The daily sentinel., 1914-01-31
woman's Club Annual Banquet Enjoy.
able Affair.

Woman's Club Annual Banquet Enjoy.
able Affair.
The 10th Annual Banquet given last
evening by the Woman's Club. in the
parlors OF the Congregational church,
with the gentlemen as their honored
guests, was thoroughly enjoyable
affair from start to finish and Mes
danes ]. l.. Pearce, NJ ii. Flynn and
J. n. Neeb. the committee on arrange
ments, received many compliments up
on the success of their efforts toward
making the occasion one of the most
delightful within the recollection of
the Oldest members of the Club.
Covers were laid for I40 and the
daintily appointed tables with pink
candles in silver holders, pink carna-
tions, the Club flower, with artistic
mural decorations of pink bunting and
twisted pink and white crepe paper,
for a background, 1t was indeed a
scene long to be remembered.
Mrs. Horace T. DeLong, president
of the Club, was seated at the center
of the long tables which were arrang-
ed in a square and at the same end
were seated those who were to take
part in the program. Rev. J. ]. Glib
lin of the Methodist church pronounc-
ed the invocation, which preceded the
serving of the banquet. The following
delicious menu was served by pretty
high school graduates. with grace and
dexterity, whose names were given in
last evenings paper:
Fruit Cocktail
Waters
"To Give Safety Fresh Appetite"
Chicken paftieS Mashed PotatOpe
Escalloped Corn
|. Hot Rolls Cabbage Salad
Olives Celery
Ice Cream Cake
Coffee AIints
81 Have Not Slept One Wink"
There were appropriate little quo
tatioAs on the programs. following
each name and in making a few OPEN
ing remarks, as toastmistress. Mrs. II.
T. DeLong referred in most anus
to which was:
DO You know | am Woman
When | think ! must speak"
Mrs. DeLong cordially welcomed the
assembled members of the Club and
their guests, the gentlemen. in her us
ual happy manner and concluded her
remarks by introducing the "Sympho-
ny Buds" as the first number on the
program. The little folks orchestra,
carefully trained by Mrs. NJ. II. Loef-
fler, made big hit. playing 'Medita-
ton" with expression and precision,
hardly TO be expected from the size of
the musicians. who gave Once Upon
a Time" by Schmidt, in response to an
enthusiastic encore. Those composing
the orchestra were: Misses Mabelle
Sampliner. Lucille Nichols, John Greer,
Dallas Walker. Raymond Loeffler, Dav-
i'd Stone and Howard Nichols.
Mrs. DeLong then gave the toast
Our Guests" which was responded to
by Mrs. G. f. Hinton, who gave one Of
the brightest and wittiest talks of the
evening with many amusing sallies at
the expense of the gentlemen. saying
that, as on the present occasion, the
Club, once a year, gathered unto itself
the gentlemen, as honored guests, and
fed them and flattered them to their
hearts content. and proceeded to
speak upon that most desired OF all
tributes in a man, Courage" mental
and physical. She held the close at
tention Of her audience, with many
bursts of laughter at some particular
sally and with hearty applause at the
conclusion OF her clever little talk.
Mrs. r. II. Sawyer was then intro
duced by Mrs. DeIIong. with the ap-
propriate quotations "If Music be the
Food of Love, Sing On" Mrs. Sawyer
delighted everyone with the old fam
iliar ballad, when You and | Were
Young, Maggie her clear soprano
carrying well to all parts OF the big
hall and winning round of applause
which brought her back with an equal
1y delightful encore, Sleep. Baby,
Sleep"
The President next gave the toast:
THE Ladies'" and introduced Attorney
c. l.. Watson. for the response with
the following quotation:
"A Lion Amongst Ladies'
Is Most Dreadful Thing"
Mr., Watson pretended to be very
much embarrassed "lion' amongst
ladies'. and insisted that he had de-
pended upon his wife to prepare him
for the occasion and that she had fail
ed him. His account OF the deep re-
searches which he had made into an
Client and modern lore for some par
ticular bright and shining example of
Iemale virtues from which he might
draw inspiration, convulsed the au-
dience, especially when his first
thought had been to look up the rec
ords of The Queen OF Sheba and next
Cleopatra, and becoming discouraged.
turned further down the ages to good
old Queen Bess, was still further dis
couraged, upon rigid investigation
and finall.' decided to wait for inspir-
alton from the presence OF the ladies'
of the Grand Junction Woman's Club.
Becoming serious, Mr.. Watson spoke
upon the future of the women of today
and ended by entirely forgetting TO re-
member how extremely embarrassed
he had intended to appear. Upon his
conclusion, Mrs. DeLong arose and said
that she had decided that Mr.. Watsons
quotation should have been reversed
to read that-"Ladies. amongst lions,
n ra y