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On 5-6-1915 Mary E. Gilpin and Emilie T.
Massey gave us a warm greeting at Avalon. The
beauty of the surroundings impressed all who
could remember this home when it was set down
in a bare sedge field with one big oak tree to the west
and a single chestnut, now gone, on the east.

We do not know a more beautiful grove of
trees than those now around the dwelling, and
yet not crowding it in the least.

Guests were Lydia Haviland, Florence Wetherald,
Anna T. Nesbitt and Charlotte Cresson.

The sentiment was a single paragraph from
Lamartine, - “I am not bound to win, but I am
bound to be true, I am not bound to succeed,
but I am bound to live up to what life I have.”

Anna Nesbitt had no offering, but she
wanted suggestions that would free Tanglewood
of the flying squirrels, which have taken possession
of parts of their house near the roof. Several
members had been thus annoyed and found
traps efficacious. Ellen Farquhar had asked
the Horticultural how to get rid of rats and the
advise given was to use traps, and to keep some
half dozen cats.

Madge Moore said she had caught 10 rats in
their kitchen by setting spring traps in a shallow pan
and covering it with cornmeal. (Rat-coon –(?) will kill
them and not poison others animals!)

Eliz. T. Stabler told of Cleveland’s Socialist mayor,
“Tom Johnson”, who has done a great deal for
people of moderate means in that city; vacant
lots are being planted in vegetables, coal is sold
at cost, fruit and other luxuries bought by the
quantity and disposed of at fabulously low prices.

Lydia Haviland read an article entitled,
“Things that will bear watching”, among which were
Prohibition and Woman’s Suffrage; both of these
came so near passing in Minnesota as to
almost give Brewers and Saloon -Keepers nervous
prostration. Eliz. T. Stabler gave us news of our
friend Mary G. Colt, who had sustained a bad
fracture of the hip, but was bearing her misfortune
bravely and hoped to walk ere long.

Louisa T. Brooke read of the efforts of