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The Cedars 4-1-1915 115

4-1-1915 found the Asso. assembling at noon
in the sunny living room of Ellen Farquhar, who
had only a few days before, opened her home after
a visit to Wilmington and a trip to Bermuda, the
last meandering having become a fixed habit.

Guests were Corrie M. Brooke, Annie Brook Kirk,
Eliz. S. Iddings, Frances D. Stabler, Sadie P. Brooke,
Anna M. Farquhar, Helen Shoemaker, Helen T. Hallowell,
and Ethel Thomas. The sentiment was an extract
from “Friend’s Intelligencer”. “Don’t you know
it’s the better part of a brother of man
To find what the grief is and help if you can?
Did you stop when he asked you to give him a lift
Or were you so busy you left him to shift?
Oh, I know what you mean, what you say may be true,
But the test of your manhood is what did you do?
Did you reach out a hand? Did you find him the road?
Or did you just let him go by with his load?”

Our hostess also gave from “The Rural New Yorker”
some views of our good friend, “The Hope Farm Man,” on
the subject of Woman’s rights as set forth in a
will written in 1793, by one Gabriel Hymer of N. J.,
who gave unto his beloved wife Eliz., all his real
and personal property, during the term of her
being his “widdow”, (spelled with 2 d’s, which makes
the word more formidable than usual.). But if she
“Departs her widdowhood and Contracts Matrimony,”
(capitals for both words), “she must give up the
estate to his executors. But she shall then inherit
a bed and bedstand, 2 pillows or bolster, 4 cases,
4 sheets, 1 blanket, 1 coverlet, - and 1 cow, 1 sheep, and
one “lam”, to her and her assigns forever.”

Helen Shoemaker had some amusing mistakes
made by school children, - a boy, asked to use the
word war-like in a sentence replied, “My last shoes
wore like iron.” A teacher at Oakley School rec’d
the following note from a parent, - “Dear Teacher,
Please don’t tell Johnny nothing more about ventilation;
we almost freeze to death as it is.”

Mary E. Thomas offered an instructive article
upon “Balance” from which we quote, “Be cheerful,
but not too cheerful, - genuine optimism does not
signify we must believe all that happens is for
the best, but that we must try to make all that

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