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Magnolia - 11-8-1914

The 706th session of the Asso. was held
at Magnolia the home of Mary T. Bond, on 11-8-1914.
Perhaps our most honored guest was Mary
C. Brooke, now in her 83rd yr., who resides in
New Jersey, but although it has been the length of
a whole generation since she taught at Fair Hill
she still retains the warmest interest in her friends
and former pupils of S. S. Others present were
Hannah B., Emma T., Lillie and Elsie E. Stabler,
Mary Scott, Isabel, Mariana and Janet Miller, Helen T.
Hallowell, Lucile Deemer, Nellie L. Hartshorne, Florence
M. Bond and Eliz. Lippincott.

The sentiment was brief and pretty - "We
may be unable to realize the ideal, but woe be to
us if we have no ideal to realize". - from Bishop Whately.

M. T. B. also read of "Ind. Summer", a season
peculiar to North Amer. and said to have been
thus named because it most prevailed in those
inland regions where the red man dwelt more
than upon the Atlantic Coast.

Ellen Farquhar and Sarah T. Miller united
in a concern that no Christmas presents should be
made this year, except perhaps to little children
and servants, the time and money thus expended
heretofore we were advised to bestow upon the
thousands in need of a home and abused in this
distressing year of 1914.

Isabel Miller made a strong plea for the
Hindman School of Kentucky which is doing
an important work among the mountaineers.

A request for some method of keeping sweet
peppers, brought out the information they should be
ground or pressed and dried, adding water when
used. Mary C. Brooke said they could be kept
in vinegar. Albina O. Stabler read of an
American Hospital in Paris, all the members of
the Staff being from this country. Some are art
students who have abandoned their studies to
help care for the sick and wounded soldiers.

One of these volunteer aids made out of
some goods boxes, a sort of portable vehicle for
moving disabled men to motor-trucks where they are

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