New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-08
A NOVEL ALUMNE MEETING,

WHEATON COLLEGE GRADUATES HAVE BRhAA-
FAST WITH MANY CLEVER SrERcHHs.
The reunion of the Wheaton Seminary Alumnas AS
ISOLATION OF this city and OF It's vicinity, wnlcn w neu
Yesterday at the Hotel Brunswick IL GOOD example
of what lively and brilliant women can DO. u was
only tho second annual breakfast OF the orsahAaon'
but nevertheless there present between htty
and sixty women handsome II they were Young DIS
tinguished looking II they elderly as, OF course
the majority were not They enjoyed their Dr~anas''
of course but evidently cared more for tho speechoS,
listening to their Depews, Choates, Wetmcres anu
Coudcrs as they expected such things ana nad neu
brilliant aftorbreakfast speeches all their lives Anu
az a fact they had While man has been asorolns
stag dinners and all the attendant glory OF aiter
dinner speech-makng, woman has quietly begun az
the ton meal of the day and got her hand Ill., lnsteau
OF waiting until after dinner when she was sure 10
be tired ont with household cares tending babies eto
Mrs Kate Epson Clark, the author, made gracemi
and entertaining president She had TO listen 10 e.,ors
as long as ever Mayor Hewitt wrote they were nom
other associatlons) but she was ever ready win
bright remark to enllven the occasion She ala hoI
Gtackle- either political party, but she found vastly
moro interesting subject In "man.n IL appears that
man. Is too numerous on the seminaryS Doaru ot
trustees so Mrs Clark suggested that the trustes HI
the next vacancy from the alumnse suggsst ms
she explained because We know that tho trustees
would not think of IT, G.aughter.) The assoca-
message to the trustees to that effect and there was
entbuslastio applause as that official disappeared 70
get a telegraph blank
Miss Mary Briggs, an instructor, an eineriy anu
sweet faced woman, confessed that she had become
society woman by new method; she had lolhed
eleven societies. Miss Lucy LarcOm, the poet, and
MSS MacIntire, OF the ssmInary's faculty, spoke,
and Miss Emily Huntington, who Is well-known IN
connection with ktchen-gardon work, said some In
teresting things on Our Girls Charity Work. Here
are some extracts from her femarks;
II am 10 speak % you the side OF charity that
long to have taken up by Norton gira must speak or
the field which might call love charity" we nave
anougb neonle in the world who talk about my poor
women They are Gods poor We have enough VINO
enjoy telling Just what others should eat and drink ana
wear We want the old love charity revived, Whsh
novertv was not a crime but calamity. Is 1t not
womanlv field making homes harmonious, comfortable
and relned1 To lend hand is better than to lena
money We a. women are not wanted In many fields.
why push for them Why 90 back gracefully to those
our grandm1thers flled honorably When our girls
have finished AZ Merton, why not begin the STUDY oi
home and how 10 II homelke. Gould we sumciehty
realize the dignity Of the the foundation OF our
home comfort could we bring brains TO bear upon IT.
and dudsery out OF It, could we haio our 'a'n
m hears with titles that would enlist their hearts ana
u nm their heads with conscious sefrespect II for one
week we put In their places and we're a. sue
cessfu as many Of them are should we not feel enueo
to as lofty o name American maids OF HONOR ana
be proud OF our added intelligent ability
Among those present Mrs. Susan Hayes Ward'
Mrs. Lucia Streeter, Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. MacMurray'
Mrs Mary Crane Moen, Mrs. Laura NJ Paine Mrs.
Frederick Preston, Mrs. Walter Briggs MIS- Car0iiho
Mrs Mygatt aud the semnarys former principal, MIS-
Holmes.