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26. Pleasant View – 6-5-1913

The Asso. met at Pleasant View, the
home of Martha Holland and brother on 6-5-13.
Visitors were, Lillie C. Rumford, Ellen Stabler,
Mrs. Taylor, Mary W. Bird, Mary Scott, Ida
Iddings, Mrs. Palmer, Marjorie Snowden, and
Edith B. Farquhar. The foreword was from
the prose writings of Longfellow, we believe, -
“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes
not back again; wisely improve the present,
it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy
future without fear and with a manly heart.”

Ellen Farquhar made several selections
from her well-beloved “Rural N. Yker”, - 1st an acct
of the adoption by a farmer, of a blind boy, who
soon developed an extraordinary talent for
managing bees. There were pleasant comments
upon the real charity of brightening the life
of one so affected.

Albina O. Stabler’s article was on the subject
of friendships. It was thought people make
friends later in life than formerly and possibly
the roots take deeper hold. “The best things
are nearest, the breath in your nostrils, light in
your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your
hand, and the path of God lies just before you.
Do not grasp at the stars, but accomplish life’s
plain common work as it comes, certain
that daily bread and daily duties are the
sweetest things in the world.”

Edith B. Farquhar by request, gave extracts
from letters written by her son Carol, now
making an extended tour of the West with
his grandfather Farquhar and aunt Anna.
Told in school-boy fashion his experiences
seemed to interest and amuse the whole company.

Lillie C. Rumford confirmed his estimate
of the wonderful Grand Canyon of Arizona
and spoke of the impossibility of estimating
distances where everything was on such a
gigantic scale.

Alice Tyson told of the work of the Red
Cross Society as learned in an interview with
Miss Mabel Boardman, successor to Clara
Barton. The aid rendered recently to the

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