The Republican journal., 1897-02-11
Hiss Sibley in the West.

The Belfast friends of Miss Charlotte
Thorndike Sibley will be pleased to learn
| that she has met with marked favor and re-
ceived the most generous words of COM
mendation during her western lecture tour
She is we'll received at home and abroad be-
cause she most richly deserves respect
and admiration. She is having a most de-
lightful stay in Chicago and is receiving
more invitations than she can accept. She
has already given eight or nine addresses in
that city, has attended the Wellesley Club
and several literary clubs, and has passed
some pleasant and profitable hours at the
University. A very charming reception was
given in her honor jan 22d, and since then
several luneheons and dinner parties. While
in Kansas City she gas a guest in the
charming home of Mrtand Mrs. Eugene
Rust, formerly of this ci She lectured in
three different churches In Kansas City and
gave two other addresses one for the stu
dents in one of the schools and one in the
Florence Chittenden Home. She will give
two lectures in Indianapolis the last of this
week and the first of next. She will
return east soon to meet engagements in
Brookline, Oakland and Newton, Mass,
and in several places in Maine. Following
are some of the press notices:
Miss Charlotte 7. Sihley of Belfast will
speak at the Southwest tabernacle Tuesday
evening on "Over Palestine Rills on Horse
back" Thursday evening she will speak at
the Clyde Congregational Church on "Con-
stantinople, the City of the Golden Horn''
Friday evening before the Christian Endea-
of ha
"Children and School Life in the Orient
Miss Sibley is a graduate of Wellesley,
and has travelled extensively in the Orient.
She is speaker well known in Eastern
churches. kansas City World, Jan. oath.
The bi-monthly union meeting of the
local societies of Christian Endeavor was
held at the First Christian Church, corner of
Eleventh and Locust streets, last night.
After song service, Miss Charlotte T. Sibley
of Maine, gave an address on "Child Life in
the Orient" Miss Sibley has travelled extern
sively through the Oriental countries, Pales-
tine and Egypt, and her lecture was fall of
interesting descriptions of the customs and
manners of the Oriental people and the
needs of Christian influences for the chill
dren. Kansas City Journal, Jan. 3Oth
=, A good sized audience gathered in Clyde
Congregational Church Thursday evening,
under the auspices of the ladies' literary
committee of the church, to hear Miss
Charlotte Thorndike Sibley, a young socie-
ty girl of Belfast, Me-, and recent graduate
of Wellesley college, detail her observations
on recent visit to Constantnople. Miss
Sibley is charming personally and has a
sweet, well modulated voice and pleasing
and vivacious conversational method of
speaking. All who heard her were delight
ed with her address, which was delivered
entirely without notes. The Leda Mandolin
club opened the evening with selection
and Miss Rowley, contralto, followed with
a pleasing rendition of Eugene Fields "In
Gods Acre" Mrs. w. NJ. Phillips, soprano,
closed the entertainment with Tosti's Good
Bye" and Bohm's "Entreaty," the latter
sung in German, Kansas City Star, Jan. 81