The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
WEBSTER DESCENDANT SINGS
Mrs. Buckmaster and Mrs. Baldwin Are
Hostesses at Pleasant Gathering
Mrs. Strong Recounts Events
In Early Chapter Life.

"A birthday party that celebrated the
: twenty-frst anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the Kenosha chapter,
Daughters Of the American Revolution,
was given yesterday afternoon in the
IT, NJ Baldwin home in Park Place,
with Mrs Baldwin and Mrs. A.. E.
Buckmaster as the hostesses. 1t was a
very gay affair with forty guests pres
ent, real birthday cake wheeled in on
a tea cart and surrounded with twenty
one red candles, all lighted and glowing
about the white mound in the center
of the cart.
"a more fitting place than the Bald
win home could not have been devised
for a d. A. r. party background, for
it is a charming relic of the past itself.
II was built more than half century
ago by member of the Baldwin fam
lily and later went out of the family
for a short term, only to be recovered
and restored by the present occupants
some years ago. 1t has stately rooms
with high ceilings and long vistas, the
windows are set deeply and framed
with broad easements and draped as
BELTS the dignity of the splendid old
windows of "before the war; archi-
lecture Mrs. Baldwin has had the ar
tistic inspiration to keep the furnish
ings in the same period as the archi-
lecture and it is pleasing to see the
lovely oval gilt mirrow above the fire.
place, the handsome old steel engrav-
ings quantity framed, on the walls, the
odd, antique candlesticks with ball tops
on the mantel and the imposing black
walnut book cases, well filed with
books, that stretch ceilingward.
Elected Another Vice Regent.
At the business meeting which open
ed the session substantial sum was
voted as a gift to Continental Hail.
Mrs. George f. Adams was chosen
second vice regent as Mrs. r. *. Dorr,
the regent, is leaving for Florida and
it is not expected that she will return
for several months. The first vice re-
gent is Mrs. s. G. Newman. The mem
bership committee chairman, Mrs. Har-
ry S. Skinkle, made report ON new
members taken into the chapter.
After the business session, two ex-
tremely interesting papers were read.
Mrs. W. W. Strong gave report of
the childhood days of the chapter in a
familiar, easy style that was most en-
PERTAINING, and Miss Matte French in
PRODUCED "The Man Who Made the
Dictionary to her audience in a hui
morous and informative paper, thor
Oughly enjoyed.
Cinnamon First in Field.
AS a preliminary she dove into the
history of dictionaries themselves and
went back before the age of printing
presses and Christianity and in that
hazy distance she deserted two die
tionaries of note, one the possession of
The heather Chinee and the other of the
Hebrews, the Chinese antedating the
other by little.
Miss French skipped along through
the interesting trail left by the die
tionary builders, lot forgetting to give
ing Hypatia, who wrote dictionaries
and incidentally giving such credit as
was due to Phoenicians, Egyptians and
Arabs, all of whom had dictionaries be-
fore their European neighbors had
dreamed of such Injuries, or possibly
before they had enough of vocabu-
AIRY to fill one.
Noah Webster, the Hero.
After paying her respects to many
makers of special dictionaries, such as
g+ossaries of terms pertaining to one
subject, the list of forbidden books is
sued by the Roman Catholic church to
prevent the faithful from eating for
hidden fruit and other collections of
names, Miss French devoted her time
and energies to making known Noah
Webster, son of two lines of PILGRIM
ancestors, resident in New England
some generations before his birth in
Hartford, who wrote the greatest and
most largely accepted of all the die.
ionaries ever printed.
Does Original Research.
Miss French had CLEANED many facts
heretofore imprinted regarding her
Zero that gave better understanding
# his personality. She admitted that
ease had much of coneeit, something of
fyanity, little stubborness and some
,ther qualities that are trife hard to
bide with permanently, but she show
I'd him as so thoroughly heroic where
le knew he was right, SO loyal to the
Test interests of America, so devoted
George Washington, his friend, and
sincere and straightforward in his
lealings with all men, and SO utterly