The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-23

No more patriotic gathering could
have been found yesterday perhaps
than that of the Daughters of the
American Revolution when the local
chapter. the Spirit of Liberty, met for
the yearly feast to do honor to the
Father of his Country. Always an
elaborate social and intellectual affair,
this year it seemed to surpass all pre-
vious records, and the fourth annual
luncheon of the chapter viii be one long
remembered by the members and those
fortunate enough to be counted their
guests.
Toasts. wise and witty, enlivened the
after part of the aftern BON. in the be
ginning an informal reception was held
on the top floor of the BransfoTd. where
in the large card and billiard rooms am
pie space was found for the meeting
and greeting of friends. Here for a
half hour warm welcome was extend
ed TO all by the chsirmen of entertain
ment, Mrs. c. 5. Kinney and Mrs. c. z.
Allen, and by the chapter regent, Mrs.
Henry La Motto, and the other men,
bers holding or having held office in
the chapter.
Before o'clock the entire company
had repaired to the dining room below,
where the tables, formed into a hollow
square with a smaller table in the CEN
ter for the tOastmistress and the guests
of honor, made a most attractive pic
tUre with their decorations of flowers
Around the room were hung many flags
and the national coiors were seen at
each place as well. But down the long
tables ropes of green smilax were III
tersDerSed with many crystal baskets
filed with the exquisite freesia fioversf
in great quantities sent from Califor-
mia by Mrs. Lee Charles Miller. a direc-
! tor of the chapter and ex-regent- A
program of tOastS done in the white
and gold of the chapter, was also at
each place. combining the chapter col
ors with the national. Before begin.
ming the luncheon, Mrs. c. g. Plummer
sang THE Flag Without a Stain" Mrs.
r. G. GemmelI accompanying.
After a delicious menu had been
served. the toastmistress, Mrs II. G.
/ Wallace, arose and in. a brief speech
/ told of the idea of devoting the day to
[ a special tOpiC-''The Cavalier instead
! Of the too general resume of historical
subjects. Before giving the first toast.
[ Mrs. Wallace read a telegram from
Mrs. Miller. sent in greeting to the
Chapter, AMI Mrs. George Hancock read
a letter from Mrs. Mary n. F. Allen.
who is also on the coast Mrs. Wallace
spoke in brief of the part the cavalier
]
/ country. and introduced Mrs Margaret
Zane Witcher. who spoke on THE Com
/ ing OF the Cavalier" Mrs. Witcher
| confined her talk almost entirely to
/ modern times, and told how hay on"
| knowledge of the early cavalier was
She said she had wished for a voice like
| 'Utah's own nightingale" Heber J.
| Grant. that she might sing the praises
Of the cavalier, but lacking that she
would extol the modern cavalier and
/ hope the day would come when he. too.
would be memory through the advent
/ of universal peace.
Mrs. L. +. Hall responded to the toast
! His Work as a Coionizer.r and spoke
of the efforts of the cavaliers to found
new colonies and to plant the Christian
faith in the new land. She closed with
a toast by TichnoT to the cavalier. Mrs.
r. A. Broadhurst, herself a descendant
of cavaliers, spoke Of his influence in
politics, and she mentioned in her brief
talk many names made famous in the
| political history of the country who
were all either cavaliers or their de-
scendants.
Mrs. Robert Weues Fisher spoke to
the toast, His Hospitality" and she
/ said, in part.
IF we are to believe the New Eng
! land historian, The Revolution was
/ fought by the Puritans; and If that
/ Is true, you are to be congratulated to-
/ day upon the death of your ances-
/ tors; for such frivolities as this sump-
/ tuous luncheon, with it's gayety and it,
elaborate toiletteS, would have con-
/ demned the participants to the stocks
or the ducking-stOol. Looking down
/ this table It is easy to see either that
/ the ladies have obtained their papers of
/ eligibfifty under false pretenses or that
the present generation has seen the evil
| of its ways and gone back to the good
| old days OF Charles ], when the cava-
| lier was in his aseendancy and good
| clothes and good cheer had their charm
Mark Twain. wishing to refer to
some of his ancestors who were hung
| described them as having occupied the
| platform. IL any of you ladies' would
! like to make il clear how the grand
had so far forgotten her puritanical
precepts she may do so by claiming
a cavalier grandfather.
| when hospitality is mentioned we
/ think of the cavalier His first thought
/ was for the comfort and entertainment
| of his guest. 1t is not far to seek the
/ reason for the historic question that
! the governor of North Carolina put to
| the governor of South C4roiina. Were
these instincts of hospitality inherent
t or were they the result of environment
/ and of the sumptuous viands of which
/ he partoOk7 Think of his det-terra-
/ pin, reedbird and Madeira Contrast
the Puritans diet! What would be the