New-York tribune., 1903-01-02
.SOROSIS ENTERT4INS.
Its Annual Nezr Years Celebration
Scientific Snapshots.

Meu enjoyed his annual field day at Sorosis
yesterday. It the clubs annual New Years
reception and breakfast-the one event in the
year TO which men are invited or tolerated-and
about seventy-fve men, friends Of the members,
were there to enjoy what was. as usual, brilliant
occasion The affair received additional interest
from the fact that il the last social meeting
Of the club which Mrs. Dinlies T. S. Denison.
the president will offciate before the expiration
Of her Of office.
II was nearly three o'clock when Mrs. Denison
called the audience of nearly four hundred TO order
in the Astor Gallery at the Waldorf-Astoria and
wished them all a Happy New Year, although
she added, as Emerson says: Every day begins a
year: people joke over the new leaves or the
new year that get turned back before the year Is
done. but not all of them are turned back or
virtue, honor and justice would not grow as they
do from decade TO decade. Let US cultivate seren-
ity-and courage. There was one good tnlnS
about the Stole philosophy-it did not breed ner-
vous prosrration - And then. 'as this is the last
time 1 shall appear before you president L
want to have a word with the club" said Mrs
Denison and concluded her speech with an original
poem the last stanza OF which ran
What though Na2sn 693n59 misfortune frovns'
For life is but span
To bird and beast and man.
ana osa NeTer Ttlr mindI
SIX scientific snapshots followed in the shape
of short papers by members Love doesn't tell
as arhing about genius" declared Mrs. Philip
CARPENTER in the course Of witty essay on
Physique and Ability. Love is genius itself.
II IS said that brains will tell; but the more
some men know the less they tell. The size of
mead seldom indicates the size of the mind INSIDE
A man who knows his own mind often doesn't
kno so much after all
Mrs Edward A Greeley exposed the menace
lurking in THE Old Oaken Bucket which she
rbs- a for microbes and thelr
high links. spite of the fact that descrlptlon
Of il could be relied to draw tears to the eye
Of any New-England man or boy. New-for rs
ahsosteiy the most water-waStetul city IN Ihe
world Mrs Greeley asserted If the present
misuse continues. it must lead TO Hunclpal acton
Miss Kathryn Leavitt Bissell oiscoursed on Inc
PHILOSOPHY of Naughtiness, in the course OF
which she told many funny stories ano Grew t u!e
conclusion that ADULTS are the cause OF chlioren
rl2ugatjness by reason OF the caprice uflIedson-
sbe7less and cruelty displayed in their treatment
other speak kers were Mrs. Charles Appleton Terry;
Mrs Homer L Ostrom Mrs. Charles NJ. toro anu
Mrs u. B. Van Houten, chairman OF the hteTaLhg ~
programme. Music by Elsa Won Moltke John
Fright Lord and Mrs. William Z. Johns with d
Tecfa ton by Alizon Crowgll-Sn1ith, formed an
snraea bic prelude to the essays The breaKIas.tt
which filled the grand ballroom at o ocIock W. WI
The f5nkie of silver the radiance Of lemon-snaoeu
-andles the CLEAN of silks and q murmur OF gay
1auphfer and chat served at t~ent! -elSuC
-o11T5 tables and was an elaborate affair: among
eTnTTesidenf of the General Federation, Mrs Miiler
11~eFFjdent Of the Patria Club Nine julia rive
go Miss Josephine Dodge Daskam, Mrs can
5aos . Wheeler. Z. Mackay, Mr. Corey, iate
tinted States Minister 10 The Hague' an anu 3en7
t=orsT Mr. Botassi, Consul General pro leln It
fTo-o Greece Mrs Ida T Norton. vtce-preslGe4lt 4
of the New Century Club of Detroit ana 'oiiii
among the prominent clubwoInen present rSa1i weTg
N-s Theodore sutro, Mrs Harvie, Anna RanaaIl Rs
Sieb1 Mrs Charlotte r Wilbur, Miss Anna ,Ah Map
we'll Zones Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake MISS hd'i
srire Flake and Mrs. Theresa Barcalow