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their roads, their clubs and social organizations,
and their farms. The good farmer is appreciated,
but he would rather be educated and comfortable than
rich.” Sarah F. Willson told us she expected
to be absent for several months, as both she and
her husband must attend to the picking of
fruit from their cranberry bog in N. J., and she
asked permission to lend her place as a member
for some mtgs. to her sister-in-law, Elizabeth
Willson, which request was fully granted.

The fact that our friend Jennie Holtzman
of Wash. wished us to hold the session of 11th
mo. at her home was referred to, and the suggestion
made that we engage the Truck for
the trip. Margaret G. T. Moore read an
Allegory by Henry Van Dyke upon “A Handful
of Clay”, which after lying in the bed of a river
for years, was pounded, worked, baked and dried.
The patient clay hoped it might be fashioned into
a beautiful vase and adorn a temple; at last it
discovered, from a reflection in some water, that
it was only a common flower pot. But eventually
a lily blossomed in the homely receptacle and
the earthen vessel was honored because in the
lily’s heart were fragrance and loveliness beyond
compare.

Harriet I. Lea gave a poem, new to most of
us we believe, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “The Prime
of Life”, encouraging us in the belief that the
millennium is now and here are all times and
seasons, for according to Robert Louis Stevenson,-
“The World is so full of a number of things,
I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

Estelle T. Moore through the medium of her
sister Alice, made a strong plea for the criminal
who is an outcast from the day he enters a
penitentiary to the day of his death. Those incarcerated
for slight offenses are forced to live
intimately with the worst, and to carry for life
the mark of Cain. These unfortunates can rarely
find employment or associates. The cure was
thought to be sending criminals to a Hospital were
nervous diseases are treated.

Helen Lea read an entertaining acct. of the

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