Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-02-21
A SOROSIS DINNER.
The People Who Were There, and
the S01' aot1 Which They
TalAed About.
ICrofrut's New York Letter.

[Crofrut's New York letter.
At the big Sorosis dinner at Delmonfco's
Tuesday night there were about $50 at table,
about half of them being the regular men,
bels of the club, and the rest being their hus-
bands brothers, and friends The dinner
was All exceedingly good one. 1t is surpris-
Ing how good dinner Delmonico can give
large parties at So plate. Mrs. j. &. Croly
("Jennie JuneD presided with the tact, readi-
ness, and dignity she has shown for now lol
these many years as president Of the Sorosis,
and she was ably supported by Miss Hannah
Allen, Mrs Erminie A. Smith, Mrs. Henry
Herman, and other ladies presiding at tile
tables at the right and left.
At Mrs. Croly's right sat CORTLAND Pal
mer, at her right Felix Moscheles, the Eng.
Iish portrait painter, and Mrs. Moscheles, and
among the other guests were Gerald Massey,
real poet and alleged lecturer; Mr.. and Mrs.
Rossiter johnson, Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Bunce,
Mr. and Mrs John Savage Mr.. and Mrs-
John Habberton, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Barn
ard, and 50 on and 80 on. Barnard has wyit-
ton another operetta for children, he tells me,
called "The Dreamland Tree" about the tenth
believed; Mrs Habberton assures me that
John is writing another novel mot bit like
John Savage, poet and about the last of the
Irish rebels of As, says he Is very comfortable
in his clerkship of the marine court; Mr..
Bunce says he "hears" that 0,OOO copies have
been sold of his brochure of brilliant mega
ivcs Moscheles is giving bis bright studio
talks every week to New York artists and
students, and painting portraits more and
more, and gathering in $1,000 apiece for
them.
But Soross After the fruit was done
with, Mrs. Croly ma le welcoming speech,
in which she told how Sorosis came to b,
and how it got on in the halcyon days Of
Alice and Phoebe Cary when the former was
president Then VIC had the oldest series OF
toasts you ever heard OF: ELECTRICITY"
1.-THE Spectroscope," "Ths Elevator" "The
House Beautiful" Isuppose that if there
had been time We should have been favored
with addresses on the thrashing machine, the
apple-parer and the hydraulic ram
Mr.. Palmer, the president Of tho Nine
tenth Century club, made light of cleo.
tricity. Mrs. Smith, president OF the 1Es-
thetc society, sail the spectroscope was
named from its well known ability to copo
with speck; Mr.. Montague Marks OF Tho
Art Amateur, threw out some interesting
"Dont" hints on how not to furnish house;
and Gen. Wingato, president of the Twilight
club, launched the apotheosis Of the elevator,
showing, OF course, in the end that woman
was tho great elevator Mime. Nordica, the
prma donna, Clemcntine IAsar Stulwell,
and others decorated the hour with song.
Gerald Massey was called to his feet aud
spoke but languidly and without much spirit.
He said he was sorry to think that he was
hest known to America for his poetry t"YesT
"Yes!o, but he had tried to interest himself
in other and better things than anything
aesthetic could be, the deeper problems that
underlie existence. This allusion to his spirit
ualsm and his labor crankiness was received
with hollow silence. He said little, aud
seemed depressed and out OF hea!t--as Her
bert Spencer would say, he appeared out OF
harmony with his environments.
BY the way, Mrs Studwoll tells me that,
after some years retirement within the peace
of pleasant home, she is going to take the
concert platform again. Her voice seems to
have grown rich.r ana stronger with rest