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Come to the suffering child and give
The baby food on which most babies live?
At Valley Forge did mother warm
Her baby freezing in the winter storm?
And after that, when baby had pulled through
The usual baby ills, did mother do
Just what she should have done
In letting her great lamps set fire to Washington?
And later when baby was near grown
And had internal troubles of her own,
Did Mother let her large excess
Do much to soothe the child’s distress?
Say William, you should understand
We’re not shipping frozen language,
For it’s not contraband.
Still, Bill, we’re friends;
Good friends,
Not under obligations,
And there the matter ends!” W. J. Lampton

The Sec’y showed a small pamphlet containing
pictures and a sketch of the most wonderful girl
in the world, Winifred Sackville Stoner of Pittsburg
who was 12 yrs old in Aug. 1914. She is strong and
healthy in appearance quite handsome and
happy looking. Yet she can row, fence, swim,
skate, box, ride horse-back, play ball, cook, crochet,
knit, sew, play chess, (has beaten several champion
players) as well as converse in 8 languages. She
has written 9 books, is a teacher in Esperanto, plays
both violin and piano, sketches from life, and can
execute fancy dances. She passed her examination
to enter college when 9 yrs. old. Her first poem
upon “The Bumble Bee” was written when she
was four yrs. old, and she advised her playmates,
“To let that Bumble be!” With the exception
of music, art and dancing, she has
rec’d her entire education from her mother
through a system that lady invented and calls,
“Natural Education”. She believes in teaching
children to read and spell by copying poems
and stories upon a type-writer, and advocates
the burning all spellers and grammars.

Adjourned to Charley Forest the home of India Downey
who joined our society in 1914. Mary Bentley Thomas,
Sec’y