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great trees of the Yo. Valley, by her nephew, Frank
[J?]. Lea. He wrote that he had recently been on a
walking trip of 400 miles in that section of Calif.
An immense cone displayed, was from a tree of
moderate size that is valuable for house building
and a small cone was the product of the largest
known tree in the world, “The Grizzly Giant”, said
to 8000 years old and 300 ft. high.

Helen Lea’s 2nd contribution was about the
wonderful glass flowers in the museum at
Cambridge, Mass., modeled by a foreigner
and his son whose names we can neither
spell nor pronounce for your benefit.

Elma P. Chandlee said she had brought
her sister Annie’s little poem – “The Old Laurel Rd.”
which had just been given in the minutes of the
meeting at “Brooke Meadow” a month since. This
seemed to us quite a singular coincidence.

Louisa T. Brooke told us that men teachers
in Germany are forbidden by law to marry
unless they can prove their ability to support
a family and she also informed us of the
introduction of moving pictures into German
schools as a satisfactory medium of imparting
knowledge. Mary E. Gilpin gave from
“The Youth’s Companion”, “The Gardener’s Rich Reward”
a catalogue of seeds was declared to be, “more seductive
than a poem, more engrossing than a
novel, more rewarding than a compendium of
philosophy”. The June garden was described as
“a thing of hopes and fears,” July’s as, “a scene of
combat and accomplishment” but the August garden
was “the ripe reward of industry”. In August
the giddy throng flies to resorts and eats canned
fruits and vegetables, and far-traveled eggs, but
the true gardener bides at home and his garden
lavishes its wealth upon him “for the period of
fulfillment is at hand.”

Mary T. Bond read of George Fox’s first visit
to Swarthmoor Hal when the master, Judge Fell,
was absent. His wife was converted to the new
doctrine of an “Inner Light” but he never joined
Friends. However, he was a very present help in
time of trouble, his home, his purse, and his