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3-4-1915, The Asso. met for the first time
with India Downey at Charley Forest whose quaint
and inconvenient old home of pioneer Jas. Brooke
had given place last year to one of the brightest
and most attractive houses in our
neighborhood. Guests were Corrie M. Brooke,
Mariana S. Miller, Rose M. Gilpin, and daughter
Elizabeth, Florence M. Bond, Emilie T. Coulter, Florence
M. Bentley and Margaret Brooke.

After reading minutes of the Longmeade session,
the Sec’y said she had planned to hunt up
those of a former mtg. at Charley Forest, when Jane
Schofield was hostess, but her search was not
successful, so, as a sort of initiation of various
new members, she offered instead some selections
form the proceedings of the ½ century from 1857
to 1907. This history was prepared for the
golden anniversary held at Norwood 5th mo.
1907 and it closed with the beautiful poem
“Our Mothers” written for the occasion by Hallie
J. Bentley. The day’s good word by our
hostess was, - “Friends in this world of
hurry and work and sudden end,
“If a thought come quick of doing some kindness to a friend,
Do it that very instant, don’t put it off, don’t wait,
What value has a kindness if ‘tis done a day too late?”

Mary E. Gilpin brought a brief sketch of that
interesting writer of songs and hymns, Fanny Crosby,
who has lately deceased at the age of 95 yrs. She
left the world richer by some 8000 hymns and
songs, many of which were set to her own music.
Compilers of hymnals, years ago, frequently
manufactured names to append to her works
because they could not bear to give her credit
for a hundred or two in one volume.

The next article was a good essay upon
the insecurity exhibited when a correspondent
opens his letter by the statement he “has not
had time” to reply sooner. Apologies of this
nature are usually untrue, - we are all apt to
find or make time for the things we really want to
do, so henceforth, let us, in school-boy vernacular,
“cut this out”. Most of us let urgent duties slip
by because we wait for good opportunities;