counties" around, immediately turned their eyes nearer home. If any Pennsylvania Chapter seems to have lost interest in the Daughters of the American Revolution work at Washington, it was only because nearer duties claimed her attention. Think of 3,000 or more sick soldiers lying helpless in our hospitals at one time, and more coming all the while!

When volunteer nurses were called for, Miss Alice M. Rothermel, a member of Merion Chapter, offered her services to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital. Here she spent the month of September and part of October, alleviating the sufferings of stricken heroes. Her sister, Mrs. Samuel R. McDowell, also a member of the Chapter, opened her beautiful house in Merion to receive convalescent soldiers. Here they regained their health in sight of Pennsylvania's oldest church, Merion Friends' Meeting House, and on the ground occupied by Washington as a camp ground, September 14, 1777, which ground Merion Chapter has already marked with a memorial stone. Another sister, Mrs. E. H. Smith, also a member of the Chapter, received several convalescent soldiers from Porto Rico in her home at Overbrook.

Several members of Merion Chapter have aided in the work of other societies. Mrs. J. G. Walker, Vice-Regent of Merion Chapter, also acted with the Philadelphia Women's Christian Temperance Union, of which she is a member. Mrs. D. M. Cresswell, Mrs. H. A. Arnold and Mrs. E. H. Smith aided. the Merion Red Cross Society. Mrs. Laura K. Harding and Miss Mary E. Harding worked with the Red Cross Society of St. Asaph's Protestant Episcopal Church, Bala. Mrs. S. R. McDowell, as President of the Chaplain's Aid Society of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church, Lower Merion, superintended the sending of supplies to the rector, Rev. Henry A. F Hoyt, during his absence as Chaplain of the State Fencibles. Mrs. E. H. Smith is working with the National Relief Association. This is a society organized as an auxiliary to the Quartermaster's Department at Fifteenth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia.

Soldiers from all parts of the country came to Philadelphia to get their pay and transportation home. The ladies of the Association have a tent in the back yard of the Quartermaster's

building and feed the soldiers while they are waiting. The work of this society will continue until the end of January or February.

Merion Chapter's contributions, in aid of her country's defenders, as acknowledged in the September number of THE AMERICAN MONTHLY, were as follows: 20 pajamas, 96 handkerchiefs, 6 quarts of lime juice, 12 quarts of raspberry vinegar, 12 glasses of jellies. Also $25 for the War Fund. Since that list was made out the Regent, Mrs. Munyon, has sent to Washington another box of hospital supplies, including 12 pajamas and packets of reading matter. Also, $6 additional for the War Fund.

It is impossible, as yet, to say just what Merion Chapter has done for sick soldiers in Philadelphia, as so many individual contributions have been lost sight of, to say nothing of individual exertions, which do not show in final results. But the following items give an approximate idea of the Chapter's present record:

Supplies sent to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital: 17 white muslin night-shirts, muslin for bandages, I ton of ice, 100 ice bags, 9 boxes of crackers, 6 boxes of breakfast food, 6 jars of jellies, 2 quarts of whiskey, 1 box of Ivory soap.

Presbyterian Hospital: I dozen white muslin night-shirts, magazines.

Jefferson Hospital: I ton of ice, 100 ice bags, I box Ivory soap, 9 boxes of crackers, 6 boxes of breakfast food, 6 jars of jellies, 2 quarts of whiskey, 3 dozen towels, 3 dozen wash cloths. Hahnemann Hospital: 1 piece of flannel, 35 yards. National Relief Association: Jellies, jams, etc.

From the Anthony Wayne Society, Children of the American Revolution, came 75 bandages and I doz. bottles of raspberry vinegar. These were forwarded to Washington. Two little girls, Gertrude Harvey Whilldin and Dora Harvey Swope, members of the Martha Williams Society, Children of the American Revolution, of which Mrs. J. M. Munyon is President, sent seven yards of muslin for bandages to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital.

When we have heard from all our scattered members, and

when we have collected the individual records of active members near at hand, we feel confident that Merion Chapter will make even a better showing than that outlined above. This we say not in any vain spirit of boasting, but in joy and gratitude that a kind Providence has graciously permitted us to use, to the best of our humble ability, such opportunities for service as came in our way.-BEULAH HARVEY WHILLDIN, Registrar.

JANE DOUGLASS CHAPTER.-The Daughters of the American Revolution, of Dallas, voice the sentiments of a band of enthusiastic women, upon whose hearts the fire of patriotism burned as surely and truly as it did when their fathers gladly yielded their life blood that their children might forever know and enjoy liberty as the true factor in the broad sweep of our matchless citizenship.

So it was with every fiber of their being attuned to patriotic measures, combined as it were into one grand harmony of peculiar sweetness that the Jane Douglass Chapter, of the Daughters of the American Revolution, was organized on October 19, 1895, one hundred and seven years after the famous leave-taking of Lord Cornwallis from shores whose very sands were crimsoned with the red tide that flowed from the hearts of martyred heroes, who gladly welcomed death that America. might rise a triumphant queen from the ashes of her desolation.

In our organization Mrs. Cornelia Jamison Henry was unanimously chosen as Regent. The wisdom of our selection is so self-evident that we yet cling to our first love and are glad to still do honor to her as our presiding officer. Mrs. Henry is a descendant of William Downs, who was a son of Henry Downs, one of the signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1775, of South Carolina, who commanded the Second South Carolina Regiment from January, 1775, until October, 1778. The Government at this juncture detailed him to the important services of surveying the bend of the Tennessee River. He was married to Jane Douglass, a descendant of Sir James Douglass, of Scottish fame. It was from this Highland lassie, around whose life ever cluster the immortelles of a loving, unselfish womanhood, that our Chapter received its name.

The study of colonial history is an interesting feature of our internal workings. The questions are prepared and sent out by Prof. Shepardson, of the University of Chicago, and our members will bear witness that they are deep and far-reaching in their completeness.

Our Children's Society is an auxilliary of which we are justly proud. Loving and cherishing it is, indeed, one of our cardinal virtues, if it can be counted a virtue to love that which has entered the very sanctuary, and with baby fingers swept the whole key-board of our hearts' purest love.

The organization was perfected with twenty-sevn members, with Mrs. Mattie Caruth McMillan, a descendant of Nancy Hart, of Kentucky, as its first President. The leadership is

now in the hands of Mrs. T. L. Westerfield, who by her wise and charming management moulds and directs these young lives into channels that lead to greater and nobler things. It has been christened "The Samuel McDowell, Jr., Society."

The Jane Douglass Chapter has established a happy precedent during this year, one which we know will meet the generous approval of legions of Daughters. Desiring to cultivate and encourage the study of colonial and revolutionary history, our Chapter announced its willingness and pleasure to present a gold medal-a star, the emblem of our matchless State -to the boy or girl who would stand the crucial test of a competitive examination along the suggested lines. Numbers, like the gladiators of ancient Rome, entered the list, fairly bristling with intense interest and eager desire. Several received honorable mention, but to one, and only one-Miss Fannie Van Slyke-fell the star of beauty, the recompense of merited scholarship.

One of the most delightful phases of our Chapter duties lies in the celebration of the days which history pleases to mark with the white stone of honor, days which ever stand out and above the common level, making luminous occasions, in the presence of which every true patriot is ready and willing to doff the cap of unfailing interest and deepest affection. Thus we find that as the wheel which marks the narrow circle in our little world continues its ceaseless turning it is evident that the times and scenes we would seek to honor, after all do but honor and

glorify us with their own effulgence, in our thrice worthy endeavors.-MARY HILL DAVIS, Historian.

KESKESKICK CHAPTER.-It is a long time since any notice has appeared in the AMERICAN MONTHLY of the Keskeskick Chapter of Yonkers-on-the-Hudson. The omission is partly due to modesty, yet the Chapter contains many executive and enthusiastic members, and in spite of obstacles the work is well up to the average. When the Cuban War first broke out a special meeting was called at the residence of the new Vice-Regent, Mrs. Killinger, and very patriotic resolutions were passed sustaining the President of the United States in his action and pledging this Chapter's aid for our soldiers and sailors. This Chapter was invited to join a movement simultaneously started to form a Yonkers Red Cross Auxiliary, and resolved to do so, since two organizations might conflict. Red Cross Auxiliary No. 4 was organized and worked diligently all summer, and contributed five thousand articles to be distributed where most needed. A number of convalescent soldiers were received free of charge in St. Joseph's and St. John's Hospitals, both new and beautiful buildings with spacious grounds. It is expected that the hospital work will continue for some time to come. Keskeskick Chapter, in connection with the Yonkers Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, has entered upon the work of looking after, and where needed, providing for, the families of Yonkers soldiers. On Friday afternoon, October 28th, the fall meeting of Keskeskick Chapter was held at the residence of the Regent, Miss Prime. It was a very enjoyable affair, and graced by the presence of several vistors from sister Chapters. Mrs. Florence, the President of the Yonkers Red Cross Auxiliary, gave a detailed account of the work accomplished in that organization. Mrs. Ten Eyck, a Chapter member, talked most graphically of her personal work during the summer at Camp Wykoff, and Mrs. Van Wagner told her own experience as a nurse at the same camp. Mrs. Wooton, Regent of the Mary Washington Chapter, New York City, read a paper on the work of the National Society, making special reference to the building of the Continental Hall at Washington. In order to call attention to the day, the anniversary of the Battle of White