Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-02-25
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Christian 6rotherhood Ladies' Nioht.
The Christian Brotherhood had its sec
Cna annual Ladies night last Thursday
in Bethany Parish house. where tahIss
were laid on both the first and second
floors to accommodate companv Of 24O
I at the supper. Florist H. NJ. Totman
made use of cinerarias and primulas in
tasteful decoration of the boards. and
around the places Of the servers smilax
was arranged.
COLD ham and chicken, warm mashed
I potatoes and gravy, sandwiches, ice
cream, cake and coffee were the PRINCIPAL
items OF the repast. Twenty-three mem
bers of the Brotherhood, from their sever
al stations at the tables, did the honors and
attended Hospitality to the wants Of the
guests, being assisted in their endeavors
by 20 of the Bethany Girls.
After the supper, DR.. ID. F. Fox.
Cong'l pastor. of Chicago, addressed an
audience that nearly filed Chandler
Music hall on Characters We Have All
Met" Had DR.. Fox known RandoInb
intimately, be could not have prepared
lecture which would have suited his
hearers hetter. 1t was light amusing.
tull OF stories and witticisms with now
and then flight OF eloquence that did
not leave anyone gaping with an uncom-
prehending stare at the verbal kite float
ing alotti its string always kindly dan
CLING within reach until it gracefully set
tied down to another good story or roar
ing joke.
The first character we have all met il
the short-sighted man, who can visit
Niagara Falls and bring back as his
strongest impression q remarkable kind
OF suspenders made by an Indian souaw
there, or who can spend two weeks in a
city ike chicago and find as its greatest
wonder steer in the stockyard trained
to lead other steers to the slaughter.
Then we have the nail keg philosopher.
who occupies seat in the grocery store
and can tell you more things that are not
worth knowing than anybody else in the
neighborhood. He is an encyclopedia of
useless information and wears an impos-
ing air Of great wisdom.
Another general acquaintance Is the
uesslmist who gloats over murders. sui-
cides. divorces, fires and robbery and ex-
tracts enjoyment from a gloomy conyic-
tlon that the world is going to destrue-
tlon, and at no tagging gait either. He
thinks the newspapers are reporting COM
mon occurrences, instead of uncommon
ones, and, therefore, he reasons that
crime and vice are increasing SO alarm
ingly that in year or two more the
world won't be fit for anything but III
gers and hyenas to live in.
The poor boy working his way through
school and college and thereby working
himself into strong and able manhood.
was contrasted with the millionaire's
son, reared in luxury and propped up by
MS tathers wealth, who never learns to
walk without crutehes until the prop ia
in
The steps leading upward in life are worn
smooth, not only By the hohnailed shoes
OF humble, toiling poor. but also by the
patent feathers of the gilded youth who
come tumbling down.
We are too fond Of abusing the rich.
who, after all, are not the monsters of in
lquity they are sometimes portrayed to
be, and whose lavish living and foolish
love OF show serve TO scatter dolIars
among people who need them. and To
provide work for the UNEMPLOYED. Poor
or rich, il is the stuff in the man that
-eally counts in the worlds reckoning of
lis fitness Of high places, and not the
iollars in his pocket.
Preceding the lecture the Ladies' quar-
et-Misses Blanche sparhawk, AIettha
5aiiey, Lucille Grant and Minnie Barbour
sang "Shoogy Shoo" so exquisitely
- 10y NNtN AOcaueu iOr HnOtner eelec-
ion, "Swanee River" At the close Of
he address they sang again. Kentucky
3aben
Z. Z. Roundy. president OF the Broth
rhood, presided and in an Introductory
peech paid gallant tribute to the in
pirstion and cordial support that the
Brotherhood and all worthy enterprises
eceiye from the ladies.
The arrangements for Ladies' night
Eere left with the Brotherhoodis social
ommittee-H. w. Vail, v. A. Grant, NJ.
|. Miller. c. E. Kilburn and w. II. Pei
on, who discharged their duty nobIy.