Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-06-19
Baby Cause Gets It
At Society Luncheon

One of the most interesting and
largely attended affairs of the Ladies'
Aid Society of the Grantwood Congre-
gational Church was that held on
Tuesday, in the church parlor when
about forty-five women gathered for
the luncheon at one o'clock, not all of
them members of the society or even of
the church, for the Episcopal and Cath
Ollie churches were represented at this
social function.
The committee, Mrs. r. o. Berls,
Mrs. Modess, Mrs. Ritari, Mrs. G. r.
Thayer, and Mrs. Yaeger, had made the
room and the tables very attractive and
summerlike in pink runners and fes-
toons Of pink crepe paper, and with
beautiful flowers making the room a
bower of bloom.
The luncheon, contributed by the
members, was as usual delicious, and a
special feature of this occasion was
a young French girl of twenty years
of age, who has served in the French
and the American service, disguised
as man. Miss Belgani is staying with
Mrs. Irving Wright of Grantwood, be-
ing ordered to the country to recuper-
ate from her severe wounds, and Mrs.
Wright brought her to the luncheon.
Mrs. G.. Sheffield, the president of
the Ladies' Aid, introduced the address,
by saying that Mrs Wright seemed to
lead highly colored career as when
she attended the missionary convention
her coat was singled out to be stolen
when left in the automobile, when she
bought new one, certain difficulties
presented themselves, then she be-
friended stray dog and was obliged
to go to court to defend herself, and
now she was hostess to war heroine.
Miss Belgani was studying in this
country when the war was declared,
and being too young to serve her coun-
try In the Red Cross service, went to
France, put on soldiers uniform and
served in various capacities, the prin-
cipal one being the secret service, and
her sex was never discovered until
her WOUNDS hecessitated her being
taken 10 the hospital.
When the armistice was declared
she was in the hospital, and when she
came out she was given the most en-
thusiastic welcome for she was very
popular with her fellow soldiers who
called her often the "little lady" never
dreaming that she was really such, but
because she was so young and delicate
in appearance.
The pastor, Rev. N. G. Cause, also
spoke briefly, and the president read
one of her clever compositions on
young mothers and old.
The treasurer's report showed the
fine sum of $131 in the treasury and of
this, 500 was voted to be paid to the
trustees of the church at the proper
time, for the society has assumed the
paying off of the mortgage of $3.50 and
have already paid another hundred of
this, recently. Mrs. Leeger reported
for the Kitchen Committee, and Mrs.
Thayer gave the report of the rummage
the fine sum of $S4, and the committee,
Mrs. Thayer, Mrs. Sears and Mrs Ben
nett, received a hearty vote of thanks.
The society also gave a vote of
| thanks to Mr.. Berls, Mr.. Leeger and
Miller Sears, who with their automo-
| ton of the gifts. The Sewing Com
mittee, Mrs. Shepherd, chairman, re-
ported the quilt which is for sale at
the reasonable price of So. Mrs. Sears
was asked to take charge of the mat
ter of shades for the new parsonage.
Mrs. Sheffield's delightful social was
mentioned. Mrs. S. N. Sears, the mis-
Sionary treasurer, was authorized to
pay the appOrtionment of the church to
the State Home Missionary and the
Foreign Missionary societies of women.
Mrs. Cause, the chairman of the con-
situation committee, read the new con-
stitutiOn, but as the hour was late ii
was decided that this should be read
and voted on at another meeting for
more careful consideration.
Among the many guests were Mrs. c.
Sheffield, Mrs. Noah c. Cause, Mrs.
| Capstaff, Mrs. Cummings, Mrs. Erich,
Mrs. r. B. Ansell, Mrs. Joseph Scott,
Mrs. George Dickinson, Mrs. J. H. r.
Benda, Mrs. ]. r. Van Wagner, Mrs.
S. N. Sears, Mrs. r. o. Berls, Mrs.
Shepherd, Miss Margaret Shepherd,
Mrs. G. J. Leeger, Mrs. J. r. Fridling-
ton, Mrs. Modess, Mrs. Irving Wright,
Mrs. George Vaughn, Mrs. Varnebach,
Mrs. Charles Haage, Mrs. Walsh, Mrs.
Harris, Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Holcomb,
Mrs. Krebs, Mrs. c. Mileham, Mrs.
Woolcott, Mrs. Strychman, Mrs. Ritari,
Mrs. Heaton, Mrs. G. r. Thayer, Mrs.
George Donaldson and a number of
others; the guests of honor being Rev.
N. G. Cause, Miss Belgian, and-it
might be added-Baby Cause, who at
tended his first Ladies' Aid meeting
and had the main part of the original
story by Mrs. Sheffield aimed at him