The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-12-21
The City Care Forgot.
An Interesting Paper by Mrs. Thomas b.
Dinsmore, Read Before the Women's
Alliance,

An Interesting Paper by Mrs. Thomas b.
Dinsmore, Read Before the Women's
Alliance.
The Women's Alliance OF the First Parish
Unitarian church met Thursday afternoon
Dec. 14th, at the home of Mrs Thomas B.
Dinsmore, Church street. Mrs. James C. Dur.
ham acted as secretary pro TEN in the absence
Of Miss Caroline E. White, who was confined
to her home on Northport avenue as the re-
suit of fall on the ice. A letter was read
Lowell, Mass. Alliance; also one from Mrs.
Caroline 5. Atherton, recording secretary of
the General Alliance, asking Miss Charlotte
W. Colburn. president Of the Belfast Alliance,
to act as third director, the district to include
Castine. Cape Roster and Lincoluville and four
other places nearest to Belfast. Miss Colburn
was obliged to decline the honor, although
this is the second time she has been urged to
take the position. The Belfast Alliance has
been asked by the Bangor Alliance to assist in
the work of the Red Cross and will hold special
sessions each week for this purpose. Miss
Colburn said that recent letter received
from Mrs. George A. Quimby, who is visiting
her daughters in Sac Paulo. Brazil, states that
MIR. Pineo has brother at the front. and that
she and her daughters, Mrs. Pineo and Miss
Katherine c. Quimby. were devoting several
hours each week to making bandages for the
Red Cross. Votes of thanks were extended to
Mrs. Alva R. Scott OF Bangor and Mrs. Ira
nha fnr
cent fair; to Miss Anne c. Crosby for dona-
tion of SIS, and to Charles w. Frederick for
one of SIS, to be dded to the fair fund.
The paper of the afternoon. 1.-The City care
Forgot" was read by the hostess, and was
very entertaining account of trip through
the south by Mr.. and Mrs Dinsmore last win
ter, when they visited Jacksonville, Miami,
Daytona, Palm Beach and other fashionable
resorts in Florida, with interesting incidents
and descriptions of each place visited. At
Palm Beach she witnessed a chidren's party
given in the cocoanut grove by Russell Colt,
the husband of Ethel Barrymore, and attended
the services in the non-sectarian chapel built
and endowed by the late millionaire Flagler
and heard the Rev. George Morgan Ward, a
most eloquent and fearless speaker. She also
told of the palata hotels at Palm Beach, the
most magnificent hostelries in the world. At
Miami she was specially fortunate in being
present at celebration given by the school
children to James Whtcomb Riley, the dearly
loved poet of the people, who has since passed
away. Then feeble and weak he was wheeled
to the park. where the children laid flowers at
his feet until he was almost buried in them,
and in the few words OF thanks to the little
ones who had SO honored him he made the
second public speech of his life. This expert
ence alone was worth a trip south. On leav-
ing the Florida resorts, where fashion and
gaiety ruled, Mr.. and Mrs. Dinsmore journeyed
to Charleston, S. c., a city reminiscent Of oden
days, with its handsome colonial dwellings and
quaint old churches-a resttul place. THE City
Care Forgot" Here was met Rev. Clifton Gray
pastor of the Unitarian church of Charleston
for fifteen years, who when a young man lived
in the Hayford district and attended the Uni
tartan church in this city, and on confiding to
the then pastor, the late Rev. ]. M. Leighton,
his desire to enter the ministry was led
attended college to prepare for that calling.
His first pastorate was in Massachusetts, where
he married, and later he was called to Charles
ton. where he is greatly beloved. He recog-
nzed Mr. and Mrs. Dlnsmore IN the congrepa-
ton, and with his wife acted as their guide on
many occasions. In Charleston Mrs. Dins-
more met and talked with Miss Ottolir qui, the
maker of the famous Lady Baltimore cake,
which is shipped all over the world, and heard
from her it's history. AT the close of the
paper one of these cakes, received direct from
Charleston, was served. and all pronounced it
delicious. Mrs. Arthur E. Wilson, Mrs James
S. Hartman, Mrs. S. A. Parker and Miss Char
lotte B. Wadsworth assisted the hostess in
serving. The next meeting of the Alliance
will lie held with Mrs. Wilson at the parson-
age Dec 2sth, when Rev. Arthur E. Wilson
will read paper on SOCIALISM and How the
War will Probably Affect IT.