee College 119th commencement baccalaureate
In Lexington Virginia on June 16 the 119th annual Washington and Lee commencement opened with Rev. Dr. David G. Wylie delivering the baccalaureate sermon on What Christianity Offers to the World. Later in Lee Chapel the Rev. Robert A. Gibson Episcopal Bishop of Richmond spoke at the Young Men's Christian Association address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Washington and Lee College
David G. Wylie
Scotch Presbyterian Church of
New York City
New York State Synod
Young Men's Christan Association
Lee Chapel
Robert A. Gibson
Episcopal
Richmond
Rev Dr Henry Swentzel Delivers RPI Baccalaureate
The Rev Dr Henry Swentzel rector of St Luke's Episcopal Brooklyn delivered the baccalaureate sermon at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy New York on June 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
N. Y
Henry Swentzel
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Brooklyn
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bucknell and Smith College Hold Baccalaureate Sermons
Bucknell University held its fifty first commencement baccalaureate at First Baptist Church with President Harris delivering the sermon to a full house as the fifty two senior class wore caps and gowns. In Northampton Smith College’s baccalaureate was given by President JL Clarke Seelye at the First Congregational Church before a 259 member graduating class. President Seelye urged graduates to seek good and work with God toward excellence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewisburg
Penn
Bucknell University
Harris
First Baptist Church
W. T. C. Hanna
Bradford
Northampton
Mass
Smith College
JL. Clarke Seelye
First Congregational Church
Seeyle
Barrows Delivers Baccalaureate Sermon at Oberlin
President John Henry Barrows of Oberlin College preached his third baccalaureate sermon in the old First Church this afternoon. The address titled The Nobility of Man drew a great audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oberlin
Ohio
John Henry Barrows
Oberlin College
First
Knights of St John to Host 23rd International Convention
Cincinnati June 16 reports show nationwide representation for the Knights of St John annual convention. June 24 to 27 will draw over 30,000 knights and families with Canada and the West sending large delegations. California, Colorado and New Mexico enter drills for the world championship. More than $25,000 is raised for the entertainment fund and a constitutional amendment seeks to expand the insurance department to boost the widows and orphans fund after last year paying over $100,000 to families. A street parade of 20,000 uniformed knights opens the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
The
Knights of St. John
Canada
California
Colorado
New Mexico
Widows and Orphans” Fund
Roosevelt Prefers Colonel Over Vice President Trait
At the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York the former New York governor and San Juan Hill hero Theodore Roosevelt arrived en route to Oyster Bay. A Republican asked about his health, and Roosevelt quipped bullyingly that he feels fine but prefers being called colonel, then left with Colonel Youngs amid the crowds on Broadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Fifth Avenue
New York State
Oyster Bay
San Juan Hill
Youngs
Broadway
Reseever
Memorial Services for Dr Babcock at Church of the Covenant
Memorial services for Rev Dr Maltbie Dr Babcock pastor of Brick Presbyterian Church who killed himself in a Naples hospital were held at Church of the Covenant Second Ave and Forty second St Rev George S Webster who accompanied him on a Europe East tour spoke of their friendship and Babcocks zest for life and faith despite illness praising his patience and readiness to leave outcomes to God with many Brick Church members in attendance
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maltbie
Babcock
Brick Presbyterian Church
Naples
Church of the Covenant
Second-ave
Dr. Babcock
Brick Church
Mr. Webster
Excursion Steamer Perseus Disabled En Route to Coney Island
The excursion steamer Perseus left North River Pier with nearly a thousand passengers bound for Coney Island. Steering gear failed near Ellis Island, the Cetus assisted after landing her own passengers, and Perseus was towed to Erie Basin for emergency repairs. All passengers were landed safely.
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North River
Coney
Ellis Island
Coney Island
Pier 1
Perseus
New Yorker
Barret
Erie Basin
Hotels Listed Guests from New York and Vicinity
Buffalo special wire lists guests registered at hotels including TROQUOIS BROEZEL ARLINGTON NIAGARA GENESEE TIFFT STAFFORD COLUMBIA MANSION and many individuals such as D. K. Ball John N. Clark Leighton Calkins George Gordon Battle J. Fitzgerald and J. J. A. Fitzgerald. The long roster covers numerous private guests, couples, and families staying at Buffalo hotels on June 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
News York
Mary B. Weeks
A. A. White
H. Randolph
Ethel Royce
N. H. Randolph
Henry L. Burnett
P. H. Burnett
David Marvalho
David B. Hill
M. H. Taylor
Miss Taylor
Dorothy Taylor
M. Schmidt
EH EL Wilkinson
Walter Coles Cabell
F. J. Menzie
F. Rumpp
August Bein
A. Homar
Sigmund Feinier Tifft
E. B. Sharp
Wallace Munro
E.tt West
George Shepp
Joseph V Hoen
H. K Conklin
Simon Morgan
Elias Strauss
R. Abrams
A. C Kennedy
Ho W. Ime
Henry
L. P. Rutherford
E B. Cami
F Powers
G. Jacobson
J. L. Ichten
B. S. Wilson
John W. Calver
Edward D. Deener
E D. Lockwood
J. J._A. Fitzgerald
Edward J. Lyle
C. G. Parley
William T. Gun
Mary Gun
S. Henderson
Newport society notes linger at harbor events and polo field progress
The day reports arrivals of steam yachts Utowana American and Katomba in Newport R I with Katomba chartered by Lars Anderson and family for the races. Capt Young hosted at Sumcheonm with guests including Lt and Mrs Miller and others at the Newport Golf Club. Commodore Ledyard and Dr Ulls visit for the season while Mrs Burke Roche hosts at Elm Court. Vanderbilt polo field near Portsmouth nears completion as Miss Lyman departs for the season. The Old South Historical Society plans its sixth annual Boston pilgrimage to the city next Saturday with remarks by Mrs Howe Rev Porter and Milan Ayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
R. J
New York
Lars Anderson
Anderson
H. P. Young
Sumcheonm
Newport Golf Club
Miller
J. F. Hubbard
N. FE. Mason
Burke Roche
Elm Court
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Portsmouth
Lyman Ed
Herbert Gardiner
Herbert
Old South Historical Society of
Boston
Julia Ward Howe
Charles H. Porter
Milan
Ayers
Dr Banks on the Theatre Sermon at Grace Methodist
The Rev Dr Louis Albert Banks preached on Christians and the theatre at Grace Methodist Church to argue Christians should avoid the theatre. He said it often mirrors the worst life and its irreverence clashes with the morality of Jesus, offering little for moral uplift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Albert Banks
Grace Methodist Church
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Tion
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