YOUNG PEOPLE'S DEPARTMENT.

NOVEMBER MEETING.

The regular monthly meeting of the National Board of Management, Children of the American Revolution, was held on Thursday, November 1st, at ten o'clock, in Columbian University.

Present: Mrs. Lothrop, national president; Mrs. Hamlin; Mrs. Cromwell; Mrs. Janin, and Mrs. Alexander.

The chaplain opened the meeting with prayer. In the absence of the national recording secretary from the city, the vice-president in charge of organization was requested to act as secretary. The minutes of the last meeting were read and, with two additions, accepted. The reports of the corresponding secretary and the treasurer were read and accepted. Twelve application papers were read and accepted.

The vice-president in charge of organization presented the following names for confirmation:

By Mrs. A. D. Slocomb, state director of Connecticut: Miss Alice Staunton as president of the Jonathan Brooks Society, New London, Connecticut; Miss Caroline Morgan Fish as president of the Belton Allyn Society, Gales Ferry, Connecticut.

By Mrs. Robert C. Talbott, state director of Kentucky: Miss Mattie B. Tucker as president of the Joseph Buckley Society, Louisville, Kentucky.

By Mrs. George H. Shields, state director of Missouri: Miss Daisy Marshall as president of the Monticello Society, Jefferson City, Missouri.

It was moved and seconded that the treasurer's report should be printed in full and appear in the AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE with the minutes each month. Carried.

Instructions in various matters were given and at twelve o'clock the board adjourned.

National Society of the Children of the American Revolution, at Columbian University, cor. 15th and H streets, Washington, District of Columbia, February 16th to 23d, 1901.

Saturday, February 16th, 9 a. m.-Reception. Members will register and receive badges.

10 a. m.-Opening exercises of convention. Reports of national officers and state directors to 12.30.

2 p. m.-Election of national officers. Reports continued. Sunday, February 17th, 4 p. m.-Public patriotic service at Church of the Covenant, cor. Connecticut avenue and N street.

Monday, February 18th.-Historic trips about the city. As usual, a volunteer corps of ladies and gentlemen will conduct the members. Tuesday, February 19th.-Historic trips. It is expected that President and Mrs. McKinley will receive the society on this date.

Wednesday, February 20th.-It is hoped that the Halls of the Ancients can be secured for the day and evening at reduced rates. This educational object lesson is now one of the famous sights of Washington, and gives as its name indicates, exact reproductions of Greece, Rome, Pompeii, etc.

Thursday, February 21st.-Historic trips.

Friday, February 22nd, 10 a. m.-Public patriotic meeting at Columbia Theatre, in observance of Washington's Birthday.

3 to 6 p. m.-Reception by officers of the national society to all visiting members and their friends, at Hotel Cochran, cor. 14th and K streets.

Saturday, February 23rd.—Annual field day at Mount Vernon, with exercises around the society tree.

It is hoped that each society will send at least one representative besides its president. All indications point to a most enthusiastic convention. No one who can possibly arrange for the trip should neglect this grand opportunity to provide a young person with an instructive and stimulating, and altogether delightful week in the capital of our nation. All those intending to come will kindly send information as early as possible, as to time of arrival and location in Washington, to National Secretary, Mrs. B. J. Cromwell, 1525 New Hampshire avenue.

HOW CHILDREN OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION MEET AND WORK

PATRIOTICALLY.

Miss Martha Fort Brown made the following charming report during the Daughters of the American Revolution conference of the work of the Dolly Madison Society, of which she is president:

"The Dolly Madison Society is a kindergarten for the Atlanta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. As we all know, kindergartens have outgrown the report system, so this is rather out of order.

"Dolly is a Mayflower-if she has chosen the white carnation for her flower-being organized by Mrs. William Dickson in May, 1896, less than a year after the organization of the national society by Mrs. Lothrop.

"As Dolly Madison is a minature chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution-minatures are the fashion. She works along the same lines, marking them with more laughter and less deeply. She has grown since the last conference from quite a baby to the kindergartner who is interested in gifts of various kinds, diluted history as well as cake.

"Her chief need is to be impressed with a love of American history, especially Georgia's history, which even the wise Daughters of the American Revolution sometimes neglect.

"After much straightening out of tangles the society now numbers twenty-nine members in most excellent standing. The personnel changes somewhat each season, for the Children of the American Revolution is not a lifetime affair like the Daughters of the American Revolution. Some are off at school, some have reached the age limit, while new members are added from time to time.

"This season we are studying early Georgia history, Oglethorpe being discussed at the November meeting. To prove that we are not getting too learned in history and neglecting the graces, we usually have some young musical wonder to give us one of the chef d'oeuvres of Mendelssohn or Beethoven-perish the thought of ragtime. Then we always hold aloft the flag and sing 'America,' more than the Daughters of the American Revolution do, for I have been to some of their meetings, and end up with sweets a la afternoon tea, every one looking very important, especially those whose feet miss the floor. This formality was broken up last time by a passing hand organ man and monkey, who were asked into the porch. This monkey, a very imp of a Red Coat, was enthusiastically received despite his politics. Then, too, I have given them a Christmas party each year-candies, holly and all that; and at Easter an egg hunt; for is it net important to keep up picturesque customs of one's country?

"It has been our earnest aim to teach these children, whose ancestors were Americans before that famous Declaration of Independence was written, not to beg even for patriotic purposes-too much of that comes later.

"We are on a sound financial basis-not millionaires exactly, but in that happy condition of living within our income and having money in the treasury.

"Puffing is heartily discouraged. While being proud of your barefooted ancestors of Valley Forge and landed proprietors of early Savannah, we strive not to talk about them eternally, but to listen patiently without that bored expression to the glories of other people's families. We never, ah! never, say we are descended from kings, for it is usually false, and if unfortunately true had better not be talked about, as the foundation for such stories is generally a bar sinister, not an ancestral bar, to preserve in the amber of memory.

The meetings are sprightly-how could they be otherwise when we number among cur members an Athena and a Dolly Madison in the very rosy flesh.

"One of the children confided to me that her chief ambition in life was to be a Daughter of the American Revolution. See, what enthusiastic members this kindergarten is training for the Atlanta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution!"

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.

The Bemis Heights Society, Children of the American Revolution, of Saratoga, New York, has adopted the following resolutions on the death of one of its most valued members, Marion Agnes Andrews:

The Bemis Heights Society, Children of the American Revolution, mourn with sincere sorrow the loss of one of its members in the death of Marion Agnes Andrews, November 19, 1900.

The first break in our happy society, her cheerful disposition, loving manner and sweet companionship will be sorely missed.

The officers and members of the society tender their heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved parents and family, commending them to the loving care of Him who says, "My grace is sufficient for thee."

The society requests that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the parents; also inserted in the minutes of the society, and that a copy be sent for publication to the AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE. JEANNIE LATHROP LAWTON,

President.

CARRIE D. M. FINCH,

Secretary.

NELLIE L. HAYDEN,

Registrar.

THE MOQUOUOQUA SOCIETY, OF WILKESBARRE, PA.

At the conclusion of the Pennsylvania exercises at old Forty Fort church on the anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis, the company adjourned to the site of Forty Fort, which was perhaps a quarter of a mile away. Here the exercises began with the planting of a scion of the historic Charter Oak of Connecticut, by the Children of the American Revolution, under the direction of Miss Martha Sharpe. The little tree is about four feet high, six or seven years old and is a grandchild of the original Charter Oak, which was blown down a half century ago. The scion is grown from an acorn of the Charter Oak, and was presented to the Children of the American Revolution through the kind offices of Mrs. Horace See and Miss Martha Maffet, by F. S. Whitemore, of Hartford, the home of the Charter Oak. The planting was by Master Charles Waller, descendant of Capt. Joseph Wadsworth, who hid the historic charter in the historic oak.

A brief but well prepared address by Mrs. Katharine Searle McCartney, regent of the Wyoming Valley Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, told the story of how Forty Fort came to be constructed and the part it played in the battle of July 3, 1778.

Mrs. McCartney explained that the reason Col. Zebulon Butler did not figure in the surrender of the fort was that being a continental officer he had been persuaded by Col. Denison to withdraw with his handful of men from the valley and thus escape from falling into the hands of the British. Col. Butler always said this act of Col. Denison saved his (Butler's) life.

At the conclusion of the address, the flag which covered the monument was lifted off by the children, thus bringing it into view for the first time. The unveiling was done by the following members of the Children of the American Revolution: