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invited to read to the others. As Anna Shaw
once said, "The woman who stands up and
washes for 75 cts. a day might be thankful to
sit upon anything, even a jury, at $2.50 for
the same time." R.J.M. also offered
a very clever parody on "How does the Water Come
Down at Ladore," entitled, "The Book Cataract."

"How the new novels continue to pour:
month after month how the big presses roar!
Reforming, or storming or warming,
Amusing, abusing, accusing, confusing!
And so never-ending, they keep on descending,
As if reading fiction our lives we were spending,
And they stream ever more from the publisher's door
And that's how the novels continue to pour."

Elma P. Chandler brought a letter from "The
Sun," highly recommending bi-carbonate of soda
for grippe, both as a preventive and cure, to be
taken in water by the teaspoonful several
times per day. Grippe was said to be a
disease of the blood, and soda its antidote.

Margaret G. T. Moore told us of Indian
Town 24 mis. from Richmond on the Pamunkey
River, where dwell 110 Indians, descendants
of the once powerful King Powatan, father of
Pochahontas. They live in a little town and
speak Eng. only, their native tongue has been
forgotten. It is only nominally under state
Gov., no taxes being levied, but each year the
Va. Gov. is given a deer or a pair of wild turkeys
as a token of friendship. A forefather's
festival is held every Spring when the story
of Pochahontas is enacted. The men are expert
fishermen and cast their nets even as far as
the Potomac, and Chesapeake Bay, selling their
catches at various wharves, and the buyer
often has no idea that the seller is a much
truer specimen of an American than he.

Mary E. Thomas gave from "The Farm Journal"
the story of a bird-lover who was not supposed
to be quite normal mentally, but he spent the
latter part of his life making innumerable
houses for his little feathered friends, and