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in feeding them during the winter. On one
occasion he told Jacob Biggle there was a
flock of partridges that wanted to live in his
barn during the cold weather, and receiving
permission to invite them, it was supposed
he did so by a trail of grain to the warm shelter,
and they remained Mr. Biggle's guests for
weeks. Their host said, "Who shall deny that the
birds talked to this man in a language he
understood?"

Estelle T. Moore read a beautiful little
poem, "Dinna Forget." She also told us
of the recent live meeting in Wash. of The
Federation of Women's Clubs and she especially
enjoyed Mrs. Pennypacker's admirable address,
this lady is State Pres. for Pa. An English
visitor informed the Federation she was greatly
pleased to find in Washington State, homes
provided for the teachers of Public Schools
adjacent to the latter, and the plan is said to
work very well indeed, ensuring permanency.

Annie M. Chandlee interested us in
Miss Rose MacDonald, a former teacher in
Miss Chandlee's school in Alex., but now
Librarian of the Fish Commission, and the
only woman who has taken a civil service
exam upon the subject of Fish. Miss Mac.D.
is an authority, and has made special
study of the fur-seal, the fish that destroys
mosquito larva, and of the pearl muscle.
She distinguished herself as a teacher in literature
generally, and Shakespeare particularly.

A.M.C. also gave a new verse for a Christmas
letter and card.

"Now it is pick-ed and wrapp-ed and gone
If you don't like it, do not let on!"

Alice G. Stabler contributed extracts from
Epictitus and other good sources of which
we only caught one line, "We all live on lower
levels than we should."

The Sec'y had a verse which her son
Bentley had copied from the wall of a guest-room
in a Friend's house near Phila.,

"Sleep sweet within this quiet room