The New York herald., 1871-02-07
sOROSIs.
The Sisters in COnciave-Wit. Wisdom and
Salnd--Terribie Fate of a Herald Re-

The Sisters in COpciavc-Wit, Wisdom and
salnd--Terribie Fate OF Herald Re-
porter.
pleasant parlor bright fire, forty or fifty
women. with their strong minds mostly masked bv
pretty faces and disguised by tasteful and piauant
costumes: the resources OF Delmonico including
softs'epping walters in full dress at command; a
dainty lunch oysters IN most tempting form nd-
gestiDe Salads moulded creams, fragrant coffee and
ndescrpable tea: songs from bewitchlng singers
recitations essays on art, conversation-tnis was
the Soross yesterday. Could one OF the sex popu-
larly styled stern nave resolved himself into 1nin
air, at the same time keeping his ears ana eyes and
nose mixed with the
LEGITIMATE CAFES
without being observed, he would have seen that it
is not SO bad to be woman after all; that woman
can have her little innocent pleasures, clubs and
such. as we'll as man; and then how his morals
would have been improved by the good example
they gave to all male clubbists of going straight
OF course the room was full OF stars; but among
those of the first magnitude were Mrs. Jennie June
Croly. Mrs. Celia Burleigh Madame Demorest and
Miss Dcmorest Mrs. Frances De GaQe, Mrs. A. J.
Davis and Eleanor Kirk. While the ladies were set
Ting themselves 10 business Mrs. Frost sang q
French song,
ALL ABOUT love
which was appauded after the manner OF women.
by delicate tapping OF little French heels and pretty
clapplng OF soft white hands. Then came an ESSAY
on art BY Mrs. Poole, in which 1t was asserted that
the woman soul Is the artist soul; that when men
are artists II IS the woman side Of the man; That
lie is a mountain, out OF which man hews the
blocks where woman finds
THE IMPRISONED ANGEL.
Mrs. Poole thought all young girls shOnld be
taught something OF art so that they may construct
beautiful homes. When Melissa and Aphonso sci
up housekeeping she would have them furnish their
cottage upon aesthetic principles, leaving out the
big patterned carpet and the stiff harcoth furniture
anu remembering the soft-tnted chrOmo the Get-
cate engraving, tie antique vase and the living
blossoms.
Next a recitation. An If the scofrers could have
seen the speaker, with her
Low GREEK FOREHEAD
ana waVy nalf, ana poutng bps and dimplcs and
dear little chin. they would repent Of all those
dreadful things they say about angles and bones
and wish they hadn't The recitation was about y
prince ana a princess and
ROSE AND A NIGHTINGALE,
and how the Prince loved the Princess and how she
'd1dnt see IT, and how at last she was turned out
OF doors for naughty conduct and wanted to marry
was pretty parable. enfodng
NICE LITTLE MORAL.
Bnt the feature Of the occasion was a satire IN
M wnich tne rrinccss Al Scherizade, OF the Arabian
terprising Yankee sailor, Just as she was about
SINKING III the Bosphorus. She comes with her de.
liverer TO America, JOINS Sorosis, and, after
DELIGHTFUL YEAR
OF freedom and rights. goes to the Sultan prepared
10 de end herself with a brecch-oadmg rife. With
this argument she subdues her former lord
70 state O Hilldness worthy OF an American nus.
band and then proceeds to tell him what they do at
SorOsis Among the feats OF the club the smallest
are eating a tufeen OF oysters each at q sitting:
smoking 700 cigarettes; decapiatng three men and
HERALD reporter, the repoiter being dissected ana
sultan gives up all for lost and becomes wiser ana
a saodef man. Some more songs and pretty little
poem from tie y csldelt closed the meeting