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at the Lyceum to-day was said to be a
success financially.

Elma P. Chandlee brought a bright little
poem that had been sent to her patient invalid
sister Hannah, entitled “Myself and Me”, advising
us all to not only get acquainted with ourselves but
to live amicably with this closest friend.

Ellen Farquhar, who leads us in her abhorrence
of all wars and rumors of war, gave a selection
stating that war made more bad citizens than
it slaughtered. The injustice which credits all evil
to one nation and all good to another was deplored.

India Downey’s article was upon a recent
wonderful exhibition of electricity as applied in the
household at Christiana, Norway, a model farm
was shown where dishes were washed and clothes
laundered, to say nothing of heat and light furnished,
and cooking done. Horses were shod, cows milked
and sheep sheared. Norway’s great water-power
was termed her “white coal” as it furnishes electricity.

Albina O. Stabler read of the sadness of this
Thanksgiving to so many hearts and homes in
Europe, but tried to show the other side of the
picture in America, where we may rejoice in living
and working as well as in the ability to give to those
in dire need across the Atlantic. Helen R. Shoemaker
gave a recipe for cake filling:

1 ½ cups Powdered Sugar, 1 tblsp. of Butter
3 tblsps. of hot Coffee, 2 ½ tsps.. of cocoa. Beat till
it will spread evenly.

Mary P. T. Jackson described a Million Dollar
Methodist Inst. Church in Los Ang. Cal. which has
not only a church, but a hotel, free baths, a library,
a gymnasium and so many other attractions
we are not sure there may not be a race course &
a Life Saving Station too, under the same roof.

Helen T. Hallowell told of the beneficent changes
being effected at Sing Sing by the new Warden, Thos.
Mott Osburn. The Sec’y read a few extracts
from a quaint old recipe book compiled by
Lydia Maria Child, which had gone through 29
editions by 1842.

Louisa T. Brooke was requested to prepare a
memorial of our deceased member Anna G. Lea

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