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284 vices: "Mention has not been made of the organ prelude nor of the handling of the organ throughout the solo and chorus work through failure to ai)i)reciate the versatility and skill required in their execution. The gifted woman who has brought the music in this church to rank with the first in the land, and who in the last ten years has done more to ennoble and spiritualize the work of music in the church than any one within the writer's knowledge, brhigs to her position not only special aptitude, but skill acquired by intense and unremitting study, an artistic style born of acquaintanceship with the best music of many peoples and lands, and, what is still more important, a realization of the soul of things which finds utterance in the majestic strains of Te Deum and oratorio. If the musical attractions of this church are sufficient to call the attention of musicians from Boston, who, like myself, come on all extra occasions and frequently at other times, purposely to hear its chorus singing, it is safe to say it must possess some distinguishing excellence. I am only one of several who have expressed the opinion that, were this choir within Boston limits, the present church edifice would be entirely inadequate to seat the people who would throng there to hear its music. Mrs. Morey combines genius and physical strength to a degree seldom found in woman, and from this union we expect and find great things."

Mrs. Morey's extensive travel has brought her in touch with the musical and artistic centres of Europe. Her summers for twenty years have been spent among the Alps of Switzerland, Northern Italy, and the Tyrol, into whose very fastnesses she has penetrated. She has made her abode with peasants and princes alike, from the humblest chalet of Switzerland to the abodes of England's aristocracy; amid the sand-dunes and windmills of the Low Countries and the castles of the Rhine; in the wastes of the Sahara and under the shadow of Egypt's great monuments.

Cosmopolitan alike by travel and temperament, finding home and friends in many lands, her heart, nevertheless, remains loyal to the granite hills of the land of her birth — the Switzerland of America.

TTA HALEY OSGOOD, the first President of the Maine Federation of Clubs, was born in Chatham, Carroll County, N.H. When she was two years old, her parents, Thomas Jewett and Lucretia Eaton (Colby) Haley, removed across the border to the town of Stow, Oxford County, Me., and, having been a resident of that State ever since, she felicitates herself on being a Maine woman. She was educated in the public schools, at Fryeburg Academy, and at Mount Holyoke Seminary, where she was enrolled as a student under her maiden name, Etta Haley, in the school years 1874-75 and 1875-76. Etta Haley's early lessons were conned in the town school of Stow, kept in the little red schoolhouse. That she appreciated the opportunities afforded by the higher institutions of learning is shown by the fact that at the age of sixteen, in order to secure them, she began teaching school. She continued to teach at intervals until her marriage in October, 1877, to Edward Sherburne Osgood, of Portland. Mr. Osgood was on the editorial staff of the Portland Arfius, and he encouraged his wife to enter the profession of journalism. She began by reporting conventions, society events, and so forth, and in recent years has devoted the greater part of her time to this work. She is now on the editorial staff of the Evening Express and Sunday Telegram.

When the club movement began, Mrs. Osgood was one of the pioneers. She has assisted in founding several clubs, and is considered an authority in matters relating to parliamentary law, her lectures on this subject being one of the results of her club and newspaper work. The following is a list of the offices she has held in various organizations; first president of the International Health Protective League; first president of the Maine Federation of Clubs: founder of the Mount Holyoke Alumna' Association of Maine: first chairman of Correspondence for Maine of General Federation of Women's Clubs and one of the directors; secretary of the Suffrage Association (serving ten years), also its vice-president and State organizer: a member of the New England Woman's Press Club; parliamentarian of the Maine Federation; commissioner from Maine to the At-