The National tribune., 1895-05-02

Work In the department. OF the fOtOmac-
The Department of the Potomac has com.
| pleted arrangements for school of instruction
| in the ritual and work of the Order, and during
| the year the Department President and her
| staff will visit each Corps in the Departm en- t
aud assist the officers of each with the instruc-
| tion. The rituaistic work of the Woman's Re-
lief Corps is beautiful ceremony when prop
| erly performed, simple and brief. 1t is recon-
mended that all the members as well as Off
| GERS memorize the written rules. so as to be
| able to take the Office at a moments notice. and
| do the work with the promptness and solemnity
due the character Of the work in hand. 1t robs
| the work of all dignity to have the ritual
| stumbled through in the half-hearted manner
| in which the average officer does it. The
Corps of the Department are very much pleased
with the suggestion.
| All the patriotic woman's Orders in the Dis
trict of Columbia will be welcomed at Airing
ton on Memorial Day to assist in decorating the
graves of those who have been mustered into
the Grand Army above The ceremonies at the
tomb of the unknown will be singularly i'm
pressve this year. One young hundred girls are
now in training to sing they form with the
veterans about it, casting the fragrant blossoms
on the " low green tents" where sleep 80 many
namelcss dead. Namcless here. but the record
ing angel knows the name and deeds of each.
1t is probable that the veterans will them
selves decorate the graves in the officers
ton, aud 1t seems proper for them to do so.
While great deal of interest centers in Ar
lington on Memorial Day, the other cemeteries
will be by no means neglected, but have their
full quota of attention from both W.RC. and
GAR, the assignments for which will prob
ably be promulgated in General Orders in Q
few days
The Memorial badges Of the W.R.C will not
quarrel with the rainbow, as their colors too
often seem to do, but are plain black satin rib
bon with the word Memorial in silver let
tiers upon them. Garish display of any de-
scription is out of keeping with the solemnity
OF the day.
u s Grant Post omfnern grated in a fitting
literary and musical program the birthday of
the greatest General OF the age last week. the
first time that the nataliday of Gen. Grant was
ever observed in Washington. Corp'i Tanner
a member of U. S. Grant Post, of Brooklyn,
which had the honor to watch beside the dead
chieftan till the tomb closed above the moral
remains, made an address full of anecdote and
incidents pertaining 10, the life of tho General,
who was his warm personal friend.
His talk Pleased the big audience wonder
fully well. Mrs. Hamilton. the Department.
President, responded to . call for speech with
a stirring appeal for the teaching of patriotism
in the public schools and tho raising of the flag
above every ssho0l-bouse Mrs. Isabel W0rIell-
Ball, of her staff, spoke briefly of the necessity
Tor unity in patriotic, work. and OF the sad
sweet duties of Memorial day. Comrade Fern
aid read an extremely interesting article from
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE on the personal
characteristics of the llustrious dead, AMI there
were speeches of patriotic import by Mrs. Net
tie Royce, Comrade Hopkins, and many others.
Lafayette and Potomac Corps ladies served a
delicious luncheon for Grant Post which is
without Corps, lack that will probably soon
be overcome.