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his charge.” The “Brotherhood Society” of the criminals
is a Court of Inquiry and Court of Justice, and the conduct
of the vast prison is largely managed by this
curious organization of the men themselves.

Mary E. Gilpin’s topic was timely as it related
to “House Cleaning”. but rather gave directions “how
not to do it” in recounting the struggles of a volunteer
husband, who let all the family retire early so
he could shellac the stairway and towards the “wee
sma’ hours” realized he had made a gigantic failure
by not commencing at the bottom and working up.

Pattie T. Farquhar gave from “Farm and Home”,
“Sand in the Machinery”, - “are you hindered and distressed
by this drawback to usefulness? Idleness
is one of the most fruitful sources of mental and
moral wear and tear”, and it works harm to the
physical being as surely. “Under all circumstances
find something interesting to do and enough of it,
so your latent energies will not rust. Make something
and make it well. Keep sweet, love God and
your fellow men.”

Sallie R. Janney recited a beautiful hymn, - “The
King of Love My Shepherd Is.” We wish such offerings
were not so rare.

Mary T. Bond told us that the largest tree
in the Old World is supposed to be a cypress
195 ft. high and 67 ft. in girth.

Sarah T. Miller had extracts from “The
Friend’s Intelligencer” and “Woman’s Journal.”

The first was a plea for the inculcation of temperance
principles in young children, even those
under 6 yrs. of age. One mother had purposely
taken her small boy along a street where he
would see a man staggering under the influence
of whiskey, and she found desire in
the child to refrain forever from such a degrading
habit. S. T. M. apologized for giving us a
small dose of Woman Suffrage doctrines forgetting
the truism “that a thing cannot be too often repeated
if it has not been sufficiently learned.”

Louisa T. Brooke read of the “Ridgeway Firm”
near Wilmington established many years since
by one of the name who made it his rule to conduct