Iron County register., 1922-04-06
A Splendid Program.

On Monday evening of March 9th
upon the adjournment of the regular
meeting of the Chapter of Order of
the Eastern Star, those present were
asked to remain for a program and
social hour which had been arranged
by the persons who had, at different
times, represented star point, Adah.
Since this point represents the daugh-
ter's station the program was very fit
tingly arranged to exemplify typical
daughters of history and the part they
have played in the progress of the
world.
Mrs. Ada Fletcher, costumed in
flowing white robes, played the part
of the recording angel and read from
the great white book the chapters
which recorded the various deeds of
these noble daughters. The first
voice coming to ker from infnIty
down through the past centuries was
that of Adah, the great warrior
Jeptha's, daughter who died to save
her fathers honor. Mrs. Mary Whit
worth, gowned as this Jewess maiden
and kneeling as at the sacred shrine,
read in a beautiful and impressive
manner, the poem entitled "Jeptha's
Daughter"
The next character to be revealed
through the angel was that of "Joan
of Arc," the shepherd girl from the
hills and forests of Lorraine, who
made the greatest sacrifice 1t is possi-
BILE for one to make for her country.
Mrs. Lee Bargsr, costumed to repre-
sent this French maiden, in her usual
pleasing manner sang, "Jeanne de
Arc.n
Then the recording angel spoke of
the colonial days in the land of the
Pilgrims. Mrs. Mary Whitworth dress
ed as the pilgram maiden, seated at
the old-fashioned spinning wheel,
hummed the tune of the pilgrim
anthem while the angel read tribute
to these patient and courageous
daughters of Plymouth. The audience
was filed with feeling for and pa
triotic devotion toward our fore
fathers when Mrs. Whitworth closed
this scene by singing in such an i'm
pressive way, "Ainsworth's One
Hundredth Psalm" the pilgrim anth-
EN-.
Then the voices, speaking of the
daughters of '61, who suffered and
sacrificed were next heard. The spirit
of these daughters that played part
in 80 welding together g reat coun-
try that when in 1917 the extreme test
of the nation came the daughters of
that land all spoke. acted and served
together, was beautifully protrayed
when Mrs. Roy Robinson and Mrs.
Lee Barger, costumed as maidens OF
s61, one from the North and one from
the South, came into room together
and finding flag faded and torn, with
some of it's stars missing, together
grasped it's folds and with needle and
thread tenderly healed it's scars and
replaced the missing stars. The spirit
manifested by both the North and the
South when the test of our Nation
came was called as these two maidens,
while holding the flag between them,
together gave the following toast:
! Here's to the blue of the wind swep.
North,
Now that your days Of war are gone,
May the spirit of Grant be with you
all,
{ As the girls Of the North come on.
Here's to the red OF the Sun Kissed
South,
Now that your days Of war are gone,
May the spirit of Lee be with you all
As the girls of the South come on.
Here's to the blue and the gray as one,
May the spirit be with us all!
Then the record of the daughters of
the Red Gross with the understanding
Of what Of pain, what of sacrifice, and
what OF glory goes into the making Of