New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-19
CNE MILLINERY.
yOROSTS "REMINISCENCES.
annual Day of Remembrance Of the
Dead Observed by the Club.

ePoseTnarv-fhatS for remembrance
7 was not memorial service that Sorosis held
yesterday for its dead but an afternoon of remem-
h-ance Of reIniniscence 1t was not intended to De
sad aT.d there no tears. The meeting-an
annual affair In the calendar Of Sorosis-was held
a. tho Myrtle Room at the Waldorf-Astoria, like
7u Sorosis's meetings. the flowers at the presl-
6sr--s right were fragrant stocks in pink plum
and white: the music was tender sometimes but
cheerful always. Tenderness. love. remembrance,
fai+h-these marked the exercises. Nearly one hun
5red members were present Each received as
souvenir an oblong white card. with Reminds
cerce~ in zod letters inclosed in a laurel wreath
below the magic word ''Sorosis- and on either
hand the torch Of life. also in gold
When I was in Athens said Mrs Charlotte B.
vvilbour TIE president. I visited old cemetery
Among the neglected gTavestones was a tablet
carved with the figures Of a husband and wife
The motto beneath spoke Of happiness and love,
not Of sorrow or death or mourning Let that be
the spirit Of cur meeting to-day Let US hold
meeting Of remembrance, and all in the sacred
name Of friendship
Then Mrs Hattie c Osborn. the secretary, read
the rollcall- II the rollcall Of the DEAD, not
of the living. and the members who were sun IN
the flesh stood reverently through the reading
Tt seems as If they must answer to their Names
whispered one Of the charter members
Tn PILGRIM and I'm ma; a STRANGER ran Jrb,e
I must tarry, must tarry but d WINE
gang Mrs Sydney Rosenfeld
There Is q New-York clergyman who on every
AL Saints Dav reads aloud in his church the
names of his people who have died within the
year" said Mrs. May Riley Smith After each
name he pauses As If tn bring to his mind the per
Eonalitv Of the dead. In such spirit year BOOK
in hand I went through the list Of Sorosiss dead
last night recalling each. Not one but had her
own grace OF virtue. OF whica she gave something
70 the club which has become incorporated IN the
life % The club It is not so much what theE Gu
as what they were Some never held an once or
read paper What remember Of our deao Is
not their brilliant papers-it t is the SURPRISING
quality Of their personalities. the heart OF the'
the soul Of them. the imperishabie part OF lheii-
Let rs cultivate the grace Of loyalty. cne u0S
our names will be transferred from the page where
they now stand TO that other page think clu"S
have taught women TO be tolerant and hgh nnioeu
as nothing else has. When Mrs. Browning asked
Charles Kingsley for the secret Of his oeautii"i
life-I had a friend he answered
In closing Mrs. Smith spoke particularly OF
sweet Mary Fem" She was followed by a mum
Der OF other women. who spoke in special reiiiiii
brance Of individual members.
Mrs Edward A Greeley spoke of Mrs Anna
Dormitzer. L feel she said, that we are com
passed about by crowd if not cloud, OF VII
nesses. .
We are glad to think Of that great Sorosls III
the other land said Mrs. Sarah Ostrom as sii7
told OF Mrs Caroline Z Rousch. Then MIS- Cdiiie
Stow Wait spoke OF Mrs Kate NJ Server ana
Mrs Theodore Sutro OF Mrs Erminle oni,1--
when I was little girl OF twelve, sald Nj
Sutro. Mrs. Smith made me her guest al 0oius-
and I PLAYED a piece on the piano. That was W.
Sorosis used 10 meet a the old Delmonlco 5 f0
rosis doesn't only remember US when we IL 0'
It helps US while alive H.
Mrs Lucy Thomas. niece Of Ahce Ca1'
first president Of Soross. spoke briefly OF hei
Mrs Philip G. Carpenter read poem III ieI -
of Jenny June Croly. and MISS fl@iii
spoke Of The Old Friends. .,o
Mrs Dow Of jamestown, the presloeIlI %
State Federation had been elected TO SoroSl0 O
the business meeting that preceded the aitei
session and she was asked TO speak Ai'iioOe
50 new a member she said. Il have met la4ts -
1-o-lr presidents ard nave seen them presIoe W
Crolv Mrs William Tod Hsmuth, Mfs, Oe
end Mrs WiItollr This is a privilege. ~ Eav
Also there was violin music by hlcl 49, absent
and Mrs Eugene Clarke reaO ietlS3S IL
members and there tea aiter@aLo- 49, E9aven-
The following poem was composer ~ e,o,, Mrs
hin 4 charter member. for the ocCA9'Rli,acf-
CroIy having asked her 10 write on 'ie
What is the best thing in life? -. .,o neacb
Tho hest thing in life2 It's the bloom on ~.
n was here just this moment, and no" !. ~ can
It's the thing strive most ior' Ee' me-
It's the beauty that heraIds the coming o. MORE In
It's The bubble that breaks. the dart snot rum NV
It's the dream that Love cheats his blind Voiar1es
rs M light on the hilltop mist on the river
The dew on the flower; IT'S the peiiu
breathe.
II. ran ,eyer attain it-it eludes Us forever; ,,-
We stretch forth eager hands, IL Is gone rum '
An ne seems a struggle of useless endeayor. a..
Then Death drops the curtain ana Pu's "u' ~
Hight