New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-23
PILGRIM MOTHERS DINNER.
Annual Celebration of Legislative League
Un-Pilgrimlike Repast.

In eruaine and rustling silks and diamonds, with
speeches and poems and music the Legislative
League held its annual Pilgrim Mothers dinner
yesterday in the small ballroom o. the Hotel Aston
From those first English women colontsts facing
bitter NevEngland winter with their small store
Of plain food and their simply made homespuu
garments, their seventeenth century English speech
and their seventeenth century English traditions
experiences and ideals the small ballroom Of the
Hotel Astor. with its gay company OF sprightly
elegant women. was far cry. But nobody present
seemed to notice il. and the dinner brilliant
and happy luxurious appointments and good
taste could make II. Covers laid for 1853 They
dned 1880. that being the hour at which the
Pilgrims supposed to have had their substantial
meal Of the day. but there. needless to say. de-
Hberate imitation of their forabears ended The
menu, which was all IN French even to the date
quite un-Pigrrnlike in length and content. and
It took the Observation-Disclosures OF the Pill
grim Mothers till nearly $50 o'clock To "negoti-
ate" It
Crimson and gold are the club colors of the
Legislative League. Mrs, Lille Devereux Blake
the president had az her back the club pennant.
with Lex ct Lux in large gold letters under the
name Nothing in the whole afternoon-and there
was some good speakng-was better than her
speech-her annual speech. as it has come TO be.
After welcoming her hearers TO the celebration
Of the landing Of the Pilgrim thirty-nine
women, accompanied by ana chiIdren'N-she
said: The virtues which those brave women rep
resented are what has made the nation great Leav-
ing others to sing their achievements will speak
OF the victories women have gained, the honors
they have won during the year They have car
ried OF the prizes in the coeducational colleges
until the older universities so afraid Of their
competition with the boys that they insist that these
dangerous interlopers shall be placed in annex,
where they can institute comparisons with the
brethren They have gained many new official po-
s!tions and. most remarkable Of all the annual
dinner OF the University OF Illinois a woman pre-
sided. and many sat contentedly under her
control"
Mrs. Philip Carpenters speech was a look for
ward to the woman Of 1904 who. she prophesied
would work for equal pay with men There will
be almost women on the street alone between
z and - she prophesied. but she wound up with
81 PaTIs dicturl' II doth not yet appear what
Mrs. Charlotte wibour. president Of sorosis the
mother Of clubs" sat at Mrs. Blake's right hand
and made brief speech. and Mrs Carpenter at
t osda 9ga OF w fSnG gs9g e so MRS
regro plantation songs Mrs J. P. Lowell Mrs ".
Irving Twombley4 Mrs. Margaret Holmes Bates,
NJ Bent, Mrs. Esther Hermann who was greeted
very cordially as she rose 10 speak on True Phil
anthropy: Miss Theresa Barcalow, Mrs. Leroy
fuence Of the Pilgrim Mothers into the form of
marks The Pilgrim Mothers" into poetic form:
Mrs. B, Collins krtse, who, as Southerner spoke
for The jamestown Pilgrims. Miss Estelle
Reel, OF the department Of Indian education, who
told Indian stories.
Among tire others present were Mrs Lewis ".
Boynton, Mrs Frances H. Richards Mrs. George
Howes the Misses HOwes, Miss Mary Logan. Mrs.
J T. fIoyt Miss Jessie Hoy Miss Lucy Daniels,
A Rosenfeid- Mrs Cora lis TroT Mrs George
Charles E. sprague, Mrs. z. L Hadley. Mrs Sarah
Friedlander. Mrs. Harry Fulton. Nine. Won Klein
Dr. Anna r Donoghue aud Miss Lucy Tonge and
Miss Bertha G. Clark. who sang and played.