MARGRETTA.

"He will never love any but me," would give all I have, my lover with says smiling Margretta. the rest, to be able to smile once like

EATED directly behind the nomi- sections of our country does not comnee for the vice-presidency of the pletely explain the general indorseGeneral Federation of Women's ment placed upon this choice of the Clubs when the results of the election convention. The greatest good to the were made known to the delegates at greatest number requires that the needs the Louisville biennial, it became my and requirements of the organization privilege to tender the first congratula- be first considered, and that the honor tions to that officer-elect. An almost conferred upon a given individual be unprecedented number of club mem- made of secondary importance. The bers and many outside friends have election, therefore, was not so much a since expressed their approval, the last tribute to a society leader as it was a to be heard from being Mrs. Mabel recognition of official qualifications. Loomis Todd, whose recent letter Mrs. Breed has rare executive ability bears the postmark of Keyoto, Japan. combined with that rarer tact which is That Mrs. Alice Ives Breed has a keen discrimination operating under many warm friends located in various the guidance of a kindly heart. This

it was that won for her the highest office in which a vacancy existed.

a prominent shoe manufacturer, and a well-known man of affairs.

Alice Ives was born in Pavilion, Illi- Mr. and Mrs. Breed are equally innois, January 15, 1853. She is de- terested in music, art, and literature. scended from a Revolutionary soldier They have traveled extensively, both of Connecticut who, when word came at home and abroad, are noted for to him that there was fighting at Lex- their charming hospitality, and are ington, shouldered his gun and followed generous supporters of philanthropic Putnam to Massachusetts. Family work. tradition also claims for her a collateral descent from Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga.

Sixty years ago her paternal grandparents moved with their large family from Chautauqua county, New York, to a little settlement in Illinois known as Franklin Grove. At about the same time her maternal grandmother, twice widowed, journeyed with her twelve children from Lewis county, New York, for the same destination.

These families shared many sentiments in common, being strict Baptists, stanch abolitionists, and strong prohibitionists, and there was much intermarrying between them. The granddaughter is progressive but not aggressive, gracious yet not timid, frank but

not severe.

In the atmosphere of their lovely home and family, the old notion that woman must neglect her home to engage in outside work meets with a wholesome rebuke.

When shall we learn that a strong and noble personality must tell for good wherever placed? It is to the good homemaker we turn when in quest of a good neighbor; and it is to the good neighbor we look for the most helpful and enjoyable club work.

Mrs. Breed excels as an organizer. She was the first president of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Young Men's Christian Association of Lynn, an early vice-president of the Lynn Women's Club, and the first officer to preside over the North Shore Club. She was also a member of the Women's Committee of the World's Congress Auxiliary in 1893, for the last two years chairman of the Massachusetts State Committee of Correspondence, and a member of it from the time of its formation until called to her present office.

Coming a generation nearer the subject of this sketch, we find Franklin Benedict Ives, one of the first pupils to be graduated from the Rush Medical College of Chicago, and Frances M. Luce, who became his wife. Dr. Ives is now practicing as a specialist in Chicago, in which city his son and two In her official relations, she is quick of his three daughters reside. Mrs. to discern and prompt to execute, Ives was one of those self-sacrificing always approachable, and ever ready mothers who, quite unintentionally, to appreciate that which makes for would have endangered the tendency progress. to generosity in her children, were it not that a beautiful character must ever exert a stronger influence for good than any prescribed course of training can furnish. She died eleven years ago; but that influence still surrounds her gifted daughter, and will not cease to be a motive power in the ordering of her plans.

It was in 1871 that Miss Alice Ives went to Lynn, where two years later she was married to Francis W. Breed,

Mrs. Breed is, furthermore, conversant with the entire history of the club movement and in sympathetic touch with her associate workers. Judging by her work in the past, we may confidently look for strong results to attend her endeavors in behalf of the General Federation, which, in calling her to the vice-presidency, became itself a proper recipient of special congratulation.

Clara Bassett Adams.

THE HOMES OF CLUBS.

MONTEAGLE, TENNESSEE.

ESS than thirty years ago the editor of the Journal of Commerce climbed the steep road known as the Nickajack Trail" to

tiful and rich, and the climate, although sending the mercury to zero or lifting it to 85° in the shade, is for most of the year balmy and fine.

On this plateau it is impossible to realize that one stands on a mountain 2,200 feet above sea level; but when

one approaches "the bluffs" at any point what seems to be the sea itself the top of appears through the trees. But the the first scented air betrays the fertile valley bench of and presently one stands on some the Cum- mighty rock overlooking a vast tapberland estry of red and green and gold, embroidered with silver of shining watercourses and bordered by the receding blues of level, low-lying mountains. The loveliness of the scene fills the mind with an absorbing sense of beauty and of hope.

moun

tains.

His purpose was to see and define the boundaries of a recent purchase of wild land, Five thousand acres more or less.'

Three years before this time Bishop Charles Todd Quintard, of the Diocese of Tennessee, had planted a wooden cross six miles west of this tract, to be testimony of reclamation by the Episcopal Church of a ten-thousand-acre tract which had been set apart before the civil war as the domain of a great Southern university.

The Tennessee Coal and Railroad Company had extended their line of railroad through this tract six miles farther east. Valuable timber, building stone, good soil, coal, and iron made this spot an ideal home for the enterprising settler.

This first bench of the Cumberlands is a great table of arable land on foundations of iron, rock, and coal. The plateau varies in width from one to ten miles. The surface is undulating and covered with forest trees in great variety, from the tulip tree to the pine. The entire flora is indescribably beau

Most of the water on the mountain is freestone, though there are many mineral springs, while that in the valley is limestone. The mountain springs form streams that leap from the cliffs in long veils or beat their way over jutting rocks in foaming cataracts,—see "The Bridal Veil,' page 34,—until, joining the larger creeks, they water the fertile "coves" as they make their way to the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.

In 1869 Mr. John Moffat, the aforenamed editor, began the active work of establishing an ideal colony. His descriptions were inspiring, his enthusiasm contagious. He saw two great possibilities for the place: a health resort and a great educational center. His hope was that a judicious management of natural resources would give capital to endow an institution. which would make a liberal education possible to the "poor whites" of the South.

on it received the mail bag from the and enlarged this hotel, which had

moving train of coal cars.

One morning a board was found nailed to a tree near by with "Moffat's Station" scrawled on it. No one knew who the sponsor was, but the name clung to the place and a little later "Moffat" appeared in the Postal Guide.

been named for a Scottish nobleman, Lord Monteagle. They thought that the village would better be called the same as the hotel, and the change was made, though, by mistake, the name became two words, Mont Eagle.

A large number of visitors came up that year and it has ever since conIn the mean time two Southern ladies tinued to be a favored resort. In 1882,