Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-15
CLUB GIVES BANQUET
OPTIMISTS MAKE MERRY AT AN
ANNUAL feast.
Presentations of Commissions and Re-
sponses to Toasts-List of
Those Present.

The optimist Club of the Church of Our
Father, Universalist, corner of l. and 18th
streets northwest, held its annual banquet
at Freunds last evening with about sixty
persons in attendance. The optimistic
thought, as quoted in the menu, was Gods
in His Heaven, AIS Right with the
World"
Following the supper Rev. Henry N.
Couden, the chaplain of the House of Rep
resentatives in speech that sparkled with
wit stated that he had been instructed by
the president of the club to present COM
mission as colonel of the I'd Division of
the 18th Army Corps. He said the new
colonel was known to all, he beng none
other than Henry E. Williams, chairman OF
the banquet committee, who was to preside
as POSTMASTER of the evening. The en-
praved commission was passed about and
was found to be an appointment as ana
with the rank of colonel, on the stan OF
Cen O. O. Howard in the recent inaugural
parade. 1t bore the signatures of MI. -
H Warner, chief marshal OF the civil
grand division and Mr.. Thomas c. Noyes,
as adjutant general
tben nresenfed a similar commission to Rev.
John Van Schaick, il. DR.. A. K. + Harvey
said he had heard of colonies OF the soutn,
but he did not know they were SO pIehlii vi
story of the meeting once of colonel from
Kentucky and one from Texas. Ihey were
swapping stories over vantage or noun
tain dew, when the gentleman from tlis
hIreerass state told the other 6outherner
of a beautiful knife that had just been pre-
"Oh. nv dear colonel. suppose it has six
blades and d oorkscrew, lhtefJecteo lis
friend.
mo. no, you are wrong, my dear sir; TINS
beautiful knife has six corkscrews and one
blade" answered the gentleman from Ken
lucky. ,,. +ho+ no
boned the colonies of the District of Co
iumbia would not initiate the colonel of
Kentucky by carrying similar knives.
Responses to Toasts.
Toasts were then responded to, as fol-
lows: Optimism in society, Each for All
and All for Each" Rev. Alexander Kent;
optimism in law, Making 1t Easy to Do
Wright and Hard to Do Wrong" Charles
LYMAN, chief of the appointment division
of the United States treasury; optimism in
a Pullman car Strange Countries for to
See" Miss Kate Curry; optimism from
bachelors standpoint, Anticipation YER
sus Realization" Mr.. Thomas Edwards;
optimism in medicine, An Allopathic Dose
by a Homeopathic Doctor, DR.. A. X +
Harvey; optimism in the home, The Hand
that Rocks the Cradle Rules the World,
Mrs Alexander Kent; optimism in the sad
die, "A Horse. Horse! My Kingdom for a
Horser' Rev John Van Schaick, jr., pastor
of the Church of Our Father.
Songs and music were furnished by MIR.
and Mrs. julius Hullings, Mrs Fred Chase,
Miss Alice Chandler, Miss Alice b. Harvey
and Mr.. F. E. Kissinger.
The committee of arrangements was COM
posed of Col. Henry E. Williams, chairman,
and Messrs. William Perham and Thomas
Edwards, jr. The officials of the club are
A. S. Perham, president; Francis Everts,
vice president; Col. f. V. DeCoster, second
vice president; Miss Clara Wilson, secre-
tary, and Mrs. S. H. Webb, treasurer.
The Guests Present.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs. H. E.
Williams, Thomas Edward, jr-, Mrs. Miriam
Morgan, Mrs. Gantz, Mrs Wight. j. c.
Wight, Mrs. James Robbing, Miss Blanche
Pushaw, Miss Nancy Miller, Miss Harriet
Miller, Miss Elizabeth Hills, Mrs. Charles
P. Pushaw, DR.. a. Wilgus, Mrs. Wilgus,
Mr.. and Mrs. a. S. Perham, Mr.. and Mrs.
S. H. Perham, Rev John Van Schaick, jr.,
Rev. and Mrs. Alexander Kent, Mrs. c. A.
Quimby, Miss McTavish, Mr.. and Mrs. d.
A. Edwards, w. w. Curry, Miss Kate Cur
ry, Miss Cora Curry. Theodore F. Brown,
H. C. Traphagen, Mrs. A. L. Traphagen,
Mrs. H. w. Fuller and Miss Mary Holman
of Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs Howell-Smith,
Mrs. NJ. r. Campbell, William H. Fleming,
Mrs. lone w. Bolton, Mr.. and Mrs. P. A.
Auer, Miss Alice Atwood, Mrs. V. c. Childs,
Mr.. and Mrs, H. c. Gauss, DR.. and Mrs.
A. R. P. Harvey, Mr. and Mrs Julius Hull
ing Rev DR.. and Mrs. Henry N. Couden,
Charles Lyman. Miss Lyman, III. Keables,
C. M. MacMullen, Mrs. Charlotte Merrill,
Mrs. J. William Lee, Miss Lee Miss Chloe
Mantel, R. NJ. Mckee, Charles Pershaw,
Mrs. A. c. Starkey, Mrs. Ida Wight, Frank
Wight. Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Johnson and Cap