The National tribune., 1907-10-03

Department President. Mrs. Pentreath
is a young woman of decided ability,
and she is going to have national hon.
Ors when the years are a little thicker
above her very decided head. Others
who assisted Mrs. Wescott and added
new laurels to the many they already
bear We're Mrs. Regina Demarest, Mrs.
Emeline NJ Chaffee and Mrs. Lucinda
Carpenter. The delegates to the 25th
National Convention of the Womans $
Relief Corps will always remember
with keenest pleasure these delightful
women.
But one appeal from the decision of
the National President came before the
National Convention. The appeal came
up from a Corps which declined to
abide by a decision of its Department
President. An appeal had been taken
to the National President, who sus-
tanned the act of the Department Pres
ident, whereupon the Corps appealed
to the highest authority, the National
Convention.
The Chairman of the Committee on
appeals, Mrs. Augusta Wales, made the
report which sustained the National
President and, of course, the Depart
ment President. The Convention ac-
cepted the report of the Committee on
Appeals without a dissenting vote.
While there were nearly $50 members
ton is not at all singular, because in
the % years of the Womans Relief
Corps no appeal from a decision of a
National President has ever been sus-
tanned. In other words, no National
Presidents decision has ever been
turned down. This argues two things:
First, that the National Presidents
have all been strong, unprejudiced
women, whose keen love of justice and
knowledge of Relief Corps law have
led them TO render decisions with inf
mite care after weighing every point
In an apothecary's scales. Second, that
the members of an organization having
placed a strong woman at that organi-
.ation's head stand Loyalty by her.
The social features of the week were
Of the usual brilliant character. The
reception given to the COMMANDMENTS
Chief and his staff by the National
President, Mrs. Carrie X. Sparklin, was
4 perfect Jam for the three hours that
.he affair was in progress. The long
French parlors OF the Grand Union Ho-
tel are well adapted for such affairs, but
scarcely large enough for this one. The
receiving line reached nearly around
three sides of the reception room. While
the guests were waiting for the receiv-
Ing line to get in place. those in the
corridors. who could get neither out
nor in until the line started, began to
sing patriotic songs and nearly forgot
the reception in their ardor. The wo-
men were all handsomely gowned and
wore many handsome jewels, but the
veterans were motley crowd, If one
may speak thus of men who had passed
thru what those devoted patriots did
that afternoon in the, parade. The
drenching rain which came from skies
which seemed TO have dropped the bot
toms out of them soaked the comrades
to the skin. and il was impossible for
many of them to get ''ironed oat and
dried by reception time. SO they
begged, borrowed and in some cases
simply took possession of such clothing
as they could get hold of. and in this
attire made the rounds of the recep-
tions. Even the badges that they had
worn in the afternoon were di.nched
and they were not fit to put oa again
but their hunor was in no sense damp
ened, and they were able to make fur
for everybody.
During the hours of the reception al
informal musical program was present
ed, interspersed with recitaticns, th'
singers being the Empire Double Quar-
tet and Miss La Thelie Hickey and Mis-
Jessie Camp Ross, of Troy, n. Y. II
the receiving line with Mrs. Sparklin
National President, were Gen. X. B
Brown, Comma ander-in-Ch Mrs. Orp;
D. Bruce Mrs. Helen Packard, Col
Wallace Foster, Mrs Charlotte Z
Wright. Miss Hannah U. Maxon, Mrs
Belle Kimball, Mrs. Emma r. Wallace
Mrs. Georgia Worker. Mrs, Ada G
Mohr,- Mrs. Mary NJ. North, Mrs. Ida X
Martin, Mrs. Alviare Brisco, Miss Maud
Merrick, and Past National President
Kate b. Sherwood Mrs. Sarah f. Full
Ter. Mrs. Mary L. Carr Mrs. Harriet J
Bodge, Mrs. Flo Jamison Miller. Mrs
Fannie Minot, Mrs. Calista Robinso
Jones. Mrs. Emma Stark Hampton. Mrs
Lodusky J. Taylor, Mrs. Sarah ID. Wi
mans, and Gen. e. L. Torrance, Pas
Commander-in-Chief.