The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-29
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
RECEPTION OF MISS FAITHFUL BY sOROsIs

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Monday, Nov. 4th. 1t was made the
occasion Of the brilliant reception to
Miss Emily Faithful, who is at present
visiting and lecturing in the Eastern
cities. Over two hundred members and
guests assembled to do her honor, en-
bracing many of the representative
women of Literature, Art, Science and
Philosophy in this and neighboring
towns. After music by Mrs. Voree, let
tiers were read from Celia Burliegh,
Ph9ba Hanaford, Julia Ward Howe
and others. Then the President, Mrs.
Charlotte B. Wilbour, introduced Miss
Faithful in an address from which are
the following extracts, which embody
some account Of Miss Faithfulps labors:
1--WE are gathered here to offer the
greetings Of Sorosis to one of her oldest
and most distinguished honorary men,
bers, a member of another land. And
it is more than Sorosis that welcomes
Miss Faithful here to-day, for here are
honorable women, not few, who have
come to give her warm, womanly greet
ing for their individual interest in her
Also, there are here representatives of
other clubs and Industrial societies for
women, the most of them conducted
solely by women, for though the wom-
ems clubs Of Boston, Brooklyn, Orange
and Nantucket admit gentlemen, they
do not admit them as equals; the gentle
men stand in about the same relation to
their respective clubs as the wife does to
the husband in the marriage relation;
they are not expected to interfere in the
/ business or vote at the elections. There
is this exception, though, in favor of the
gentlemen-they are a consenting party
to their inequality. Because Miss Faith
fulps helpfulness to women has en-
braced many fields Of endeavor, we find
here women engaged in many methods
OF assisting women. The Cooper Tn
ion School of Design and school of Pho
nography, the Working Woman's In
ion of Brooklyn, Societies of Artists,
Young Women's Christian Associations,
Colleges and Medical Colleges, Sisters
of the Strangers, and many other Socie-
ties for woman's needs and education,
are represented by these noble women,
who offer the right hand of fellowship
to our honorary guest-member who,
in the character of woman's helper, is
more hOnOred than in that of author,
editor, lecturer or instructor. Of Sorosis
l see the resident and nonresident
members, the minister, doctor, artist,
professor, editor, author, writer and
teacher, a long list of busy ones, to IA
cilitate whose presence we selected this
day of our regular meeting for recep-
lion to Miss Faithful.
''Thus, dear friends, we all testify by
our presence here that We feel that,
though our ways are many, common
center spheres them, common purpose
santifies them all, if to that one great
purpose they are bent. How blessed it
is to feel and 10 know that these names
are nothing vital, nothing radical; that
under all the helping hand works well,
and by them all the dextrous fingers
and busy brains are trained TO the in
dustrial arts, self-helpfulness, practical
expression and the intelligent utterance
of thought.
Eight or nine years ago, when the
home duties that occupy the mother of
little children almost shut me from So
ciety, there was put into my hands a
single number of the Tieforid Magazine,
accompanied by the remark, "A wom-
ans magazine, edited and printed by
women, and good one, too. That
number contained an account of q
training school for servants that had
been opened in some country town in
England during the year 1856. sent
that number to benevolent woman in
st. Louis, and encouraged by that re-
port, she attempted the same work.
About the year 1867 began to read the
magazine regularly, and l felt that the
able editor and proprietor was set apart
and named Faithful for this especial
work, in opening industrial arenas for
women and encouraging us to assist
in our way, by collecting the reports
and notices of women's efforts every
where and printing them for our in
structiOn and example. At
present know of no magazine that so
faithfully reports all facts of interest
connected with women, women's work,
colleges, schools, societies, industries of
every class, attainments in the arts and
sciences, appointments, literary efforts,
and their numerous experiments in un-
tried fields. And the lengthy reports Of
the Victoria Discussion Society are in
valuable to cultivated women, alive to
the great practical problems of the day.
"While we were lost i'm admiration at
the editorial ability of our friend, she
was winning greater victories in other
fields Of cultured work. She charmed
and instructed by tongue and voice. as
well as by pen, and cities pronounced
her the peer Of the male orator. Her
name was mingled with those of sages
and philosophers in the councils of sol
ence. She was found worthy to fill i'm
portant places Of trust by direct an
pointment. And now for So
rosis, / say, that our interest in Miss
Faithful has increased under the magic
OF her presence, and that our apprecla-
ton OF her great work is growing bour
by hour, and our haarfs hraatbo =