The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-02-10
WOMENpS CLUB
GIVES BANQUET
ELOQUENT TOASTS ENLIVEN THE GALA
EVENING.
MRS. PLIMPTON ToAsTMIsTREss
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Popular Club Entertains Its Friends With
Elaborate Menu and Excellent
Program.

The Denison Womans' Club held
their seventh annual banquet in the
Carnegie club room Wednesday night,
Feb. 3rd. The club room was decor
ated in the CLUE colors. yellow and
white. the three long tables being ar
ranged to form a triangle. In the
center of the room the round table
was placed, yellow satin ribbons were
festooned from the center light to the
table, the satin bands being trimmed
in ferns and white carnations The
loops were caught with yellow chris
anthemums. Beautiful center pieces
upon which was boquet of white
carnations with glass candle sticks and
yellow candles completed very taste
fully arranged centre table. The
banquet tables were decorated in
white cluny over yellow and lighted
with yellow candles in crystal candle
sticks.
The banquet was served in four
courses, Mrs. Sillitto catering for
the club and too much credit cannot
be given her and her corps of capa-
BILE assistants in preparing and serv-
ing the dinner. The guests gathered
in the library as usual and went down
stairs to the sound of music played by
Mrs. Shaw Van. The talented moth
ers of the talented club daughters
provided the fun and program them
selves for tbs banquet. Mr.. Gulick
invoked the divine blessing upon the
company and the guests seated ITEM
selves we'll pleased with their cheer
full surroundings and the pleasant pro-
spect before them. After deciding
that wherever your seat wa. at q
woman's club banquet one was in de-
| lightful society the club settled down
for a jolly good time. The dinner
was daintily served by the Misses
Faul. Saul. Cook. Naeve. Wilson.
Cochran. Burch, Rank and Brcdersen.
Mrs. Plimpton was toastmistress
and she filled her role to perfection
self possessed, witty, complimentary,
tactful and womanly, she, is it safe
to say, will never be surpassed. The
husbands of the club seemed to have
made up their minds that they would
"go some" themselves and the OPEN
ing number was quartette given by
Messrs. Criswell, Helsley. Merrill
and Plimpton. In response to an
encore the quartette sang a most
heartbreaking ditty asking in %. y.
full tones where Wee Wife hau loA,
and deciding it was to the womans'
club. They cheered up at the close
of the song. deciding that the wom-
ans club. on banquet nights at any
rate, was good place to be.
Mrs. Cochran. president of the clup.
gave the address of welcome express.
ing the wish that none of the guests
had brought I" February face" With
such gracious welcome guests could
not but feel very much at home.
"Just seven years ago" was the sub
ject of Mrs. Caswell's toast and she
give an outline of the pleasant
journeys taken by the club and spoke
of the pleasant memories of the social
events. Mrs. Caswell's toast was
we'll delivered and this added much to
the we'll thought out subject matter.
Merry England gave Mr.. Kirkup .
splendid opportunity and his toast
was delight to his hearers, his de-
scription of England fairly made one
homesick while his descriptions of the
country's greatness was the splendie
history of England in nutshell