The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1921-03-31
Hazeitine, Mrs. Swan, Mrs. Bickford,
MISS Annie M. Knowlton, Miss Barker.

Hazeitlne, Mrs. Swan, Mrs. Bickford.
Miss Annie M. Knowlton. Miss Rarker
Then came one of the most entertain
ing features of the annual meetings. let
tiers from absent members. Tie first
was one from Mrs. Bosom and was read
by Mrs. Elmer A. Sherman.
Undercliff.
Cape Roster, Maine
Madam President, and Ladies
cf The Alliance:
In Hindustanee there is word which
travellers quickly adopt 1t is "Dilcusha- -
meaning "heart-expanding." 1t is a glad
dening sort of word, and it comes to me
as | begin this bit of greeting to the
Belfast Alliance, the unusual group of
heart expanding" women. who gave the
stranger within their gates such cordial
welcome and SO many happy hours year
ago. Though l can never feel myself a
stranger in beautiful Belfast The golden
days and glad memories of my girlhood
vacations spent there will always make
me feel that | "belong' Perhaps it is
atavism, too, for the sturdy pioneer whose
royal grant of land started the town. who
named it, who was chairman of the first
board of selectmen, who commenced the
first town book-now in the City Hall
safe-and who led the refusal to take the
oath of allegiance to the Crown, when the
| Penobscot Expedition came up the Bay
that John Brown, 'of the noble house of
Gordon and LennoX," was my maternal
| great t-great-grandfather and always Pve
been proud of him for having had the
good judgment to put Belfast on the map!
IT le NO from, The nriopt 7
to you today, no scent of sandal or tu.
meric to recall memories of thronged ba-
zaars or desert dunes. 1t is just Maine
air which Tve been breathing all winter,
but the balsam of evergreens and the
! iodine of sea weeds are incompatible
| toncs physically, and clean stimulants
mentally, and the season mas gone all too
| speedily in this peaceful little valley on
the Rosebush Cape. Imagination routs
| loneliness. | suppose the old French eX-
plorer who named the cape, rounded it on
June day when the wild roses were III
bloom, but this winter, with ones back
| to the Bay, it has been easy to fancy ones
self in some tiny Swiss valley, snowy
| intervale walled by steep cliffs, stretches
of unbroken forest, even red pointed
| church spire most picturesquely placed.
| And on the few mornings when there
| have been frosted window-panes, Pve
| had tree ferns and white orchids on mine!
'Why folks complain of loneliness
Is strange 20 me, / must confess.
Why, every brook and every tree
And every twinkling star see,
Hath something good to say to me
| think it is heritage both from my
west of England father and my State of
] MoJU ut bar hlt haC oft
| phasized to me that | am a truthful
woman! So | am forced to admit that
! there is March mud, Just now, on Cape
| Roster roads-but the sky is June blue!
| You will remember that
" Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw mud, the other stars"
1t seems to me a pretty good idea, to
i forget the mud and to remember the sky
| and stars. And to be thankful in these
! troubled days of turmoil ana famine and
! revolution and unrest, for our steady
/ going old State of Maine, for its peace
and its plentiful resources, It's opportuni-
ties and solidarity. God bless it!
So will you join me in this Health"
once proposed by Names own Thomas
B. Reed;
" Here's to the State Of Maine,
The land of the bluest skies,
The greenest earth,
The richest air,
The strongest, and what is better, the
StuTdieSt men,
The fairest, and what is best, the truest
women under the sunp'
My Salaams and salutations
Mary Fisher Bosson
Miss Barker read the letter from Mrs
| Augusta S. Frederick, the Alliances old
est member, who is spending the winter
in Daytona, Fla, making her 22nd season
in the South. She said in part:
''We left home Feb. 7th with every
thing snow bound and the mercury in
the thermometer in what might be called
''low company but weeks journey
found US in the midst of everything beau
tiful" The immense crowds of people
were unparalleled In her 81 years o.
southern travel and it seemed as if every
body in the United States with all their
relatives had been seized with desire to
go south. She went first to Orlando, but
the party were unable to find accommo
datlonS. That city was entertaining a