THE STORY OF THE

SATURDAY MORNING CLUB OF BOSTON

Organi~ed hy

MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE

and

MRS. ROBERT E. APTHORP

Novemher Second

Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-One

ON THE OCCASION OF ITS SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY

1932

Printed By CHARLES H. w ALL

Boston, Massachusetts

Committee on Compilation

EMILY MILLET

CAROLINE TICKNOR.

ELEANOR w. ALLEN

t!tablt of Content~

WHEN I WAS SEVENTEEN-Maud Howe Elliott . 5

THE NEW CLUB-Boston Post 1872 . . 11

CLUB REMINISCENCES-Katharine C. Pierce . 17

CLUB REMINISCENCES-Ada T. Cushing . . 29

THE WINTER'S TALE-Boston Transcript . . 33

A NINETEENTH CENTURY'S WELCOME TO THE

TWENTIETH CENTURY-Caroline Ticknor . . 3 7

CLUB POEM-Ada T. Cushing. 44

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE-Emily Millet

ABou HASSAN

THE POSTER PARTY .

THE ANCESTOR PARTY .

OuR ORDERS-Julia Ward Howe

OuR WAR RECORD-Helen G. Means

THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY .

RETROSPECT-Caroline Ticknor

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PAST AND PRESENT SATURDAY MORNING CLUB

MEMBERS. . 77

PRESIDENTS . 89

LIST OF LECTURERS.

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS .

BuILDING--Julia Ward Howe .

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WHEN I WAS SEVENTEEN MAUD HowE ELLIOTT

DEAR OLD GIRLS :

ARE there any of you left? Yes, I know there are, and if your places have been taken by your

daughters or your granddaughters, what does it n1at­ter? I am bidden to tell what I remember of the Club's early days. I\1y first recollection is of a talk with my mother in which I was chiding her for her ab­sence from home at a meeting of the New England Woman's Club, of ,vhich she was one of the founders and the president and leading spirit through many years. Remem·ber, I was not yet quite seventeen, a period when young people assume that their elders should always be at their beck and call.

"What's the use of going on so much about those old women?" I said. "Who cares about them anyway? Now if you were doing something for girls there might be some sense in it."

Petulant words! I was jealous of my mother's in­terest in anything but myself. But that saucy utter­ance led to deep reflection on my mother's part. The "Queen of Clubs" ,vas thinking. The next thing that comes back to me was her asking me to make out a list of my girl friends who might be eligible for club membership. My list was headed by the names Bessie and Edith Andrew, the daughters of our great Civil War governor, John Albion Andrew. Edith and I

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were the only surviving members of the first club I founded. We called it "The Rovers of Boston," and roved chiefly on the Common. Our activities were largely the raiding of the family storerooms and the surreptitious conveyance of goodies to the steps in the rear of the State House where our lawless picnics were held. But we were grown up now, nearly sev­enteen! This was a more serious matter. My sister, Laura, lately engaged to Henry Richards, gave other names. One shines out clearer than all the rest, Katharine P. Loring, whom we might call our Athena, for from the first she was the one my mother depended on; she was truly the "wheel horse" in the early days of the Club. She, with the hel·p of the Secretary, Abby Alger. sister of my chum Kitty, dearest of the Rovers who roved no more, was appointed a committee to draft the constitution. I remember my mother's ad-. vice:

"Do not tie any more knots in your constitution than you can help."

What good advice ! Remember it when you are making a draft for a constitution.

The Discussions: Oh, those rapturous early dis­cussions! I am credibly informed that they have greatly improved. "Improved in what?" I should like to ask. Nothing has ever excelled, I doubt if anything has ever equalled, the "Discussion on Queen Eliza­beth and Mary Queen of Scots." Both sovereigns had fierce adherents. The debate ran high; the amenities were happily ignored. Oh, that the talk had been taken down, but wasn't that before stenographers? A few precious phrases only can be recalled :

"Elizabeth was a horrid old thing."

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"Do you think that you are competent to speak on the usages of good society?"

Yes, I ~emember from whose lips fell those price­less gems, but I will not tell. They cannot answer back.

The Cooking Group : Some comment has been made in an earlier recollection of the Club upon the great vitality of the Cooking Group as compared to the Botany and Dante Groups. The explanation is simple. Some engaged girls and some earnest young matrons just married and gone housekeeping joined this group. Our Laura was one of the leaders, and I remember the meeting at her house at Green Peace, South Boston, when Minnie Brigham brought a gorgeous dessert, a sort of glorified pandowdy, and Miss Mary Wel'ls sent that famous dish of "Quaker Quee,." I am sure my sister still has that supreme recipe-write to her and ask her-for creamed salt codfish. Hard boiled eggs and other things were added, and in our family "Quaker Queer" for many years robbed Friday of all its terrors.

The Dramatics : We were merry then. Girls, are you merry now? Don't grow too serious ; admirable fooling was in those first years held to be as important as intellectual efforts. I can see today some of the big stars. Effie Tilden, dressed as a jester with cap and bells, at the feet of my mother got up as a queen ; again I hear Effie's fine voice reciting Robert Brown­ing's "In a Balcony." Alice Kent comes back to me as a classic king (Creon). And Sallie Fairchild, a priestess in the .A.ntigone of Sophocles, standing before the altar with uplifted arms, so lovely a figure that an artist-was it John Sargent-painted her in the pose.

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This Greek Classic, produced, I think, in Bu1nstead Hall, where there was an amphitheatre, was the high light of the Club's dramatic efforts in my time. The details were carried out with the most exquisite thoroughness. I still treasure the ivory tessara, copied from one in the Art Museum, I believe, which we used for tickets. They were few and hard to get. I sent one to Mrs. Gardner as an offering in return for many hospitalities, and she wrote and asked me what the little ivorv disk meant. No men were admitted; -I have always regretted this. Still, that was forty years ago, my diary tells me, and times have changed. Now young women do not mind being seen by their brothers and their beaux in the slightest of costumes. Beautiful Caroline Burlen, was it you who took the part of Antigone, and gave that thrilling performance of the great classic feminine role? Another snap­shot: Isa Coolidge as Mohini, the Indian seer, who at that time was thrilling Boston-one of the best makeups I ever saw. I can hear my n1other's voice· exclaiming as she greeted one after the other of the co1npany at that merry gathering :

"Oh, you Sat 1\iom Club Girls!'' How she loved you ! When I remember all the

clubs she founded, all the enterprises of national and international importance she l~unched or helped to launch, such as the Woman's Peace Crusade, the Woman Suffrage fight, the Antislavery cause, I still like to think that the warmest corner of her heart was kept for you, because she founded you to keep out of mischief the youngest daughter whom she once apostrophized as follows:

"Maud, you are frivolous, but your salads are di­vine."

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lVIy own connection with the Club is, therefore, really derivative. I was the cause of your being, but that is all I can claitn. I was a poor president for a brief term, and I once told you a ghost story, and told it so well that it was taken for truth, and from that day to this I a1n haunted by its echoes. It was a thundering good story, and to make it seem more vraise11iblable I told it as if it had happened to my father, a liberty I still think not to have been unnatu­ral, though it may have been indefensible.

This lightness of touch with which the Club has from the beginning taken up the most serious things in Hfe as well as the most superficial ones, has always seemed to n1e one of its greatest assets. You are never dull, stodgy, or encyclopaedic,-at least you have never been in my presence. I like to close this brief excursion into the past with a quotation from n1y old friend Professor Robert Richards:

"Food, Exercise, Amusement, Sleep, Task: Take their initials, and these make up the FEAST of life."

In our Boston of yesterday, of today, and of tomor­row, the Saturday Morning Club furnishes the Attic Salt to the Feast of Life.

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I have made a voyage upon a golden river, 'Neath clouds of opal and of amethyst,

Along its banks bright shapes were moving ever, And threatening shadows melted into mist.

My journey nears its close-in some still haven My bark shall find its anchorage of rest,

When the kind hand, which every good has given, Opening with wider grace, shall give the best.

JULIA WARD HOWE

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THE NEW CLUB ( Prepared for the BOSTON PosT, 1872)

CLUBS are on the increase. Whether Bostonians are essentially a clubable people, whether there

is a magic in east winds tending to develop that peculiar quality, or whether it is mania run mad, certain it is that new clubs are constantly springing into existence most unexpectedly, and in .the most unwarrantable manner. The latest of these,-and by no means the least important, is the Young Ladies Club that meets every Saturday morning, and whose members devote themselves not -to the discussion of beaux, the admira­tion of "Dolly Vardens," nor the perplexed question of Spring costumes, after the manner of girls gen­erally; but to listen to essays and talks from distin­guished men and women who are either in Boston or a part of it, and afterwards to discuss the questions that the essays and talks may suggest, with seriousness and earnestness that are provokingly funny in contrast with their fresh girlish faces, sparkling eyes, mis­chievous, laughing mouths and bright abandon.

Every Saturday morning there is a rustle of soft draperies, a patter of daintily booted feet, a gurgle of so£ t laughter, and a hum of busy voices in Mount Vernon Street, the headquarters of these youthful metaphysicians, embryo reformers, and pretty, predes­tined philosophers. Students of Plato rather than Demorest, more interested in Kant than "Die Woden­welt," talking of science when their sisters of Gotham

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would talk of clothes, and theorizing about social re­forms where other girls anticipate social gayeties. Worthy daughters of Boston are they, fallowing the lead of their mothers and elder sisters of the Woman's Club, distancing then1, even, in their enthusiasm and almost equalling then1 in appreciation.

Emerson, who ought to be an authority on audiences, says they are the keenest in perception, and the most appreciative of good things, of any audience he ever spoke before, and after reading a paper for then1 one morning, and finding them so quickly responsive, he begged the privilege of reading his new papers to the1n before they were read elsewhere, because he wanted to test them by the effect they had on these girls. There was a triumphant little flutter among them when the philosopher made this request, and ever since there has been an idea very prevalent among them of trans£ er­ring the title of "brain" Club from the W on1an's Oub to their own. By eleven o'clock they are all gathered in the pleasant parlors that are opened to receive then1, the whole forty of them, for the club in its first season has reached that number ; and a prettier sight one could not wish to see than these same interested girl faces, turned eagerly toward the. ·little flower-laden table be­hind which sits the essayist. There is a rustle of appreciation as some fine bit of humor is read, and a clapping of dainty gloved hands ,vhen the reader concludes some fine sentence. Such outbursts as these delight the person who has undertaken the duty of amusing or instructing them, and are such as the grown-up Woman's Club seldom indulge in. The members of the latter might take lessons in enthu­siasm of these younger ones. As they sit listening so

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intently s01ne of the faces stand out clear and bright and not to be forgotten, as a very part of this charm-. 1ng scene.

Now a little brunette flashes her bright eyes from under a coquettish bonnet, that only makes the wearer more deliciously piquant than ever, in spite of the dig­nity which she wears in virtue of her position as one of the officers of the club; near by is a blonde, tall and graceful, with merry blue eyes and pale hair with a glint of gold running through it that defies bands, con1bs, and pins, waving, crin1ping and curling just as it pleases, whether the wearer wills it or not ; looking out from under a jaunty velvet hat is a sweet, shy face, with delicate color in the cheeks that comes and goes as the interest in the essay deepens, the blue eyes grow more serious and intent, and the tender n1outh graver and quieter; it is an attractive face, half child­like and wholly womanly, delicate, tender, and sensitive.

Very few of these girls, if indeed any of them, have reached their twenties. They are in their freshest girlhood, bringing \vith them all their enthusiasm and joyousness; to their young eyes the world looks bright and every way desirable; they take up whatever comes in their \Vay with an earnest zest that they ,vill rarely give either to duties or pleasures by and by. Science softens under the sparkle of their eyes, and philosophy becomes poetry in their pretty, pouting mouths. Alcott has talked to them about Plato and the dialectic, and carried away happy recollections of them to the Radi­cal Club, where he alludes tenderly to them, with a delight and admiration, with which the older club fails to inspire him. "\Ve ,vill have to learn of these young people," he says, "they are leaving us old ones behind."

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Collyer can1e to them one Saturday, jolly and genial, bringing the strength and breadth of vVestern prairies, Hillard has talked to them, and Richard H. Dana, who made an exception in their favor, and did for the1n what the other Clubs have not been ab1e to coax him to do for them. Julia Howe and Celia Burleigh have read papers to them, and they have all their days filled for the season. Every speaker volunteerE, to go to them ; there seen1s to be a little rivalry as to who shall have the first opportunity.

It is a nice thing to be a young girl and a n1en1ber of such a popular club; but it is a happiness that be­longs to very few. Not all the days are devoted to essays; every alternate Saturday is left open for the discussion of the subject introduced the week previous.

"We don't like to express ourselves before these people who talk to us,'' said one girl, shyly. "Our ideas are too crude and we don't like to be criticized, besides, some of the girls won't talk." So every other meeting is held with closed doors, and the outsiders can only guess what is going on-something very interest­ing, no doubt, by the looks on the happy faces, as at twelve o'clock precisely the closed doors open and the subdued voices are raised merrily in exclamations and quaint expression, and all the girlish frolicson1eness breaks out with new abandon after an hour of re-. press1on.

One of the leading spirits of this club is Miss Abby L. Alger, daughter of Reverend William R. Alger. Miss Alger published, a short time ago, a very fine translation of Von Wasielwski's Life of Robert Schu­mann, which has been very successful, and is an im­portant addition to the musical literature of the day.

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Young as she is, Miss Alger evinces great literary taste, and has been very successful as a translator. There are other members of the Club who will one day achieve success in literature, and they are laying the foundations for their future in this novel and attractive Saturday Club.

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THE SATURDAY MORNING CLUB OF HARTFORD

OUR SISTER CLUB AND NAMESAKE

( Extract from letter from the Hart£ ord Club, October 20, 1877, in response to a greeting sent from Boston.)

Our Club has been in existence a little 111ore than a year, and has proved a source of great pleasure to all its members, and we feel deeply indebted to the young ladies of Boston for organizing such a delightful so­ciety, and to Mr. Fields for affording us an opportunity to profit by their example.

At our first meeting we adopted the n1ajority of the clauses of your constitution, and n1any of your by-laws. . . . The members of our Club hope we n1ay be able to maintain friendly relations with those of the Boston Club, and with expressions of sincere pleasure at hear­ing from you, we sign ourselves in return,

Cordially your friends, of the

HARTFORD S. lVl. C.

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CLUB REMINISCENCES

KATHARINE C. PIERCE

(Read at Annual Meeting, May 14, 1887.)

IN looking over all the Club records of the past six­teen years of its life, for the purpose of putting

them into consecutive form, easy for reference, various i,te111s of interest have appeared which it has been thought the Club generally might be glad to have brought together into a brief summary.

To the n1ore recent members it may serve as accu­rate information about the Club which claims our loy­alty; and to the older members, and so1ne of the ·origi­nal members, it may be a pleasant reminiscence of n1any Saturdays in the past.

Time being a relative term, I know not whether seventeen years would be considered long for the ex­istence of a club for literary and social purposes ; but I am sure it is long for a club started in such an in­formal way for young girls, who could not be supposed to possess the steadfast purpose necessary to carry a club through to successful issues.

For this quality we are largely indebted to Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, our originator, promoter, and steadfast friend, in season and out of season, when our steps were feeble; and, now that we stand firmly on our feet on a groundwork of sixteen years' experience, we gratefully recall her help and ericouragement. The

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main element to the success of any enterprise is its necessity; and so I believe that the Saturday Morning Club supplied a need which as yet shows no sign of diminishing.

It began in a small, tentative way. On Thursday, November 2, 1871, at four o'clock,

a meeting of young women was held, under the leader­ship of Mrs. Julia Ward lfowe. It was voted to form a club to hold meetings on Saturday mornings, every alternate Saturday being devoted to a discussion of some preceding lecture or of some other subject of interest.

The name firs-t suggested was the Junior Brain Club, but Mrs Howe seriously objected to the nan1e as too pretentious ; and, as the Club was to meet on Satur­day mornings, nothing could be better than the Satur­day Morning Club, and so it was.

On that occasion there were present Mrs. Howe as chairman, Maud Howe, Edith Andrew, Elizabeth An­drew, Katharine P. Loring, Marion P. Gray, Abby Alger, Lucy Derby, and Lois Curtis.

At a second preliminary meeting, held on the foil ow­ing Monday afternoon, November 6, it was voted that Mrs. Howe, Miss Alger, and Miss Loring be appointed a committee to draft the Constitution.

It was voted that Mrs. Howe be asked to give the first lecture.

Mrs. Howe reported that she had seen Mrs. l\1ary A. Livermore, Mr. Samuel Eliot, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Mr. John S. Dwight, Mr. Edward Kinsley, who had all consented to lecture to the Club. The officers chosen for the first year, 1871-72, were:-

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President, Katharine P. Loring ; Vice-Presidents, Marion P. Gray and Elizabeth Andrew ; Recording Secretaries, Lois Curtis and Abby Alger ; Correspond­ing Secretary, Eliza Howe; Treasurers, Lucy Derby and Edith Andrew.

The third n1eeting, which was practically the first 1neeting of the Saturday Morning Club, was held on Saturday, November 18, 1871, at ten o'clock, in l\Irs. Howe's parlors, 28 Mt. Vernon Street. Twenty-nine members were present. The Constitution and By-laws were read and adopted.

l\Irs. Howe read a paper on Culture, the special object of the Club, which was followed on the ensu­ing Saturday by a discussion of the same subject. At the fourth meeting 1\1:r. Hilary Skinner spoke of the education of English girls. This was followed by a discussion on the "Girl of the Period," society in gen­eral, and Boston in particular. Unfortunately, no de­tailed record of the discussion has been preserved, or it might be amusing to con1pare remarks made then with those recently made on a similar subject. I do not mean to weary you, however, with a list of lectures and discussions; but I cannot resist mentioning a few noted names of those who have so kindly contributed to the Club. Most pron1inent among our friends after Mrs. Howe was l\'.Ir. James T. Fields. He delivered eleven lectures be£ ore the Club, and was ever ready at a moment's notice to supply a deficiency on a lecture Saturday.

Then come the names of Mr. Edwin P. Whipple, l\1r. Richard H. Dana, Mr. John Weiss, Mr. C. C. Perkins, Dr. Benjamin Peirce, Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson; and, should the list be continued to include

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the bright 1ninds still with us, we should surely feel that the Club has been richly feasted.

Though we rightly rejoice in our galaxy, the lectures are, after all, but the sugar-plums; the real vital Ii f e of the Club lies in the discussions, and I hope to sho,v that in this respect we have grown some,vhat.

At the thirty-fourth meeting, January 18, 1873, Professor T. Sterry Hunt lectured upon the Nebular Hypothesis.

To show that even in its infancy the Club was not daunted by great subjects, the discussion which fol­lowed this lecture need only be mentioned,-"The History of the Solar Systen1 in its Relation to the Mind of Man and the Immortality of the Soul.''

The President said that the subject was a graver one than usual, and called ttpon Mrs. Howe to open the discussion. After making a few remarks, she called upon others to speak ; but we read that a dead _silence prevailed, and later the discussion drifted away into the regions of Theology. The Club at least had aspirations in those days.

On December 13, 1873, Mrs. Abba Goold vVoolson gave a lecture on "The Relation of Woman to Dress," ,vhich was followed by a discussion upon the same subject.

This was evidently popular, something upon which every member had some definite idea.

Report says that Miss Gray maintained that fashion was the only standard for a woman's dress; and others looked the same thought, if they did not staite it so openly.

The unhealthfulness of a weight of false hair was spoken of, and the great unsuitableness and untidiness

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of wearing long dresses in dirty streets. Miss Faucon offered a resolution "that short dresses were more co111fortable in the house and in the street," but it was not carried. 1'Iiss Gray then amended it to "short dresses are better and more co111fortable in the street."

This was passed by a large majority. The question was then raised whether those who voted affirmatively on the preceding resolution would carry it into prac­tice. Seventeen voted Yes, and twelve No ; and many, as usual, could not n1ake up their minds to the sacrifice of fashion to co1nfort.

Surely, we have progressed a little in the intervening years.

At the sixty-seventh 1neeting, March, 187 4, the President, Miss Loring, ren1arked that she only spoke the thought of many in saying that there was a grow­ing lack of interest a1nong the men1bers, and that the discussions were more unprofitable than ever. Son1ething must be done.

It was there£ ore decided to have a D_iscussion Com­n1ittee, to consist of lYiiss Brigham, Niiss Gray, ~Iiss Alger, who should devise means for in1pressing the 111en1bers with a realizing sense of their duties.

For a ti1ne no further mention was n1ade of the subject; but when our third President, Miss Gray, entered office, she made a vigorous appeal for better work, and reco1nmended the following resolutions, which were adopted:-

1. That the subject for discussion be given out two weeks in advance.

2. That, if six members do not volunteer to take part, the number shall be filled by appointment.

She also offered to read any anonymous papers

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which might be sent in by those too timid to ackno\vl­edge them.

This practice continued for some years, but, being most injurious to the general life of the Club, was finally discontinued.

In spite of these efforts, however, at the one hun­dred and thirty-first meeting, December 23, 1876, the discussion being on the state of Europe at the present day, we read that few remarks were made; and, it being evident that members were not prepared to dis• cuss the subject, the Club was adjourned.

All through the reports there still continued to run an undercurrent of dissatisfaction.

December 27, 1879, a vote was passed that, "if any member appointed to lead the discussion cannot be present, she shall either send a paper or provide a su bsti,tute."

At the two hundred and twenty-fifth meeting it was voted "that all new members shall take part in one discussion, either actively or by writing a paper, within a year of their admission, or forfeit their mem­bership."

At the three hundred and forty-second meeting. March 7, 1885, members were urged to bring sugges­tions and criticisms to promote the welfare of the Club.

Miss Noyes then made a motion, and a vote was passed:-

That six members should be chosen to prepare papers on a given subject one month before that subject was to come up for discussion.

These six members are to constitute a committee, one of the six to be appointed chairman.

They are to meet during the month one or more times to prepare the discussion. The papers to be read as formerly, and a general discussion opened.

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A vote was also passed that members taking active part in a discussion should sit together at the side of the room.

These resolutions seem to have cut t}:ie Gordian knot, for since they were passed the discussions have very greatly improved, and have become a most valuable part of club work, as they always should have been. This plan has also the double advantage of furthering the social as well as the intellectual aims of the Club, and in all ways works most successfully.

The different residences and social relations deserve a passing notice.

At the close of the Club meeting, February 2, 1871, Mrs. Howe took leave of the members previous to her departure for San Do111ingo; and a vote of thanks was passed to her for organizing the Club and for the use of her rooms.

Subsequent meetings were held at the house of the President, Miss Katharine Loring, 33 Mt. Vernon Street.

At the forty-eighth meeting, April 26, 1873, Mrs. Howe reviewed the Club's progress, and recommended the formation of groups for work during the summer. 'They were accordingly formed :-

A Group in Mathematics, a Group to read Dante in English, a Group to read Dante in Italian, an Art Group, a Botany Group, a Cookery Group.

The length of existence of these groups was very varied. Those which survived the first year were the Literary, Botany, and Cookery Groups.

Later, in 1877, Mrs. Howe started a Political Econ­omy Group ; but, as she soon after went to Europe, the group did not continue.

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The Botany Group lived three years, and seem­ingly brought pleasure and profit to its members.

But alas £or the high intellectual aims of the Satur­day Morning Club ! No group, for general interest, success, and length of life, is to be compared to the Cookery Group.

lVIembership was limited to seventeen, and there must have been some pressure for admittance if we may judge from the regulations regarding new mem­bers.

They held twenty-five meetings, at which meals, called respectively breakfast, lunch, or dinner, were served, the viands being contributed by members.

Each member must contribute at least one dish made by her own hands and be able to give the recipe for it.

A detailed account of these feasts was kept, and one's mouth quite waters to read of the good things.

Even when not present, the members were evidently expected to contribute, as we read that Miss Wells, though absent, sent Quaker Queer.

On Saturday, April 11, 1874, the Cookery Group furnished a luncheon for ten to Miss Anna Ticknor.

The bill for the lunch amounted to $17.00; but Miss Ticknor expressed herself much satisfied and sent $20.00, and 1\1:rs. Ticknor added $5.00 as a beginning of a fund to start"~~ Young Ladies' Cooking School.'' I was one of the guests at this lunch given for her niece, and after thirteen years I can still remember that everything was excellent.

There seems to have been some movement to estab­lish a Cooking School ; but the records cease abruptly after the twenty-fifth meeting, and we can only con­jecture why the group stopped midway in its success­ful career.

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November 27, 1875, Mrs. Howe presented a Cook Book entitled "In the Kitchen," which was dedicated to the Cookery Group of the Saturday Morning Club.

On January 31, 1874, l\tlrs. Howe read a letter from Miss Eichberg, describing life and manners in Diissel­dorf.

It was at this n1eeting that l\1rs. Howe proposed giving entertainments, literary and musical, which was voted upon,-33 yeas to 8 nays.

The first of these entertainments, which I suppose might be called annual, was given at Mrs. Howe's house, and consisted of vocal and instrumental music, an essay, and a play in two acts, followed by a colla­tion prepared by the Cookery Group. Far be it from me to suggest that this was an apple of discord, but, as a fact, from it resulted our first financial difficulty; for the Treasurer's report for 1874 closes thus: "Bills for the social entertainment amounted to $53.00. As they were sent in without reference to the resources of the treasury, the Club is in debt."

In case another such entertainment should be given, it was proposed that a Finance Committee be appointed.

We have had thirteen years since in which to solve the question of entertainn1ent and finance, and we seem to be as far from a solution as ever.

The annual subscription was originally $1.50, but an additional assessment of 25 cents was found neces­sary in 1875.

In November, 1874, owing to the resignation of Miss Katharine P. Loring, who had kindly allowed the use of her rooms during the previous year, the future of the Club seemed unce.rtain. Mrs. Howe, Miss Brigham, and Miss Richards were appointed a

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committee of ways and means. They fixed upon Mr. Hooper's school-room, 69 Pinckney Street, for $5 a morning. Here meetings were held during 1874-75.

May 14, 1875, an entertainment was given at the house of Miss Harriet Pitman, .in Somerville, con­sisting of two charades written by the Literary Group, music, and a lunch furnished by the Cookery Group.

In 1876 the Club seems to have been at 5 Charles Street; and in 1877 it established itself in its now long familiar home, 5 Otis Place.

May 4, 1877, a theatrical entertainment was given at the rooms, 5 Otis Place. The progran1me on that occasion was "Ladies at Home," or "Gentlemen, we can do without you," and "A Happy Pair,"-Mr. Honeyton, l\frs. McFarlane, Mrs. Honeyton, Miss Kent.

This entertainment again caused confusion to the Treasurer.; for the subsequent report reads : "$40.00 was paid out for our spring entertainment, whose total cost far exceeded the original desire and intention of the Committee," and so forth. I need not chronicle all our pleasant entertainments.

One curious combination of events is suggestive. On April 23, 1880, there was a discussion,-"How can we entertain our Friends without a Fortune to do it with?" Soon a£ ter "teas" came into vogue, and the Club has reason to remember many very delight­ful ones.

A performance of Tennyson's "Princess" was given in the parish rooms of the Second Unitarian Church, Copley Square, with great success, in the spring of 1885.

On Tuesday, May 11, 1886, the Club gave the first

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of its dramatic entertainments of any importance, scenes from "Nicholas Nickleby," "The Hunchback," and "In a Balcony."

The membership list contains 191 names, and a few of the original members still retain active mem­bership.

Our Constitution has undergone a few changes, but its original lines are unaltered; and, though we fall far short of its requirements, I trust this brief resume of ,vhat we have done in the past may be an encourage­n1ent and incentive to a more vigorous life in the future.

APRIL, 1900

This was the end of my little sketch of the first sixteen years of the Club; and, had its record ended then, I think we may honestly say that it would have missed the fourteen best years of its life. Fortunate are we who can recall to-day some of the landmarks along the way.

Most prominent of these is the representation of Sophocles' Antigone on March 12, 13, 15, and 17, 1890, which was followed by a breakfast at the Vendome in honor of Miss Dennie and Miss Tower, who had so successfully managed this great undertaking.

Most of us remember this time, the great amount of work which it demanded from every member, and the intense interest which it aroused.

What none of us realized at the time, however, was its tremendous welding power. It unified the Club, strengthened club feeling, and gave it an impulse along lines not foreseen.

On April 6, 1893, many rne,;nbers attended the Artists' Festival at the l\Iuseum of Fine Arts, forming

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a group in German costume round a central tableau copied from a Regent Picture by Jan de Braye.

In Febntary, 1895, four representations of Shak­spere's "Winter's Tale" were given.

On April 2, 1897, the Club celebrated its t\venty­fif th birthday by a reception at the Museum of Fine Arts so generously granted to us through the good offices of General Loring.

These are the prominent occasions outside of our regular work, which has been maintained along the traditional lines of alternate discussions and lectures. The best word, however, as it seems to me, which can be said for these fourteen years is that during that time •the standard of our discussions has been greatly raised, they are more seriously undertaken, are put together in better form, and have become of very real value.

Growth is essential to prosperity ; and we have cer­tainly grown and prospered along the two n1ain lines marked out by our Constitution, literary and social.

Should the question be asked of any of our Presi­dents, "What do you. consider the most valuable char­acteristic of the Saturday Morning Club?" I feel sure each one would answer, Its loyalty, or esprit de corps.

I wish we had a good Anglo-Saxon word for this essentially Anglo-Saxon virtue. It is a virtue tradi­tional in our Club; and, to my thinking, it is the best legacy we can leave to future years.

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CLUB REMINISCENCES i\DA T. CUSHING

NOVEMBER, 1915

FIFTEEN years have passed since the preceding record was written,-years of opportunity and

achieven1ent for the Club which must now be chron­icled so that our records may be continuous.

During this time changes have been made in the conduct of our affairs so important as to necessitate some revision of the Constitution.

First, the period of the year during which meetings are held has been shortened from six months to five, extending now from the third Saturday in November to the second Saturday in April instead of including the whole of those two months.

This change was made on account of the increasing difficulty in gathering the members together for the first and last meetings of the longer period, as many of us, in common with the rest of the world, spend a greater and greater portion of the year in the country.

The next change was the subject of heated discus­sion for several years.

"To fine or not to fine," that was the question, which was at last answered in the negative.

Fines had not really accomplished their purpose,­en1pty chairs and, worse, on lecture_ days, the creaking door of late arrivals, affiicted us in spite of penalties,

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also they seemed to belong more properly to a period of youth and tutelage than to the independent middle age to which the Club has attained.

To make good the deficit entailed by the loss of fines, not a large amount intrinsically, but, in our lim­ited income and frugal housekeeping, appreciable, and also to increase our funds to provide for the higher cost of living, the yearly dues have been raised from $5.00 to $6.00, and a retaining fee of $3.00 is required from absent members having substitutes.

The regular meetings of the Club for discussions and lectures have been successfully carried on with increasing importance, while our social activities have certainly not become less interesting and deHghtf ul.

I doubt if the members of any club enjoy then1-selves together as much as we.

We have always the will to do, if I may misquote the Nietzschean phrase, in both serious work and play, and need only the slightest pressure to convert our will into action.

For play, the Artists' Festivals have often opened the door of opportunity to us, and we have shared in their pageants as Druid Priestesses ( 1900), as Anne of Brittany and the ladies of her court ( 1903), and as a group of spinners of Meistersinger days ( 1907).

But our individual entertainments are those we re­member with the greatest pleasure. Who that had the good fortune to be present can forget "The Poster Party," when the most brilliant specimens of billboard art were entirely eclipsed by living illustrations : The Gold Dust Twins, Omega Oil, Sunny Jim, and others, complete in every detail, inimitable ! or the "Ghost Party" ( 1906), the "Convention of Books" ( 1910), and "Mother Goose Party" ( 1911) ?

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Then there was the Century Party, given by the Executive Committee to welcome the twentieth century and bid a tender fare well to the nineteenth, which was represented by many of the costumes of her one hun­dred years of changing fashion. We hold that night in special remembrance as the last time that Mrs. Howe shared in our merry-making and added joy and honor to it thereby.

There have been three dramatic entertainments: one, for the Club's private enjoyment, a presentation of the charming n1asqne, "Rhrecus," written by Abbie Farwell Brown, and delightfully given at Mrs. Charles Peabody's house in Cambridge ( 1908).

More ambitious ,vere the two performances given in public. In 1904 a version of "Pride and Prejudice," arranged for the Club by Mrs. Millet, l\Irs. Wessel­hoeft, and Mrs. Cushing, was given at Potter Hall, when Elizabeth Bennett, no less charming on the stage than in real life, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, the incomparable D' Arey, oppressive Lady de Burgh, and the asinine Collins won applause for the Club as well as for themselves.

In 1913 the dramatic impulse, which seems to be an inherent element of our Club consciousness, again clamored for expression.

After much consideration it was decided to give an Arabian Nights' Entertainment.

Caroline Ticknor dramatized for us the story of Abou Hassan and his adventures as Caliph, a thrilling tale. It was enwrapped in all the glamour and gor­geousness of the Orient by Mrs. Lee's wonderful cos-­turning and the magical illusions of scene and lighting wrought by Mr. Livingston Platt's master hand.

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No less vividly, and essentially of the Bagdad of golden days, ,;vere the figures that gave life to these scenes of our drea1ns. Abou Hassan and the lovely lady Aoudat, the real Caliph and the Princess, the musicians and the dancing-girls. The success was all one could wish, and the play was twice given in Copley Hall: three perforn1ances in Decen1ber, and three per­forn1ances in February, 1914, for the benefit of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

It should be noted here that for the first time in the Club's dramatic career men were admitted to the audience.

One more event waits to be recorded,-a reception given to the Club by the Executive Committee at Miss Cheever's house in April, 1914,-a revue of our Club life, a living autobiography it might be called, given in delight£ ul personal reminiscences of members from the earliest days to the present. Through it all ran the spirit of good fellowship, which is a valuable part of our inheritance.

Here ends this chapter of our history. We turn now the blank page of the future with eager interest and assured faith in the power of the Club spirit to attain even higher levels of accomplishment than in the past.

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THE WINTER'S TALE

PERFORMED IN COPLEY HALL

FEBRUARY 18, 19, 20, 21, 1895

(From the Boston- Transcript)

A Shakespearean play, even when given by ama­teurs, calls for a serious critical estimate. The

quality of the work done is an important matter and ranks as high, at least, as the beauty and grace of the players or the splendor and accuracy of the costumes. It is most satisfactory to say at the outset that "The Winter's Tale" was acted in a genuine Shakespearean spirit, and with a distinction worthy of the difficult task attempted.

It leaves a happy conviction that "was never pain, but it had joy at last in a fair morrow," and Perdita is its rose-crowned symbol. Seeing it, all the toil, the study, the scholarly devotion to Shakespeare shown are realized to the full, and the intellectual sense is grati­fied no less than are the eyes, in the pictures offered, and in their glowing frame.

The cuts, made to bring the piece within reasonable length for an afternoon's performance, were skilful and worktnanlike, and it is praiseworthy that in the joining no journeyman's dovetailing appears, as so often happens when stage managers cut and mend the

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plumes of Avon's swan to suit their own devices. There was also an almost perfect following of the letter of the text of what was uttered, and that is none too common, either, on the professional stage ....

Perdita, most delicate, appealing and girlish, yet womanly tender among Shakespeare's women, is a role for which fears might well have been entertained; but would that anyone who might doubt could see Mrs. l\1illet's fulfilment of all this, as Perdita. Her lover, Florizel, is well acted by Miss Helen Colburn. The Paulina of Miss Leslie Hopkinson is one of the most sustained and convincing pieces of work we remember to have seen before the footlights in a Shakespearean per£ onnance. . . . She is all woman, like Hermione. And nature has done well by Mrs. Burien, whose Hermione is queenly, excellent and correct. The white fire of the moment when she turns to Leontes in the trial scene burns up any disposition to make a further analysis of a difficult part.

All who saw the King Creon of Mrs. Robertson in the Antigone, five years ago, must have wondered a little if she would equal herself at that time, in Leontes now. To create a character is not a usual success for an amateur, but Mrs. Robertson has come extremely near it as Leontes. To conquer Leontes with tone and dress and stride and manner to begin, is an apparently impossible task, but it was accom­plished. Then to win sympathy to the measure of the dramatist's desire for the tyrant who doomed fair Her­mione to death, is a trial of power for an actor. Mrs. Robertson has added to the capabilities revealed in Creon and shows a depth of passion and power of un­qualified merit. Criticism of her ,vork must mean chiefly an attempt at appreciation.

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It is not exactly disparagement to the old shepard that in voicing the garrulous tones of age there were revealed certain musical accents evidently natural to Miss Morrison. Nor is the occasional lapsing into grace of Autolycus to be counted against Miss May­nard Butler, whose merrymaking in song and action ranks near the first, as truly Shakespearean "business." l\1iss Sarah Whittemore, as the clown, was less the hoyden, if equally imbued with the fun of "the spacious days of great Elizabeth."

Grace be to Bohemia ! There's pleasure in Copley Hall. Miss Caroline Ticknor wins a rightful response of applause to her demand as Time :

11Of this allow If ever you have spent time worse than now; If never, yet that Time himself doth say He wishes earnestly you never may."

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C~nceived in Doubt, engendered of Despair, Pledged to all deeds that men may dream and dare, I moved unfaltering to the solemn height Where warring rainbows meet in perfect light. Truth was my guest, belief in her my power, And of such good transcendent was my dower That I shall live in memory and in Fame As long as man his manhood's meed may claim; Beloved for fetters loosed, for veils unbound, _For God's great word, by God's great order crowned.

(From "The Departing Century")

JULIA WARD HOWE

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A NINETEENTH CENTURY'S WELCOME TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

A PARTY GIVEN TO THE SATURDAY MORNING CLUB

ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, MDCCCI.

CAROLINE TICKNOR

THE above inscription decorated the opening leaf of the little "Keepsake" given to each Club n1en1ber

upon arrival at Copley Hall. This contained the eve­ning's programme, and the order of dances in which the staid members of this dignified organization were to disport the111selves on this first night of the new century.

On the blank pages of the little "Keepsake," we were to register our impressions, memories, or any data connected with the evening's unique entertainment ; and the following notes were penned by me in this small booklet which I have treasured in memory of that happy evening, and which must be regarded as a very fragmentary record :

The men1bers of the Club, fifty-seven strong, as­sembled in the Grundmann Studio parlors. (The Col­lege Oub parlors were asked for but were refused because it was feared we would "break the £ urni­ture" ! ) The hostesses received in line beside Mrs. Howe ( who sat) ; they were without masks, which alt other club members wore for about an hour.

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The hostesses were Mrs. Cushing, Mrs. Means, Mrs. Volkmann, Mrs. Wesselhoeft, Miss Aldrich, J\IIrs. Mead, Mrs. Upham, and l\irs. Millet.

A great variety of nineteenth century costumes were charmingly displayed and it was evident that we all looked even more beautiful in our mother's and grand­n1other's gowns than in our own. There were four members dressed as men, whose popularity was of course instantly assured.

Miss Dennie and Mrs. Burien were "too good to be true," in strictly correct dress-suits; Miss Aldrich, as Tommy Atkins, was gorgeous in the one mustache present, while Mrs. Tilden was perfect, as a jester. Then came the women: Mrs. Endicott in her grand­n1other's white satin gown was charming. l\fiss Foster was unsurpassed in perfection of costume and her 1823 bonnet will long be ren1embered. Miss Appleton was superb in monstrous hoop and beautiful muslin, ruffled to the waist, and Mrs. Loring was quaint. in a white empire embroidered muslin.

Abbie Brown, as the "baby century" was wheeled in by "Father Time" in a remarkable baby-carriage, mak­ing quite the hit of the evening. Mrs. Wesselhoeft was the "perfect i1nage" of "Leslie Goldthwait," Mrs. Arthur Denny's bonnet was an "old fashioned dream"; Leslie Hopkinson's curls hung in wonderful cork­screws and her whole "get up" convinced one that she should have been born fifty years ago, so absolutely did she correspond with that environment.

It is useless to try to describe the many sorts and conditions of costumes, none funnier than those of the 1870 period, when back looping, and bustles were rampant, and persons wore curls, braids, crimps, and rose-buds simultaneously.

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I was considered 0. K. in one of my mother's wed­ding-trousseau muslins, with its sheaf-of-wheat pat­tern, made to stand out hoop-skirt style; over this I ·wore, as my mother used to do, a cherry ribbon-and­lace "peplu1n" and a bonnet copied from an 1860 picture, tied under my chin with cherry ribbons. My hair was parted and brushed over n1y ears from which long ear-rings were suspended. I carried a s111all sunshade, and 1ny "tout ense111ble" called forth special con1111endation fron1 lVlrs. Maud Howe Elliott, while l\liss Sturdivant kissed 111e several ti1nes (no doubt in n1e1nory of some deceased aunt).

A feminine orchestra discoursed good 111usic, and the n1en1bers whirled about as n1uch as their old ... time slippers and nineteenth century costumes would allow, in polkas, waltzes, two-steps, a Portland-fancy, and other appropriate dances.

An old-time supper was served at ten o'clock; the n1enu consisting of:

Stewed cod and oysters

( recipe one hundred years old)

Roast Pig-Apple Sauce

Syllabub

Rabbit Pasty Flummery

Apple Tarts Pink and \Vhite Blanc-n1ange

Mince Pie

Seed cakes, Loaf cake, Spiced cookies

Nuts and Raisins

~Irs. Howe sat in the centre at the head-table, with the club Past-Presidents on either :side, while the re-

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mainder of the company were seated at three other tables placed at right angles with the presidential one. The tables were decorated in genuine old-fashioned style, and miniature sign-boards were placed upon them at frequent intervals to enlighten us regarding the contents of the dishes which were £ or the most part unfamiliar to even the enlightened inembers of the S. M. C.

We began with oysters-and-stewed-cod-fish, ·which was very good, though a few members, mysel £ in­cluded, were nearly choked by cod-fish bones. This was, however, our own fault for forgetting that we were not eating ordinary escalloped oysters. Mrs. Alice Kent Robertson, who sat by me, was forced to rush out to dispose of her bone, but ca1ne safely back bringing relief to the anxious company familiar with her habit of precipitating some dramatic scene at any crucial time.

The little roast pigs with lemons, or apples, in their mouths, and tails that were intended to curl up, were quite all right for persons who appreciated little pigs, and the hare-pasty was wel'l enough, though I, being willing to let well enough alone, was content to con­clude my "old-time" supper with mince-pie, blanc­mange and seed cakes, nuts and raisins, besides which I imbibed sweet cider served in a marvelous big yellow and blue pitcher. Plentiful app1e-sauce was passed in ample yellow bowls, and at the end black coffee was affixed, as a "sop to Cerberus," though not in keeping with hundred year old customs.

The room was draped in red plush, and panelled with numerous mirrors, so that as we ate, we were con£ rooted by countless reflections of our old bonnets

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and nineteenth century head-dresses. Judging frotn the untouched plates of pig and hare, which went out from the feast, our members fitted better into their old gowns than into old-time food, or rather old-time food fitted less well into their various interiors than did the ancient garments upon their outward sem­blances. Though some did find the latter a distinct trial, and I heard murmurs of "Oh, dear, my grand­mother's dress is so tight that I cannot breathe," "My great aunt's bustle n1akes it hard to occupy a chair," or "I can't dance in these terrible slippers."

Miss Ellen Tower, as toastmistress, was gracious and graceful, and we responded with enthusiasm to all toasts, beginning with that to "the Old Century." Mrs. Howe, the "Mother of the Club," came next, and she responded briefly and delight£ ully. Mrs. Blake sang sweetly some old-tin1e songs, and then followed the toast to "the Twentieth Century," and Abbie Brown, in baby costun1e, with drooping curls, replied with some clever verses, voicing the sentiments of the young century, and hinting at the great improvements in store for all.

Mrs. Robertson read a clever fin-<le-siecle poem by Dr. Dru1nn1ond, in which the village belle throws over her poor lover for the rich squire, whereat, the for­saken swain at once marries a second sweetheart with whom he has long been in love.

Miss Gray, as one of the few original members present, responded for the "founders of the Club," and told of the amusing suggestions of club names offered at the beginning. She had voted for the "Boston Association for Intellectual Improvement," but Mrs. Ho,ve, with her usual good sense, favored the more simple designation "Saturday Morning Club."

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Mrs. Loring responded for the "Past-Presidents," and Miss Whittemore made an amusing speech for Mrs. J arley. Miss Howe spoke for the "Substitutes," and for the up-to-date professional woman ( of which she is an admirable example). Then Miss Pierce of­fered a vote of thanks "to our Entertainers" ( she never fails to do the tactful and parliamentary thing, and it was so ·like her, when autographs were being jotted down in our "Keepsakes," to pass her little book, remarking, "I am saving this space for the Executive Comn1ittee"; meanwhile, the rest of us were scribbling anywhere).

Miss Mary Morrison, last and bes~, ended the con­tributions, with reminiscences of the Club's various festive occasions. Beginning with her first attendance upon a club reception where all were so clever that she went away n1urmuring, "If this is their nonsense, what is it when they are serious?" She touched upon the Greek play, and upon the great celebration at the Art Museum, when she realized what it was really "to hitch your wagon to a star." The "Winter's Tale" performance offered a field for many an1using inci­dents, among them her own stage entrance in shepard's guise in the pouring rain, when by mistake the stage sun was left shining brightly; also her experience in swallowing so much red-fire that when she attempted to give her lines she found herself choking, and her subsequent humiliation by a dear friend, who said: "Do you know, Mary, that little old man's cough of yours was the very best stage business you did."

These and other amusing memories ended the eve­ning's entertainment with general hilarity. We closed

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the exercises with the fallowing song, which was a reasonable success, although a little previous practice would have ensured a more per£ ect rendering, as part of the singers persisted in repeating the chorus, while others were going on with the succeeding verses, and some were disposed to confuse the tune "Wait for the Wagon," with that classic entitled "Michael Roy," meanwhile the accompanist played the piano as if totally unfamiliar with either tune.

A Virginia Reel followed. And thus ended the Club's greeting to the new cen­

tury. Peace to the ashes of the old one, and when the beautiful old things, long preserved in trunks and cedar-chests, again rise Phoenix-like from their va­rious resting-places, may I be there to see the Satur­day Morning Club again assume them.

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SATURDAY MORNING CLUB

JANUARY 1, 1901

AIR: Michael Roy.

Written by ADA T. CUSHING

In Boston City there is a Club, Which is well known to fame;

We are its daughters wise and good, The Saturday Morning its name.

For knowledge of every kind we seek, And culture of every hue,

In the cause of social intercourse There is nothing we will not do.

CHORUS: For oh, for aye, Why should we be so shy, With talent and wit, And genius and grit, Our Club can never die.

We are too modest in every way, We do not know our worth;

In debate or the drama we' re equally great, There's not our like on Earth.

We can act you the plays of any old Greek, Or Shakespeare, if you please;

Great tragedy queens, or "wax figgers" fine, We can furnish you with ease.

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CHORUS:

We know all the ways of primitive man, With bacilli we' re au f ait;

We talk equally well of Dante's hell, Or of Mr. Roentgen's ray.

Even our food gives rise to thought, No time we like_ to waste.

We've a special salad, S. M. C., Which you'll find simple and chaste.

CHORUS:

You take an Egyptian pyramid And cut it up very fine,

Then sprinkle it well with Attic salt, And Reformation wine.

Beat up a dozen Renaissance eggs; Add Elizabethan spice,

A spoonful of Puritan vinegar, Of Dutch onion just a slice;

The pepper must come from the Philippines, Be sure it is fresh and hot.

Last a Russian lemon that has been kept In a broken China pot.

Now put all this in a Japanese bowl, Stir with an antiseptic spoon;

Skim off the germs as they come to the top­You've a dish like a day in June.

CHORUS:

Of our many virtues we might speak­They are both rich and rare;

But we must give place to our lecturers, With whom none can compare.

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For the simple dole of a ride and a Bower They gladly our knowledge extend;

So here's to their health and happiness. And now our song must end.

CHORUS: Come sing with me And let us joyful be. We wish you all here A happy New Year, With health and prosperity.

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

EMILY MILLET

ON April 30, 1904, the Club made another dramatic success in giving a performance of "Pride and

Prejudice." This was prepared by the dramatic com­mittee, consisting of Mrs. Cushing, Mrs. Wesselhoeft and Mrs. Millet. By keeping closely to the text of the book and only contributing the cement into which the bits of original mosaic were fixed, the atmosphere of the work was very well preserved.

One elderly lady, to whom Jane Austen was an idol, ,vas led reluctantly to the play by a daughter, expect­ing to have all her ideals shattered, but she became more and more enthusiastic as the play went on, until at last she exclaimed that the beloved book "had come to life."

The Club members fitted admirably into the cast. Sarah Whittemore made the greatest success of her dramatic career as Mrs. Bennet ; Lois Howe was all that Mr. Bennet should be, and Caroline Burien and Amy Davol proved themselves capable of being orna­ments of both sexes. And who that saw her can ever forget Alice Cobb as Mr. Collens ! The women's parts were all excellently taken, but it was in the men's parts that the Club members especially shone.

As the play had been so eminently successful, it was decided that money could be earned for the Club by letting the dramatization out for a small royalty. This has been done several times, and the play is still in the

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market. The last time it was given, was by a girls' school near Philadelphia. When the manuscript was returned a letter from the teacher of English said that the girls thought the scene between Elizabeth and D' Arey was "too cool," so that they had re-written it "and warmed it up." A proof that the Club's play­wrights had executed their task with proper restraint.

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ABOU HASSAN

AN ARABIAN NIGHTS' PLAY

W ITH stage settings, costumes, and scenic decora­tions care£ ully planned, and with Oriental n1usic

and dancing rendered by a group of people who a few years before were dwelling in and around Da1nascus, the Saturday Morning Club achieved a truly artistic success with the production of "Abou Hassan," or "The Sleeper Awakened," at Copley Hall, on Decen1-ber 18, 19, 1913, and again on February 11, 12, 13, 1914.

This play, dramatized by Miss Caroline Ticknor, was based upon the familiar Arabian Nights' story of Abou Hassan, who for twenty-£ our hours had his wish to be the caliph. The principles in the cast were 1\1 rs. George S. Derby, Abou Hassan ; Mrs. Tennant Lee, caliph; Miss Grace Nichols, grand vizier; Miss Eleanor W. Allen, master-of-the-palace ; Mrs. Charles H. Fiske, Jr., Princess Zoebiede; Mrs. Henry D. Tudor, Aoudat, the beautiful slave girl; Miss Mary Porter, mother of Abou Hassan ; Miss Sarah E. Whit­temore, nurse to the princess. This admirable perform­ance was coached by Miss Marie Ware Laughton, whose work as dramatic instructor is well known.

The remarkably beautiful stage decorations were in charge of Livingston Platt, whose Shakespearean scenery designed for Miss Margaret Anglin, had al­ready won for him an international reputation, and

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who in working out his scheme made a careful study of old Persian miniatures among which he had found the color schemes on which he based his settings, which were first, a scene in an Oriental cafe; second, a roof­top at night; and finally, a palace interior, all charac­terized by great artistic beauty.

The music, which ,vas a special feature in this Oriental piece, was arranged by l\'.lrs. Alfred W. Carr, and included ancient Persian melodies, chorus songs and solos ; there was dancing by a grace£ ul young Syrian girl, and Eastern music by a Syrian quartette; a part of the music was especially written for this occa­sion, and the retnainder adapted from composers who had made a particular study of Oriental music. Mrs. Lilla Viles W yn1an supervised and instructed the various dances.

The costumes under Mr. Flatt's general super­vision were designed and arranged by Mrs. James S. Lee, whose able accomplishment had much to do with transforming the stage pictures into splendid Persian pageantry and which added vastly to the beauty of the per£ ormance. "The Song of the Arab Lover," written for this play by Miss Grace I. Havi­land, was sung by Miss Mary Fay, with harp accom­paniment by Miss Harriet Shaw, and a Persian song was also especially composed by Winthrop L. Rogers, and played by a quintette orchestra.

This production was pronounced a remarkable suc­cess, both as to the dramatic art displayed, and the beauty of its settings; t~e palace scene was partic­ularly brilliant, with courtiers, musicians, soldiers, and dancers, numbering in all some forty actors upon the stage. Following the initial success of this play, it

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was decided to give three additional performances, t,vo 1nonths later, for the benefit of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and these resulted in a generous contribution for this worthy charity to which the "Antigone" had also substantially contrib­uted a quarter of a century earlier.

The com1nittee in charge of the production con­sjsted of Mrs. Livingston Cushing, Mrs. James S. Lee, Miss Ellen M. Dennie, l\ilrs. Henry D. Tudor, Mrs. George S. Derby, Miss Sarah E. Whittemore, l\fiss Eleanor W. Allen, l\fiss Mary G. Morrison, Miss Louise Brown, and :tviiss Abbie Farwell Brown. Rich in Oriental splendor and gorgeous color, the drama­tization of this Arabian Nights' story, so admirably performed, proved a delight to the large audiences that witnessed each performance, and who will long recall with pleasure Mrs. Derby's dashing and brilliant ren­dering of .A.bou Hassan, and Mrs. Tudor's exquisite representation of the fascinating slave girl, as well as the able dramatic work of those who played the other leading parts so acceptably in their dazzling costumes, against the background of ~Ir. Platt's artistic settings.

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THE POSTER PARTY

ONE of the most wildly hilarious gatherings ever indulged in by our members was the Poster

Party, held in the year 1905. On this occasion, with the unfailing per£ ection of detail characteristic of our organizaion, we, one and a11, assun1ed some striking costume which rendered us unmistakable reproduc­tions of popular advertisen1ents. We pranced, danced, laughed, and executed most surprising stunts, which those viewing us upon any staid Saturday n1orning would have declared impossible. One 111ust, however, not forget that intellect is far more than "skin deep," and itheref ore its fortunate possessors may indulge freely in surface gan1bols without in the least disturb­ing an inward "feast of reason and flow of soul.''

Those present at the reckless Poster Party experi­enced one vividly dramatic moment which occurred when the wild festivities were at their height. l\iiost striking among the Poster dan1es were two dancing black figures, familiar to all acquainted with successful advertising, as the "gold-dust twins." Just at the mo­ment when these twins were dashing boldly through the hall, the front door opened and a luckless, and unlooked for, man was ushered into the unrestrained and strangely costumed company.

He was a husband who had been mistakenly in­_formed that he should call for his wife at a fairly early hour. Aghast and wholly unprepared for the wild scene that suddenly unrolled be£ ore him, he stood

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as one confounded just inside the double-doors. A fearful shriek resounded through the house : "A Man, a Man," the cry went up, and suddenly the Posters fled in all directions; the "gold-dust twins" vanished like chaff before the wind of destiny, and all the boyish, trousered Poster-dames hastened to hide them­selves from the encroaching male ; so1ne fled behind portieres, some hastened to adjoining rooms, while general indignation prevailed at the unblushing en­trance of a man 111an into this fen1ale paradise. Calls for the erring wife, who had suggested this intrusion, now rang through the depleted ranks of the Poster brigade, and she, emerging in haste from behind some friendly shelter, rushed out into the hall to dismiss the intruder. But he meanwhile needed no wifely admonition to hasten his departure. A scared and frightened figure, he had stood for a moment quite overwhelmed by shrieks and "gold-dust twins," and gli1npses of fast fleeing Posters. What he had done ! And what was taking place in this insane and motley gathering, were questions more than he could answer in a moment, but he did know his one desire was to escape from this collection of costumed lunatics. Be­fore his wife could explain his dreadful mistake, or point him to the outer door, he had fled from the place precipitately and vanished into the friendly dark.

When he had gone the flustered Posters came tim­idly forth from out the shelter of curtains, closets and portieres, and once more the hilarity continued, but in a more self-conscious and deprecating vein. A cer­tain portly member of the Club who had been person­ating a policeman, was looked upon reproachfully as having failed to stand guard near the dangerous door-

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way. But this policeman felt rather shy in her brass buttons and big boots, indeed when she went home,vard on a trolley-car, she stood sedately on the car's rear platform, not daring to step inside for fear some awk­ward situation might arise, or some genuine arm-of­the-law might descend upon the collar of his bold reproduction.

So passed the happy Poster Party, to be remem­bered rather vaguely by some of the participants though doubtless never to be forgotten by that one shocked and frightened husband.

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THE ANCESTOR PARTY

T:HE Ancestor Party, which took place at the Club of Odd Volumes, Mt. Vernon Street, was a n1ost

unique as well as successful affair. Members were requested to personate some ancestor, and to come prepared to tell briefly some incident connected with that personage. All entered with zest into the plan proposed, and when the company had assembled they presented a truly brilliant appearance in their great variety of costumes.

After much merriment and social enjoyment a big circle was £ ormed and those not occupying chairs seated themselves upon the floor, prepared to be en­lightened concerning many ancestral secrets. One by one, our President called upon members to identify the1nselves, and the recitals were truly entertaining. There were passengers who came to these shores on the good ship "Mayflower," Revolutionary dames,. early settlers, with memories of Indian massacres, and many others, an1ong them a marvelous pirate, who was no other than our beloved Abbie Brown, with a jolly poem about her favorite piratical forbear ; while an­other startling figure with a huge rope twisted about her neck proved to be the traditional "black sheep" presumably found "hanging" on every family-tree.

A special feature of the evening's entertainment consisted of a guessing competition. All had been asked ~o send in their baby pictures, which were ar­ranged upon a big screen at the back of the room;

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cards and pencils were distributed and then all busied themselves in trying to recognize their fell ow-members from their earliest photographs. A prize was given to the one guessing the greatest number correctly, and it was astonishing to note how many persons had actually retained the same expression that they had worn in infancy. Out of some fifty photographs the winner of the prize identified about eighteen correctly ; a goodly record when one reflects that baby pictures on the whole possess great si1nilarity of feature, pose, and costume, and also that the originals had all attained a substantial maturity which certainly contrasted viv­idly with their former estate of infancy. It was a most amusing and edifying evening and not at all unworthy of the Saturday Morning Club's high stand­ard of admirably planned and perfectly conducted levity.

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THE SATURDAY MORNING CLUB IN WAR TIME

OUR ORDERS

By JuLIA WARD HowE

(Born May 27, 1819. Died October 17, 1910.)

Weave no more silks, ye Lyons looms, To deck our girls for gay delights! The crimson flower of battle blooms, And solemn marches fill the nights.

Weave but the flag whose bars today Drooped heavy o'er our early dead, And homely garments, coarse and gray, For orphans that must earn their bread.

Keep · back your tunes, ye viols sweet, That poured delight from other lands! Rouse there the dancer's restless feet: The trumpet leads our warrior bands.

And ye that wage the war of words With mystic fame and subtle power, Go, chatter to the idle birds, Or teach the lesson of the hour!

Ye Sibyl Arts, in one stem knot Be all vour offices combined! Stand dose while courage draws the lot, The destiny of human kind.

And if that destiny could fail, The sun should darken in the sky, The eternal bloom of nature pale, And God, and Truth, and Freedom die!

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OUR WAR RECORD

HELEN G. MEANS

Mrs. Howe's diary for the year 1906 opens with this entry:-

"I pray for many things this year.-For my country that she may keep her high promise to mankind, for Christendom, that it may become more Christlike, for the struggling nationalities, that they may attain to Justice and Peace."

FOR nearly forty happy years, from the founding of our Oub until her death, Mrs. Howe was our loving

Mother, Companion, and Friend. She helped us with her wise counsel, animated us with her vivid presence, and inspired us with her noble example.

At the first meeting of the Club after the Great War began, Mrs. Howe's poem "Under Orders" ,vas read as a ca:11 to action. Having debated whether we should devote our organization exclusively to war ac­tivities, or should go on with the habit of many years, we decided at last to follow individually, rather than as a Oub, the standard set by our Founder.

Not in self-gratulation, there£ ore, but because it would please her to know that her Club has "carried on" in this great Cause of Justice and Liberty,­which were her watchwords,-we engross this record of individual service of members during four years, to honor her Centenary.

(Report read at the Annual Meeting, April 12, 1919.)

MADAM PRESIDENT :

It has ,been an interesting thing to bring together

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all the facts about our recent activities upon which I am to report today. I think this report is unlike any other made before to the Saturday Morning Club, all through the long years since first we were a Club. But it could not well be anything but different from the others when it records things no one could have foreseen five years ago--so that I have had no prece­dent to follow.

To begin, then :-The letter you have all received was sent to the active members of the Club, and to some of the Honorary Members. Of these, sixty-six have kindly answered the letter, and from their an­swers we have gathered these facts.

Practically all of us have done some kind of war work, much or little as we have had opportunity. Many of us have done many things.

If I could only tell you all that it has been my great privilege to learn fron1 the letters sent to me, you would, like me, be more than ever proud of this little company of women; but it would need the morning, and still much would be left untold. So I bring you only this incomplete record, with regret for the things of ,vhich I can not speak.

There are forty-three different kinds of war service on the list. That seems a good many, and each one has been helped by the efforts of some of our mem­bers. There are services of peculiar interest, and we have gone on many different paths, and have shown that our minds and hearts have been open to calls from many sources.

\Ve did not wait long to take up these tasks. Even in August, 1914, one of our members, then in France,

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unable to get home, began to sew and knit for French children.

In January, 1915, under the direction of the Civic Federation, three of our members organized and car­ried on in the Parker Memorial Building a work roo1n for unemployed women, and began there that work of making surgical dressings which later increased so enormously. One or two more of us were glad to work there humbly under their supervision.

For I do not think that, as a Club, we gave full obedience to the n1andate from Washington-that we should be neutral in thought and deed. No ; from the beginning most of us have tried in all our ways to show our stern resentment at the misery brought so unjustly to the world, and to help in the alleviation of suffering.

Then comes the Red Cross, with all its different kinds of activities. Thirty members have worked for the Red Cross. Three of us have given their full time. Those who heard the reports read at another meeting this winter already know of the devoted service given to surgical dressings, and to those comfort kits and Christmas cartons which carried pleasure to thousands of our soldiers.

One of us has been, and is still, I think, in France, where she has done canteen work faithfully, often under shell fire, has aided in nursing in our own and in French hospitals, and has cared for refugee boys in Chateau Lafayette. This member has received the Croix de Guerre.

We others have helped in many, even most of the different kinds of Red Cross work, save that I have not yet been told that any one of us has donned the

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coat and breeches of the Motor Corps. But in all the other things we find the Saturday Morning Club.

Then the American Fund for French Wounded. Twenty-five of us have done faithful work there,

and I suppose many of us have the formal certificates acknowledging that work. One of us has done some­thing quite worthy of especial mention, for she has worked all day long, every day, for almost two years, in the packing of those great wooden cases which have carried our love to France. Think for a minute what that means in the way of tired muscles and aching back.

Two of us have been me1nbers of the Cotnmittee for "The La£ ayette Fund" which did so much to alle­viate the unavoidable suffering of the French soldiers in the trenches, by sending directly to them those "kits" which contained comforts and necessaries. The Boston Branch collected many thousands of dollars and helped thousands of men, and its members have received most grateful thanks from those French soldiers.

We have helped the Italian, the Polish, the British Relief Funds; notably the Italian, for eleven of us have not forgotten Italy, as the result of our work shows. One of us has done much in the direction of that work, and two of us worked all day long for days to ensure the success of the Tag Day ,vhich brought so many thousands of dollars to the Fund.

One of us has served through the year as a mem­ber of the Polish Relief Committee ; and also, with a knowledge and experience at least partly gained in the production of our Club plays, has taken charge of stage and costumes for several' Polish plays given

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here, and we can understand a little of the call thus made for hard work and limitless patience.

Civic Federation work at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital found seventeen of us eager to help in the making of surgical dressings ; and one of our members was untiring in the duty of helping_ to organize that work, and later in going from place to place to ex­plain its aims and methods to the different branches which were established.

One of us has aided the Smith College Unit in its work for devastated France.

One of us, with her partner, has given valuable serv­ice in building coffee houses, etc., for the soldiers; and I know we are aU proud that we can claim a kind of relationship with the woman whose profes­sional skill and knowledge are shown in the convenient, success£ ul, and most attractive Army and Navy Can­teen on the Common. She and her partner planned and built that ; and another of our most valued mem­bers, who has done brilliant work for us in times past, has served there week after week, for four hours at a time, not talking with the soldiers, not as hostess, but out of sight just faithfully washing trays and dishes. Is not that devotion?

Four of us, perhaps more, have worked for the Special Aid Society. One of us has given very much of her time and strength to that unique Society with its many forms of service and its unfailing effort to meet all kinds of need. For instance, apart from her constant work as its Treasurer, she secured by per­sonal appeal over four hundred of the hand knitted trigger-finger mittens for men in the forts who were suffering from the bitter cold.

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Two of us, in its Active Corps, have studied the Braille type, so that we might be ready to help the blinded boys who came home from France; but, thank God, there are not so many hundreds of them as was feared, and the Government is doing magnificent work for them at Evergreen, near Baltimore.

Two of us have helped in undertaking personally and securing the adoption of French orphans.

One of us sent out, folded, addressed, and mailed, many, many thousands of circulars and appeals for the various war societies.

Seven of us have served in different Soldiers' and Sailors' Clubs and Houses.

One of us has done valiant and untiring service in taking charge of the Technology workrooms; and two others have helped in that work which has shown afresh how close are the ties between the members of the Institute.

One of these has given much of her time to writing letters to boys whom she had known. Her list of correspondents was a very long list, and I suppose it is not possible for us fully to appreciate how much comfort and pleasure such personal letters gave to the soldiers over seas. And not only to our soldiers and to men whoin we know. One of us, a lover of England, at the suggestion of the British consul be­came interested in the Lonely Soldier Mission ; for there were many lonely men who received few letters or none. So this member of the Saturday Morning Club wrote fourteen letters a week, cheerful letters, full of friendly interest and sympathy, and pictures and news clippings and jokes. She looked for no an• swers, but the answers came-from ·ships in the North

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Sea, from the one big battleship of Australia, from the Duke of Wellington's Regin1ent in India, and else­where. More than two hundred such letters she sent, until the Over Seas Club in London found it no longer possible to reach the ships and soldiers, so continually were they moved about.

We have helped to look after the Radio Boys in Cambridge. One of us gave a Christmas Tree to eighty-five of them.

One of us,-fancy ! one of us is in the active service of the U. S. Naval Reserve Force, with the rank of Yeoman ( F.). I wish there were time to read you her letter with its record of useful and varied work for the Radio School, and its many anecdotes.

We have lent motors to carry work and workers back and forth, an often indispensable aid.

One of us has lent her house and arranged several concerts and readings which have brought generous sums to different societies.

Some very popular things few of us seem to have attempted. For instance, occupational therapy; only one of us seems to have fallen under the fascination of those different handicrafts which must be not only a delight in themselves, but of very sensible value to the soldier in the long days of convalescence and afterward.

We have ,vorked for the Navy League; we have done extra settlement work; we have actively upheld the League to En£ orce Peace; and one of us has worked for the League £or Permanent Peace, in its industrial work, and has spoken for it as one of its public speakers. One of us is an accredited agent for

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the U. S. Employment Bureau helping to find work for returning soldiers.

One of us is still on call from the Adjutant's office in the State House for the work of the Soldier's In­formation Bureau.

One of us, as Chair1nan of her town's unit of the Council for National Defense, has had the oversight of n1any different forms of service; of the War Chest, of Americanization work, of Community singing, of establishing and arranging the "Common Rooms" which are to be used by many town societies ; and there was one task most valuable to the country, which the United States made into a war service, thereby following the example set by England, France, and Germany. I mean the Child Welfare Work. In this one city 3263 children were weighed and measured. Later these records were tabulated and compared so that the knowledge gained might be used to full advantage.

We have, practically all of us, worked hard to carry out the rules £ or the conservation of food, even to the thankless task of taking the Hoover cards from house to house, which two of us have performed. We have gardened and farmed with astonishing success ; some of us have given up chauffeur or nurse and have taken their work ourselves ; some of us have fed our f amities in winter with the things we canned in summer.

We have worked with our hands and our heads. One of us, in the service of the League for Conser­vation of Platinum, accomplished so much that she was formally and publicly thanked by the American Chemical Society in its Convention.

Four of us have worked hard in speaking for Liberty Loan Committees, one going to the foreigners and one to the rural districts of Massachusetts.

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One of us has diligently collected money for the Tin Box Fund for children in devastated regions, and has thus secured much more than two thousand dollars.

One of us has worked early and late in what is called Americanization work, carrying a better under­standing of our country to those foreign born, who, not knowing well America, have still so loyally served her in her need.

One of us has helped to care for southern Negro soldiers, not foreign born, but still aln1ost as strange to New England.

And then we must all be proud that we can clain1 two members of The Vigilantes, that brilliant company of men and women writers, who have so generously and so power£ ully aided in arousing patriotism, in offsetting German propaganda, and in every ·way asked of them.

Month by month, in response to calls from their headquarters in New York, these writers have sent out verses or prose articles ; and one wrote a patriotic song widely used by large choruses. It is estimated that their words have reached, through thousands of syndicated newspapers, millions of readers and have been of incalculable service to the Government. All honor to these generous givers of their best!

We have all contributed in money, as we could, to the increasing needs of the war. Some of us have had sons and daughters in the service.

And under it all, and through it all, in our own homes, we heard the clicking of the tireless knitting needles, and saw the faithful hands folding that gauze which should carry help to untold suffering. Ah, those knitted things! I think our men will not forget all

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that they n1eant of comfort and sympathy. And so this incomplete list must end. I hope you

feel that even this has shown that the members of the old Saturday l\Iorning Club, like other American won1en, have proved their faithful devotion to our common country.

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Fling out the banners that defied a king; The tattered colors bring

That made a nation one from sea to sea, In godly liberty.

Unsheathe the patriot sword in time of need, 0 Massachusetts, shouting in the lead­

"Peace, with a sword!" Help us, 0 Lord!

(From "Peace-With a Sword")

ABBIE FARWELL BROWN

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THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY

TH.E Club's Fiftieth Anniversary was celebrated on December 9, 1921, at the Hotel Brunswick, when

the members, bringing their husbands (if they pos­sessed them), gathered in festive array to make merry at the close of a half-century of Club existence. In vie,v of the cordial response always accorded by our generous lecturers, special invitations were extended to those who had helped to enlighten and edify us on Saturday n1ornings, and it was truly a pleasure to greet a goodly number of these distinguished friends, and to offer them some entertainment on this Golden Anniversary.

The programme included the performance of a 1'Iasque, written by Abbie Farwell Brown, which was entitled "The Green Trunk," and which cleverly de­picted the beginning of our Club history, and other characteristic features, recalling the vision of Mrs. Howe, aibout to mother the new project for the benefit of the younger generation. As is well known to all 1nembers, the "Green Trunk" is a long-treasured piece of Club property ( carefully guarded in a safety­deposit vault) which contains all kinds of memor­abilia; with photographs, programmes, secretary's books and other priceless data dear to the heart of all who value the Club associations ; there£ ore the "Green Trunk" has stood, and still stands for much that is both historic and dramatic in connection with our organization.

After the entertaining r,erformaitce of this Masque,

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a supper was served which was enlivened by a num­ber of clever and amusing toasts. Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott, always a happy and gracious presiding officer, acted as toastmistress, and introduced the various speakers who had been chosen to respond for different phases of our Club life. Mrs. Councilman spoke for our "Early Presidents," and l\1rs. Strong followed with a response on behalf of our "Recent Presidents." Then came Miss Cornelia Whittier, who spoke for our "War Workers,'' of whom she had been such an outstanding exatnple. Miss Morrison responded for our "Literary Members," and Mrs. LeMoyne for our "Honorary Members," while Miss Ticknor produced some rhymes dedicated to our "Lecturers," who had meant so much in the life of our organization during a half-century.

On this occasion the committee in charge consisted of Miss Louise Brown (chairman), 1-Irs. Charles P. Strong, l\,1iss Abbie Farwell Brown, Mrs. Stephen Davol and Miss Caroline Ticknor.

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RETROSPECT

1921-1931

CAROLINE TICKNOR

THE past •ten years of our Club's history reveal, no doubt, few high-lights, and little departure f ron1

the even tenor of our way, and for this lessening of our activities beyond the boundaries of our lectures and discussions, we n1ay account without n1uch diffi­culty.

First, the strenuous and exhausting war experiences brought to all a desire for relaxation, and little taste for the planning and carrying out of any extensive entertainments or dramatic enterprises, which demand time and also keen enthusiastn. We have indulged in various social frolics for our own benefit, but in no im­portant perf orn1ances to which our friends and an interested public n1ight be bidden.

Perhaps our former notable successes in the dra-1natic field, which set for us so high a standard., have been a factor of discouragement in this direction. We could not let ourselves fall from the high estate of early artistic achieven1ents, and rather than not be first­class in our dramatic doings, we have chosen to be "not at all."

And secondly, the passing years have robbed us of 1nany valued members, as well as of our youthful en­thusiasm for strenuous undertakings, while those re­cruits who have been reinforcing· our depleted ranks,

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seem to have little ti1ne at their disposal to devote to our Club activities beyond that precious hour on Sat­urday.

There are today so many clubs and organizations in the field that the demands on everyone are almost overwhelming, and it is increasingly difficult to organ­ize the n1embers of our Club to carry on additional activities, so manifold are the demands in all directions. Life in the eighteen-seventies, such as existed at the founding of this Club, has gone forever, and it is hard to realize that the literary gatherings, sponsored by l\1rs. Howe for her group of young won1en, was a unique and almost startling occurrence in the town of Boston sixty years ago.

Today the Junior League and countless other or­ganizations fill up to overflowing the young girl's leisure moments with a variety of interests undreamed of in the philosophy of the gentle, and genteel seventies. And we, the members of the Saturday Morning Club, cannot expect to capture much, if any, of their atten­tion. We realize that we are no longer a young girls' organization, but one in which a group of older women is valiantly upholding early traditions, though with the modifications that these ever-changing times de­mand. Our dues have gradually risen and our club year has been abridged. Moreover, we find it a less easy task than it was once to secure lecturers to satisfy our exacting standard, who are at the same time willing to favor us with their discourses for love and a modest floral tribute.

As has been noted, the past decade has been en­livened with a few entertainments and various social teas and luncheons. In March, 1922, our members

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were bidden to a "Poverty Party," which was held in the Town Room, at 4 Joy Street. There we dis­ported ourselves right merrily in a variety of curious costumes designed to display our impoverished con­dition in an amusing manner. Simplicity was practiced both as to appearances and in regard to refreshments, and in addition to certain stunts by gifted members, including a clever poem by Mrs. Tappan, who person­ated Mother Eve, an entertaining Mock Trial took place, in which several of our dramatic stars figured with marked success.

In April, 1923, the members of the club took part in an "April Fool Frolic," at the home of Mrs. Croll, where much amusing nonsense, such as Mrs. Howe ever commended, was duly enjoyed. The following April, 1924, we enjoyed a musicale which took place at the Chilton Club, to which musical treat another was added the fallowing season at the invitation of Miss Bliss, at the Hotel Vendome. The instituting of a n1usical morning, upon one of our Saturday Dis­cussion days, has proved, during several seasons, a pleasant change, and has given to all the opportunity of enjoying the gifts of our musical members. Sev­eral of these occasions took place at Mrs. William Brown's hospitable home, where our hostess, and for­mer president, also entertained the club at luncheon (when monologues by Mrs. W. Stanley Parker were enjoyed), besides welcoming them to a lively picnic party at her Cohasset home. Another musical morn­ing took place at the home of Mrs. Henry Endicott.

The memory of a charming reading of her poems by Miss Nancy Byrd Turner, remains associated with the presidency of Mrs. Corneau, who welcomed us

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on that occasion to a tea, and author's reading, and who planned and presided over a "Who's Who Luncheon," in February, 1927, in regard to which Mrs. Corneau has stated:

"In order that members n1ight learn more of one another's doings and interests, the advisability of get­ting out a little pamphlet was at first considered, but this suggestion gave place to the idea of a 'Who's \Nho Luncheon.' In order to secure the necessary inforn1ation, a questionnaire was sent to each 111ember asking her to furnish a brief summary of her personal history ; the data thus accumulated was con1piled by those on the con1mittee in charge, and then arranged in a nt1111ber of short divisions suitable for after-luncheon speeches, which were assigned to various n1embers and delivered at the close of the luncheon.

"This varied and interesting information covered such points as 'Where we can1e f ram' ; 'Where we were educated' ; 'What we had done in letters, charity, or public service' ; also, 'What we liked best to do in idle hours.' The latter topic proved to be far the most interesting and illuminating of all, as the things we do because we love to do the1n are much more charac­teristic than those we do because we have to do the111. This mid-year party, which took place at the Woman's Republican Club on February 19, brought out a large attendance despite a heavy snow-storm."

The social activities of the Club for the year 1927 were completed with a "Quizz Party," held on April 21, at the home of Mrs. Frederick Eaton.

* * * This little book of Club recollections, so hastily

compiled as to present only a fragmentary record of our Club history, will doubtless be credited with errors

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and omissions, which it is hoped will be forgiven by all who realize that the task of compilation allowed but little time for research and revision. It deals for the most part with the Club's social life, and dramatic achieve111ents, and will, for that reason, serve to recall the pleasant men1ories of happy hours spent apart from our regular Club n1eetings. Of these meetings themselves, the memory must ever be treasured in the hearts of our members, who have derived fron1 their Saturday mornings an inspiration that never can be chronicled in black and white. That these Saturday hours have been considered well worth while is proven by the faith£ ul attendance of our members, who have, year in year out, responded to that weekly roll-call.

We have met thus upon a footing of mutual intel­lectual interest, to listen, and to discuss,-what an enonnous diversity of subjects! No topic has been too large, or yet too small, for us to handle. Our seven-minute summaries of all sorts and conditions of affairs have ever been delightful and eminently enlightening to our members, and thanks to the pains­taking and accurate researches of our literary "vol­unteers," every Discussion morning has proven an edu­cational opportunity to listeners, who in these stren­uous days must necessarily be content with very super­ficial knowledge of many fascinating subjects.

We have been edified and aided by what we have put into our club life, as well as by that which we have extracted from it. Our lecturers have, for the most part, been men and women truly distinguished in their various fields, and it is an undoubted tribute to our merits as an appreciative audience, that they have come

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to us as friendly visitors instead of as paid speakers~ for more than a half century ..

We may indeed look back with genuine pride upon our past Sixty years of club activities, and a perusal .of our proud list of lecturers bespeaks our privileges and opportunities as listeners to the thoughts let fall from lips of those numbered among the wisest and brightest minds this nation has produced. While a glance at our list of members, past and present, reveals a company of eminent and truly cultured women to which our beloved founder, Julia Ward Howe, would point with undiminished pride could she be here today to bless her club, and bid us "carry on."

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PAST AND PRESENT SATURDAY

MORNING CLUB MEMBERS

Aldrich, Annie E. • . . • 1884-1906 Aldrich, Sybil B. • . • • 1897 -1909

* Alger, Abby L. • • • • • 1871-1882 *Alger, Caroline R. • • . . . 1872-1876 Allen, Annie E. • . • 1901-

t Allen, Eleanor Whitney . . . . 1907-* Allen, Mrs. F. L. (Dorothy P. Cobb) • 1921-1923 * Allen, Maud F. . . 1879-1883; 1884-1917 *Allen, Mrs. Roger N. (Lily G. Russell) . . 1873-1882 Almy, Mrs. Charles (Helen Cabot) . 1873-1874 Ames, Amelia H. . • • • • 1883-lSSi

*Ames, Mrs. James Barr (Sarah Russell) • . 1872-1873 * Andrew, Edith • • • • . 1871-1878 *Andrew, Elizabeth L. . • 1871-1881; 1886-1889 * Appleton, Marjorie C. • • • • . 1902-1913

*:l:Apthorp, Mrs. Robert E. • • • • . 1871-1875 *Atkinson, Susan P. . • • 1878-1879; 1887-1893

Baker, Mrs. George P. (Christina Hopkinson) • Baldwin, Mrs. Frank (Lucy C. Nash) . Barney, Mrs. J. Dellinger (Margaret Higginson) Batchelder, Mrs. Charles F. (Laura P. Stone) . Beal, Ida G. . • • • • . Beale, Mrs. James M. ( Sarah Tappan) •

* Beaumont, Mrs. Louis A. ( Mary E. Perkins) . Bemis, Mrs. Harry H. (Esther Glenny) . • Bennett, Mrs. Arthur G. (Clara Burrage) • • Bigelow, Mrs. Joseph S. (Mary Bryant) • •

*Bixby, Mrs. George H. (A. Hartlie Dana) • Blake, Mrs. George H. ( Eleanor Morrison) • Blanchard, Mrs. Fessenden (Mary C. Bnant) • Bliss, Harriet M. • • • • • •

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1897-1909 1871-1882 1905-1907 1930-1878-1881 1926-1871-1874 1923-1881-1883 1871-1873 1871-1879 1897-1903 1925-1927 1883·

Bolton, Mrs. Charles K. (Ethel Stanwood) . Bradford, Mrs. George G. ( Cornelia H. Myrick) Brandeis, Mrs. Louis D. (Alice Goldmark)

* Brewer, Lucy S. . . . * Brown, Abbie Farwell

Brown, Mrs. Henry H. ( Hannah Thayer) §Brown, Louise • tBrown, Mrs. William H. (Adelaide Moors) .

Buchamps, Mme. la Baronne Amaury de Contes de (Nettie Dodge) • . •

Buck, Eleanor . • . • * Buffum, Abby . •

Burbank, Mrs. Edgar (Emily Johnson) • • iBurlen, Mrs. William H. (Caroline C. Baker) . *Burrage, Jennie

Burrill, Mrs. Charles L. *Butler, Anna Maynard *Butler, Isabel J. .

(Emily)

Cabot, Mrs. Arthur T. (Susan Shattuck) • Cabot, Mrs. Richard C. ( Ella Lyman) • Cabot, Mrs. William B. (Elizabeth Parker)

1930-1897-1914 1902-1916 1882-1886 1898-1927 1881-1882 1900-1923 1921-

1872-1873 1875-1878 1882-1888 1882-1883 1888-1912 1871-1872 1910-1911 1882-1897 1871-1872

1878-1882 1902-1904

1873-1874; 1896-1900 *Callender, Caroline . • . 1871-1880 Carleton, Mrs. Philip (Sarah Schaff) . 1921-1926

*Carr, Mrs. Alfred W. (Adelaide P. Kinsley) . 1889-1918 Carret, Anna Weld • • • 1902-1903 Cater, Mrs. Douglas A. (Meriel Hutchins) . 1892-1899

§Chandler, Mrs. Frank W. (Alice Daland) . 1873-1882 *Chandler, Mrs. Norman F. (Alice G. Bemis) • 1883-1897 *Channing, Mrs. Walter ( Anna K. Morse) 1877-1881 Chapman, Emily D. . • 1872-1881 Chase, Alice P. • • • 1902-1907 Cheever, Mrs. David (Jane Sargent) • • 1916-1919

§Cheever, Helen . • . 1895-1922 §Clark, Mrs. Robert Farley (Susan D. Kimball) . 1881-1896 *Oifford, Mrs. Walter (Hattie Randall) • 1871-1872 tCobb, Alice G. • . • • . 1872-1882; 1887-1919 *Cobb, Mrs. John Storer (Mary S. Fuller) 1874-1881 *Coffin, Mrs. Charles P. (Grace Parkman) • 187~1877

78

Coffin, Mrs. Rockwell ( Margaret Morse) . *Colburn, Helen •

Coleman, Emma L. . *Comins, Elizabeth B.

Comstock, Mrs. A. Barr (Dorothy Dewey) Cordner, Elizabeth P.

tCorneau, Mrs. Barton ( Octavia Roberts) . §Councilman, Mrs. William T. (Isabella Coolidge)

Crocker, Mrs. Courtenay ( Clara Crocker) Crockett, Mrs. Montgomery A. ( Helen Sise) • Crosby, Mrs. Raymond M. (Edith Ames) . Cunningham, Mrs. Charles G. ( Ida Carey)

*Curtis, Mrs. Benjamin R. (Mary G. Horsford) . §Cushing, Mrs. Livingston ( Ada Thomas)

1914-1915 1893-1898 1874-1878 1895-1922 1922-1883-1895 1923-1880-1902 1930· 1883-1884 1905-1917 1871-1874 1872-1879

1885-1889; 1891-1925 Cutler, Marion C. • 1923-1927

Dale, Mrs. Eben (Lily J. Storrow) . 1871-1873 Dana, Elizabeth E. • 1874-1878

*Dana, Mrs. Richard H. (Edith Longfellow) . 1873-1877 Daniels, Mrs. Frank H. (Minnie B. Gay) . 1883-1887

*Davidson, Edith • • 1871-1873 *Davis, Mrs. William M. (Mary Wyman) . 1879-1883 Davol, Mrs. Stephen B. ( Amy Putnam) . • 1904-Day, Mrs. Frederick (Katherine Monroe) . 1928· Debuchy, Mme. (Clara T. Endicott) 1883-1888

§Dennie, Ellen M. . 1878-1881; 1882-1905 *Dennie, Sophie T. . 1888-1905; 1911-1912

Dennison, Mrs. John H. (Pearl L. Hatch) 1907-1913 Denny, Mrs. Arthur B. (Frances A. Gilbert)

1883-1887; 1893-1907 DeNormandie, Mrs. Robert (Alice W. Brown) 1905-1918 Derby, Mrs. George S. (Mary Brown) . 1907-Dewey, Mrs. Bradley (Marguerite Mellen) 1925-

iDewey, Mrs. Davis R. (Mary Hopkins) . 1904-1929 *Dielman, Mrs. Frederick (Lilla M. Benham) . 1872-1878 *Dodd, Theoda M. 1871-1882 *Dodge, Mrs. Frederic (Eugenia L. Jackson) • 1873-1880

Eaton, Mrs. Frederick (Jane S. Smith) • 1927-

79

Eaton, Mrs. William S. (Peabody-Gertrude Bayley) 1881-1884 *EliQt, Mrs. Christopher R. (Mary May) • • 1884-1889 tEliot, Mrs. John W. (Mary Morse) • • 1872-1874 Eliott, Mrs. Boswell (Lilla Burbank) • • 1881-1883

*Elliot, Mrs. George B. (Lillie H. Morse) • 1879-1888 §Elliott, Mrs. John (Maud Howe) • 1871-1885; 1887-1889

Emmerton, Caroline 0. . . . . 1900-Endicott, Mrs. Henry (Katherine Sears) • • 1928-

*Endicott, Mrs. William, Jr. (Helen S. Shaw) • 1882-1900 *Eustis, Mrs. William E. C, (Edith Hemenway) 1871-1874 Evans, Mrs. David J. (Rosamond Allen) • • 1903-1911 Evans, Mrs. Glendower (Bessie Gardiner) • 1877-1879

•Everett, Mrs. Percival (Elizabeth Fisher) • 1874-1882

Fair, Mrs. Gordon M. (Esther L. Mead) • • 1930-Fairchild, Sallie • • • • • • 1894-1897 Fanning, Mrs. Marshall ( Mary Murray) • • 1924-

+Farley, Mrs. James P., Jr. (Mary E. Wells) • 1871-1893 *§Farlow, Mrs. William G. (Lilian Horsford) • 1877-1881

*Faucon, Kate . • • • • • . 1872-1878 *tFaxon, Mrs. William, Jr. (Ada Forbush) 1887-1887; 1889-1918

*Fiske, Mrs. Andrew G. (Gertrude H. Horsford) 1871-1880 *Fiske, Mrs. Charles H., Jr. (Mary D. Thorndike) 1906-1911 *Fitz, Emma J. . . . . . . 1918-1927 *FitzGerald, Mrs. Desmond (Elizabeth Salisbury) 1882-1916 Fit%Gerald, Mrs. Stephen (Agnes Blake) • • 1916-1921 Floyd, Mrs. Cleaveland (Harriet Goodwin) • 1917-1923

§Foster, Ernestine L . . . . . 1894-1920 Frothingham, Eugenia B. • • • • • 1903-1906 FulJer, Eliza W. • • • • 1879-1881 Fuller, Mrs. Horace G. (Emily Carter) • • 1874-1881

•Puller, Mrs. S. Richard (Lucy Derby) • • 1871-1877 *Gardiner, Helen • • • • • • 1871-1883 Gilman, Mrs. Bradley (May D. Foster) • • 1878-188,

*Gi1man, Grace . • • • • 1883-1884 *Gllmore, Mrs. Kelsey. (Lucy W. Goddard)

1879-1883; 1885-1889 *Goodwin, Mrs. William W. (Ellen Chandler) • 1874-1875 ~tay, Mrs. Edward (Leila Storey) • 1872-1874 Gray, Elizabeth F. • • • • • • 1925-

80

:tGray, Mrs. John C. (Anna L. Mason) • §Gray, Marion P. • • • *Gray, Mary C. . • • *Gray, Mrs. Morris (Flora Grant) • • • * Greene, Bessie • • • •

*§Gregerson, Mrs. George W. (Mary E. Chafee) • * Gregerson, Lillie S. . . • . .

Gregor, Mrs. Leigh (Margaret Gibbens) . • *§Grinnell, Mrs. Richard B. (Susan M. Bradley) •

Groom, Mrs. Thomas ( Sarah Hobson) • Guild, Mary • Gulick, Anne • • •

* Hale, Ellen D. Hale, Emily •

*+Hall, Mrs. John R. ( Ellen Page) . • Harris, Mrs. Henry W. (Mabel Hovey) . • Harris, Mrs. Robert Henry (Florence) • •

* Harte, Mrs. Richard H. ( Maria Ames) . • Haserick, Mrs. Arthur ( Alice Wesselhoeft) • Hatch, Mrs. Roger Conant ( Mary Prescott) •

* Hawes, Ellen • • • • Hawley, E. Maud • Head, Elizabeth F. • Henderson, Mrs. Lawrence J. (Edith L. Thayer)

*Henshaw, Mrs. Samuel (Anne Stanwood) * Hoffman, Mrs. Frank S. ( Rebecca Lowell) • Herford, Helen B. • • • • • Holman, Frances • • • • Hooper, Mrs. Arthur W. (Jennie P. Miller) • Hopkinson, Leslie W. . .

* Houghton, Alberta M. • • • * Howe, Ann J. . . . . . * Howe, Eliza • • • • • *Howe, Mrs. Henry S. (Katharine D. Wainwright)

1889-1923 1871-1895 1872-1874 1881-1882 1871-1874 1879-1904 1890-1900 1881-1882 1882-1890 1928-1905-1930-

1874-1875 1916-1917 1874-1887 1923· 1911-1916 1871-1887 1881-1883 1928-1872-1873 1892-1894 1878-1881 1909-1911 1871-1872 1888-1891 1882-1892 1882-1885 1927-1890-1900 1883-1884 1872-1873 1871-1879

1871-1874; 1887-1907 *§Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward • • • • 1871-1910 +Howe, Lois Lilly • • • • . • • 1900-1922

Howe, Mrs. William Delancey (Clara May) . 1931·

81

*Humphrey, ~Irs. William (Hepsa Hall) . Hunt, Rosamond Hyd:e, Alice C.

Jackson, Anna P. *Jeffries, Mrs. B. Joy (Marian Shimmin) . Jeffries, Mrs. John A. (Emily Eustis) Johnson, Mrs. Arnold B. (Corinne) . Johnson, Elizabeth Johnson, Harriet E. . Jones, Eleanor H. Jones, Mabel A.

Kales, Mrs. Albert M. ( Anne Bradley) . *Kehew, Mrs. William B. (Mary Morton) . Kennelly, Mrs. Arthur E. (Julia Grice) .

tKent, Mrs. Ira Rich ( Louise Andrews) . Kidder, Mrs. Charles A. (Josephine Burnett)

1881-1889; Kimball, Hannah P. . Klumpke, Anna E.

*Knapp, Mrs. Philip C. ( Isabel Williams) .

*Lane, Mrs. John (Anna Eichberg) . §Laughlin, Mrs. H. M. P. (Harriet Pitman) *Leavitt, Margaret A. Lee, Frances Lee, Mrs. James S. (Georgie McClure) . Lee, Laura S. . • Lee, Mrs. Winthrop (Eleanor S. Tucker) .

*Lemoyne, Mrs. McPherson (Mary Brigham) . *Lincoln, Mrs. Arthur (Serafina Loring) .

*§Lincoln, Mrs. Roland C. (Alice N. Towne)

1874-1876 1921-1929-

1871-1874 1880-1882 1881-1883 1921-1925 1888-1897 1908-1914-1924-

1931-1894-1896 1922-1922-

1891-1893

1882-1893 1898-1899 1899-1919

1872-1898 1871-1882 1907-1921 1911-1912 1896-1930-1931 1911-1912 1871-1875 1876-1879

1878-1883; 1893-1921 *Little, Mrs. James M. (Mary Revere)

*§Loring, Mrs. Charles G. (Mary J. Hopkins) . 1871-1873 1888-1902 1871-1874 §Loring, Katharine P. • •

* Loring, Louisa *+Loud, Mrs. Joseph P. (May Hallowell) * Lovering, Sarah C. W. • •

82

1871-1878 1883-1884; 1887-1890

• • 1880-1889

Lovett, Mrs. Charles (Alice F. Beck) *Low, Mrs. Seth (Lois Curtis) . *Lyman, Mrs. Francis 0. (Charlotte Dana)

Lyman, Mrs. Henry (Elizabeth Cabot) .

1874-1876 1871-1872 1874-1876 1896-1900

*Macfarlane, Mrs. William S. (Margaret Russell) 1876-1881 Marshall, Mrs. John (Mary E. Bliss) . • 1881-1883 Martin, Mrs. Daniel H. (Alice Kendall) 1887-1893 McKim, Emma P. • 1885-1911; 1916-

*McPherson, Mrs. John B. (Cornelia Wright) . 1913-1921 Mead, Mrs. Frederick S. (Katharine Rand) • 1898-1911

*Means, Mrs. James (Helen G. Farnsworth) . 1889-1921 Metcalf, Mrs. George (Margaret Carter) 1931-

§Millet, Mrs. Josiah B. (Emily A. McCleary)

* Mills, Alice M. 1887-1920; 1926-1930

1888-1892 Minot, Mrs. George R. ( Agnes Olney) .

*Monks, Grace Boynton Monks, Mrs. Richard J. (Jane Page) Moors, Mrs. Arthur W. (Virginia Fisher) Moors, Mrs. F. J. (:M'.arjory S. Devlin) . Morrison, Mary G. • •

*Morse, Mrs. Lewis Kennedy (Annie H. Capron) *Moss, Mrs. Chester A. (Mary F. Davenport)

1882-1883 1921-1930 1882-

1909-1899-1888-1898-1906

:f:Motley, Jane L. . 1873-1879; 1882-1883

. 1872-1882; 1884-1931 Muir, Mrs. John (Lucretia Abbott) . Muirhead, Mrs. James F. (Helen Quincy)

• 1882-1883

1883-1884; 1887-1892 tMurdock, Mrs. Harold (Mary Lawson) . 1913-

Murdock, Mrs. Kenneth B. (Laurette E. Potts) 1931-Murray, Mrs. J. Tucker (Mabel Wesson) 1926-Myers, Mrs. John W. (Almeda Bagley) 1928-1931

*Neal, Caro F. . *Nichols, Elizabeth L. ·Nichols, Grace

+Nicholson, Mrs. Charles McF. (Gertrude Nicker­son)

*Niles, Mrs. Edward G. (Mary) .

83

1878-1909 1882-1894 1913-1926

1871-1876 1894-1912

Norton, Margaret • *+Noyes, Marion McG.

O'Reilly, Bessie Boyle

1916-1923 1874-1888

1897-1906

tPage, Anne • . • • . . 1888-1904 Page, Lilias . . . 1895-1905; 1910-Palmer, Dr. Sarah Ellen . 1925-1927 Parker, Effie M. . . 1874-1881

*+Parker, Mrs. Francis V. (Mary Codman) . 1875-1895 *Parks, Maud . 1871-1876 Peabody, Mrs. Charles (Jeanette E. Belo) . 1901-1911

*Peabody, Fanny 1883-1891 *Peabody, Lilian • . 1882-1889 *Peabody, Mary C. . 1873-1881 Pease, Mrs. Arthur S. (Henrietta Faxon) . 1908-1909 Perkins, Charlotte . 1914-1918; 1921· Perkins, Mrs. Henry P. (Helen V. Anthony) . 1879-1883

*Phelps, Florence L. 1873-1881 *Phillips, Mrs. John (Annie Tucker) . 1873-1877

Pierce, Caroline A. . 1882-1894 *§Pierce, Katharine C. . . 1880-1887; 1889-1911

*Pitts, Mrs. Charles H. (Meta S. Wilson) . . 1873-1876 Platner, Mrs. John W. (Clara B.) . 1922-1927 Porter, Frances R. . 1916-1920; 1927-Porter, Mary 0. 1897• Potter, Mrs. Robert Gray (Priscilla Howland) . 1930-Preston, Susan M. • • 1871-1883

*Priestley, Mrs. Neville (Caroline Homans) . 1885-1895 *Prince, Mrs. John (Grace F. Apthorp) . 1871-1887 Prudon, Mme. F. ( Ellen Eldredge) . • 1887-189 3

*Quackenbush, Maria . 1872-1881 *§Quimby, Mrs. Trueman B. (Robertson-Alice Kent)

1871-1879; 1882-1892 Quincy, Mrs. Josiah (Mary Honey) . • • 1931·

Randlett, Mrs. F. J. (Adele A. Felix) . •Rice, Mrs. John H. (Cora L. Clarke) •

84

1883-1885 1874-1907

Rich, Alice • • • *Richards, Elise B. • • • • Richards, Mrs. laura E. ( laura Howe) •

*Robbins, Mrs. James H. (Mary C. Pike) 1899-1907; *Robeson, Mrs. Andrew ( Frances Knight) • *Robins, Mrs. Edward B. (Elizabeth Tebbets) . *Rodman, May . • • Rogers, Charlotte W. . . Rogers, Mrs. Lucian W. ( Katharine W. Brown)

*Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore (Alice Lee) • Rousmaniere, Mrs. John (Mary F. Ayer) .. Ruggles, Mrs. D. B. (Alice Morrill) •

tRussell, Mrs. Charles F. (Mary Otis Rogers) . Russell, Dora W.

Sanger, Mrs. Charles R. (Eleanor W. Davis) . Sargent, Mrs. Winthrop (Aimee Rotch) . •

*Schouler, Fanny W. • . • *Scudder, Bessie M. . • • Sears, Mrs. William R. (Susan Jolliffe) .

* =!:Sedgwick, Mrs. William T. ( Mary K. Rice) . Selfridge, Mrs. George S. (Annie F. Manning) Severance, Mrs. Pierre C. (Isabel Rotch) •

*Shaw, Charlotte P. •

1893-1899 1874-1888 1873-1875 1910-1913 1888-1907 1882-1907 1871-1876 1888-1894 1895-1896 1871-1875 1904-1907 1918-1893-1908-

1907-1911 1886-1887 1872-1877 1874-1887 1922-1923 1912-1923 1871-1882 1883-1887 1873-1875

*+Shimmin, Blanche Simons, Mrs. Minot ( Helen Savage)

1873-1879; 1881-1898 1922-1923

Slocum, laura • • Smith, Mrs. George Gilbert (Ruth Davey) Smith, Mrs. Jerome C. (Anne Morton) . Spear, Mrs. Elwood B. (Edith Taylor) . Stedman, Alice

*Stedman, Mrs. Henry R. (Mabel Weiss) . *Stetson, Kate • Stevens, Mrs. Robert (Pauline Croll) Stone, Mrs. Philip S. (Anne B. Abbott) • Stone, Mrs. Richard ( Lucy Bowditch) . Streeter, Mrs. Edward C. (Alice M. Chase) •

§Strong, Mrs. Charles P. (Mary Baker) . • • * Sturdivant, Florence • • • • •

85

1882-1883 1922-1924 1930-1914-1922 1890-1899 1877-1881 1871-1877 1918-1922 1877-1881 1872-1874 1912-1929 1892-1914 1884-1927

*Sturdivant, Jessie L. . • . . • •Sumner, Mrs. John 0. (Mary Hutchinson) . *Swain, Mrs. George F. (Katharine K. Wheeler) Swift, Mrs. Frederick (Zadie Rotch)

•Talbot, Mrs. Charles N., Jr. ( Caroline Phillips) Talbot, Eloise Talbot, Mrs. Henry P. (Frances Dukehart) .

§Talbot, Marion . • Tappan, Mrs. E. B. (Eleanor Beck) . Taylor, Mrs. Malcolm (Louisa Allen) .

*:l:Thatcher, Mrs. James (Emily B. Foster) . *Thorndike, Mrs. Paul (Rachel Sherman) . Thorp, Mrs. Joseph G. (Annie A. Longfellow) . Thwing, Anne H. Ticknor, Caroline

tTilden, Mrs. C. Linzee ( Effie Bird) Tileston, Katharine • Tilton, Elizabeth .

§Tower, Ellen M. • •Townsend, Frances B. • Townsend, Mrs. Henry E. (Minna Coupe) Tudor, Mrs. Henry D. (Eleanor Gray) . Tuxbury, Cora • .

Upham, Mrs. George B. (Cornelia Preston) • Upham, Mary D~

Vaughan, Mrs. William W. (Ellen T. Parkman) Volkmann, Mrs. A. L. K. ( Elizabeth Howe) . Von Arnim, Albertina •

Wadsworth, Mrs. Philip (DeFriez-Grace Croll)

1881-1888 1903-1907 1894-1901 1871-1872

1882-1892 1917-1918 1916-1927 1882-1892 1910-1902-1903 1871-1878 1893-1896 1872-1873 1880-1882 1893-1886-1893 1881-1883 1914-1924 1888-1904 1879-1887 1873-1885 1913-1920 1881-1893

1881-1881-1883

1873-1877 1894-1911 1872-1881

1914-1931 W ambaugh, Sarah • • 1905-1917

*Ward, Annie N. *Ward, Lily J. • •

• 1874-1878; 1880-1882 1872-1887

Ware, Mrs. Arthur L. (Alice Jaques) . Ware, Mrs. Malcolm (Mary A. Ware) .

*Warren, Cornelia • • Washburn, Mrs. Robert M. (Martha Clark) •

86

1871-1881 1909-1911 1876-1881 1920-1926

*Webb, Marie • • • • 1871-1873 *Weld, Hannah M. • • • • • 1877-1923 *Wellman, Mrs. Francis (Cora L. Allen) • • 1872-1883 Wendell, Mrs. Barrett (Edith Greenough) • 1878-1881 Wentworth, Mrs. Charles F. (Marion Whittemore) 1876-1893

*§Wesselhoeft, Selma • • • . • • 1871-1874 tWesselhoeft, Mrs. Walter (Mary A. Leavitt) • 1893-

Wheeler, Mrs. William Morton (Dora Emerson) 1919-Whipple, Mrs. George C. (Mary Rayner) • 1928-

*Whitmore, Mrs. William R. (Mabel S. Turner) 1878-1883 §Whitney, Mrs. Henry M. (Margaret F. Green) • 1878-1907

Whittemore, Sarah E. • • • • 1874-§Whittier, Cornelia F. . • . 1905-1922

Wilkins, Christel W. • • • . 192 3-Williams, Mrs. Emile F. (Blanche E. Wheeler) 1907-1909

*Williston, Mrs. Samuel (Mary Wellman) • 1879-1882 Winslow, Mrs. Andrew N. (Gertrude Laverack) 1914-1917

*Winslow, Mrs. William (Mary S. Huntington) 1885-1890 Winsor, Mrs. Alfred (Linda Kennard) 1877-1880; 1890-1900 Winter, Mrs. lrvah L. (Rebecca Clark) • • 1913-

*Winthrop, Augusta C. • • • 1894-1897 tWolcott, Mrs. Roger ( Edith Prescott) . • 1890-1898

Woodworth, Mrs. Arthur V. (Margaret Kennard) 1907-1915 *Woolsey, Mrs. Theodore (Annie G. Salisbury) 1874-1877

*Young, Fanny • • • Young, Mrs. Philip (Margaret Bender) •

• 1875-1896 1922-1928

* Deceased. t Past President. + Honorary Member, elected. § Honorary Member, Past President.

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SATURDAY MORNING CLUB

(INVITATION TO MOTHER GoosE PARTY)

Will you walk into my parlor to meet the S. M. C. The birthday of dear Mother Goose will celebrated be.

The way into my parlor is up steep Beacon Hill, At seventy-seven Mt. Vernon Street you'll surely find me

still. The evening that I bid you come is April twenty-seven, The hours, should you ask them, from eight until

eleven. Old Mother Hubbard, Jack and Jill, and Tom the Piper's

Son, And Mary with her little lamb are one and all to come.

For information as to dress, please go ask Mrs. Lee, One Otis Place, on Mondays, the time, from two to three.

'Tis Mrs. Millet bids you come, and this you can't deny, To such an invitation you really should reply!

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Katharine P. Loring . Selma W esselhoeft . Marion P. Gray

PRESIDENTS

Harriet Pitman (Mrs. Laughlin) Alice Daland ( Mrs. Francis W. Chandler)

*Alice Kent (Mrs. Trueman L. Quimby) . *Lilian Horsford (Mrs. William G. Farlow) * Alice Towne (Mrs. Roland C. Lincoln) . * Alice Towne (Mrs. Roland C. Lincoln) . Maud Howe (Mrs. John Elliott) Susan D. Kimball (Mrs. Robert F. Clark) . Isabella Coolidge (Mrs. William T. Council-

man) Isabella Coolidge (Mrs. William T. Council-

1872-'73 1873-'74 1874-'75 1875-'76 1876-'77 1877-'78 1878-'79 1879-'80 1880-'81

H. '74 H. '74 H. '94 H. '82 H. '82 H. '79 H. '81 H. '21

1881-'82 H. '85 1882-'83 H. '88

1883-'84 H. '02

man) 1884-'85 Ellen M. Dennie 1885-'86 H. '05 Ellen M. Dennie 1886-'87 Ellen M. Dennie 1887-'88 Ellen M. Dennie 1888-'89

*Susan M. Bradley (Mrs. Richard B. Grinnell) 1889-'90 Marion Talbot . 1890

*Katharine C. Pierce . • 1890-'91 *Katharine C. Pierce . • • 1891-'92 *Katharine C. Pierce . 1892-'93

H. '90 H. '92 H. '11

Ellen M. Tower 1893-'94 H. '05 Ellen M. Tower 1894-'95

*Mary H. Loring (Mrs. Charles G.) . 1895-'96 H. '02 *Mary H. Loring (Mrs. Charles G.) • 1896-'97 *Ada F. Faxon (Mrs. William, Jr.) . 1897-'98 H. '18 * Ada F. Faxon (Mrs. William, Jr.) . 1898-'99 Ada T. Cushing (Mrs. Livingston) . 1899-'00 H. '25 Ada T. Cushing (Mrs. Livingston) . ~ 1900-'0l Mary L. Wesselhoeft (Mrs. Walter) 1901-'02 Margaret F. G. Whitney (Mrs. Henry M.) 1902 H. '07

89

*Mary E. Gregerson (Mrs. George W.) . 1902-'03 H. '04 *Mary E. Gregerson (Mrs. George W.) . 1903-'04 Mary L. Wesselhoeft (Mrs. Walter) . 1904-'05 Mary L. Wesselhoeft (Mrs. Walter) . 1905-'06 Margaret F. G. Whitney (Mrs. H. M.) . 1906-'07 H. '07 Mary B. Strong (Mrs. C. P.) . . 1907-'08 H. '12 Mary B. Strong (Mrs. C. P.) . . 1908-'09 Ernestine L. Foster . . . . 1909-'10 H. '20 Ernestine L. Foster . . . 1910-'11 Emily Millet (Mrs. J. B.) . 1911-·12 H. '20 Emily Millet (Mrs. J. B.) • 1912-'13 Helen Cheever . • • . 1913-'14 H. '22 Helen Cheever . . . . 1914-'15 Louise Brown . . . 1915-'16 H. '24 Louise Brown . . . . . . 1916-'17 Cornelia F. Whittier . . 1917-'18 H. '22 Cornelia F. Whittier 1918-'19 Mary L. Murdock (Mrs. Harold) 1919-'20 Mary L. Murdock (Mrs. Harold) . 1920-·21 Eleanor W. Allen • . • 1921-'22 Eleanor W. Allen . . 1922-'23 Mary Otis Russell (Mrs. C. F.) 1923-'24 Mary Otis Russell ( Mrs. C. F.) . 1924-'25 Octavia R. Corneau ( Mrs. Barton) . . 1925-'26 Octavia R. Corneau ( Mrs. Barton) . . 1926-'27 Adelaide M. Brown (Mrs. W. H.) • . 1927-'28 Adelaide M. Brown (Mrs. W. H.) . 1928-'29 Louise A. Kent ( Mrs. Ira Rich) 1929-'30 Louise A. Kent ( Mrs. Ira Rich) 1930-'31 Mary L. Wesselhoeft (Mrs. Walter) 1931-'32

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LIST OF LECTURERS

SATURDAY MORNING CLUB

1871-1931

Abel, Mrs. Mary 'Hinman Adams, Miss Sarah H. Agassiz, George R. Albree, John Alger, Rev. William R. Allen, J. Weston Allen, Miss Mary E. Amory, Dr. Appolloni, Sign. A. V. Apthorp, Harrison Apthorp, William F. Arnold, F. S. Arnold, Miss Sarah Louise Atkinson, Prof. William P. Auer, Rev. J. A. C. Fagginger

Baddeley, St. Clair Baker, Prof. George P. Baker, Judge Harvey H. Baldwin, Miss Maria L. Barbour, Thomas Barrett, Lawrence Bartlett, George B. Barton, Rexford Bates, Miss Esther Willard Beaston, Miss Annie Bell, G. Mackintosh Benedict, Francis G. Bernbaum, Ernest Beston, Henry (Sheehan)

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Blackwell, Lucy Stone Blomberg, Miss von Blossom, Harold E. Borg, Miss Selma Boring, Prof. Edwin G. Bowditch, Dr. Henry Bowditch, James H. Bradford, Gamaliel Brandeis, Louis D. Brigham, William T. Briggs, Mrs. Frederick H. Briggs, Prof. LeBaron R. Bronson, Prof. Walter C. Brooks, Rev. John Graham Brooks, Rev. Phillips Brown, Rev. Howard N. Brown, Kenneth Brown, Mrs. Kenneth (Deme-

tra Vaka) Brown, Rev. Petey Brown, Philip Bruce, H. Addington Burleigh, Mts. Celia Burton, Prof. A. E. Butler, Miss Anna Maynard Bynner, Edwin Lasseter

Cabot, Dr. Richard C. Cabot, Godfrey Lowell Cabot, Samuel

Call, Miss Annie Payson Carrington, FitzRoy Carruth, Charles Theodore Castle, William R., Jr. Catlin, Mrs. Frances H. Champney, J. W. Cheney, Miss Ednah Clapp, Henry A. Clark, Rev. Alden Hyde Clark, Mrs. Robert Farley Clarke, Rev. James Freeman Clemens, Samuel

( Mark Twain) Clement, E. H. Clifford, Edward Cobb, John Storer Collens, Charles Collier, Rev. H. Price Collyer, Rev. Robert Comstock, Daniel F. Connick, Charles J. Cook, Mrs. Joseph Coolidge, Archibald Cary Copeland, Prof. Charles T. Corneau, Mrs. Barton Councilman, Dr. William T. Cram, Ralph Adams Cranch, C. Crawford, F. Marion Crothers, Rev. Sam'I McChord Cummings, Rev. Edward Cummings, Miss Emma G.

Dana, Richard Henry Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. Davidson, Prof. Thomas Davis, Philip Davis, Prof. William M. Deland, Mrs. Margaret Dennison, Rev. J. H.

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DeNormandie, Rev. James Derby, Dr. Hasket Derby, Dr. Richard Henry Dewey, Melville Diaz, Mrs. A. M.

. Dixon, Roland B. Dracopolis, Charles Drake, S. A. Drew, Edward B. DuBois, Prof. A. Jay Dudley, Miss Helena Duncan, Henry B. Dutton, S. T. Dwight, John Sullivan

Edwards, Ernest Eliot, Charles W. Eliot, Samuel Elliott, Mrs. Maud Howe Ellis, George H. Elton, Oliver Eitzen, Louis von Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Miss Ellen Emerson, Ralph Waldo Ernst, Prof. C. W. Ernst, D1'. Harold C. Evans, Prof. Lawrence B.

Farnham, Dr. Edwin Fay, Prof. Charles E. Fenn, Prof. William Wallace Fenollosa, Prof. Ernest F. Perrette, Bishop Fields, James T. Fields, Mrs. James T. Fiske, Prof. Fitz, Miss Emma J. FitzGerald, Desmond Fletcher, Miss Alice

Foote, Arthur Forbes, Edward W. Ford, Worthington Chauncy Forman, Mrs. Foster, Frank K. Francke, Prof. Kuno Frothingham, Rev. Paul R. Fuller, Samuel Richard

Garrison, William Lloyd Gilchrist, Edward Gilman, Arthur Goodale, Prof. George Lincoln Goodwin, Mrs. Ellen A. Goodwin, Prof. William W. Gordon, Rev. George A. Grant, Rev. Percy S. Gray, John Chipman Green, Com. Francis M., U.S.N. Greene, F. Melbourne Greene, Henry Copley Greene, Jerome D. Guild, Hon. Curtis, Jr. Gulick, Prof. Charles B.

Hale, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Miss Emily Hale, Philip Hale, Miss Susan Hall, Mrs. Florence Howe Hall, Dr. G. Stanley Hallowell, Col. Norwood P. Hallowell, Richard Hallowell, Mrs. Richard Hamilton, Dr. Alice Hamlin, Charles S. Hanneguin, Alfred Hanus, Prof. Paul Hart, Prof. Sophie Chantal

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Hartman, Edward T. Hawes, Miss Charlotte W. Hay, John Hayes, Dana Haynes, Prof. Hedge, Dr. Frederic H. Henderson, Dr. Ernest F. Herford, Rev. Brooke Hersey, Prof. Frank Wilson

Cheney Hersey, Miss Heloise E. Higginson, Col. Thomas Went-

worth Hill, Dr. A. S. Hillyer, Robert Hodges, Rev. George Hodgson, Richard Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Homans, Mrs. Charles D. Hooper, Nathaniel L. Hopkins, Mrs. Arthur J. Hopkinson, Miss Leslie W. Hoppin, Augustus Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward Howells, William Dean Hughes, Prof. Helen S. Hunt, Prof. T. Sterry Hunter, Robertson G. Huntington, Prof. Ellsworth

Irwin, Miss Agnes

Jack, Prof. James R. Jaggar, Prof. Thomas A., Jr. James, Henry James, Robertson Jeffries, Dr. B. Joy Jenkins, MacGregor Jewett, Miss Sarah Orne

Johnson, Miss Harriet E. Johnson, Mrs.

Kelley, Mrs. Florence Kemble, Parker Kennelly, Prof. Arthur E. Keyes, Miss Alicia M. Keyes, Mrs. H. E. King, Alf red King, Anna Gelliburg King, Basil Kirkland, A. H. Knapp, Dr. Philip Coombs

Lang£ eld, Prof. Herbert S. Langley, Prof. Langmaid, Dr. Samuel Lanman, Prof. Charles R. Lawton, William Cranston Lee, Joseph Legge, Dr. Thomas M. Leonowens, Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Roland C. Lincoln, Dr. David F. Lloyd, Henry D. Longfellow, Miss Alice Loring, Miss Katharine P. Lowell, Prof. A. Lawrence Lowell, Percival C. Lowes, Prof. John Livingston Luce, Stephen B. Lurnholtz, Prof. Carl Lyon, D. G. Lyon, Prof. William H.

Mackaye, Mrs. Malloy, Charles Marble, Mrs. Charles F. Marcou, Prof. Philip B. Marriotti, Mrs.

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Marsh, Prof. Arthur Richmond Marsh, Edward Marshall, Miss Florence May, Miss Abby W. McCollester, Dr. Lee McDowell, Miss Mary E. McGee, Miss Lucy Mead, Edwin D. Lord Meath Melville, Miss Angela Mendenhall, Prof. T. C. Merrill, Albert Adams Merriman, Mrs. Daniel Metcalf, Mrs. Joel H. Miller, Dickinson L. Mitsukuri, Prof. Kakichi Mohini Mohan Chatterji ifonks, Dr. George H. Monti, Luigi Moore, Charles H. Moore, Prof. Clifford H. Moorehead, Warren King Moors, John F. Morize, Prof. Andre Morse, Prof. Edward S. Moulton, Mrs. Louise C. Muirhead, Dr. James F. Murdock, Harold Murdock, Kenneth B. Murray, Prof. J. Tucker

Nahar, Miss Ednorah Nasmyth, Dr. George W.

o·Brien, Robert Lincoln o·conor, Norreys Jephson Oliver, Mrs. J. P. Olmstead, Frederick law O'Reilly, John Boyle Osborne, Thomas Mott

Paine, John Knowles Palmer, Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, Prof. George Herbert Palmer, Henry R. Panin, Park, Rev. Charles E. Parker, Charles Peabody, Prof. Andrew Peabody, Prof. Charles Peirce, Prof. Benjamin Perkins, C. C. Perkins, ~Irs. John Carroll Perkins, Rev. Palfrey Perry, Prof. Bliss Perry, Thomas Phillips, James Duncan Pick, Dr. Edward Pinchot, Hon. Gifford Plowman, George T. Pope, Arthur Prince, Dr. Morton Proctor, Miss Edna Dean Putman, Judge Putnam, Prof. Frederick W.

Quimby, Mrs. Alice Kent Rob-ertson

Quincy, Hon. Josiah

Rand, Dr. Benjamin Rice, Mrs. Richards, I. A. Richards, Mrs. Waldo Riddle, George Rihbany, Rev. Abraham M. Robinson, Edward Rogers, Henry M. Rogers, Prof. Robert E. Ross, Denman Rotch, Prof. A. Lawrence

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Rotch, Arthur Ropes, Prof. John C. Royce, Prof. Josiah Rudersdorf, Mme. Russell, Hon. William E.

Sacker, Miss Amy M. Sanborn, Frank B. Santayana, Prof. George Sargent, Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, Franklin Haven Sarton, Dr. George Sayward, William H. SchaufBer, Robert Haven Schell, Prof. Erwin H. Scudder, Horace Scudder, Miss Vida D. Searle, Charles Putnam Sedgwick, Prof. William T. Seeley, Dr. Shapley, Prof. Harlow Sharp, Prof. Dallas Lore

Sherwood, Mrs. M. E. W. Shurtleff, Arthur A. Silsbee, Edward Skinner, J. Hilary Smith, Corinna Haven Smith, F. Hopkinson Smith, Joseph Lindon Smith, Dr. William Lord Spinden, Dr. H. J. Stannard, Mrs. Margaret Starr, Miss Steffens, Lincoln Stoddard, John l. Stoddard, Lothrop Storey, Moor.field Sumicrast, Prof. F. C. de Sumner,· Prof. John Osborne Surette, Thomas Whitney

Swain, Prof. George F. Swift, Lindsay

Talbot, Mrs. Emily Talbot, Prof. Henry P. Talbot, Miss Marion Tarbell, Prof. F. B. Tenney, Charles D., LL.D. Thaxter, Mrs. Celia Thaxter, Levi Thayer, Prof. William Roscoe Thurber, Mrs. Ticknor, Howard M. Torry, Bradford Towle, George M. Townsend, Miss Sophia T. Tozzer, Prof. Alfred M. Tupper, Dr. George W.

Underwood, Francis H. Underwood, William Lyman

Van Brunt, Vincent, Leon H. Vinton, Frederic P.

Wadsworth, Eliot Wainwright, Mrs. W. P. Walker, C. Howard Walker, Gen. Francis A. Walsh, Miss Marie Wambaugh, Miss Sarah Ward, Prof. Robert DeCourcy Waring, Col. George E. Warner, Charles Dudley

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Warner, Langdon Washburn, Rev. Henry Brad­

ford Waters, Mrs. Clara E. Clem-

ent Waterston, Dr. R. C. Waterston, Mrs. Robert Watson, Thomas A. Webster, Holli:; Weeks, Edward A., Jr. Weil, Mrs. Weiss, John Wellman, Frank Wells, Mrs. Kate Gannett Welsh, Herbert Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Whipple, Edwin P. Whipple, Prof. George C. White, Prof. John Williams Whiting, Edward L. Whitman, Mrs. Henry Whittemore, Thomas Whittier, Miss Harriet Wiener, Leo Williams, Rev. Theodore C. Winsor, Justin Winslow, Prof. C. E. A. Winter, Prof. Irvah L. Wood, Rev. C. J. Woods, Miss Amy Woods, Dr. James Houghton Woolson, Mrs. Abba Gould

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CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE I

Name The name of this association shall be the SATURDAY

MORNING CLUB.

ARTICLE II

Object Its object shall be to promote culture and social inter­

course.

ARTICLE III

Officers and Committees 1. I ts officers shall be a President, two Vice-Presidents,

a Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, a Recording ·secre­tary, and a Corresponding Secretary. These officers, to­gether with the Chairman of the Discussion Committee and the Chairman of the Lecture Committee, shall consti­tute the Executive Committee; and they shall have power to fill any vacancy that may occur in any office or com-1nittee.

2. There shall be a Discussion and a Lecture Committee of three members each.

3. There shall be a Nominating Committee of three members, one of whom shall have been a member of the Nominating Committee of the preceding year. Its duty shall be to nominate a list of officers and committees, in­cluding the Nominating Committee, to be voted upon at the next Annual Meeting. The Nominating Committee shall report to the Secretary six weeks before the Annual Meeting, a list of the proposed officers and committees for the ensuing year.

4. The officers and committees shall be elected by ballot at the annual meeting, a two-thirds vote of the members p1•esent being necessary for a choice. · They shall hold their office for one year from the date of their election,

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and these officers and committees shall not be eligible for the same office for more than two successive years.

ARTICLE IV

Meetings 1. The Club shall hold not less than eighteen meetings

during the year. These meetings shall be alternately de­voted to discussions and lectures unless otherwise ordered by the Executive Con1mittee. There shall be held an annual meeting on the last Saturday of the Club year, at which none but members may be present, for the election of officers, the appointment of an Auditor, and other business.

2. Special meetings may be called by the Executive Committee or the President, and upon written application of any eight members shall be so called.

3. Seven days' notice shall be given to each member of the time and place of the proposed meeting and the pur­pose for which it is called.

4. Fifteen members shall constitute: a quorum. 5. No voting by proxy shall be allowed.

ARTICLE V

Financial 1. The initiation fee shall be $5.00. 2. The financial year shall begin at the annual meeting

in April. 3. The annual fee shall be $8.00. The retaining member­

ship fee for absent members having substitutes shall be $4.00. Either fee shall be paid before January 1, other­wise the person from whom it is due shall, having been duly notified, cease to be a member, subject to the dis­cretion of the Executive Committee.

ARTICLE VI

Membership 1. The active membership of the Club shall be limited

to seventy women. 2. There shall be honorary memberships and substitute

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3. Candidates for memberships must be proposed to the Corresponding Secretary by two members of the Club, of at least one year's standing, who shall certify over their own signatures that they personally know the can­didate proposed, and believe that she would be desirable as a member of the Club. The name of the candidate, with her place of residence and the names of her pro­posers shall be sent 'by mail to every regular member. At the next discussion meeting her name shall be posted in a prominent place in the Club room and shall there­after be voted on by the Executive Committee. Each name shall be voted upon separately by ballot, two black balls being sufficient to exclude; and names thus approved shall form a waiting list in exact order of application. A candidate ·failing of election shall not be eligible again that Club year. ]

4. Vacancies occ:urrin!( in the memb~rship shall be filled by the Executive Committee from those candidates on the waiting list, formed as provided in the preceding section, who, as substitutes for two years, have shown themselves capable of doing full member's work. No one shall be accepted as substitute for a second year who has not pre­viously, as a substitute for one year, shown herself capable of doing full member's work. Substitutes shall be taken from the waiting list in the exact order of precedence.

ARTICLE VII

Amendments These Articles may be amended at any regular meeting

of the Club by a two-thirds vote of the members present, provided formal notice of the desired change shall have been given to the Executive Committee at a previous reg­ular meeting of the Executive Committee, and a printed copy of the proposed amendment shall have been sent to every member of the Club at least two weeks before the meeting at which it is to be acted upon.

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BY-LAWS

ARTICLE I

Duties of Officers 1. The President shall preside at the meetings of the

Club and of the Executive Committee, shall present an annual address, and perform all other duties belonging to this office. She shall secure men1bers for each dis­cussion, appoint a chairman, and keep a record of the names of these members. In the absence of the Presi­dent, one of the Vice-Presidents shall preside.

2. The Recording Secretary shall keep a record of each Club meeting, which shall be read at a subsequent meet­ing, and shall prepare a report of the year's proceedings, '\\"hich shall be read at the annual meeting.

3. The Corresponding Secretary shall have charge of the correspondence of the Club, and shall send all notices. She shall keep a correct list of the active, honorary, sub­stitute, and proposed members, with their addresses, and shall announce to the Club, through the Recording Sec­retary, every change in membership and substitute mem­bership. She shall notify members and substitute mem­bers of their election, and send them a copy of the Constitution. She shall send printed notices of the an­nual meeting one month in advance, together with a list of the officers and committees nominated for the ensuing year. She shall also send~ one month in advance, printed notices to all members of the first meeting.

4. The records of the Club meetings and the waiting list shall be open to the inspection of members at any time.

5. The Treasurer shall have charge of all moneys and other property belonging to the Club. She shall receive the membership fees, pay all bills approved by the Execu­tive Committee, and shall keep a record of attendance. She shall send printed notices of warning to all members in danger of forfeiture of membership through absence or

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non-payment of dues. She shall present to the Club an annual report duly audited, and a monthly statement at the meetings of the Executive Committee.

6. The Executive Committee, except during the months of June, July, August, and September, shall hold regular monthly meetings, of which records shall be kept, to transact the ordinary business of the Club. Five mem­bers shall constitute a quorum.

Special meetings 1nay be called by the President, due notice having been given.

7. The Executive Committee shall act on all names pro­posed for membership, and shall have power to drop from the waiting list any candidates who, as substitutes, shall have shown themselves incapable of doing full member's work.

8. The Executive Committee shall have no authority or power, except by special vote of the Club, to make it liable for any debt beyond the amount of the annual incon1e not needed for the discharge of existing debts or liabilities.

9. Discussion Co·mm.ittee.-It shall be the duty of the Discussion Committee to prepare a list of subjects to be discussed by the Club, which shall be submitted by the Chairn1an to the Executive Committee.

10. Lecture C ommittee.-lt shall be the duty of the Lecture Committee to secure the lecturers for the year; and they are authorized to incur any necessary expense in connection therewith, a report of which shall be pre­sented by the Chairman to the Executive Committee at its regular meeting.

11. The Auditor ~hall examine the accounts of the Treasurer before the annual meeting.

ARTICLE II

Duties of Members

1. Any member wishing to resign and failing to notify the Corresponding Secretary to that effect at the annual meeting or before the second Saturday in October shall be responsible for one-half the yearly Club dues until such time as she shall have forfeited her membership

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through absence, according to Section 5 of this Article. 2. A member intending to be absent one year may, on

notifying the Corresponding Secretary to that effect and payment of the retaining fee of $4.00, retain her mem­bership.

3. A member intending to be absent one year shall no­tify the Corresponding Secretary two weeks in advance, in order that her place may be filled from the waiting list.

4. Each member shall volunteer once during -each Club year to be one of the members required in these By-laws .by Article V, Sections 2 and 3. Failure to comply with this provision shall be forfeiture of membership, subject to the discretion of the Executive Committee.

5. A member having been absent six times during any three consecutive months of the Club year forfeits her membership, subject to the discretion of the Executive Committee.

6. No member shall be allowed a yearly substitute for two consecutive years, except by the consent of the Ex­ecutive Committee.

7. Members proposing a candidate for membership shall send, together with the application for her admission, signed statements of her qualifications to the Correspond­ing Secretary.

ARTICLE III

Duties of Substitute Members Substitute membership shall begin at the first meeting

of the Club in November, or later, at the discretion of the Executive Committee, and each substitute shall assume all the duties and liabilities of a regular member, but she shall have no vote.

ARTICLE IV

Honorary Members 1. All past Presidents, if not active members, shall be

honorary members. 2. Any former member may become an honorary mem­

ber on the petition of twenty members in writing, followed

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by election at a subsequent meeting, with not more than four dissenting votes.

3. Honorary members shall be exempt from all dues and may be present at any meeting of the Club, but shall have no vote, nor be allowed to serve on any standing committee.

4. Honorary members wishing to return to active mem­bership shall, on application to the Executive Commit­tee, be given the first vacancy.

ARTICLE V

Discussions 1. The list of subjects for discussion for the following

season shall be sent to members on or before June 1. 2. Each subject for discussion shall be laid before the

Club by the members who have volunteered for that pur­pose. Papers may be prepared, the reading of which, unless otherwise allowed by the President, shall not exceed seven minutes.

3. These members shall hold as many meetings as may be necessary before the day appointed for the discussion. The Chairman shall notify the President of the time and place of the last meeting.

ARTICLE VI

Guests 1. Each member may bring guests on lecture days. 2. No guests shall be admitted on discussion days.

ARTICLE VII

Amendments to By-laws These By-laws may be amended at any regular or spe­

cial meeting by a two-thirds vote of the members present, the proposed amendment having been read at a previous meeting and also sent to each member at least seven days before the meeting at which it is to be acted upon.

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BUILDING

JULIA WARD How~

I sat before Fate's ebbing tide With my life's buildings near at hand,

And thought, how planned in marble pride Was that which crumbled in the sand.

While the soul's Master-architect Held me to reason and reflect.

"Oh! Master, I have wrought so ill Would heaven I had not wrought at all !

So petty my devising skill, My measures so unjust and small."

.. But didst thou build for God?" said He . .. Then doth God's building stand for thee."

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