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120 (Avalon, con.)

Frank Brown, and his fellow workers in Peru,
Central America to reform desperately debased
people whose morals are said to be among
the lowest in the world. Education is the rare
exception, and there are over 50 percent of illegitimate
children born every year. There were 200
missionaries & teachers in Mr. Brown’s party, several different churches
and Temp. Societies having collaborated with
good results.

Pattie T. Farquhar gave “What a Bachelor
thinks of children”. He characterizes them “as
the most pernicious insect of the face of
the earth,” and the power of a small boy
to annoy grown people was amusingly
cited to prove his statement.

P. T. F. asked if it were time to put flowers
out, - thought to be safe after May 10th.

Aster-seed should be planted early, and
lima-beans started in the kitchen. Fanny
Snowden had sold them for 40 cts. per qt.
before they became plentiful in Wash. markets.

Sallie R. Janney brought an extract from
Walter Eagan that was remarkably poetic
prose upon, “Nature and the Psalmist”.

Elizabeth C. Davis gave part of another
fine essay entitled “Wanting,” which has played
an important part in the history of the
world. If all things had been ready-made,
man’s energies would have been paralyzed.
We not only want food, dress, and shelter,
but we want the invisible, a realm, no Lick
telescope enables us to investigate, and this
strange, spiritual thirst is found in all parts
of the world, and among nations, and tribes as
different as night from day.

Albina O. Stabler caused an audible smile
by a story of the small boy who, on being corrected
for saying “pint” when he meant point,
soon after informed his teacher it took, “2 points
to make a quart.” The second selection was a
good homily upon the vexed question of raising
children. The writer thought that where allowed
to do naughty small acts, they became
“offending grown people. The light step, the

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