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The Asso. assembled, at noon on 10-19-16
in cozy “Holly Cottage” with Louisa T. Brooke and
daughters. Owing to the death of our faithful
and respected member, Martha A. Holland, the mtg.
had been deferred until the above date. Eliza N.
Moore and Frances B. Snowden were appointed to
prepare a memorial of our late friend.

Guests were, Mrs. Bluck of Bermuda, Anna
Hitchcock and Madge Winslow of Balto., Annabell
Page, Roberta Allen, Charlotte Cresson of Washington,
Polly Janney Shields of Chicago, Ellen Stabler, Lydia
Tatum, Margaret Magruder, Mrs. Wilson, Mary
P. T. Jackson, Anna Nesbitt and Dorothy Wetherald
of this vicinity.

The sentiment was from the writings of
Henry Ward Beecher, “No man can tell whether
he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It
is the heart which makes a man rich. he
is rich or poor according to what he is, not
to what he has.”

A second selection was from Rudyard
Kipling, entitled, - “If we only understood”, -

“If we knew the cares and trials
Knew the efforts all in vain,
And the bitter disappointment, -
Understood the loss and gain –
Would the dim eternal roughness
Seem – I wonder – just the same?
Should we help where now we hinder?
Should we pity where we blame?

Ah! we judge each other harshly
Knowing not life’s hidden force;
Knowing not the fount of action
Is less turbid at it’s source;
Often we should find it better,
Purer, than we judge we should,
We should love each other better
If we only understood.”

A message from Estelle T. Moore informed us
she had paid our dues to The Co. Federation, the
sum being $3.00. – A number paid the 15 cts. assessed
each, and the rest desired to communicate
with our Treas, India Downey, at an early date.