The San Francisco call., 1897-06-08
OUR NATIVE DAUGHTERS.

Tuolumne County and her fair city OF
Sonora act for all California this week in
giving welcome and doing honor TO the
Native Daughters, and we need have no
fear of the result. We can count on Tuo-
lumne, we are sure of Sonora. The Native
Daughters will have a reception worthy
of their smiles, and that is as much as
could be said of any reception ever given
to woman since the days when solomon
displayed all his glory for the Queen of
She ba.
The annual gathering OF the Grand
Parlor of Native Daughters is an event of
no little Importance. not only to the COM
munity of the city in which it is held, bu:
TO the Stale at large. No other common
wealth in the Union has such an organiza-
ton as this, and no other could form one
of anything like equal merit. 1t is in
California only that the native sons and
daughters feel in their heritage some
thing more than ordinary State pride, and
have been impelled to band themselves
together for the purpose of more effectively
advancing the glory of their land and the
welfare of its people.
From the very nature of things the most
conspicuous features of every gathering of
the Native Daughters or of the Native
Sons are the parades, the banquets, the
public oratory and the usual proceedings
of grand celebrations. These, however,
are but the decorations amid which the
earnest work OF the gatherings is set.
The organizations exist for something
more than social pleasures. They under
take the advancement of California in
many ways, and there can be no question
but what much has been done by them
which well deserves the most cordial CON-
mendation of the people al large.
If, however, there were nothing more in
the gathering at Sonora than the assembly
of so many representative California
daughters, the meeting would still be
notable and attractive one. The CaIifor-
MIA woman is no ordinary creature as
things go in this world. Her equal is not
to be found in any land the sun sees
as the globe turns round before 1t. She
takes a wider interes. in the affairs of her
native State than other women take in
those of their lands, and she gives a more
generous and stronger help wherever hel p
is needed.
Itis not difficult to see why this is so.
The native daughter is in the first
line OF descent from the pioneer
mother. The vigor, the vitality, the
glowing ardor of the one is in the
flood of the other, and under fairer
auspices and amid more propiuous sur
roundings the daughter achieves and
realizes the excellence of society, of cul-
ture and of prosperity which the mother
braved so many dangers and toiled so
hard for in the old days of wagoning
across the plains and Housekeeping in
tents and adobes. The superb stamina
and splendid beauty of California women
have long since attracted the attention of
travellers from all parts OF the world, and
it Is now universally recognized that the
pioneer mother has a daughter worthy of
her and of the golden land in which she
was born.
Oar congratulations go to Sonora and
Tuolumne on their good luck in having
the Grand Parlor, nor less do they go to
the Native Daughters on having such a
delightful place to meet Rich is the her
itage OF the Californians, but in all its
wide variety of mountain and valley
there are no places more pleasing than
that in which the Daughters are receiving
their welcome now. The golden key
which has been presented to them Is but a
sy m Dol of the opened hearts which rejoice
in their presence, and whatever of honor
Tuolumne does them they may be sure
will be warmly applauded through all
California.