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packed into wet shoes will dry them
much better than any other way, and to
clean mirrors and windows dip the paper in cold
tea, wipe off the surface and polish with a dry
piece. Eliza N. Moore read an interesting
sketch of Mary Elizabeth Evans, of Syracuse,
whose enormous candy business is now a
wonder in N.Y City, where she has a store on
5th Ave., for which she pays $50,000 per yr. rent.
The sign over the door is inscribed, “Mary
Elizabeth” – and within is a most beautiful and
tempting array of candy, (at $1.00 per lb. in most
instances), also a tea room. Beginning while
still a little girl, in the home kitchen with a small
saucepan of her own, she was offered and has refused
$100,000 for her outfit, and trade. E. N. M. said she
had known of the young lady for yrs. through
Syracuse relatives, and was sure the acct. was true.

Her second selection was a rhyming tale of the woes
and dangers that beset a man who decided to eat
and drink only pure articles, and he finally died
from taking a glass of the water his wife had neglected
to boil. Harriet I. Lea’s article was
headed, “Better than Scouts” and, evidently, many
present endorsed the wise suggestions contained
therein. In former days boys in the country
“scouted” after cattle and after weeds in the garden;
the whole family not only “scouted” after
work together, but in picking up chestnuts and
gathering wild flowers. Boys were advised to
“scout” about their homes and they would be
astonished to find how much there is to learn
and to do right there.

Mary E. Gilpin contributed a sketch, by an
American girl, of the Young Princess May of England, who though hedged around by royal precedents, manages
to enjoy some freedom of action, especially
in horse-back exercise.

Helen Shoemaker said she had found something
which she thought was a perennial interest to us
all as it related to old people, and we surely are
rapidly getting into that class. Just how the instances
given had managed to keep body and soul together
for 100 years is not always told, but one old lady
did not use meat at all, and she did take a daily