Daughters

By U. S. folk reasoning, sons of ministers are prodigious tosspots, dissolute and ungodly characters. Ministers' daughters share some of their brothers' popular obloquy. To counteract this impression, in Manhattan last week was founded in dead earnest a Society of the Daughters of Preachers. Initial membership, 20. The society's organizers, Mrs. Ludlow Strong, daughter of a Tennessee Episcopal rector, and Maxine Watkins, daughter of a North Carolina Methodist preacher, held a luncheon at which the most famed ministerial offspring was Dorothy McConnell, daughter of Methodist Episcopal Bishop Francis John McConnell. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner of Broadway Methodist Episcopal Temple made a speech praising the parsonage as a centre of religion, culture, good taste, pointed to the fact that preachers' offspring are numerically the greatest category in U. S. Who's Who. In rebuttal, Mrs. Garett Holmes, author of a recent novel called The Preacher, declared, as does her book, that preachers' children are either misfits or wreckers of conventions, because the air of sanctity of the average parsonage is too much for an ordinary human. This was what the society had been waiting for. A Congregational guest named Dr. Lester Razey arose to say that his daughter is normal. Founder Watkins insisted that she is normal. Another daughter mentioned that the mothers of Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin were daughters of clergymen.

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