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with his elders when he wishes to go fishing.
He would be afraid to marry for fear of
being an “Only Husband”. It evidently is not
a happy lot.

Florence Wetherald is interested in the
Temperance Work in the Colleges, “As go
the Colleges to-day, so goes the World to-morrow.”
The boys in the colleges are waking up to
the great truths about Temperance.

The wizard of wireless, Marconi, believes we
are near the day when our homes shall be
both heated and lighted by wireless. The
wireless telephone seems already assured.

Lucy Moore wants rhubarb roots, hers
died this severe winter. She read us a piece on
Wm. the Conqueror, her ancestor.

Mary Gilpin gave us a pretty poem
called “Sealed Orders”, “Under sealed orders we
sail beyond the crystal gate, under sealed orders
sailing, our Pilot knows the way.”

Lou Brooke says Iceland is to have a railroad
60 miles long, - it has none now, neither
has S. S. She hurries from the far North to
the sunny South for more news, and hears
that they are using one of the locks in the
Panama Canal for a dry dock, and as distance is
of no account to the traveler, she takes us to the
Philippines and we learn that they are exporting
quantities of Palm as well as Hemp.

Sarah Miller’s poem was “To the Wise a
Bargain”. The child asked for the things of Life, but
the Wise said, “All things are sold, not given”,
even clear water and clean air command a price.

Sarah Miller had always wanted to go to Fla.
and was disappointed in it. There are great possibilities
in the country she things, but most of
it is a God-forsaken place. The orange trees were in
beautiful bloom and loaded with fruit, that
hangs on the tree for one year. She visited a packing
house and saw them wash and sort the
fruit by machinery then wrap it in paper.
Everybody that has a garden has some oranges.
She gave us a very interesting acct. of her trip.

Sarah Willson told of “The Friends’ Benevolent