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have never seen more attractive home-made
“floor-haps”, as the Va. mountaineer woman
called them.

Estelle had found a new use for old newspapers
also. If laid in a tub of water for 24 hrs.
they can be formed into balls with the hands,
and if dried in the sun are said to make fine
kindling in winter.

Mary E. Gilpin read of a wonderful oil-well
in Tampico, Texas that is producing over
200,000 barrels of oil per day, - the greatest gusher
of the world, and when it ran away with some
of its machinery skyward, the loss was supposed
to have been a million gals. overflowing the country
around with disastrous results.

Cornelia M. Reese gave a single line, “Words
are not paid for at the time, the bill comes
later.”

Elma P. Chandlee read for Harriet I. Lea
an acct. of efforts made by the Imp. Gov. of
Russia to find a market for various kinds
of hand work made by the peasantry, especially
the families of dead or disabled
soldiers. Each province had some especial
craft, in many instances both artistic
and useful.

Sarah T. Miller gave from Friends’ Intell.
a fine poem upon “Prayer” and she announced a
Temp. Picnic would be held shortly. Cornelia Reese
made a similar plea for “The Hollywood Slipper” at
Friends Mtg. House in Balto.

Martha T. Farquhar urged the manufacture
of jams in variety for family use when the snow flies.

Albina O. Stabler gave several very amusing
scraps which we regret not securing, and she
asked whether tomato-plants of too vigorous growth
might be mowed off at this season. Several
had done so and liked the plan.

A talk on phlox followed and many florists
have tried in vain to keep the pretty delicate shades
from relapsing into the knock-down character of the
old purple variety. However, “nothing beats a trial
but a failure”, so we shall hope some one will yet
conquer this tendency to revert to the original stock.