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Sarah F. Willson and family of Longmeade
welcomed The Asso. on 4-7-1916, it
being the 722nd meeting. Apparently, interest
in our old society does not abate, though
to use an English saying, “Much water has
passed under the London Bridge”, since 5th mo.
1857. Guests were Mrs. Benj. D. Canby, daughter
Anna, and daughter-in-law, Marian, - Eliz. Willson,
daughter Lena and grand-daughter Barbara Peters,
Corrie M. Brooke, Miss Monroe of Fairfax, Va.,
Harriet I. Lea, Mary A. Gilpin, and Eliza Canby.

The sentiment was from Browning, -
“It is not what man does which exalts him,
but what a man would do.” Our hostess told
us of a substitute for yeast powder she had
used very satisfactorily in biscuit dough and
corn-bread. Two tsps. of vinegar beaten with
I tsp. soda in sweet cream. Corrie M. Brooke
gave a timely article “Teaching Peace in the Schools”
from Friends Intel. – “If we are to have a body of
people who will not be swept off their feet by the
waving of the flag we must change the character
of the teaching in our schools, and try to inculcate
respect instead of scorn for other nations. Let
us point out the achievements of each in literature,
art, music, science, invention, industry and commerce.

Emphasize the fact that Japan has accomplished
in 50 yrs. what has taken the rest of the world
centuries. Let us explain why the unfortunate
Mexicans need our help and sympathy. We must
stop reading right and justice into every war
the United States has fought, and tell our children
the story of our heroes in achievement and discovery.
Of Edison, Whitney, Howe, Morse and Bell, Fulton, Lewis
and Clark, Greeley and Peary, Eads and Goethals.

The chaining of a torrent to turn the wheels of a
factory, the building of levees to hold back destructive
streams, the construction of immense
dams, and systems of irrigation that are making
desert lands over, into beautiful farms, the
clearing up of scources of malaria and yellow fever,
the harnessing of electricity, all these are far more
thrilling than sickening tales of battlefields. We
can make our children understand that to live