Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23
WOMEN AT BANQUET
NEW ENGLANDERS CELEBRATE
FoREFATHERS' DAY.
Exercises at the Cairo Last Might
Room Handsomely Decorated
Addresses Made.

The annual banquet of the Washington
Colony of the National Society of New
England Women in celebration of Fore
fathers day was held last night at the
Cairo. Mrs. Marian Longfellow ODonoghue
president of the colony, presiding.
The tables were laid in the form of 7
and were decorated in red and white, the
colonial colors, with red and white carna-
lions as the flowers. Mrs. Fitch James
Swinbourne, president of the national So
ciety, and Mrs. E. Marguerite Lindley,
chairman of the committee on colonies,
both of New York, were among the guests
present. An excellent menu was served,
after a number of interesting addresses APP
propriate to the occasion were made. Mrs.
O'Donoghue, in her opening address, said
that the members of the Washington colony
celebrate the day of the Pilgrims choice of
Plymouth for their home, because it was
fraught with so much interest to the peo-
pie of the whole country. She gave a short
history of the organization Of the Wash
ington colony.
1.-The history of our little colony in Wash
ington,' she said, "is young, but had
ever any doubt as to what we were under
taking that doubt would have been dis
PEELED very early, for we found that we
were truly inheritors Of those Pilgrims, in
that this little colony came into existence
through a most strenuous battle with adj
couraging features, and, on the night when
we organized February 10, 1904, the wealth
err might have been said to have rivaled the
rigorS of the Massachusetts coast in the
time of the Pilgrims. The long summer
followed soon upon efforts, and men,
bers were scattered in many directions but
that they bore with them the thought of
the colony in Washington Is evidenced by
the fact that they are here tonight. The
time will come when the little colony will
have spread its influence far and wide. and
others shall reap what we have sown."
Mr.. Towards Address.
Mr.. Clifford Howard responded to the sem
timent 'Forefathers' Day" He said that
the Pilgrim fathers were inspired with
faith and courage when they stepped upon
Plymouth Rock and declared that their
home should be founded there. Their house
has prospered and their kind multiplied
When they took up their homes on the cold
bleak shores of the little known America,
the destiny of that America was proclaimed
and made certain. The work of the ma
tional society was told in an interesting
manner by Mrs. Swinbourne, who was called
upon to speak for that part of the organiZa
ton. She said the parent society in New
York has membership of 20 exclusive of
it's five colonies.
A scholarship has been established in Bar
been carried on in a most helpful way.
Mr.. Charles Lyman was introduced to speak
of the New England conscience and dur
ing the course Of his remarks declared that
the upright conduct of the men from New
England had wrought for justice in the
republic, and that as long as the voice of
the New England conscience was listened
to the republic will endure.
Mrs. Lindley spoke of the New England
woman and her work for the country. New
England produces now high type of wo-
manhood, she declared, who have tended to
the home and trained the children to be-
come strong figures in the national coun-
ellis. At the conclusion of the dinner all
the guests exchanged the compliments of
the season. Among those present were Mrs.
Marian Longfellow O'Donoghue. Mrs. Fitch
James Swinburne, Mrs. E. Marguerite Lind
ley, Mr.. Clifford Howard, Charles Ly
man, Mesdames Howard, Rathbun, Brock
EFT. Benjamin Withee, Robbins, Dunlap,
White, Copeland, Burghardt, Rhodes and
Misses Benjamin Tabor, Longfellow, Web
ster and Houghton. Mr.. Dunlap DR.. Chas.
A. Davis, Capt. Norton, Commander BarolI,
u. S. N. Mr.. Richard Rathbun, Messrs
Copeland, O'Donoghue, Brockett and White.