"AN AMERICAN RESPONDING TO THE TOAST OF 'THE LADIES.'"

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3203, 26 May 1879, Page 2

"AN AMERICAN RESPONDING TO THE TOAST OF 'THE LADIES.'"

The T following was" delivered^ by}] Mr | Mark Turner ; at, (then Corespondents* i Club Dinner*:. Washington :-^Mr v^r§|^ i dent, —I lore the sex, I loye all ( woinen f > I sir, irrespective of age or colour. (Laugh*! ' tor.) Mean intelligences cannot estimate what we owe to women, sir. She sewi oft' our buttons, mend purdothesj she-ropeS! us in 'at the church fairs, shel confides jinf us, she tells us vpbatever she can find ouf about the littlei private affairs'; of' jtfte5 •; neighbours. (Laughter.)' "> She gftes^us advice, and plenty of it; she gives a piece of her mind Bbmetiines; and some-: ; times all of :it. (Laughter.); Wherever you place woman, -air,-,;j she ; is f "a^^Mjnjpi* ment to that place. which she occupies, and .a;,/trea9ure r .to c ,.the world. (Here the speaker paused, looking round upon his auditors inquiringly.)—Theapplause ought to come in at this point. (Great Laughter.) *. tLobki at, XJleopatra, I look at., IJesdempna, look, .at Florence. i Nightingale; look at Ltfcretia ■ Borgn*'.' i (Voices " Nby no.") '•) Welli anppote you jlet EUcretia slide. (Laughter.) c Lopkjat ! Mother Eve. (Cries of ??! Oh,7obi" mi laughter;) •<-Tpu;- Ineed not'kok. ;iat, >has. ;unless yoti want to; but 'Eveswas- aa^ ioi-Rameiit, sir, particularly i before n£h'di ifashionV changed. (Renewed| laughter.) I repeat; sir, 'look at 'the; illUgtribng i "\ytdow Mtfchree,lookat;l^y'S«ne7^dok; I at' Elizabeth" 1, Vlook at '.tjebrge, 1. l^anois": Tram-r-(grea't.', la^H^r^-^rid^ IsirVl say it with a bowed head and deep' I veneration, look at the mother-of Wash--ington^ she "dragged ;Up.".a, boy ,that jcould not lie. Could'not lie R It k mighifc' been diflferentr had he belonged' !to a Newspaper Gorrespondents' _ Club. ; (Groans/fiiss6s^Scries bf^l^it^him^out," iand laughter. X I;repeat,' sir, that in whatiever pbsitio:n;yqu:^place;^^man^sheil^ an ornament to' sbci^y^ and;/i;tre^^;ia^ the world./: As^a'is^eAjw^ihe^ha^^^/ :equals', ['andij"^..^^?^^ . \As a .cousin she ia convenient; 'as a jwealtiiy, grandmother, ,w^tn^^an incurab|e.d,u^emp,f[r:i*; s she is < lunapeakably 2 p^ecipu^^.^, .^^atj would,,,,the .people p| iir .,tfie t ,-■ earth.,,'be. without -woman?"' They'■''p^Quii^'.^"; scarce) sir, perfectly^, scarce/;i(tteiief;eil^ laughter.) , ;Then..l,et us/cher|sh f^ejfi let us .protect..her, .and let, usjgiyej her^our; 1 support, our encouragement, our syin- f pathy, ourselves, if we get a chance. (Laughter,) ,;But jestingaside, Mr Preside^i, woman'i^loveable, kind 6t iiearfc^ Rracious, beautiiul,,,yportiiy:,oif all respecti' of; all' deiference. rfo't-■.any'here'^Ul re-,) • fuse:.to drink her health-right cpriiiallyjiji;' this goblet of Fine, for each arid-.ereryj one of us has 'known, .loved, and honoured/ the best of them all—his mother, . (Great' applause.) . • '■■ r.-. „--,--.:iu\-:i'l i -,>.)A i!i :^.i f-