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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1900
Page
14
A feature on pliable straw Ladysmith hats, lace boleros with Honiton braid, and parasols with hand painted designs. It highlights New York reaction to khaki color, rising chenille trims for next season, and decorative baskets on hats, plus tips on fichu scarfs and the Order of the Ruffle as seasonal musts.
Sister Nivedita of Ramakrishna will leave New York for Paris and on to India to resume work in the autumn. Miss Margaret Noble, an Englishwoman, joins the Vedantic order and aims to educate Hindu girls, establish a school in Calcutta, and later train widows and orphans near the Ganges with support from American donors and a Ramakrishna Guild.
An English woman and an artist while in Japan collected over a thousand distinct teapots. The assortment is noted as curious and valuable. One large piece holds three gallons, while many are so small that a thimbleful of tea suffices to fill them.
A survey notes teapots shaped as birds beasts fowls fishes and frogs with a beetle and eel forming designs. Buddha, lotus buds and swans appear in small palm hidden vessels. Inlaid silver hammered copper wrought iron and Japanese pottery are among the materials.
The New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor begins daily day trips for hundreds of women, children, and babies to Coney Island and Sea Breeze. About two hundred join the first Monday, with plans for five trips weekly through September. Over two hundred sick beneficiaries have enjoyed Sea Breeze benefits since June 2, with 175 still staying. Beneficiaries are identified by the association and referrals from hospitals and missions.
Instructions for sending letters packages or checks to the Tribune Sunshine Society in New York City and for publication on the Woman's Page. The page advises sending matters addressed to the society and making checks payable to the Tribune Sunshine Society. It includes quoted maxims about charity humility and learning from suffering.
A package of religious reading arrived from Mrs. F. E. Parsons of Connecticut. A handsomely trimmed handkerchief was sent by Mrs. E. M. Grantham of Missouri. Monograms and stamps came from Miss Brockett of New Jersey, a shawl from Mrs. Lawton of Ohio, cacti seed from Ida B. Camp of Michigan, and monograms from Agness Y. Richardson of Delaware.
Some articles of children's clothing were sent yesterday to Mrs Halstead of Nebraska and Mrs Moisset of Manhattan, along with cheery books for three invalids, magazines for a soldier in Virginia, and twelve illustrated leaflets as Sunshine souvenirs.
Miss E A Brockett sent 25 cents for badges for five little girls and J M Holland contributed five cents for a badge. Miss Mary Stryker gave 16 cents for the special dime fund. Vernon D Camp acknowledges sunshine received last week from S S Leach Elma Rae Fletcher Mrs Rhoda Cummings Schuyler Bertch Ellen F Rhodes Lettie and Mary Harris Johnnie Null and R S Eddison.
A letter from a T S S member on a Nebraska prairie farm describes poverty and illness. The writer asks members to mail reading matter to a elderly, childless couple who cannot afford subscriptions and face repeated crop losses.
Mrs B A B of West Virginia thanks a T S S member in Canajoharie New York for a $2 gift and silk pieces from Mrs J L Brownell. Hattie Webster an invalid member in North Londonderry New Hampshire receives many sun shine remembrances from several members. Miss White in Germantown Pennsylvania seeks copies of old St Nicholas and other illustrated magazines for scrapbooks for children's hospitals. Mrs Sallie Jones Hoytsville Ohio requests used children's clothing for six children in need. The note ends with a George William Curtis poem about hearts poured in song and solitude.
The World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Congress in Edinburgh on June 26 re elected President Lady Henry Somerset and other officers. Mrs L M Stevens of Maine was named an additional vice president as the congress approved the union’s actions.
Re-elected yesterday to the presidency of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, now in session in Edinburgh. A greeting was cabled from the Christian Temperance Union of America regarding the temple in Chicago, addressed to two crusade movement mothers, Mrs. Stewart of Springfield, Ohio, and Mrs. Thomson of Hillsboro, Ohio.
The General Society Daughters of the Revolution awarded no cash prizes to five colleges for best Revolution essays under Miss M A Kent of Pennsylvania. Winners include Woman's College of Baltimore Edith Adams Bryn Mawr Fanny Soutter Sinclair Wellesley Margaret F Byington Cornell Vera M Thompson and Ann Arbor Lulu F Dixon with essays on diplomacy privateers Franklin and prisoners in the Revolution.
The Philadelphia Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution aims to build a Manila clubhouse in Malate for American soldiers. They have raised about 1800 dollars and seek 15000 more from Pennsylvania chapters to fund reading rooms library assembly hall gymnasium and a non alcoholic café.
In Paris a society runs La Pompounière a baby home and hospital for one day to two year olds. An exhibit at the Paris Exposition displays life size photographs of daily infant care including milk sterilization clothes laundering baths and weighing before and after meals. The aim is to provide advanced care for poor children avoiding country boarding while letting mothers visit and trust in proper treatment.
Chicago club women push to honor the late Mrs Alzina P Stevens by naming the parental school to be built by the Board of Education after her. She lobbied for two years to pass the Legislature and secured an appropriation for construction. Though she did not live to see it, the project now has funds a site and a principal.
Hygiene and economy merge in rug cleaning as J and W Williams at 353 West Fifty fourth street promote thorough removal of germs and dirt from rugs and carpets. Alteration and relaying are offered with free cartage and 366 Columbus contact for immediate attention.
Blue and white foulard waist with black or white lace taffeta velvet ribbon detailing. Shows fitted white silk lining, featherboned seams, mousseline tucking, Valen ciennes yoke, puffed sleeves, and blue velvet edging. Bust sizes 34 to 40 inches. pattern No 8 025 priced.
Incidents in Society recounts a bustling summer for Meadow Brook and Hempstead set. Notables include Mr. and Mrs. George J. Gould and Mrs. W Butler Duncan at polo and dinners, with shipping, Newport visits, and Fifth Avenue ceremonies marking high society leisure along the East Coast.
Public School No 5 took place yesterday at 2 p m for the girls department under Emma C Schoonmaker principal. The program featured Marie Thompson in a salutatory, student singing, recitations by Irene Keating Grace McVay and Ada Caird, readings "Nature's Garden" and "What Famous Men Have Written of Women" and "What Famous Women Have Written of Men" by 7 A class, "Our Colleges" by Miss Tremper, a drill by 7 A class, diplomas presented by A McMullin and other addresses.
Miss Josephine Mulford died of nervous prostration at All Souls Hospital in Morristown New Jersey after the idea for a large flag she created during the Spanish American War failed to lift a mortgage on the Mulford homestead in Madison. She spent years crafting the flag and hoped wealth would buy it for the government, but no final plan materialized.
Delegates from New York State Press Association will view an open air fireworks display tonight in Manhattan Beach. The event titled Japan in Flower and Flame features a fire portrait presentation honoring G. S. Griswold and A. B. Bunnell, resident and secretary of the association.
The General Society Daughters of the Revolution announced zero gold prizes to five colleges for student essays on revolution topics. Edith Adams, Bryn Mawr Soutter Sinclair, Margaret F. Byington, Vera M. Thompson, and Lulu F. Dixon were honored with topics ranging from American diplomacy to privateers. The society plans a dedication day at Valley Forge during the Brookyn convention week in early April 1901 to unveil a $7,000 monument.
The White Star Line will start winter passenger rates on August 1, not October 1, cutting prices below summer levels. Cunard and other lines are expected to follow, maintaining the new lower ceiling while applying winter fares, about 6 percent of summer rates, across transatlantic routes as demand falters after Paris Exposition expectations.
Chicago dispatch reports the National Biscuit Company will raise prices this week on select lines to cover higher production costs from wheat. At Union Square West offices officials confirmed increases on most soda crackers except high grades, and on some sweet grades where flour and lard are key inputs. Other sweet goods see box prices rise to tin price by one half to one cent per pound.
Washington commission arrives to hear Postmaster Van Cott outline a plan to lease a West Street building for foreign mails. He will guide the panel through the site and argues the scheme will speed delivery and expand space in the Post Office Building for other departments. The visit, postponed last Saturday, is now underway.
North German Lloyd officials say they have booked hundreds of Christian Endeavor members for passage on the Main, Trave and Saale. They head for London for an international convention in July. The Mam and the Trave depart July 3 and 6 respectively, with the Saale sailing from Boston on July 9.
New York agents report the Hamburg-American liner Deutschland departed Swinemunde for trial runs in the Baltic. She will leave Hamburg on July 6 and reach New York by July 12, touted as the fastest steamer afloat, with only the Oceanic of White Star Line surpassing her size.
Seventy one million silver dollars moved from the old Mint on Chestnut Street to the new building at Sixteenth and Spring Garden Streets. Money stored in secure bags and numbered boxes, with express wagons and two armed guards per wagon. New Mint vaults can hold up to 110 million dollars.
The North Atlantic Squadron reached Newport-RI from Boston today. Flagship New York and battleship Kearsarge entered before noon while Indiana, Massachusetts and Texas stayed offshore for heavy gun practice and anchored near Jamestown shore in the outer harbor.
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