The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-26
HyPATIA.
Some bright III lights from The Bright Won n
OF This Popular Society.

| had TO be cut out of the proceedings of the
/ HDpatia banquet at the Carey, given in
| honor of the sixth anniversary of that
! splendid organization The sddress of Mrs
| Julia X. Bennett was fine in every respect
and reflects credit on the bright author
1t would if printed in full make fine
reading treat but unfortunately such a
| thing is impracticable at this tue The
/ following extract from it however will be
| found interesting.
Dear Friend and Ladies OF iiypatia:
| As Il club we have today reached another
| mile stone on our journey, aud we can en-
| roll this upon our records as another gala
! day. And pausing upon the threshold OF
new year, IL IS proper that we take re-
/ Prospective glance al the work we have ac-
| complshed. Looking over our past, we
| find that we have made an united effort TO
| do good, substantial work, and make our
| club efficient and helpful TO all. We have
welcomed new members, and regretfuily
hidden adleu TO others whose duty called
them from Us TO homes in other cities. In
the prosecution Of our intellectual pur-
| suits, we have delved into German litera-
ture and were transported back TO the
days when the Minneslnger turned his
harp to the ear of his lady love. Pushing;
our investigations into the realm of the
car we have spent pleasant hours with
| Tolstoi, StepBick and Prince krapolkin.
We have travelled hand in hand with
George kenDan the long, weary road TO
Nizhun Norrgorod to the Mongolian from
tier. [ Gder the guidance of Amelia 3. Ed
wards and NJ. Nayilli the catacombs of old
Egypt forbade Us not an entrance. The
Pharaohs and Plotemys marched before
US IN stately pageant ana the great
temples of Dendera and Edfer opened to
us their treasures. While from the ancient
hn Of
learned much concerning a prehistoric
race upon our own continent. The Matri-
Archaic told us of a time when woman
held the balance of power and welded the
affairs OF state and nation. being the head
of the family as well. We have studied
anthropology, folklore and mythology;
we have discussed woman in the home. ia
business, literature, science and art. We
have considered true benevolence and
scientific charity and discussed means TO
elevate the stage. We have
given attention to domestic economy,
science in the kitchen, CO operative house
keeping and the most practical means OF
securing an ideal home. Time has been
devoted to the welfare of the babies OF our
homes,' We have had the enterprise to
successfully produce composite story"
of many chapters, and now the question
that has been confronting us IN the past
weeks has been, to what line of thought
shall we direct our attention in the i'm
mediate future?n And so, dear friends
we give you the best we have. There Is
no subject passing but one side, though
our subjects may be old we have dressed
them anew. And now dear friends, in
conclusion, | most heartily thank you for
the honor you have conferred upon me,
and | assure you that | most fully appreci-
ate both its honors and responsibilities.
hope that we may have a profitable
year, aud in this invite the hearty CO.
operation of each member. to the end that
our club may be IN the future what 1t has
been in the past, pleasure and profit to Us
all, to our city and our sex.
Mrs. Ella Glenn Shields, who is now
soiourning in New Mexico with her hus-
band remembered the society with very
nice letter of which the following is an
extract:
DEAR FRIENDS: How should like to
sit down with you at the banquet.
know / shall be remembered, for it is the
first one | have ever missed. When the
toasts ara given, say for me that, in this
far-away land, which Charles LOOMS so
beautifully describes in the December
Century, there is one heart that always
goes away across space TO meet with
Hypatia. Tell them that many times, in
my lonely hours of pain. memory has I'M
closed the gates and, in vision, l have
looked down the long table around which
we gathered that last afternoon, and
have been permitted to see the faces of
those who gave me such kindly Godspeed,
when was turning my face from all loved
so we'll Bid them press forward to better
and higher work than ever, and as in the
past, let the watchword be, mo footsteps
backward
Mrs. J. NJ. Knapp submitted the follow
ing nice poetic tribute to the absent ones:
OUR ABSENT ONES.
As we gather round this festal board, with
cheerful hearts,
Free from dull pain and little fretting cares,
(As we entered here we babe them all depart,
Our joy would be complete but for these va
cant chairs.
Fair forms that graced our board one year
Have vanished from our sight; their foot
steps stray
Ger distant plains and heights; but no bonds
can spirit know:
We feel their presence with US here today.
Some left Us long ago. The months have
heightened into years.
o, fieeting time. II seems but yesterday
Since the music of their voices touched our
ears,
They are so near. and yet so far away.
One woes sweet. fchle health for one beloved, /
Where healing streams. sparkling and free,
Rush down from snowy peaks above;
Another dwells down by the restless sea.
On foreign shores one walks and dreams,
BY palace, park, through dim cathedral
aisies;
Her dark eyes drinking in the wondrous
scenes
OF castle, tower, and vine-clad ancient piles.
Dear absent ones, do not strange longings fill
your hearts this hour,
AS hack to our band your thoughts unbidden
stray?
Hypatia's changeless love-the gentle power,
That holds your spirits captive here today.
Mrs. NJ. 4. Singer read the following
lines, which are the creation OF her own
genius:
should aud acquaintance be forgot
And never brought TO MINI
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days OF auid lang syne?"
Deep in our hearts are fond regrets,
With loving thoughts entwined-
For those we sadly miss today,
Dear friends Of aud lang syne.
o, winds that blow from east to vest,
Your MESA 70 Is divine;
Yo frcightcd seem with tenderness
From friends Of suld lang syne.
Go. bear upon your billowy breast,
To them these words % I1inc;
We love them now: will love for
Our friends o. auld lanc syne.
THE y. NJ. {. 4. BUILDING.
TIE Y NJ c ~ oftWichita arc sending
out ballots 20 find out who is the Repuh-
iicaa. the Der50cro1ic and the Peoples .