Show si i 4 i O H t t 1 a W s o i a g 1 TH THE PARLOR RL LECTURE C R RAS AS A AI LENTEN I PASTIME J f I ELCOME Is III Lent to the woman or of vv society The rhe woman ot of the world When Ash Ah Wednesday rolls round mentally physically and spirit spiritually needs renovation Whether or not she he benefits benefit much In spiritual condl Easter Euter should hould certainly see ItO her heri i much better conditioned both In bodY I and mind Once upon n a time It was the custom for tor the ultra smart sm rt woman to pack her trunks and fly Away to Europe 1 or some spot In which laxity In Lenten Lentell anee ance was not frowned upon Women too who had large country houses filled them with congenial spirits and a 11 round or of Lenten were kept up far lir from the disapproving frowns of the shepherds or of souls This later plan worked badly badh how bow however ever Rectors heard of the gayety and the tho women who vho had not been Invited to the house parties assumed such uch righteous rIght rIghteous airs ot of indignation that those who would revel out ot of town found It best to revel alone Yet man many sensible woo we men do spend the Lenten days In the tho country countr riding driving and walking and regaining health anti and strength for forthe forthe the bus busy days that tallow follow Easter Euter Instead ot of Idling through the season sealon with an occasional a hello visit to church services the present tendency isto Is Isto to have hae some active employment In ac accordance with the prInciple that to la labar labor bar bor I Is to pray The most fashionable women In so clely clet originated the custom or of Ing II a series of drawing room lectures during Lent There le Is Cl a double pur purpose pose pale In this the woman who all winter line has been too busy to bestow bedow much thought on the tho cultivation of her mind thus emphasizes the tact fact that she sho le III a woman ot of letters liS as well ell as II a woman oman or of fashion and also 1110 satisfies her bene benevolent Inclinations by the thought that she Is encouraging aspiring women ills dl of at the arts and sciences One of 01 the most moat fashionable of New Yorks Yorke Lenten occupations Is Mrs As toms tors sewing class It le Is ono one ut of the fixed institutions ot of society and the moat frivolous woman or of the Four Hundred regards admission to this charmed circle III as something to be striven for even as one should hould strive for tor entrance Into the pearly gate or of paradise for tor It is an Indication that one belongs to 10 the tho elect of New Yorks In Innermost social circle or of which Ors Irl As Astor tor stands a sort of feminine SL at Peter Pelee PeterTh The Th class meets at Mrs house on Fifth avenue certain mornings morning duro dur during Ing Lent to sew for tor tM the poor The Iho gar garment menu ment have been cut out before and each lady quietly seats herself her herselt self and with thread and needle goes to work on the long seams seam while somo lomo one ot of tile the number reads from an Inter eating or improving volume The lectures ot of Mr Ir John Stoddard and Mr MI without which no New NewYork NewYork York LInt Lent w would deem Lent are of not Possible for tor drawing room audiences Ms MI Stoddard lectures on countries illustrating his hoc Jec Jecture ture tuns b by handsome stereopticon pIe pic pictures tures He fe hu baa a charm c of It manner and andon all on eloquence which give ghe to the subjects a t fascination all 1111 hi his own on The popular It ot of the Stoddard lectures In Ne New York for tor several seasons put past has bas been phenomenal Mr lecture recitals have III al always ways n a been given elven at the torla toria The song birda of at the opera Ollora are employed to Illustrate them and there therefore tore fore the cost COlt of at the course courso places It be beyond beyond yond the means of any Iny but very ery wealthy women At these lectures maybe may maybe be seen practically tho same faces that ate are on view In the lower tier or of bo boxes s soh oh n a fashionable night lit at the opera r MIss Jane Meade Welch was the tho first among Women to take up parlor lecturing lec lecturing turing and she bOf is Of course one of at the most popular or of the Lenten entertain ers era She was WIlS once a Buffalo newspaper newspaperwoman woman servIng nn an apprenticeship of often often ten years ears In journalism before she be began began gan to lecture on American history which she has haa made her Held field She was wasa II a college friend ot of era Grover Cleve Cleveland land and that lady lad liS as wife ot of the president Introduced her to Washing Washington ton and New York society and assured her success Miss lIss Welch recently was ns given shen an honorary degree by the University Uni Cull of Cambridge She le Is one ot of the tho few tew women to be so 80 honored hr beauty and personal magnetism were wele no small factor In her success She has a bright Interesting style and Will the first to popularize American history among women I Miss Mis Jennie Melvene Davis has also made her success as n a lecturer on American Amer Amerlean lean ican history She made her debut In Inthe inthe the New York free lecture course cOline and soon had n a short lecture course to In etude elude the small towns about New York From thIs the atop to o lecturing In the tho parlors ot of society women was a chart ono one The parlor lectures aro more popular pop popular ular wIth the Ie lecturers because the re returns reo turns are larger nod moro mere Cel Course tickets for 10 or 12 lectures sell for tor 10 In advance so 0 that when the tho lecturer I is II a popular one and gives leo lec lectures tures each day to about 60 0 or n a hued hul huldred dred women the results In dollars dollar Is II rem ery soul satisfying to the ono one on the tho platform at least Miss Ills Adele Melo Field whose business It Is Isto isto to Instruct on topics of the day da Is ono one of the tho most popular and successful of women lecturers She devotes herself herselt to the giving of parlor talks and Is busy bUllY during the entire winter and spring Miss ollIs Mary I r Proctor daughter ot of the famous I is one of the bright particular stars or of the Lenten lecture IIer talks on the starry hell heavens ens lire are DR as delightful as the most malt charming bit or of fiction and liS as she both Interests and Instructs she Is at all seasons one of the very ery busiest of per persons sons EOns The subject of taking care caro ot of the house and of cooking all sorts of dale ties to tempt the appetite has haR eeme tobe to tobe be one OM ot of the methods of passing the th dull mornings of the penitential season Miss Mrs Ir corer Mrs Christine Terhune Mrs Ira Lemcke nil 1111 lec lecture ture while the tho hosts or of less well authorities on the tho culinary art do like likewise likewise wise There la is R a good deal or of amuse amusement ment to he be obtained tram from a 0 practical lesson In especially when n a wo woman woman man who Is not accustomed to 10 mixing puddings antI and pies JIles and sauces has baa a 1 chance to experiment In the originating of nf mysterious compounds that may turn turnout out outlands viands fit for the gods or su whose whole only value would be liS as buildIng concrete or paper weight weicht material One or of last seasons season Lenten pastimes was the hearing of talks tram from women of eminence In work Mrs Mra Maud Booth and bliss I Jane Addam or of Hull Chicago being two popular to line They told of what they had the poor the glimpse At the being mot most Interesting to ash tach folk tolk lithe Ida non Beefy whose of novel to the needs of tho lecture platform has hili made her famous always prepares prepare an list of the beet of the lat latest t books for her Lenten n of the parlor The b ok of at Job which she ehe has hili adapted for the tho purpose of platform rend In II Id II a fever lie itc number on curls uch TAken as I n a whole the fashion of tak takIng Ing up some branch or of atud study and M fol following lowing lowing It out during Lent 18 i OM o nn ot of ht least harmful ways or of spending tuna which with women of fashion is III mere often oCten peeped In idleness than not It opens open n a field or of work for women who are aro called upon to earn their own 11 hv lugs Ings and It cannot but improve many manyin In real need of meet ment EDITH AWnE C I OP i d IP let Ol 1 t A young oun painter Wilhelm Funk who enjoys ro ea great n reputation n as n a portrait painter In AmerIca I is winning abroad This Thill is 19 the first time that Mr Funk has hal In Londen but hl his exhibItion is I interesting front from the tho fart that thElt instead of bringing over oer a number of portraits from America ot of un unknown n known there ho he is II showing but I portraits of well ell known English or that he lies hall painted since I he went event to England some Bome months nl cc The chief Item In the tho collection was wa to have hac been a 1 full length portrait ot of Prin Princess i cess ees Christian who hu has refused all roo re requests I quests to sit for lor her picture for tor the last 30 years enra but bul owing to hIT her royal high fleas neu Indisposition and time tho t treacherous weather the sittings had to be postponed until unlit lAter and a most mOlt brilliant pre preliminary sketch of the head hend I is nil 1111 that tha t there l to show how for tor the life mo ml moment ment It Is 18 no wonder that In n a lion of 12 portraits portrait which have been IMn pointed painted In two months month the work should be somewhat unequal says sas Vanity Fair In commenting and that some or of them such as the larGo large canvas of at Lady and the tho childs portrait Master Harry would J be better batter for a greater degree of finish nut But this I le a trl trifling and easily rectified drawback when compared with the tho brilliant flesh I parting anti and rich color which charac characterize such lIuch portraits as Iad Lady Lady lallY Colin Colic Campbell Mrs J Ogilvy Halg Haig X N and the admirable sketch of Mrs Drown Brown Potter lotter which was vall painted It Is sold In two sittings There Is certainly no monotony In Mr Funks portraits lie He alms evidently sit nt makInG them not only Good but decorative Nothing could bo be more mora charming than the oral oal portrait of Mrs Ogilvy quiet and harmonious In the topes ot of the dress dreps and background which brings out limo delicacy of at the flesh to perfection and c certainly not many painters would have haye h had d the pluck to put the brilliant em green background which makes makeR such an admirable contrast with Lady Colin Colln Campbell Campbells black dress and black Spanish hat ht and harmonizes so 60 welt well with the warm hor Ivory tints of the tho face tal e Queen Victoria has then given orders that no horse houe tn in the royal roal stable shall have hae IU ito tall docked This has baa affected Eng lIh styles and shipments of carriage i horses from this country to England I have ao lately bun ordered st dock docked I ed cd V NOVEL HOVEr Uh OF AND Tn or of 1 lace tad u fur also aleo ot of he anti and chio in III It of nr th the w hu has bean ono of t Us th t tenet 1 ot of the tho u on Gash ut t er these t to l Jt e mid the of r hit Eve it II the typical Ir allY and lulls fI ia gaary PY aced Ih the protection aria could hoo hoon n against the atmosphere of 01 um sum liar trier I two spin et 1 th tC fife seemed its Itc I mo assess to 10 br de 4 teG ulna tee Ne 11 0 II bat bas bast Ua lQ I IC u It t vogue ou r eta we wenet h net air lit sees noa n oa altI scary fit tJ 10 bar tor of this et C Tie ru ace u art lb Ilia Nt All or tut rUI and u tull or iii hll 4 era r h Iii A r cf a tr r ee A bit et d mi miC mis r C ekes wU Nu b be ert net uli c a aa a Ar r of ct SI H Herr err deal 10 tr Ir O OI I f o of Jaunt rose isI II brae hup Ue tle oy er C U 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