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On 2-10-1916 The Asso. found itself once more
in Plainfield home. The present hostess in the third
generation which had received us there, - Hadassah
J. Moore and daughter, Mary E., in the old house for
years, and then in the new, and now Margaret
G. T. Moore. Guests were Kate D. and Mary M.
Thomas, Florence M. Wetherald, Irene Miller,
Elsie Elbrey Stabler, Margaret C. Bancroft, Beatrix
and Dorothy Moore, Corrie M. Brooke, Miss Dwyer
and Annie Miller. The sentiment was from
Canon Farrar – “Little self-denials, little honesties,
little passing words of sympathy, little nameless
acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite
temptations, - these are the threads of gold which
woven to-gether gleam brightly in the pattern of
Life.” Our hostess also gave, -

“It Couldn’t be Done”

“Somebody said it couldn’t be done
But he, with a chuckle, replied,
That maybe it couldn’t, but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he tried.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
So he buckled right in with a trace of a grin
On his face; if he worried he hid it, -
He started to sing, as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.”

Albina O. Stabler read a list of the “20 best
novels” compiled long ago, but many have
stood the test of time. their titles are, -
“David Copperfield”, “Ivanhoe”, Kenilworth”, Adam Bede”,
“Romola”, “Mill on the Floss”, Middlemarch”, Scarlet
Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables”, “The Marble Faun”,
“Vanity Fair”, “The Newcomes”, “Henry Esmond”,
“Pendemus”, “Jane Eyre”, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, “Les
Misérables”, “John Halifax, Gentleman”, “Last Days
of Pompeii”, and “Hypatia”. Carl Vitz, a librarian
of the Cleveland Public Library wrote, - “I would
not say a student will be educated after finishing
this course, but he would have dispelled a
great deal of ignorance.”

Mary Scott gave “Doing One’s Bit”, - To say
“I am doing my bit” is to express in capsule a
whole volume of meaning; the duty that lies