The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-06
THE CONGREGATIONAL CLUB
ADDRESSED List MIG HI BY MICS
uABEL LOOMS TODD.

An Exceptionally Interesting speaker
md Tnlker-A Favorite Here-Febru-
AIRY Meeting of the Club.
The February meeting of the New
Haven Congregational club was heiu
last evening at the Grand avenue con-
church. There was a large attendance
and it was a very successful meeting.
At $3.50 the members partook OF
supper served in the parlors by the Ia
dies of the church. There were 2l4 VINO
partook of the most excellent spread
The committee consisted OF Mrs. wal
fer S. Bishop, chairman; Mrs. Henry
Stevens Mrs L. 2. Deming, MISS Ger
trude Bradley. They were assisted by
all the members of the Ladies AID So
ciety. The decorations of the tables
consisted of white carnations, terns anu
candelabra of green candles, and the ell
feet was very pretty. The decorations
were arranged by Miss Hattie Denlson,
| After the supper the members ana
MANY other friends assembled IN the
audience room of the church for the
|
other exercises =
Judge l.. w. Cleaveland, president OF
the club. presided, and Rev. Z. L.
Clarke was the secretary After prayer
selections were given by the quartette
choir of the church. These selections
| were 20 Gentle Light" by Buck; solo,
"True Till Death" by Gatty, Mr.. WILL
1iams: ouartette, Maiden With my
| ID hu Call
New members were elected as FOL
lows:
Henry II. Bradley, East Haven, East
Haven church.
Edward o. Brown, 3O4 Howard ave-
nue., Howard avenue church.
Rev Alexander Hail. 65 York square
Dwight Place church.
Lewis l.. Norton, Westville, United
church.
The speaker of the evening was Mrs
Mabel Loomis Todd, wife of professor
David P. Todd of amherst. Her SUD
iect was IAN Old Autograph Album,
the address being personal remlnls-
cences Of distinguished men and women
whom she met during her residence IN
washington and in her journeys about
the world.
Mrs. Todd has already given three
lectures before the University EXtenslor
Center in this city this winter She
with her husband, visited Japan in the
Yacht Coronet in 1896 to witness the
total eclipse of the sun, and her nus
band has now gone to Spain to witness
: the total solar eclipse which is to oc'
: cur Nav %, Mrs. Todd expects to Jolr
him in March.
In the course Of her address she said
| AS l opened this old book, closed nov
t for more than ten years, to arrange tn
little talk for to-day, the first name o
7 interest to which | turned was Louis
M. Alcott, the back handed signature
with it's signs Of haste yet perfect.
, clear and legible as long acqualn
lance. Dear Miss Alcott, whose nam
$ was synonym for all delights whel
we were children and often when w
g were more than children, too. | comics
e that even now, when rainy ia
6 comes, I am possessed often in tn
midst of serious occupations with
childish desire to run off to some sunni
corner and hide away with Little Wo
:, men, for the afternoon.
y Joseph Cook, who, although a dog
L matte lecturer and writer upon theolos
? ical and philosophical subjects, fa
- then, as now a very charming person'
/ and literary side, which he chose de
- liehtfully to use and for two or thrt
II wears he aided and directed my readir
y in very noble channels. He re-aWof
y NV ioy in Emerson he suggested Jea
" Paups "Titan'' and "Hyppatice' ar
many other books, for which | can me-
u err be sufficiently grateful to him. L
"a trained and pruned taste which ne
3 been well started by my father, b.
y which might have run not in the b
wildering intellectual atmosphere
Boston, where 1, at sixteen, was hopii
to devour simultaneously, all possit
r, books and knowledge. In my little
bum he wrote lofty verse of Emerso
-, Celia Thaxter calls up at once pictul
u of her fair cottage on Appledore, n
al fair garden, just now celebrated IN 7
a. beautiful and recently published book
- of herself in white with great am
"a thyst brooch, passing about among h
~ marigolds and hollyhocks. with
- bunch of amethyst, colored sweet pei
r. at her belt; of the red woodbine ov
n the piazza, casting it's ruddy leaV
~ over the swinging hammock and cha
of those happy autumn days, when t
- Isles Of Shoals were to me verita'
,1v paradise, with Mrs. Thaxter as tn
~, prophecies and queen. How happy
- should be, perhaps happier than
would, if might go on quite indefini
!, Nv with the names which stand for
1,t friends of later days.
ol,r Other characteristics which she spc
- included Sophia e. Thoreau, j.
~ Trowbridge, e. D. E. N. SouthWa
~ af Grace Greenwood Edward Ever
Hale Kate Field and several promin
~ Japanese. including Countess Oya
an Wins-Tsuda.a
an Mrs To5d's narration was eXceedil
ion MIS- Ao'o ? iie'l