New-York tribune., 1906-05-02
For the
HUomer1 Folk.
AT a MAY PARTY.
Colonial Daughters Celebrate Their
Tenth AnuUersdvg IN Brooklyn.

Following their pleasant custom Of previous
wears the Colonial Daughters OF the Seventeenth
Century celebrated the anniversary OF their or
Fanszation by giving a May party yesterday.
II was their tenth anniversary and the May
party they gave in the Heights Casino 10 sew
eral hundred Of their friends began seriously
with an address by Dr. James II. Canfield
librarian Of Columbia University; eliminated
soyously in a Maypole dance and ended frIv
olously with tea But everybody had a good
time.
Imagine yourself on an English green" said
Mrs Samuel Bovine Duryea, the president. as
the hutter Of the dancers gay gowns began TO
be visible in the distance. but after all be
grateful that the girls who are TO weave these
gay ribbons our own Brooklyn girls.
The mothers and sisters and cousins and
sunts in the audience showed by their applause
that they were grateful
Standing in the centre OF the assembly hail.
the AIaypole. all red and white and crowned
with red posies. was a gay object; as the four
teen dancers came out two by two and' picking
up the ends OF the broad, red and white stream
ers, began TO wind in and out in the mazes OF
the dance. they made pretty picture. Iney
were dressed in couples-White. heliotrope' gray
pink, green. yellow and blue-in lOw-necked,
short-sIeeved dresses Of ankle length with black
sashes tied at the side and black velvet bands
around their throats Their hair was pompa-
doured and powdered and every one wore a
black patch or two on her face. When they had
woven the ribbons around and around like
barber's pole they unwOund them and then
they braided them to an intricate and beautiful
ngure, with much in-and-Out and under-and-
over to It. The dancers were the Misses Theo
and Maud AGcCord, Alice DavOl. Edith Thurston.
Ruth Howard. Josephine Marshall, Louise Gale,
Adele H Bull Maud Jones, MurleI Goepel'
Marion Snow Helen Murphy, Marie Appleton
and CE-a-lotte Leech-
AZ an encore they later gave scarf dance
Mrs Duryea in her speech OF welcome saio
shaf the Colonial Daughters were not PEVGo OuI
grateful" that their ancestors mad naQ the reSo-
luton 70 face the pioneer life ana the lnIetct %
.rIye 70 the solution of the countrys problems:
SOur ancestresses of the seventeenth century,
she went on, faced their trials with pallence'
i1It II is some qualification TO believe that II con-
sronted By twentieth century problems tney
would be slightly dazed- s,~.
ANALYSIS Of ''the American spirit, tracing the
racial and historical currents that lnternlhgIeo
20 produce it, and the responsibility II places OF
Fhe modern American. Reginald WerrehLaIh
sang several songs The refreShnenI @ z4 'aDieS 4rt
were IN charge OF Mrs. George Allin. Mrs. 1rvln
sprague Mrs Albert B. Chandler, MTs- henry
II Palmer Mrs Edward @. Hagedorn, Mrs
Henry K Wells Mrs. Frederic EdEall, Mrs Jonn
r Talmadge Mrs. Francis SeaYerns' Mrs Ed
win p Selpho Mrs. jeremiah Lott, Mrs. John
n Prince Mrs Joseph c. Hale. Mrs. Edgar
Iuckenbach Mrs. Frank Cothern. Mrs Beulah
d Everett Mrs. G. Waring Stebbins, the misses
Williams. Dole. House. Benedict, Henlstreel' van
VIE Roberts and Carpenter
Miss Louise @. Zabriskie. chairman; Mrs Oar
win r. Aldridge. Mrs. Paul Howard WORTH
Miss Jessie Pollard. Mrs. Gilbert w. Taylor ana
Mrs Samuel Bovine Duryea-