Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-21
PEGGY STEWART DAY
OBSERVED BY CHAPTER
Daughters Of American Revolution
Celebrate Name Day.
PAPER READ BY MRS. CHAHOON.
Mrs. Gassaway Hostess Eniertains
Local Chapter Delegates Elected
To State Conference.

| ms year BSggy stewart Day, Oc-
tober 10, which celebrates the ami
ersary of the Annapolis Tea Party,
fell on Sunday, and its observance
had to be deferred until Monday, the
goth.
The local Chapter, Daughters of
American Revolution, whose name
does honor>to the historic event, OBJ.
served the day by meeting held yes
terday afternoon at the home of Mrs
L. Dorsey Gassaway, Church Circle
The early part of the afternoon was
devoted to a business meeting, at
which there was an election of dele
gates to the State Conference.
1t is always customary to elect the
Regent, but the Regent of the local
Chapter, Mrs. Weems Ridout, having
been recently bereaved by the death
of her husband, is taking no active
part in the affairs of the Chapter, and
the Vice-Regent, Mrs. William Sci l.
man Welch, being out of town, indefi-
nitely, the election of the following
delegates to the State Conference
took place: Miss Katherine Walton,
secretary TO the Peggy Stewart Tea
Party Chapter; first delegate, Mrs.
l.. Dorsey Gassaway; second dele
gate, Mrs. r. d. Tisdale; first alter
nate, Mrs. W. H. Burns; second al
ternate, Mrs Sheriff, of Millersville;
third alternate, Mrs. McMakin.
The custom of the local Chapter
is to elect officers on the name-day,
Peggy Stewart Day, October 10, but
this year there was no election as the
officers are all hold-overs. A portion
of the business meeting was devoted
to reading reports of the secretary,
historian and regent. After the bus
mess session of the Chapter, Mrs.
Chahoon, the only life member of the
Peggy Stewart Tea Party Chapter,
D. A. r., read a highly intere sting
and entertaining paper on "The Ari-
zona Indians" and her experience
visiting the great canon of Arizona
last summer, and seeing the sacred
serpent march, and other" festivities"
of the tribe.
The lecture was illustrated with
pictures passed around among the
the ladies and with display OF fan
tastic weaving done in the girths
and sashes worn by the high officers
of the tribe. Mrs. Chahoon painted
a vivid word picture of the Ari1onan
canon, of the rising and setting sun
there, of an electrical storm, the sub
Unity Of which beggars description.
Mrs. Chahoon's description was
vivid and realistic of snake march,
or dance, that the Indians OF Arizona
hold sacred. She told of the wash
ing of the serpents, the sacred meal
applied, how the high priest holds the
shiny, creeping thing between his
teeth, as part of the ceremony, how
another priest twines the serpant
about his neck, and how the gruesome,
uncanny ceremony that the Arizona
Indians hold most sacred goes on.
At the conclusion, the participants,
thirty-four priests in number,
"cleanse and purify themselves, and
they must need it, too.
The Chapter gave rising vote of
thanks TO Mrs. Chahoon on her de-
lightfully entertaining paper. Mrs.
OdSSdNdyy tue uOSttsS OF the Occa-
sion, read several interesting notes
on the origin and history of Peggy
Stewart Day, which are published
elsewhere in this paper. 'Tea" that
despised and taxed commodity of
more than century and a quarter
ago, was then served, together with
dainty cakes, bonbons and hot choco-
late. Over the teacups the ladies
discussed the anniversary, Of that
Peggy Stewart Day long ago, when
the brave Annapolis band of colo.
nists had dared to make Mr.. Anthony
Stewart apply the torch to his brig
laden with taxed tea, that the colo
nists forbade him land, off Wind Mill
Point, afterward Fort Severn, where
the Naval Academy now stands.
A delightful afternoon was spent
and the guests voted Mrs. Gassaway
charming and most hospitable hos
tess.