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a paper for us all to sign – to keep Mary Magruder
in office as, “Attendance Officer of Public
Schools”, and The Asso. gladly complied.

Rebecca T. Miller read a poem, “While the
Other One Slept”, - It was a tale of a wealthy woman
passing a scrub woman at night with a
careless remark, “that a woman’s true place was
in her home.” The scrub woman wondered how her
children would be fed and cared for it she did not
work when she could.

Mrs. Davis gave a very interesting article
on “The Training of the Will”, - She thinks we follow
a whim too often, and depend too much on
the school to train the child. It takes more
will-power to “give-in” than it does to carry one’s point.

Miss Mary Colt had a pretty poem on a
postcard sent to her about, “a mist in the
Sunshine this a.m.”, and “a weight in the heart” -,
but it gives one the comfort too, of knowing that
“Our Father has promised our burdens to bear”, a
promise it does us all good to hear often.

She told us that the Japanese cook ferns in
water, - and lettuce can be cooked the same way
and served like spinach.

Mrs. Bentley compared the “Old way and the New:
for us. It used to be that the people sat by a good
hot fire when the wind was howling outside and
slept in the big featherbed, and felt sorry for the
animals and chickens that stood out by the straw-rick
and roosted up a tree. Nowadays all animals
and poultry are most carefully housed, while poor
man must sleep in his sky parlor on the porch roof.

Fannie Snowden tells us “work is not tragic”
but to “lose one’s ideals is” – Be efficient, neglect
some work and read more.

Sarah Miller can’t seem to find a dish-mop
so Miriam Thomas came to her aid and promised
to make her some. When the questions of the mop
was settled, S. T. M. started in the good old way of
“Once upon a time” and told us a story of Col.
Mosby, - she spent a few days with a cousin of
Mosby’s and does not want us to forget the Col.
or the war either. He was a fine gallant, the soul
of courtesy and deference to women. Mosby said