DAUGHTERS GIVE WINDOW

Maryland Confederate Gift Will Show Monument.

The spring meeting of the Daughters of the Confederacy, which took place at Lehmann’s Hall yesterday afternoon, attracted a large attendance of the Daughters.

In the absence of Mrs. D. Giraud Wright, the president of the society, who is confined to her home by a heavy cold, the business meeting was presided over by Mrs. John P. Poe, the vice-president. Mrs. Poe, who is also the regent of the Maryland room of the Confederate museum in Richmond, announced that the memorial window that has been placed in the Maryland room by the Maryland Daughters will be unveiled next week. The date first selected was Tuesday, May 9, and this was the date announced at the meeting. Later in the evening Mrs. Poe received a telegram from Mrs. Cowardin, vice-regent of the Maryland room and a resident of Richmond, stating that it had been found necessary to change the time to Saturday afternoon May 13, at 5 o’clock.

The design for the window, which is a reproduction in colors of the monument erected on Mount Royal avenue by the Maryland Daughters of the Confederacy, in memory of the Maryland soldiers and sailors who fought under the Stars and Bars, was made and executed by Tiffany. A colored drawing of it was shown at the meeting and elicited the most favorable comment. The design lends itself very readily to such reproduction, and the loveliness of the coloring adds to the impressiveness of the sculptor’s group.

Final arrangements for the unveiling have not been completed, Mrs. Poe said, but the ceremonies will be extremely simple. The memorial will be presented to the museum by Nir. John P. Poe, on behalf of the Maryland Daughters, and it is probable that a large delegation from the Baltimore organization will attend the ceremonies.

The Maryland Daughters will also place in the Maryland room a bronze bust of Gen. Robert E. Lee by Frederick Volch. The bust was made from life at General Lee’s home, at Lexington, about a year before his death, and is said to have been regarded by Mrs. Lee as the most satisfactory of all of the portraits of the leader. The bust is now the property of the Maryland Daughters and is to be loaned to the museum as a precious relic.

A number of copies of the Confederate Catechism for Children, which has been issued by the Jefferson Davis Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, of Galveston, Texas, and sold for the benefit of the Confederate monument to be erected in Texas, were distributed during the meeting and found a ready sale among the Daughters present.

The little handbook gives in succinct catechetical form the history of the Confederacy, and was prepared by Mrs. Cornella Branch Stone, for many years president of the Texas division of the Daughters of the Confederacy.

An enjoyable musicale followed the business meeting, the soloists being Mrs. Harry Eugene Gilbert, soprano; Mrs. F. B. Gil-more, contralto; Mr. Henry New, bass; Mr. W. R. Hall, tenor; Miss Jean Taylor, vio linist, and Mrs. Gilbert Smith, accompanist. The songs and other selections were and included the “Old Folks at Home,” sung by Mrs. Gilbert; “Massa’s in the Cold, Cold Ground.” by Mr. New; “Annie Laurie,” Mrs. Gilmore: “My Old Kentucky Home” and “The Mocking Bird,” Miss Taylor, and “The Bonnie Blue Flag” and “Dixie” by Mr. Hall. “Dixie” aroused tremendous enthusiasm, everybody joining in the chorus.