The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-24
IN HONOR FATHER
Of HIS COUNTRY
Daughters Of the American
Revolution Observe Day
With a Feast.
LIBERTY CHAPTER GIVES
BANQUET AT ALTA CLUB
Mrs. CIessOn S. Kinney Was
Toastmistress: Many Hap
py Responses Made.

ToastmiStress: Many Hap
py Responses Made.
The annual banquet OF the Spirit OF
Liberty chapter OF the Daughters OF the
American Revolution took place Thursday
afternoon at the Alta club. In the dining
room the guests were seated at number
or small tables. Tall vases OF red carna-
tions and ferns formed the conterpleee or
| three tai bles, while the others were artist
cally banked with mounds and baskets
OF vIolents and narcisSis. Large American
flags formed the window curtains. the
nags being draped also between the win
dows and festooned along the walls. The
place cards were postal cards OF the Me-
mortal Continental Hall, washington, ID,
C, with the monogram of the society In
| black, the cards being tied with the ma
| tlonal colors
Mrs. Kinney Toastmistress.
Mrs Clesson S Kinney was the toast
| mistress, and in n charming manner intro
duced the various speakers,
Mrs Stevenson who has recently come
| from Omaha. responded TO :he toast
| George Washington. Briefly, Mrs
Stevenson touched on the life OF the Presi-
| dent saying; We honor him today for
| many things but. above all, he was
| self-made man. When boy of Is he be-
gan TO support himself. and In time be-
| came the most prominent man In that sec
| ton OF the country. and was ever ready
to answer the call OF the poor and the
| needy, and who gave his services as Prcsl-
| dent OF the United States when the coun-
| try was In great need of statesman at
the helm He was, as an officer In the
| army-slow In his decisions. though they
| were never unwisG ones"
Looking Backward.
Il born when tho crab was ascending.
| and all my affairs 60 backward W
| In verse did Mrs Marshall A. Brecdcn
| respond to the toast The response opened
| with the following verse.
| You OF the old Thirteen,
! Whose soil whero nrst
! The blood or freedom poured.
| Hath yet brighter green.
| We OF the mighty West
| Gao shSuthed our swords)
| Salute with plaudits strong.
| We are the daughters OF thy early strife
| Thy warfare fierce and long
| When gloom and war cngulfcd our Ma
i tons $50
| How changed, ye noble few,
| And grown the hand your homespun
| hearts and brave
| Taught what and how TO dc"
The life OF the early coionists was then
sketched, and an excellent tribute paid
| them.
Looking Forward.
Mrs. r. w Fisher responded to Look
| ing Forward
The question OF people who evor boast OF
| their ancestors and yet never do anything 10
| keep up the glory OF the family tree.
An instance was given Of Mr. Smith,
who ever boasted Of his ancestral lineage.
Too bad. Smith," his friends remarked,
all the good and brave members OF your
| family seem to have died .
Memorial Continental Hall.
Mrs. NJ F. Allen of Park City respond
| ed 10 Memorial Continental Hail. Mrs
| Allen spoke Of the work that had been
| done to raise the funds for tho build Ing
The columns Of the building are OF white
sent the thirteen original States"
Children Not Forgotten.
the feast, and I'm delightful way did
Miss Efflc Dean Riddle toast them In
brief she said. Man may be likened to
sturdy oak tree. woman to vine. the
children to the flowers. For Is not every
festive daS an occasion made more en-
Joyable by their happy faces and joyous
shouts of lightsome glee. They have no
pest no future to mar their joy-they
live simply in the present"
"The New Member"
Mrs Thomas Weir, a new member OF
the organization. told Of the new mem
Der, 'We aro told OF new thought
leagues, new IDEAS of cookery Casually
that OF the bride's), new religion, in fact
new everything, and why not the new
members. for all were once new mem
bers and doubtless they remember those
days"
New England Conscience.
|
chosen by Miss Katherine Page as the
subject for very witty toast She said
Usually New Englanders move west,
ward because OF the climate or their con.
science-of course. never the latter The
New England conscience is indeed one oil
iron. and to be alone with II. ever gnawo
Ing at one. has been in olden days pun.
ishment enough for the wicked
The Guests and Strangers Within Our
Gates" were welcomed heartily by Mrs
Morrison In a delightful maner.
Tribute to Women
Mrs. clesson Kinney then savo a glow
Ing tribute to America and tho Daugh.
ters of the American Revolution.
The luncheon was in every way a
pronounced success. and great credit 4:
due Mrs. George Y. Wallace. Mrs, G: 3
charge Of the affair Covers were iait
for Mrs. Russell l.. Tracy, Mrs Thomas
Weir Mrs Ferry of Park City, Mrs. NJ
F. Allen. Mrs. r. w, Fisher. Mrs. Steven
son. Mrs. Cook. Mrs. Margarent Zane
Breeden. Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. ]. K. Shaw
Mrs, John Delano Mrs. SmedIey. Mis-!
Decker. Mrs l. c Miller. Mrs william
lee. Mrs. A. ] Gorham, Mrs Hoyt Sher
man, Mrs Dey OF Ogden. Mrs G. B
Pfoutz. Madame Pfoutz. Mrs. Ira Hud
, son Lewis. Mrs. Ferguson; Mrs A. F; D
Katherine Page, Mrs. E, o. Lee, Mrs
Elizabeth Coray, Mrs Clark. Mrs
Charles Stevenson, Mrs. e b. Jones
, Miss Hollster Hancock. Miss Fora Shaw
, Misc Beatrice O'Connor. Miss Marion
Jones' Miss spencer Mrs. John Hancock
Mrs Alfred F Peabody. Mrs William
Childs. Miss Thcodosia Gray, Mrs j NJ
Dart Miss Bart, Miss Terrell, Mics Ethe
Pane. Miss Wishard, Miss Gcmmell
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