The Portland daily press., 1893-05-20
THEY TALKED OF INSULTS
And the Members Of Sorosis We're
All Talking at Once.
NEW YORK WOMEN'S FAMOUS CLUB
HAS A LIVELY SESSION.

and B1ackbaIled Several Candidates
Whereat the Ladies Expressed Their
Indignation About as Vigorously as
Their Husbands Could Have Done
One Member Would Have Said More
Had She Been Man.
NEW YORK, May 19.-The Times says
that Sorosis, New York women's fa-
nous club had lively session at it's
meeting Monday. The Times says:
AS this was to be the last business
meeting for several months, there was
long list of names to be voted upon for
membership.
The first candidate was Miss Lolita
Crabtree. Her name had been proposed
by Mrs. Edward E. Kidder, and her
vouchers were Mrs. Sydney Rosenfeld
and Mrs. A. M. Palmer. Miss Georgia
Cayvan, who is member of Sorosis,
sent a letter enthusiastically recommend
ing Miss Crabtree.
1t is the custom of Sorosis to discuss
thelqualifcations of candidate before
the name is voted upon. The only OBJ
lection made to Miss Crabtree was that
she was an actress. But when the ballot
was taken the chairman solemnly an
nOunced:
Ladies, the candidate is not elected"
For moment there was silence, or as
near an approach to it as was possible in
gathering of more than $50 women.
Then long-drawn murmur of disse MT
and protest ran around the room.
Mrs. E. K. Kidder sprang to her feet.
She was trembling with excitement.
s'This is outrageous" she exclaimed,
s'the most outrageous thing I know
of. I resign my membership. I won't
belong to an organization that will be
guilty of such a thing"
''S-h-h-h p sounded from various
parts of the room, and Mrs. Kidder's
nearest neighbor pulled her back into
her seat.
81 am sorry,'' said Mrs. A. M. Palmer,
with flashing eyes, ''that Sorosis can be
so little, SO narrow. so mean. / also re-
sign. I'm ashamed of Sorosis.n
Mrs. Rosenfeld declared that the club
had offered an insult to her as voucher,
an insult which she would never forget.
The chairman hastened to announce
the name of the second candidate, Mrs.
John Dillon. The usual commendatory
letters regarding the candidate were read,
the vouchers said their good words, and
nobody interposed an objection. Yet,
when the balloting was concluded, the
chairman again made the announcement:
1.-THE candidate is not elected
There were more bitter remarks, so
bitter that the chairman felt called upon
to announce that any member of Sorosis
had a right to blackball candidate if
she wanted to, and to quell the storm the
chairman gave the third name on the list
of applicants, Mrs. Thaddeus B. Wake
man.
Mrs. e. B. Foote arose and said that it
had been stated in her hearing that Mrs.
Wakeman's name should not pass the
club. In view of this, she requested the
member who had proposed Mrs. Wake
man to withdraw her name, ''lest Sorosis
should further disgrace itself by insult
ing Mrs. Wakeman as two previous cam
didates had been insulted."
Miss Hannah Allen, who had proposed
the name, said in response to Mrs.
Foote'S request:
II withdraw the name of the friend of
my youth"
The ladies present were furious when
| the application of Miss Crabtree was de-
| feated; they were still more furious
WDOu LID. Dl1lOAl was lCloSOO, OlO LlISy
were in a condition approaching frenzy
when Mrs. Wakeman's name was thus
disposed of. The lines of Cushing
Manual were forgotten. Many of them
jumped to their feet, their cheeks flushed,
and, with voices pitched much above the
ordinary key, spoke vigorously and
plainly, without the customary preface,
MRS. Chairman
"Order! Order! Orderp cried the
chairman, and she thumped the marble
slab with the small gavel, being greatly
agitated herself. But the confusion con
tinued unabated. Ladies ran from one
to another talking with excited gestures,
and the words outrage" ''disgraceful, .
'shame," and did you ever know any
thing like it in your life?' were heard ir
| all parts of the room.
ooh, if were but a man for a mo-
ment!' exclaimed one, and her hearers
seemed to understand what she would
| have said if she had been.