New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-03
FOR SEAMEN'S BENEFIT.
A Charming Sale Held at Home of Mrs
Daniel NJ. Stimson

we ought not to use our morals week days 1t
gets them out of repair for Sunday
This the whimsical little motto which Mark
Twain wrote the fyleaf of illustrated copy
Of the Tramp Abroad for the charming little sale
of the Society for the Benefit Of Seamen at the
house of Mrs. Daniel NJ. Stmson, No II West
Seventeenth-st.. yesterday.
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm also had a greet
ing for the young women who have worked so hard
to help the sale" felix IN this world port OF New
York. 1t IN the form of : letter purporting to
be from Rebecca, and written in an imitation or
her girlish round hand. 1t ran: Dear Mother: The
brick house looks Just the same you told us.
The paror is elegant and gives you creeps and
chills when YOU look in the door" Below Kate
Douglas Wggin had ssred her name
The italian peasant pottery: as the admission
cards had il. made great hit. Mrs. David LeaVltt
Bough, who sold the larger pieces seemed TO
think II had made almost too much of hit' as
she offered at reduced prices several handsome
jars and jardinieres which had lost their noses
handles on the way from Italy Nellie Taloat,
dressed as little Dutch girl in barrel gown of
dark brown, lace apron. elbo-T sleeves and a
white muslin cap with gilt ornaments, sold the
dolls coar3ers and teasets with Margreta Beck
man. who said she was sorry she did not wear Hei
Dutch dress. too.
The wonderful dolls in charge OF Miss Stmson
likewise huge success and sold rapidly. not
withstandng the fact that they ranged In price
from Sc to $40 piece Mrs. Charles Rowland Rus
sell the daughter of Bishop Potter PRESIDED at Inc
literary table; Miss Lucy Sanderson, the sister OF
presided in the tea room; Miss WoodwaTd r ana
SCHOOL for deaconesses We're at the utility taoie;
Miss Dorothy Roosevelt. Miss Morton, Miss HAD
den and Miss Morrison sold fancy articles and
Miss LangdOn. Miss Holns and Miss storm,
dressed in white. with holly and red berries. IKE
The spirit of Christmas We're at the sweets table
Miss Catherine Newbold and Mrs. Charles IaIoot
Poore had the dolls. Miss Augusta de Peyster
and Miss Mary Curtis had charge of the mystery
Christmas tree The Misses LeYeriGh. Miss helen id
&c Peyster Miss Van Amringe Miss hlngslano
Miss Horn. Mrs. BenOni Lockwood and Mrs VII
Lloyd assisted in most of the departments at
time another.
Among the many who came and went during the
afternoon Miss Caylus. Mr.. and Mrs; LOUIS
McCagg. Mrs Daniel Rkcr. Mrs. Robert De For
est Mrs Haslett McKim Mrs. William Nelson
Voss, Miss Bruce Mss Janeway, Mrs George SI{se
Bonner Mrs. Thurston, Mrs Bakeley Hoyt, MISS
Haskell. Miss Horn; Mrs Francis H. Cabot, Miss
Parsons. Miss Margaret gardiner Miss Susan It. Il:
deaconesses; Mrs. F. H Belts, Mrs. George Girls
wald. Miss Helen Bradley. Mrs. Delaney Kane
Mrs John n Beekman. Mrs. Henry Goldman Pot
ter Miss Cornelia Beekman. Mrs. Henry Parsons.
Mrs John Bowers. Mrs. Philip Livingston, Mrs
Charles Frederick Hoffman Miss Adelaide Mont;
gomery, Mrs. Woodbury. Langdon Mrs. Edward
Leverch, Mrs sybii Kane Mrs: James NJ Law az
ton Mrs. de Peyster Mrs. Columbus Iseltn Miss
Susan McKim and Mrs. Edmund l.. Baylies