The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-25
MISS STEARNS WILL MARRY AT HOME SATURDAY Mary Boyle O'Reilly Tells Audience Supreme Test
 Is to Come TRUSTEES MEETING
 HELD TOMORROW Madame Sundelius Gives Splendid Recital Before
 Musical Club

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Stearns issued invitations in very informal way few days ago for the wedding of their daughter, Miss Dorothy Stearns and Charles W. CrispelI of Kingston, N. T., which is to take place on Saturday evening at 6:3O o'clock, April 27, at the Stearns home, $40 Clinton avenue. MT. Cris- pell draws up the specifications for the signal corps and has been order ed to Washington recently and this hastened the preparations for the wedding which was not to have taken place until sometime later on. Owing to the fact that it will be a home wedding it will be a small informal affair."
 Miss Stearns will be attended by her sister, Mrs. Milton A. B. Stein of Washington, D. C., as matron of hon or and will have as her bridesmaids, Miss Lorraine Armstrong and Miss Frances Williams. MT. Crispeu will have as his best man his brother, lieutenant R. B. Crispe1l. His parents, MT. and Mrs. Henry CrispelI of Kingston, N. Y, will come on to attend the wedding.
 Mir Stearns will give his daughter in marriage and the ceremony will be performed by Rev. William Horace Day, pastor of the United church. After the ceremony there will be a, wedding supper and MT. and Mrs. Crispell are to leave on their we'd ding trip after which they will go to Washington, D. C., where they will make their home. Miss Stearns is well known socially. She attended Courtland school and was a member of the Little Sisters club.
 Under the auspices of the Bridge port Branch of the Society of the | Fatherless Children of France there will be an address at Poli's theatre on Sunday afternoon, April 28, at which time the speaker will be Miss Eleanor Fell. Miss Fell has been working in the devastated section of France and is to leave for France again within very short time. The | committee were so fortunate as to se- cure her only open date. She will l bring with her official motion pie lures of that pitiful section of | France, showing the destruction caus- | ed by Germany and the efforts that are being made to rehabilitate the | land. The time at which she will | begin to speak is o'clock and while no admission will be charged a sil- yer collection will be taken. This money will be used to renew the | C11nT 0rt of orphan children, the funds for whose support were raised for as year through the means of teas, card par ties and various ways, have now run ties and various ways, and have now run out
 At least three years more of the war before the world is safe for | democracy, the service of every man l in this country less than 50 years old, and the service of the women of the country to take the places of the men to achieve final victory over the Huns, were predictions made by Miss Mary Boyle O'Reilly in her lec- ture before the Bridgeport Chautau- qua at the High school last evening. The auditorium was crowded to its capacity and Miss O'Reilly was given hearty applause during the entire
 course of her lecture.
 'We must make many more sacri-
 fees" Miss O'Reilly declared. "before
 we can achieve the final victory, but
 we will achieve that victory. As
 the war stands now Germany has won
 if she can now secure peace, and
 despotism will take the throne from
 righteousness. The last two years
 have been terrifying years, and re-
 cent events have shattered the hopes
 of an Allied victory in the near fu-
 ture. If opinions of the military
 experts are to be believed we face al ; least three years more of fight : ing"
 The women of this country have
 yet to make their supreme sacrifice
 and Miss O'Reilly warned mother!
 they must give up their sons, sister! r their brothers, girls their sweet hearts, "and I must give up my pros l pective husband'' to enable America and the Allies to force Germany to
 peace which will forever remove the
 danger of despotism from the fact
 of the earth.
 f Don't think that Germany cal S force her peace terms; that is an i'm Il possibility. To do so she mus
 achieve a. physical victory, and tha is impossible under the present mill
 tary situation. The German peopI by now realize that their irridescen bubble dreams have -been pricked b
 the bayonet of the Allies. The las
 year has really been a victoriou
 year for them, yet it was also a. yea
 Of disappointment Their submaI
 ines have not done what was pre- t, dicted, and their land victories hay ts not progressed.
 l. Referring to Belgium, where Mis or O'Reilly was the first newspaper COT nt respondent in the field, she said ths
 the German people did not beliey or they were invading Belgium, eve S. some of the soldiers did not, bl 1g thought that Belgium had been il $, vaded by France, and that the Ge it's man army was protecting the Belgia h. people. Miss O'Rei1ly told much LII |