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Mt. Olney 5-6-1916

water, 1 ½ hours before cooking. She also showed a
new kind of dressing for wounds, said to be most
thankfully received by the French Hospitals, - no 8
Dexter’s three-threaded cotton is used to make what
looks like a very loosely knit wash cloth. 34 stitches
are put on ivory needles and bound off when square.
We learn absorbent cotton cannot be had in Paris
now and these soft squares are washed antiseptically
and used again.

Adjourned to Belmont”, afterwards changed
to meet with Martha T. Farquhar on 5-6-1916,
to lunch. Mary Bentley Thomas, Sec’y.

Mt. Olney 5-6-1916

On 5-6-1916 The Asso. wended its way up
and ever up, to the home of Martha T. Farquhar.

The extensive prospect from the piazza is not
equaled in S. S. we believe, especially at this
beautiful season when the foliage north and
East is not yet dense enough to shut off
miles of fertile country, as is the case later.

Ellen Stabler, Arabella W. Hannum, and
Mary M. Thomas were the only guests except
the children and grandchildren of the family.

The sentiment given, as usual, by the hostess,
was, - “A good deed is never lost. He who
can knock a man down, he is stronger who
can lift a man up, he who sows courtesy reaps
friendship.”

Rebecca T. Miller fully redeemed her character
for “preparedness”, lost last month by forgetting
her piece. She gave an extract from “The White
Ribbon Tidings” of Canada, describing the sad
conditions under which artificial flowers are
made in the slums of great cities and especially
N. Y.’s foreign quarter. Children by the
hundred are employed, - often those under 6 yrs
work long hrs. and are paid a few cts. each
for “bunching”, or tying up, different parts of the
flowers their mothers and older sisters construct
by the gross. The labor of 4 people sometimes
nets only 80 cts. if they work until nearly

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