, 1889-05-05
CLEVER CLUB WOMEN.
Responses to Toasts at the Queen
Anne Club Celebration.
How Centennial Day Was Observed
BY the Woman's Club.
Graceful and Neat Responses With
a Good One in Rhyme.

and very successful woman club observed
centennial day by indulging in a banquet
at Mrs. j. NJ. Carey's. After dinner
toasts were offered and in some instances
the responses we're exceedingly clever.
OF Our Club" Miss Hebard said:
Some one kindly said of our club
when we first organized. L suppose the
reason why you call it the Queen Anne
club is because of the antiquities which
are in it. This may be a fact, but 1 have
no personal recollections of the ladies of
1889, but of the ladies of 1889, 1 will
say as some one else has said-they are
the salt of the church, the pepper of the
choir, the life of the sewing society and
about all there is of a young ladies'
school or a nunnery."
MIS-. G. w. Baxter answered to Our
Guests"
THE very word guest has a peculiar
significance of warmth and generous
heartiness.
For the Arabs tent or the Lordly
castle or the humble cotters home or
landed proprietor's mansion it remains the
same thing. and insures sweet amenities
and kind observances. In its derivations
it is allied with the word foster and
obhges care. attentive and humble con-
sideration.
Hospitality is the keystone of ones
home and hearth. Its practice ~invaria-
bly, distinguishes those of generous i'm
pulses. In the folk lore of the barbar-
ian, as on the charming legends of later
civilization it has an odor of sanctity,
immunity from rudeness, abuse and ne.
glect.
"How many charming and expressive
phrases are derived from tie excellence
of this word, guest" The latchstring
hanging outside the door; welcome the
coming and speed the parting guest.
"A guest does not always mean a
friend. The stranger is par excellence en-
titled to its special protection. l
have heard an appreciatlve visitor say:
That here in our new and pretty little city
of the plains the spirit which seemed to
prevail, making the stranger at home and
welcome within our gates, would insure
more rapid and desirable growth than all
the crude possibilities of our mineral de-
posits, or the stock carrying capacity of
our wide rolling p~rairies.
Let Ms foster the inspirations of this
little word; cherish the spirit of Eospi-
tality it engenders. After all it is one of
the sweetest of charities to make the
stranger feel at home; to make our neigh
Dor guests feel as | an told the soldier
feels in battle from the elbow touch of
his comrade.
Frequent polite social intercourse
makes the worlds ways smoother and
greener and the last best gift vouchsafed
by the little word l have spoken briefly
of is the possible one of a friend. One
often entertains an angel unawares."
THE Day We Celebrate" was respond
ed to by Mrs. L. Mason Smith in this
manner
The Queen Anne club, in the words of
Glory McQuirk, lis having a good time
and we're in it"
The day we celebrate has fallen to me.
| am sorry, for it is a meritorious day and
deserves a better fate.
Lowell in a little poem tells how on an
niversary day a ghost ola New England
pilgrim made him a visit. Could | have
invoked that same friendly ghost, and
asked him to stand at my elbow tonight
he would describe the scene of 1879; tell
you how Washington looked as he stood
on the balcony taking the oath OF office,
of the listening crowd, the men with
strong, brave faces, which told OF q battle
fought, a victory won. The women in
their picturesque gowns adding grace and
beauty to the scene l know that one of
my ancestors was there, OF the people, or
among the great ones it matters little.
L dare say your fo%refathers too were cele-
brating the inaugural day; they may not
have been in New York City, but as
Washington stood there he was 80 en- rap
port with every citizen of the union and
by a kind of spiritual ~telegraphy his
thoughts were transmitted to each patri-
otto heart in the new republic. We owe
it to the day we celebrate that we women,
loved, honored and respected, can meet
here tonight.
L will ask you to toast the day we cele-
brate that We may so honor the memory
of Virginia's grandson, our country sire,
George Washington.
To the toast Martha Washington"
Mrs. Warren responded as follows;
Martha Washington, the mother of our
country, may she meet with us on April
80, 1899"
This response from the Womans' club
OF Dubuque, Ia, was sent by Mrs. Mary
Newbury Adams:
"'Tis the soul that is national.
And he who pays true loyalty to that
Alone can claim the wreath OF patriotism"
The year Of Washington's Inaugural
tion women were treated "a nersops mot