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car-tickets to the widows and their offspring.

Eliz. T. Stabler told a funny story of a
colored boy who on being asked what text a
minister had preached from replied, “It was,
‘be not scared I will send you a quilt.’” She
then exhibited a remarkable bed-cover of antique
design which she had just finished quilting
most beautifully for a lady in Ohio.

We were advised to cut off geranium leaves
as soon as they turn yellow; to have our fire-
extinguishers re-charged annually; to use
brown paper and a warm iron upon candle
grease that had dropped in many places on
a long table-cloth, from the 50 candles around
the cake at the recent Golden Wedding.

“Lest we forget” we were reminded of opportunities
to help the Polish sufferers, the Hollywood
children, the Social Service League, the
Sherwood Tea, and other charities at home and
abroad.

Louisa T. Brooke read lines upon Christmas,
by Margaret E. Sangster.

Eliz. C. Davis gave a thoughtful article on
the desirability of cultivating moderation in
all things. Even praise of another may be
so excessive as to cause a reaction in the
mind of the listener.

Ellen Farquhar had a poem upon the
exchange of a German helmet and a Scotch
bonnet, instead of “a life for a life,” in the
cruel war now waging across the Atlantic
Ocean, and never were we so thankful
for the latter’s extent and depth as in this
year of disgrace, 1915.

Adjourned to Norwood on 1st mo. 6th, 1916.

Mary Bentley Thomas, Sec’y.