New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-23
MR.. sTEDAIAN'S ADDRESS.


After the reading of greeting from the New-
England Society of New-Jersey, President sted-
man bade the guests welcome. and eongratu-
lated them on the Aourishing condition of the
society. He said:
Members and Guests Of the New-England So
ctety: II YOU care TO discover some modern per-
s5nages for whom Time. in Rosalinds phrase.
"gallOps withal- you heed not go TO the
dock but 10 the officers in charge OF the annual
festival of our august and now almost centena-
rian institution. Scarcely are the tables cleared
after one OF these hanquets before the prepara-
tions begin for the next ensuing II well may
seem to those of you who were here a year ago
as II YOU had closed your eyes for a moment.
like the King and court IN the legend OF the
sleeping palace, and opened them again upon
the same scene, the same wise and merry broth
erhOOd-the wiser because the merrieT-the same
cabinets filled with beauteOus and thoroughbred
womanhOod in the galleries above.
The Ladies' is not by usage. one of your
regular Joasts, but to your chairman Is awarded
the privilege of paying homage 10 their sover-
eighty It's prerOgative is emphasized by their
being set apart from US their subjects, reVer-
emily if they were EnnDresses Of China or
Lamas of Thibet- Meanwhile in other respects.
we cherish our mothers and daughters after the
example OF our forefathers. We protect them
stoutly, though not with matchlocks; we
lavish on them. instead. the perquisites and
freedom that are their due, and which il is our
delight TO give them What is this We hear
this assertion Of an Englsher that the Arnerf-
can husband is a beast of burden, Well. wa
don't make our women folk carry the lug
gage What burden assume is due to-
the fashion OF the day Certain utter
ances OF our youngest honorary member
indicate a lessening of such burdens In
consequence OF the relatively smaller progeny
IN a latter-day household I confess that il
might be trying nowadays 10 look after as many
daughters as adorned typical Colonial home OF
the early eighteenth CentUry-say the paternak
homestead Of the great Edwards. whose BIZ
centennlaI celebration last summer ths
event OF the New-England year. Think Of
modern father with eleven children, ten OF
them girlsl Girls, too, Of whom one wrote in
her diary in 1123: II was this day upon nv
looking more coIneIy than ordinary. stirred uu
in thankfulness to God whom / saw 70 be the
Fountain OF all Perfection" No wonder that
even the Colonial patriarch complained that he
had sixty feet Of offspring 70 clOthe There are
some Of YOU are already rejecting that, in this
age and city Of abs. candies. automobiles tele-
phones. telegraPhs, gloves, chi1ons. matinees.
hoWers nVe-O CLOCKS ana other fripperies and
Furnishings. even one lively recipient OF Din
money viii distribute enough TO have clothed all
those ten daughters or the Olden time and TO
have sent the GOd-gifted son 20 Yale in add
ton Doubtless. too. those sisters ten We're mis-
tresses Of the distaff and lOOm as they were oc
the classics and philosophy. and could make
their own Faiment deftly they taught the
students under their fathers charge.
Cleverly they married-yes. and stayed mar
ried, And I hasten TO add. lest it may b
thought that sUbjOining hOmily 70 Jhs
annual sermOn-for which the society viii long
hold DR.. Richards in honor-that the American,
girl. whatever her share OF the family Ogtlas, IN
In every sense worth the price"
cut ACCORDING TO Our CLOTH
Somehow We get along Just well. and marS
age TO cur according 70 cloth. The country,
TOO. gets along. and grOws stronger every year
and rarely more so than in year OF troubled
times. its Lenteu season. when We play at
tTenChment. We ourselves come together. usual
Iy in promising condition. Just before Christ
nas-at the recurrence OF the season. doUbly sa-
cred for New -E.nglanders when our pioneers
found themselves prisoners Of hope with months
OF raging ocean between them and Europe and
with they knew not what n the meaSuFeles4
and mystic wilderness between them and the
setting sun Hackneyed the worlds verdict
upon their gOdy and heroic adventure may
seem in the utteranCe. 10 IS q fact that as often
as ones close attention is given IT, the Larger
IL seems TO be writ across the scroll OF human
history We may have been bred 20 repeat au-
tomaticaIly our praise OF the fOrefathers whil.
we fall immeasUrably beneath their example We
may have slorihed them and ourselves until IL
behOOVss US 10 initiate those university feI-
lows al dinner, one OF whom said 70 Bis6OD
Creighton; Sir. think you ought 10 know thar
IN Oxford We are all 50 we'll acquainted with one
anOthers good qualities that only talk aboJg
those points which are capable OF annendr1sur
But after all. q would be pOoF taste for US IN
our ar1uenCe and comfort. or for this land ia
its greatness. TO odrnit-even from apostolic da
scendantS OF our ancestors hOspitabIe Dutch A.
les-any ceusurs OF the Consecrate reuns ~
no saw the ship. whicn had borne them to the
wilderness OF an unknown shore depart win
r. Mouguin. Bordeaux. has exported this year
Snitet States 1nls tS The largest fniportari,rl
Nsh lor price lists at Fl. MOuquin, ass Sixth ava