Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-21
CHARITY ANDS0CIETY
Benevolent Women and Their Sisters
Who Shine Socially.
A FEAST FOR LOVERS OF MUSIC.
Young Lady Art Students Intent on
Verestehagin Paintings.
AFFAIRS OF NOTE IN SOCIAL LIFE

One dear, sweet, benevolent old lady at
the meeting of the trustees of the prospective
Deaconness' Home yesterday afternoon,
with her spectacies on her nose and her
shopping bag in her Jap, dozed away for
dear life, but the remainder of the trustees
present were painfully wide-awake and on
the alert the meeting being one of the most
spirited thus far held in the interest OF the
home.
Rev. Dr.. Locke, President of the Board
of Trustees, occupied the chair and Mrs.
Joseph Weeks, as Secretary, not only took
notes OF the present session, but, at the re-
quest of members of the board, various times
referred to records of preceding meetings.
1t seems that the good work of establish
ing Deaconness' Home in Pittsburg mas
some antagonists who delight in making it
the subject for facetious remarks, and
boldly ASSET that it is under petticoat rule.
j. e., under suhjection to the Woman's
Home Missionary Society of the Methodist
Church, which fact Rev. DR.. Miller said
could not be disputed, as a lady was not
eligible as member of the Board of Trus-
tees unless she was first identified with that
missionary body.
A Restriction to BE Regretted.
He further remarked that he regretted
this restriction, as he frequently met good,
noble, energetic Christian women who weuld
he admirable acquisitions to the organiza-
tion, and who were desirious of serving, only
that they were not members of the Home
Missionary Society.
Al inf 1r rroS lod
by feminine member whose name ranks
high among the officers of the Woman's
Home Missionary Society, who remarked
that only the sum of 81 stood between any of
the ladies possessed of the multiplicity of
virtues and the object OF her desires, as for
that amount one could become a member of
the missionary society and eligible to the
Board of Trustees.
DE-. Miller thought the least said about
the subject the better, but another
reverend gentleman was of the opinion
that the charge that the board was
ruled by the missionary society
should be refuted, and it be clearly estab-
lished that it was general church work.
Others-the majority, in fact-metaphoric-
ally, sat down upon any such an attempt
as it would only give the matter more
prominence than it deserved, and would
accomplish nothing, as the fact remained
that the project was tied, to a certain
degree, to the apron strings of the mission
ary society, which is expected to exercise a
sort of maternal soIicitude over it and
furnish substantial financial aid, as we'll.
The report of the committee appointed
some time ago to investigate property, with
the intention of purchasing, was to the
effect that they had not been successful in
discovering any desirable property.
Too Hucb Aufl,o,itv Not Hr,.to5
A motion was then made and seconded.
that the committee be authorized to investi-
gate property for renting, and also be en-
dowed with the authority to rent, with or
without the cooperation and knowledge of
the remainder of the board. The commit
tee, with becoming modesty, declined to be
so endowed, and such expressions as "You
keep still!' "How do you know" and
others of similar sportive nature foated in
the atmosphere.
1t was then suggested that as Mrs. Van
Kinks prolonged illness prevented her fili-
ing her position of Chairman of the commit
tee, DIR. Miller be appointed to fill her place
To this DIR. Miller declined emphatically.
saying that others who had not so many
funerals to attend. so many babies to baptize,
so many calls TO make, and so many sermons
to preach could do the work more effectively.
At this juncture Mrs. Van Bradenburc,
the little Deaconness who Tor some months
has been waiting patiently decided action
in the matter, remarked effectively that the
prolonged delay already was due to the fact
that no Chairman marshaled the forces, and
she thought a chairman of some kind quite
indispensable. 1t was agreed to leave the
matter to the committee to settle at its
meeting, with the hopes it might prevail
upon DR.. Miller to accept
An Election With a String Attached.
The designations of Mrs. Bricnall and
Mrs. Hama were accented, and Mrs. John
Graft and Miss Belle Bradley elected to fill
the vacancies-if the latter was member of
the Womsn's Home Missionary Society.
The committee for the selection of a home
will look around various parts of the CITY.
and when desirable piece of property is
found, will call a meeting of the entire
board. to take decisive steps, with the desire
o having the home in operation by the first
of April.