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a Greek colony in Pa., of 1200 people, whose able-bodied
members are all engaged in gathering sponges and preparing
the same for sale. The divers go out in boats
and equipped with a helmet through which air is
forced down to them, they fearlessly explore the bed of
the sea at a depth of from 50 to 100 ft., tearing off the
sponges, placing them in nets, and signalling by
means of a line, to the boatmen, to draw up the
catch, and eventually themselves.

Emilie T. Massey told of an extraordinary
wedding gift to a young woman clerk in the city of
Toledo. Several hundred men began to build her a
home at 2 a.m. upon her wedding day, and by
6 p.m. the pretty and convenient bungalow was complete
even to water fixtures and electricity, all contributed
by business firms and workmen to honor
a much respected self-supporting girl.

Mariana S. Miller read of the new device
for “saving light” in England by setting the time-pieces
backward in the morning and forward in
the afternoon, - This curious innovation will probably
be sanctioned by Parliament as a bill has
been introduced to make the custom lawful.

Ellen Farquhar, true to her well-established reputation
for Peace, first, last and always, offered a
strong plea for universal Brotherhood in place of
universal war, -
“When insane power and greed shall pass
like sickness that is healed,
When each for each shall labor
And to Rightness all shall yield;
We’re growing, learning, knowing
More about the truth of life,
And learning how we may unlearn
The foolish hate and strife.
And you and I and all of us –
When we shall understand,
Will welcome into Brotherhood
Mankind of every land.”

This was followed by a few paragraphs in
lighter vein; the story of the small girl who prayed
to have Boston made the Capitol of Vt., because “she
wanted her examination paper to be correct, - and
Mary E. Gilpin’s comical leap-year proposal was