The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-10-07
COLONIAL DANES OF AMERICA.
A Woman's Club TO Promote Patriotism
and Conserve Aristocracy.

A Woman's Club TO Promote Patriotism
and Conserve Aristocracy.
The bold statement that another WON
ans society is about 10 be organized is
not particularly thrilling. As in these
days the queens of creation SO generally
become queens of clubs, by reason of
their membership in some association
formed to promote social, religious, lit
erary, industrial or artistic aims, and
having thereby indicated more or less
their claim to be considered clubable
creatures, no particular attention is paid
TO their movements in this direction.
But when to the announcement that a
new club is about to be created there is
coupled the intelligence that only women
will be eligible whose ancestry is estab-
hshed by heredity-not acquired matri-
monially or by purchase, like that of the
colonel in The Pirates"-interest is at
once quickened, and it becomes fairly
rampant when the whole scheme is I'M
folded and it appears that every member
will have to make her calling and cleo
ton sure by proving her direct descent
from forefathers who emigrated to Amer
lea prior to the year 1776, and who made
their mark upon the time to the extent at
least of being considered worthy of es-
TEEN and renown."
1t is intended that the proposed society
shall be among women what the Order
of the Cincinnati and the Sons Of the
Revolution are among men, and it will
to a certain extent embody the princi-
piles of these societies. The aim of the
organization will be ''to commemorate
the success of our glorious republic. to
promote social intercourse and fellow
ship among its members now and in all
the future, to inspire a genuine love of
country in every heart within its range
of influence, to labor to diffuse health
full and intelligent information relating
to whatever concerns the past and tends
to create popular interest in the men
and events instrumental in the providing
for us our precious institutions.
1t will also be an obligation to collect
and preserve manuscripts, traditions,
relics and mementoes of the old times
when the colonies were young and the
aforesaid ancestors lived and moved and
had their being. 1t will be a sacred duty
devolving upon the members to teach
the younger generations as they arise to
hold in loving remembrance the brave
days of old" and to honor the heroic
men whose ability, valor, sufferings and
are beyond praise, and
should excite the deepest reverence and
the liveliest patriotism, land to pro-
mote social intercourse and fellowship
among its members"
This is the substance of printed let
ter setting forth the scheme of the new
society which is being quietly circulated
among those who are undoubtedly and
those who are presumably eligible to
stand among the elect who propose to
call themselves The Colonial Danes of
America"
The names of the originators of this
patriotic and aristocratic corporation
are not disclosed, but the blank in the
''letter" which invites the woman 10
whom it is submitted to kindly commu-
nicate her willingness to be considered
as a candidate by the committee of
judges is variously filed out by several
ladies whose family patronymic figures
in the annals of old, very
old New York. New York World.