The Archive · 1941

St. David's Day

Gathered around tables; bright with spring flawers—especially. the golden daffodils typical of the day—members of. St. David's Society and their friends celebrated the name. day of the Welsh saint at the Masonic Hall last Saturday.

Guests were received by St. David's President, Mr. J. A. Bonnyman, and by the wife of the Vice-President, Mrs. A. J. Evans—in a filmy frock of leaf, green, Informality—in Welsh songs and Welsh speeches—was the order of the gay evening, the. President suggesting that the many toasts he was invited to. drink by other officers were merely signa of a plot to make. the official speech-maker speechless.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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