The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-15
S0R0S|S TAKING SOUP.
With the Famous Woman's Club on
... an Afternoon in Early
June.
People Who Are Talked About
and the Things Said
of Them.
Why "Charlotte Temple" is Still Read
~Lorna Doone" in High Favor
Standa rtl Oil and Art.

Written for The SUNDAY INDEPENDENr.l
New YoRx, June lowell, what do yor
do there, anyhow" is the question that
nine men in every ten and three women il
every six ask when the name of Sorosis il
mentioned.
In the first place. you walk bravely in a
the Fifth avenue entrance to Delmonico'f
and board the elevator. To the mild-man.
nered young man who seems to expect tina,
remark from you, you say, ''Sorosis floor, il
You please"
It is the first Monday in the month and a
few minutes past noon.
Landing above, You find yourself among
knots of women in visiting dress. gloved an6
bonneted. Some have roses or punches OF
white and fragrant syringa or blue bachelors
buttons at their belts or in their hands. AL
are moving without haste up and down The
broad corridor and in and ont of doorways;
groups form, dissolve and reform, fol
everybody il going away for the summer
and good-byes are being said and plans
talked over. There are many guests and
you catch the phrases of introductlous
Mrs. =, you will like to know. my friend,
Miss =, who is =" or who has done - 2
and then follows an allusion to Miss -
Ah6U EOCnS PAhyS H1CoD141k pAGgu1Cs I10bly
soon you get into . corner With delight
full woman who isn't celebrlty-this kind
is SO nice to talk to-and tell her that Won
think the best thing in modern life il
women's pleasure in other women's efforts.
When this informal sort of reception has
lasted for about an hour there Is a leisurely
mounting to the floor above, where a
long table is laid in the middle of long
room, and small tables seating four each
are ranged about the sides, and other tables
seating seven or eight are dotted in adjoin-
ing apartments. On some Of the tables
chat begins as the walters fly about serving
Sorosis lunch, which differs from other
lunches in at least one particular.
First, there is bouillon, served in cups,
with rolls and butter. Then there is per-
haps, crab and an oyster pattie. Then
there is q chicken salad and croquette.
Then (this is the original feature) there ia
coffee, and after the coffee the ices.
It is very dainty little lunch. and all the
time tho June breeze Is drifting through the
lace curtains at your window, and somebody
to your right IL saying: my dear, they were
engaged and they studied the Greek Testa-
ment together EVENING""
And Is 1t happy marriage"
Arhe engagement was broken"
Indeed, it deserved to be.
At your left you hear: And you sail next
week? Take one or two of George Mere
dith's books to read on the passage. Thack-
cray and other writer's of his epoch rather
overshadowed him. but if you don't object
TO certain almost German quaintness in
his style you will find his acquaintance we'll
worth cultivating."
There is talk of preachers. II would
seem that Robert Collyer and Edward
Everett Hale are leaders and teachers to
most of those who sit about you, and that
many of them we're brought up on New
England Unitarlanism, and saw many Of
the phases and vagaries Of yegetarianism.
A dear whits-haired lady speaks Of tho Rsv.
Minot Savage, Of Boston, % - promising
young man." and she sdds, 'sbut I've