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telling a story to a little girl for a moving
picture show. She chose that of taking
pictures, and must have made something
very good out of her theme, commencing with
portraits and silhouettes and ending with the
present day marvels in that line. By a special
request our interesting visitor described the changes
at her home when they gave up chickens and went
into mush-room culture in the poultry houses.
Car-loads of manure are used; the spawn of the
mush-rooms is most carefully planted in sterilized
beds and experts manage the temperature and moisture.
The product is sold at 35 cts. per lb., and it is sent to
the N. Y. market by the ton through the winter and early
spring. M G. T. Moore kindly shared
with us a pathetic letter from her sister in London
telling of sad scenes and sad hearts now in old Eng.

The writer felt the deepest indignation at Germany’s
course in buying real estate in Great Britain ostensibly
for villa-sites, or factories, and making concrete
foundations 6 ft. deep in the cellars, evidently with
the expectation of using the same for tremendous
guns to level on London and other cities.

Fanny Snowden said she had been appointed
a Delegate from our society to the Co. Fed., but
asked as a favor that the name of Mary E.
Thomas be substituted which was done by
vote. India Downey asked how to keep
cucumbers form shriveling, and while others
had been similarly troubled the only remedy
given was to be sure to cut the stem a little
longer than when the article is broken off.

Elma P. Chandlee brought a delightful sketch
of Dr. Oliver W. Holmes, certainly one of the most
versatile and talented writers our country has
ever produced. He distinguished himself in
the practice of medicine in Boston, and while
known as the best source of witty squibs, and
short poems for Harvard reunions, he made
nothing by his pen until nearly 50 yrs. of age
and suddenly found himself famous in a new
and lucrative profession. E. P. C. also gave
Mother Hubbard in a new guise which is annexed,
“In Modern Time”, by Helen P. Metzer.