| Show I ELEGEAPHIQ IFS PILGRID FATHERS DAY The IRceagnetjaird I Celebration in New York New York 22Thl seventeenth annual an-nual dinner of the New England Society took place at Dalmonicoa this evening Josiah McFiiher presided Among those on the platform were Gen Grant Mayor GrAce Judge Lawerence Bev Arcbier Brooke Chauncey M Depew and Governor Bigelow of Connecticut The general arrangements were in the hands of Hon atewart L Woodford ex Governor Long of Massachusetts Kobt L McCurdy Col Vilas Rev Dr Up thur Mark Twain Gen Horace Porter ind Senator Miller of California were among the guests The large dining hall was crowded Senator Miller in reply to the toast of Cradle of the Commonwealth Common-wealth said that the commonwealth founded by theJ pilgrims was a self rocking cradle Mark Twain responded to tho toast of Woman He sid The toast includes the sex universally it is to woman comprehensively com-prehensively whereioaver she may be blind Let us consider her ways First comes the matter of dress This is a most important consideration and must be disposed of before we intelligently proceed to ex mino the profounder depths of the theme For a text let us take the dress of the antipodal antip-odal typesthe savage woman of Central Africa and the cultivated daughter daugh-ter of our high modern civilization Among the Fans a negro tribe a woman when dressed for home or to go shopping or calling does not wear anything any-thing at all but just her complexion Laughter Tnat is it is all her wardrobe ward-robe It is the lightest costume in the world but is made of the darkest material ma-terial It has often been mistaken for mourning is thetrimmestand neatest and gracifullest costume that is now in fashion It wears well is fast color doesnt show dirt you dont have to send it down town to have it washed and have some of it come back scorched with flatirons and some with the buttons ironed off and some of it petrified with starch and some of it chewed by the calf and some of it rotted with acids and come of it changed for other customers custom-ers things that havent any virtue but holiness and tentwelfths of the pieces overcharged for and the rest of the dozen mislaid and it always fits It is perfection of a fit and it is i tho handiest dress in the whole realm of fashion It is always ready always Cl done up When you make a call the servant never says please take a Beat madame is dressing shell be down in threequar ters of an hour No madame is always dressed always ready to receive company com-pany and before yea can get tho doormat door-mat before your eyes she is in your midst Again the fair ladies dont go to church to see what each other has goon t go-on and they dont go home to slander Such is the dark child of savagery as to every dal toilet and thus curiously enough she finds a point of contact with the fair daughters of civilization and high fashion who often has nothing to wear and thus these widely separated types of the sex meet upon a common ground Ye9sueh is the fact with women as she appears in unostentatious every day toilet but on state occasions she is more dressy At It banquet aha wears bracelets brace-lets At a lecture she wears earrings and a belt at a ball she wears stocking and with true feminine fondness for display dis-play she wears them on her arms at a funeral she wears a jacket of tt > r and ashes at a wedding the bride who can afford them puts on pantaloons Thus the dark child of savagery and fair daughters of civilization meet once moron mor-on Do common ground and these two touches of nature make the whole world akin Now we will I consicer the dress of ou other type A large part of the daughter daugh-ter of civilization is her drees as it shoul be Some civilized women would los half their charm without drees and some would lose all of it A daughter of modern civilization dressed at her utmost bestir a marvel of exquisite and beautiful beauti-ful art and expense All the lands all the climes and all the arts are laid under tribute to furnish her her linen is from Belfast her robe is from Paris her lace is from Venice o Spain or France her I feathers are from the remote regions of 1 southern Africa her furs are from the remote home of the iceberg and the au rora her fans are from L Japan hear diamonds dia-monds from Brazil her bracelets from California her pearls from Ceylon her cameos from Borne she has gems and trinkets from buried Pompeii and others that graced comely Egyptian forms her watch is from Geneva her card case is from China her hair is froml dont know where her other hairher Sunday hairl dont mean the hair she goes to I bed with you ought to know the hair I mean it is that thing which she calls a switch and which resembles a switch as much as it resembles a brickbat or a shotgun shot-gun or any other thing which you connect con-nect people with It is that thing which aha twists and hen coils round and round her head beehive fashion and then tucks the end hi under the hive and harpoons it with a hair pin And that reminds me 6f a trifle Any time you want to you cane glance around can-e carpet of A Pullman c A car and go and pick up a hair pin but not to EVO you life can you get any woman in that car to acknowledge that hair pin Now isnt that strange But Ws true The woman who had never swerved from cast iron veracity and fidelity in her whole life will when con fronted with this crucial test deny her hair pin she will deny that hair pin be fore a hundred witnesses I have stupidly stu-pidly got into more trouble and more hot water trying to hunt the owner of a hairpin hair-pin in a Pullman car than by any other indiscretion of my life Well you see what the daughter of civilization is when she is dressed and you hava seen what the daughter of savagery is when she isnt Such is woman aa to costume I come now to considef her in her higher and nobler of wife aspects widow grass widow mother hired girl telegraph operator telephone helloer book agent wet nurse stepmother boss professional fat woman professional double headed fomanprofesional beauty and so forth and sooa we will simply discuss these few Let the rest of the sex tarry in i Jericho till we come again First in i the list of right and first in our gratl tude comes woman whowhy dear m Ive been talking threequarters of ai hour I beg a thousand pardons bu you see yourselves I had a large con tract I have accomplished something g anyway laave introduced my subject and if I had till next Forefathers Day I am satisfied 1 could not discuss it i a s adequately ss the precious and noble a subject deserves but aa the matter stands now let us finish as we began and say without jpsting but with all sincerity woman God bless her Senator Miller spoke thus at the Pilgrim Pil-grim Fathers Day celebration One of the eloquent gentlemen who has spoken to you tonight complimented the Congress Con-gress of the United States upon the disposition dis-position it has lately shown to eo to work and be said they had sent out certain I of their members to the New England dinners to learn the will of the people I came here to right to do homage to the memory of your forefathers but I have learned much I think Ive heard more of wit eloquence and wisdom here tonight than Ive heard in the American Ameri-can Congress for two years Applause The subject which has been given me is rather a dry subject for a wet evening and for a company varegated as this company com-pany seems to be Nevertheless in the brief time allottai me I will try to say something on the subject The cradle of commonwealth is not a modern invention in-vention It has none of the new appliances appli-ances for self rocking It may be as old as the human race It may not be pre historic but I believe It had existence when civilization was in its infancy The fact of civilization does not long an ledat the birth of history and to find its cr die it is only necessary I think to trace history near to its beginning A moat thoughtful student of the record ofman has said history was born on that night when Moses led the Israelites out from the land of Goshen A distinguished distin-guished divine and bright scholar has said the exodus was the beginning of events which resulted in the great movement move-ment of notions and that if Mosea had perished on that day when he fought the great battle between civilization and barbarism with Amelek there would have been no commonwealth of England and no commonwealth New Englnud aud we might say no commonwealths ef the American Union Thus it seems that we of this present day had no inconsiderable incon-siderable interest in that fight with Amalek although probably the oldest of us didnt know much about it at the time In tracing the influence of great historic events and achievements the connection between the exodus led by that greater leader of men in Israel and that movement which was pioneered by the Pilgrim Fathers can be made and established without the aid of a jubilant fanatic or without violence to history I think if we would find the first cradle of the commonwealth com-monwealth we shall be led along to the placid river of Egypt to the interesting spot where the beaute our and devoted daughter of Pharaoh found the hidden ark of the bullrushee which held the sleeping infant who was afterward author of the first commonwealth common-wealth of the world but let it be said here that although the government he established was a government of law and the laws which promulgated have furnished the foundation principles of every commonwealth and of every system sys-tem of law from Sinai to California yet the commonwealth ia the achievement of Christian civilization I know you do not desire a long speech from me I know you are panting as the heart pant olh for the water of the brook to hear tho great orators to follow me General Parker and MrDepew and I shall detain you but for a moment I would peak of those heroic seventeen whose names are immortal who first marked their loot printajipon the sands of Plymouth beach Their 1n uenca has been felt throughout the length and breadth or the land and they in the cabin of the Mayflower cradled the first commonwealth Amer ica We have seen the descendant of the Pilgrim Fathers in the far west even the farthest west where the sunset of the Occident tinges the sunrise He came there in the very vanguard of that grand westward march of mankin which began upon tho plains tot Asia more than 4000 years ago and which his just ended in the Pacific shore where the two great diverse civilizations of the earth have finally met He came then as he always comes smiling in his course The flinty rock lot native resource re-source with the magical rod of develop ment He carried with him those engine of empire the school hones the church i I and the printing press He carried with t him his civilization and his native characteristics char-acteristics He brought with him his cunning in art his rugged aggressive e honesty of purpose bis awful faith inca God his wonderful power ot in-ca the majesty of one of the greatest characters char-acters in all history he has bnilded homes and founded states in all this broad land and now wherever there is a cradel of commonwealth to be rocked or any other cradle for that matter the hand of the Pilgrim or the Pilgrims eon is upon it |
