The Daily Phoenix

The Ladies' Suppers

Mr. Editor: I was a visitor, for a short time, on Friday evening, at the supper room, and am prompted to express the sentiments of sad and sorrowful pleasure, which filled my soul, as I looked round me upon the busy and earnest members of the Association and their visitors. It looked to me more like a family gathering than anything else, and that made it a very pleasing sight. Yes; a family gathering of our Southern people, coming together again for one precious object, animated by one blessed impulse, and aiming at one great and sacred end. My thoughts carried me back to the days when they used to meet in various forms of co-operation for our good "lost cause."

All that is past and gone, but it is pleasant to see the people of the South uniting still together for a Southern object; and what a sacred object that is which stirs the hearts and prompts the efforts of these ladies. I understand that over fifty families get their support in part from work done for and paid for by this Association; and many of those who do this work were, before the war, in good circumstances themselves. The object, then, is to help our impoverished Southern women to help themselves.

No wonder that the members of this Association should have been toiling so hard, day and night, to get up these suppers, with a view to aiding so blessed an object.

In every aspect, Mr. Editor, it is important and desirable to forward the great end of helping our desolated and ruined people to help themselves. The beautiful and graceful assemblage who presided at these tables have accomplished much in this good cause. They have my heart's warmest acknowledgments, as a Southern patriot, on behalf of those in our community for whose assistance they work; and may the cup of their own blessings, joys and comforts be filled once more, by a merciful Providence, to the brim and overflow.