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Report on the Women's Auxiliary Conference
Report on the Women's Auxiliary Conference Author:Glen Levin Swiggett Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the greatest gift of this generation -- personal service -- to improve the conditions of those who are not as well off or as fortunate or as happy as some of... more » us. There are very few of you North Americans I think who in your daily lives are surrounded by pictures of South America. On my dressing table and on my desk are pictures of Santos and other places. I feel as familiar in the streets of Santos as in my own city, because no matter where I am or where my body is, or what I am doing my heart is always in Brazil where my only son has gone to make his home, and in my life touching for one brief moment the life of all of South America I feel that I have come a little nearer to him and that some of you may perhaps at some time be brought nearer to him through me. We all want to thank you for your cordiality, for your sympathy, and your appreciation of what we have tried to do, and we hope that we shall soon meet again. The Conference adjourned. Social Entertainments. A large number of social entertainments, both public and private, were given during the two weeks of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress. These entertainments included breakfasts, luncheons, teas, dinners, banquets, receptions, theater parties, and special visits to the historic places in and about Washington. A reception arranged specially in honor of the women of the Auxiliary Conference was tendered by Mrs. Robert Lansing, Tuesday, December 28, 1915, 4.30 p. 1n. The members of the congress and their families, the women of the Conference, and those specially invited, were guests at the following entertainments: Reception tendered by the Secretary of State and the United States delegation at the Pan American Union, December 27, 1915, 9 p. m. Reception tendered by the Regents and S...« less