The Newtown bee., 1907-09-27
LITcHFIELD COUNTY
 Washington.
D. A. R. NEWS.

nuinhet of other invited guests spent delightful afternoon al Glenholm, the beautiful residence of Mrs w. II. Van sinderen. Mr and Mrs Van Sinderen have recently erected charming house in the woods close by and 1t was in the large artistic dance and reception hall of this building that the pleasant affair was held. Mrs $. F. Seeley. the Vice Regent of the Judea Chapter, in. tf1dueed the speakers and announced the musical selections. The first see lection was q violin solo. "The Swan. !" by Saint Saens. rendered with great artisle musical effect by Adrian Van Sindercn. accompanied on the piano by Mrs Winthrop Rogers. Mrs Van Sin deren next gave very interesting talk about the monument soon to be unveiled at Fort Greene in memory of the prisonship martyrs during the Rev olutionary War. Among these martyrs were soldiers from Litchiield and Woodbury. When the prisoners per ished they were thrown overheard. Their bones bleached and covered the sands. A poor man gathered the bones in bushel baskets and buried them, placing rude inscriptions above them. Mrs White, regent of the Fort Greene Chapter, Brooklyn. who recently passed away. started the plan 2 years ago to honor the prisonship martyrs. After long years of persuasion and ardent labor, the monument is nearly completed and is most beautiful structure costing $lO0.00O.
 Following Mrs Van Sinderen's in- structive and interesting talk was a vocal solo in German, "Du bist die Ruh," by Mrs Rogers, who in respond ing to an encore eyquisitely sang the beautiful melody of Schubert, "Hark, Hark, the Lark !"
 Mrs Seeley next introduced the speaker, Miss Clqra Lee Bowman, member of the Katharine Gaylord Chapter of Bristol, and vice president for Connecticut of the National organ ization. Miss Bowman's subject was Patriotic Educational Work of the So- ciety of the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution. She gave an interest ing history of this particular line of work as carried on by the society and of its aspirations and aims. She said its accomplishments are largely in the future and we are only just beginning to see and understand what can be done by the united effort of our won derful organization. Extracts from Miss Bowman's talk are as follows T am sure we feel about our society as we do about our own individual lives, that if the world is notspurer and better in some little corner for our having lived in it, why it would have been better never to have lived at all, and the National D. A. R. does not confine itself to corner. It is great big splendid organization of women, 5O,OOO strong, scattered all over the country from Maine to Mexico and from New York to San Francisco. During the last l2 years Connecticut alone has expended over S125, 900 in their memorial work. In the next 12 let us put that amount into the labor of transforming and elevating the lives of men and women that they may live out our memorial in the future. The immigration question, the poor white problem, the alien children in our schools, the black mans burden, all these are the burning questions of the day and to them our leaders turn their attention. The state Patriotic Com .mittee during the past two years has accomplished a great deal: Night schools, free. reading rooms, travelling libraries, lectures with stereopticon views for our foreign citizens, 27 scholarships for Maryville college, Tennessee. We are standing at the parting of the ways, we are living at a time of the transmigration of na- tions. The problem which confronts us is too great for our government, too great for our schools and libraries and churches to solve alone. Everybody in this generation must hasten and help inBthe education and uplifting of these countless hordes, so that they and their children may become real Americans, and absorb the ideals and principals of our forefathers. We need their help for they bring to us brawn and sinew for labor that must be done, and they must come to us for many of them would starve at home.
 But there is class of people who need our help quite as much as the foreigner. They are Americans in the South of four or five generations, shut in by the mountain fastnesses, left behind in the march of progress. In these mountainous back yards of nine states there are two and one-half mil lion people cut off as they have been by the decrees of nature from easy communication with the outer world.
 In no section of the country are so many sons and daughters of the Amer ican Revolution. Therefore it has seemed especially fitting that our so- ciety should turn their newly awaken ed philanthropic interest to the educa- tion of the young women to those dis tricts that as teachers, wives and mothers, they may be able to train the next generation of mountaineers into a closer union with the life of the world about them. Think what an illumina- tion of dark places would result if ev- cry D. A. R. Chapter in the land should educate mountain girl; that is the dream of the committee and in Con- necticut, it is coming near to realiza- tion.
 Many of our Chapters have been in- terested in raising scholarships for our