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by his perseverance and genius. While still a
lad he committed the whole of Thomson’s “Season’s
to memory, and few have so completely mastered
a trade and surmounted obstacles, as did this truly
remarkable man.

Rebecca T. Miller’s article informed us that
15 machines and 63 persons can transform the necessary
materials into a pair of high-grade shoes
for man in just 34 min. But to assemble unaided
the said materials, for even 1 pair, would
require the lifetime of an ordinary individual as
he would have to visit S. A., Africa, The
East Indies, China, Greece, Scotland, New Zealand,
Cuba, Portugal, Egypt, Sidom Pa., North Carolina,
Michigan, Texas, Mass, Kansas, Ohio, N. Y., Conn.,
Kentucky, Tenn., and Miss. We find Calif., Yucatan,
and Australia, were omitted but there are 23 different
places without them.

Alice Tyson’s statistics with regard to the
Moving Picture Business was another revelation.
The vast number of people said to be in attendance,
“all around the clock”, in some part
of the world (civilized) is almost beyond computation,
and the making of the films requires tens of
thousands of actors. Calif. skies are especially
favorable for out-door scenes and an enormous
business is done in and near Pasadena. An
enterprising Clergyman there has some improving
show every Sunday eve. in his church.
Perhaps the greatest indirect benefit of this
popular amusement is that is has become a
powerful rival of the saloon, in enabling the
father of a family to treat them all for the
price of a few drinks with his chums.

Mrs. Taylor said she had been interested
in a memoir of the late Martha Ferris of Wil.,
referred to in previous minutes, and she related
an incident connected with the fracture
of her mother’s limb necessitating confinement
to bed for more than three mos. Although Miss Ferris
was some 80 yrs. of age at the time and had
to walk 6 or 7 squares to Mrs. Taylor’s home, she
went there every aft. for 14 wks. to take care of
the sufferer for a couple of hours, sending the daughter