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difficulty men often experience in finding work
and of the hard cruel way in which employment
agencies often take advantage of them. Fortunately
the Government is taking the matter in hand and
there is a more hopeful outlook.

Mrs. Downey told of work on the Miss. River called
technically a carpet, which is really a mass of
green growth made into a breakwater to prevent
the rise of the river. It is 200 ft. long and 1 mi. wide.

Emily Massey read a verse called "Gifts,"
strong and uplifting after which Annabelle Page
and Louisa Brooke provoked a good deal of merriment,
the former by an anecdote of a surgeon whose
mislaid instruments were found inside his
patient, and the latter by an acct. of the various
articles thought lost until found floating in
the water tank at Dr. Bird's, which had recently
been repaired.

Sarah T. Miller interested us in the temperance
question, such a vital one at present throughout
the land, and Mrs. Willson lightened our earnestness
by a funny apropos anecdote.

Mary T. Jackson gave us a poem by Cy
Warman, the author of the well-known song
"Sweet Maria". He was a rail-road engineer, and
these lines called "Rounding the Curve" are sweet
and pathetic even though written in railroad vernacular.

On asking who had quinces for sale, Mary
Jackson found she could get them at Plainfield
and Sunnyside.

Margaret G.T. Moore spoke of the school in
New Jersey where her daughter Hadassah is now
teaching, and where in his youth, Benj. H. Hallowell
also taught. During the many years between
these two, the school has numbered among its
instructors Mrs. Jos. Sullivan and Mrs. Isaac Dixon.

Margaret Moore then read an acct. of the
recent opening of the Cape Cod Canal which will
probably have a decided influence upon coast-wise
traffic. Alice Tyson wishes to give Florence
Wetherald the privilege of attending the Asso. during
her own absence this winter an acceptable arrangement
to The Asso. Alice Tyson's selection,