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(Norwood Con.)

Benjamin Hallowell! Our hostess said
when she was a little girl “Casabianca” was
read to her one 1st day morning and she wept
so copiously her eyes were too red to admit
of her going to Mtg. that a.m.

Sarah F. Willson’s short extract was from
our old friend Ella Wheeler Wilcox,

“By the cynic, the sad and the fallen,
Who had no strength for the strife,
The world’s highway is cumbered to-day
They make up the item of life.
But the virtue that conquers passion
And the sorrow that hides in a smile,
It is these that are worth the homage of earth,
For we find them but once in awhile.”

Sallie Randolph Janney contributed a
witty Limerick nearly 200 years old.

“Lord Erstwise at woman presuming to rail
Calls a wife a tin-canister tied to one’s tale
And fair Lady Ann, while the subject he carries on
Seems hurt at his Lordship’s degrading comparison.
But wherefore degrading? If considered aright,
A canister’s useful, and polished, and bright.
And if dirt its original purity hide
That’s the fault of the puppy to whom it is tied."

Mildred H. Bentley wished us to become
interested in the work of a Society for the prevention
of blindness in Md. Mrs. Bloodgood
of Balto. is Pres. and there is need of prevention
and cure instead of so many Blind Asylums.

Ellen Farquhar read poetry by Nixon
Waterman upon “The Breaking Plow”

"I am the end of things that were
And the birth of things to be
My coming makes the earth to stir
With a new and strange decree:
After its slumbers, deep and long,
I waken the drowsy sod,
And sow my furrow with lifts of song,
To glad the heart of the mighty throng
Slow feeling the way to God.

A thousand Summers the prairie rose