New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-02
THE SOROSIS DISCUSSION.
THE SUBJECT, SOME RECENT EVENTS IN
THEIR RELATION TO WOMEN.
ABLY HANDLED

WOMEN WOULD STAND A BETTER CHANCE IF
THE ANGLo-sAxoNs RULED THE WORLD.
The members OF Sorosis partook Of their usual
monthly breakfast at the Waldorf yesterday, ana
met in the ballroom at 2:3o for 'the last social
meeting before the annual election. AT the next
one there will be a president for Mrs Hell
mu,h. having served three terms. cannot accord
ing 10 the constitution of the club be Reelected
In opening the meeting she reminded the ladies'
of this circumstance. and said that even the savel
seemed 10 be aware of the fact, for 1t mad broken
OF its own accord
Mrs Helmuth charmingly gowned in deep
heiotrope velvet and bonnet of velvet in
similar shade. trimmed with single hehotrope
tp. The skirt OF the gown was braided IN proad
stripes and the bodice trimmed with broad
beaded bretelles.
The programme for the occasion was arranged
by the Committee on Current Events. Mrs. Ada
Metcah Brown chairman and was as follows
Sings, s, T Wse1 P' cd ,Ss Boats Eleanor smith
PICTURES G} Where Tfs sT DID You Come From Baby
Dear ear cr:,dn Icra D''e' DUN
Henrietta {. Tuthil, accompanies .
Recitation my ;s w M. f2 Kat, the H fnRvsra'y
Of s0T0s! Mrs Mf Margaret ret W. FaSsn6I.
R F.. ns.. aSs Sf 4s Miss O Bertha S Bacn VoH
s0, s6 d,tSssoS R MT
lation to Women"
Presentation the subject:
Ada MetcaH Brown.
Dr. Jennie de la NJ. Lozier. Emily Palmer Cape
pimies DensqR o.; ea sarnn Alien
Exiemporaneous discussion
The Current Events Committee is one, but
Mrs Brown said that ought TO be called reincar-
nation rather than an innovation. for the club had
not held rs tongue for twenty-nne years regarding
these subjects even though no committee had been
charged with the duty Of bringing them up for dis
cussion.
Each one OF the seven speakers took some partcu-
lar current events or of for special con-
alteration Mrs. Brown beginning with arbitration
This subject, she thought. was OF supreme impor-
.anse 70 women and she considered it their duty to
disseminate correct ideas with regard to it,
WAR and patriotism not synonymous. she
asserted I've can love own children without
hating those Of other peo3e. and why cannot we love
our own country without hating other countries! IL
,s not so much duty 70 die for our country as 10
live for IT, so that Others will respect it,
Nrs Iozier spoke Of a few individual women or
IN. dav-the late Empress Of China, who died on
June 70; the Czarna Of Russia. the Empress OF Ger
MANY the Rev Frances E. Brandt. whoisa candidate
for the office of chaplain in the Kansas LeSsa'ure'
a,d Mrs Alfred Corning Clark. who has done so
much for the model tenement scheme Mrs. Lozier
said that the Rev. Frances f. Brandt would II ap-
pointed be the first chaplain in the country
I'm, when she had finished Miss Ellen Niles rose ana
claimed that honor for Sorosis The Rev. Pheoe
uanaford had acted chaplain she SAID IN the
legislature of Connecticut in 1870 and 49,
Mrs Cape spoke of the mental progress OF the
times and said that there was no telinS no" great
an advance the race might make now that ohe-hal
q, was not acting clog to the other.
Mrs Denison talked OF international marriages.
and said she thought they would DO more thah
arbitration toward keeping the peace
Dr. Townsends subject was the bicycle FROM a
rperaneut,c and HYGIENE Standpoint" She said
The bicv.le had completely retuvenated woman
kind. and had seized upon all classes or society
TIE tired riding because ii rested them the rested
riding because IT tired them. the thin because II
increased their weight, and the fat because II
helped them to get rid OF IT,
Mrs Kidder said the rushing was the only
current event she knew anything ABOUT or o was
in Journalism and the applied arts; Mrs Mastick
Mrs Titcomb. Of women in the late presidential
h by M ny'1 1oSn
i hog RTe'a Snd Mrs IN Harriet stanton Baieh
e.ss aGH ,b9 IN Cz nG Of Russia and Wash
health failed took up his YORK The BF P sai6
We might vet expect to hear much while as to
in general she conld see no ieasOT T M
they should not come into the reaizauoh Oh ''e"
Ms Batch spoke OF the a RI nanr nt THE
English and the American.bpt that she beng ne
% ss BY 9 S6sh w Sng h sse Said that Am
cans should remember that they were Sa ne She addes
Tia; there WAS s''i a point in which America would
70 . initiate rec EnESn' she said with
man who spoke most contemptuously or the Eng
nsh Army 'One pop in his opinion, would De the
.Bu, would England ever come to that ''one
pop.r asked. 49,, IT, .,. 40. ocd
pay for tt .. -. o.
'Now / wish America would take just that COM
mon sense commercial standpoint o.
Ny residence in England she continued mas
no. made me English but II has made me an
Anglos Saxon think the An6'o-saxons QUIZ ourht ~
rule the world. and when they GO we "oiie' WIN
nave far better times - .,r
The musical and literary programme was u pal pa,
amused by the recitation My Letter-f3ox, me
hox being supposed 70 contain the OPINIONS OF OF
was devoted chiefly 10 praising thc Luhcncs OF
sorosis. but he said that the lemonade bIusne9a
a. It's weakness" bongfeiIows supPoseu
contribution was a parody on "Hiawatha
Among those present as guests OF me cluo NJ
Nrs John A. Logan. Mrs stanton Batcn' Mfs.
SSargaret Stanton Lawrence Mrs ~ v ,, I"nh
SaHaey. Mrs Thomson. president or the Eiizapeth
womans Club. Miss Ieitch. associate editor OF
Nursery; Mrs. Kincaird. vce-presldeni, OF 'Ie
century Club. Of San Francisco; MIS- Heien u"
bullock. OF the National w. c. T. L; MIS- MOTIFS
~ the Ann ArboT Sorosis Mrs Johh Ihor,lIoii
wood OF the Press Club. Washington; MIS-. Mills
OF the Daughters Of Cincinnati: Mrs. cushing
president Of the Womans Club Of orange; MIS-.
A.nfam steers. regent OF the New-iorK Chapter
% the Daughters OF the Revolution; Mrs r. >
SShecseborough Of Chicago; Mrs. Aldace walker.
1rs j. a. Clarke. wife Of Professor Clarke, or
yolumbia University; Mrs ". r Merrill. MISS
iL,eayens. Of the Chicago Womans Club; Miss May
LtcTtRE ~ GRAMMAR SCHOOL NO. 20
Miss Jennie Melyene Davis lectured last night In