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mother should have been held responsible for the
fact that “poor old Aunt Mary was out in a terrific
storm.”

Corrie M. Brooke told of the numbers of letters
which come to the N. Y. P.O. addressed to Santa Claus,
and how a kindly old gentleman had his sympathies
aroused, and he bestirred himself to have
them answered. A good many others volunteered
assistance and the first year 600 requests were investigated,
and in most cases granted. This year
there were thousands, but more correspondents
have been found and the work goes on –

Martha N. Vickers gave an amusing poem,
“Just Her Luck”, and Sarah F. Willson ha a pithy
article upon “The Uplift of Optimism”, which declared
that the man who thinks the world full
of good people and kindly blessings is much richer
than he who thinks the contrary. You have your
choice. If you would win anything, do anything
or be anything, do not whine.”

The Sec’y brought a letter from her old friend,
and teacher, Mary Coffin Brooke, now living in
Metuchen, N. J. She told how her daughter Carrie,
was managing a large mushroom hothouse,
with help from an intelligent Italian. 200 lbs.
are sometimes shipped in a single day. It is
evident this old lady has had no mental failure,
and Louisa T. Brooke informed us she has
in the past year or two written her autobiography
which will soon be published.

The Sec’y also gave the reply of Rebecca T.
Miller to a toast, “Our School-girl Mothers”, given
at the Fair Hill banquet for Phrenaskeia. We
should be glad to quote in full, but must be content
with the last paragraph. “By every lesson
learned by our school-girl mothers, by every difficulty
they overcame, by every good influence the F. H. School
exerted on them, we have profited. For all these have helped
in developing into the women we know, - the girls we
never knew, but whom we love and honor in our hearts, -
out school-girl mothers.” Sarah T. Miller made a motion
2nd by M. G. T. Moore, that a Comm. on Membership be appointed. After
a brief consideration of the subject she withdrew the motion.

Adjourned to Ingleside 3-2-1916 – Mary Bentley Thomas
Sec’y.