The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-29
''PEOPL { |
HAVE NE Y
Miss Alderman at the
Water house Home.
TELLS OF HER TRAVELS
Missionary Talks To Ladies Last
Night and Is Well
Received.

| At the reception rendered Miss Jessie
Alderman and Miss Murcutt at the home
of Mrs Henry Waterhouse last evening,
about two hundred ladies were present,
among them many who are prominent in
society and in charitable work. The beau
| tfful parlors and cool lanais of the Wa
terhouse residence were tastefully deco
rated with palms and evergreens, and
softly lighted for the occasion. Mrs. Wa
Mrs Coleman, Mrs. Frear and several
other ladies'.
After a half hours social converse Miss
Alderman was introduced by Mrs. DR..
Whitney. Miss Alderman announced
that she had expected to be preceded by
Miss Murcutt, but that, as she was go
ling to speak on the subject, Some Dis
ltinguished People I Have Met" Miss
Murcutt had said she would not speak on
Icondition that she Miss MurcutD should
be mentioned among the distinguished
people.
/ For nearly an hour Miss Alderman
lentertained her audience with many in
travels, giving character sketches of
many people CT prominence whom she
had met and known personally, among
them the King of Siam. who had enter
tanned her at his palace; Cecil Rhodes.
whom she had interviewed in his famous
d almond room, in which are stones to
the value of So, 600, 600; Olive Schreiner,
the famous authoress, and her husband,
who adopted his wife's name upon mar
rying her; Isabel Beecher Hooker, the
Hast of the Beechers; Frances Willard,
Mary Livermore, Julia Ward Howe, au-
thoress of the battle hymn of the re-
public; Mrs. Southworth, Augusta Evans
Wilson, Clara Barton. and lastly Mary
j. Holmes, whose novels are the surTeptl-
ltious delight of the school girl.
i OF the latter authoress, Miss Alderman
gave an amusing sketch. She described
Miss Holmes as a very spare, tall wom-
IAN, dressed in f-bosomed shirt ef-
feet with a blazer and shirt studs and
high collar; with an auburn wig and
;spectacles When Miss Alderman had
. expressed her wonder that the authoress
should be hidden away in her quiet home
instead of being in the teeming center o.
life, where she might study human char
acter Miss Holmes had said, mo indeed
live here away from the world and my
characters are my own! Not one o.
them but has been evolved from my owl
brain!"
!, Miss Ackerman's sketches of the va
rious celebrities were made the more in
{ Iteresting by witty personal observations
s and when Mrs. Coleman announced tina
Miss Alderman would lecture tonight
the Young Mems Christian Association
! hall on the subject. Eight Hundre'
{ Miles Through Iceland on Horseback,
s many hands went UP in response to tn
5 lquestion of who would be there,
| The rest of the evening was spent Il
I social converse and pastime. Miss Ack
{ erman and Miss Murcutt will speak thi
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the parlors o
Central Union Church to women In re
3 gard to plans for the improvement Of sa
& loon government. Mrs. Coleman of tn
6 Young women's Christian Assocfatio
s also announced that the woman's physl
3 cal culture class, is now open and tina
3 the Travel Club will meet on Frida
3 evening at 7:30 O'Clock. The Youn
q Women's Christian Association embroid
& cry class, under the supervision Of MR.
& Williams, will meet next Monday ever
B ing and all who wish to join Will al
B itend.