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Sunnyside. 7-3-1914

The Association met at Sunnyside 7-3-1914,
only 4 members being absent. Visitors were
Mrs. Bringherst, Miss Stewart and Mrs. Taylor of Wil.
Mary Anna Ruse and Marian Bentley of Balto., Hannah
B. Stabler, Ellen Stabler, Lillie B. Stabler, Mariana Miller,
Mrs. Jones and Rebecca T. Miller, besides several
others who waited on us in the dining room.

The sentiment for the day was as follows:

“The art of life consists in taking each event
which befalls us with a contented mind confident
of good. This makes us grow younger
as we grow older, for youth and joy come
from the soul to the body more than from
the body to the soul. With this method and
art and temper of life, we live though we may
be dying. We rejoice always though in the
midst of sorrow; and possess all things,
though destitute of everything.” James Freeman Clarke.

The question of admitting another member
was not decided as Estelle T. Moore said she
thought Corrie M. Brooke would accept her invitation
to join, noted last month. We were pleased to
welcome Edith Hallowell, India Downey and Elma
P. Chandlee all in attendance for the first time
since their election to “The Immortals”.

By request India Downey gave her recipe
for making what we have been told is an
admirable apple butter. She uses 1 bbl cider,
2 bu. apples. 10 lbs sugar. Boils cider down about
half, adds sliced fruit, and cooks a day or two,
we think, then adds sugar, boils a while longer
and we suppose fills up her jars and sleeps the
sleep of the weary, as this fine sauce has to
be stirred from morn till dewy eve.

Sarah T. Miller contributed a pithy sentence,
“If you name is to live at all, it “is much more
to live in people’s hearts than in their brains.”

Sarah F. Willson gave some remarkable figures we
should rather try to believe than disprove. It was declared
if one were offered all the land in the United
Kingdom, or an equal length and width of calico, the
latter would be worth millions of pounds sterling more.

E. C. Davis read “The Lament of the Apple Tree”.