New-York tribune., 1911-02-19
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Woman's Union Missionary Society Claims the
Title Usually Given to Sorosis.

, OF actvities-day schools for girls. nos
pital for women and an orphanage Inen
from year TO year homes were bought III
I Allahabad. In Cawnpore. In Jhansi and IN
the last place the Mary S. Ackerman Hoyt
Memorial Hospital was established. Also a
girls boarding school was opened In Hoko-
hama. and the Margaret Williamson Hos
pita in Shanghai
But one of the things Of which the so
ciety is proudest is that its success led to
the establishment of women's boards
actually women's boards-in connection
with denominational missionary boards.
This development has rather curtaied the
influence and made smaller the receipts OF
the Womans Union Missionary Society,
but there are still plenty of friends who
know the Importance OF undenomnational
or union work And the society Mrs. Dore-
mus started has always remained. as she
meant IL 10 be. absolutely undenomina-
tional.
Those whose memories go back before
1871, the year in which Mrs. Doremus died,
love TO speak 10 each other of the things
she did. Her marriage to wealthy mer-
chant, who was heart and soul with her In
all her plans, enabled her 10 he very gen.
crous. but it is her personal services that
are thought Of oftenest-the cap and cloak
she embroidered for the new born baby of
poor missionary. the delicacies she pre-
pared with her own hands to make more
endurabe The long voyages Of outgoing
missionaries. the care she took in fitting up
their statcrOoms, the many times she took
homeless ones into her own home. the
friendly. chatty letters she found leisure
i'm her busy life to write to the voluntary
eXiles from America.
Yet the missionary work was not her
only activity. She helped to organize the
Presbyterian Home for Aged Women and
was ono OF its managers until her death.
She worked hard 10 establish the Woman's
Hospital going to Albany repeatedly in it's
interest and attending TO the purchasing of
all its supplies. Sic was connected for
twcnty-threc years with the Nursery and
Childs Hospital. and. in short, she was
what is called nowadays public spirited
woman, and yet she was skilled in needle
work. kept house beautifully, and brought
up, in addition TO her own nine children,
several fatherless and motherless ones
whom she adopted. And all this in spite of
delicate.
Three OF the charter members Of the
Womans Union Missionary Society are
still living-Miss S. d. Doremus, daughter
of the founder: Mrs. John L. Johnson, of
Ossining. and Mrs. Z. G. Robinson. Miss
Doremus is corresponding secretary OF the
organization. Many things are planned for
the New York wind-up of the jubilee
Among those in whose homes there will be
parlor meetings are Miss Helen Miller
Gould, Miss Grace Dodge and Mrs. William
Jay Schieffelin. other names on the pro-
gramme are Mrs. Russell Sage and Mrs.
Martin w Littleton. The jubilee aroused
great interest in Washington. Miss Helen
Taft was among those who attended the
meeting for young people at the Masonic
Temple. tie President and Mrs Taft re-
ceived the visitors at the White House and
there were luncheons. large open meetings
and drawing room meetings at the
Women's Congressional Club.