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A dark fear penetrates my mind
I quickly open one small bud, and there
A worm I find!

My neighbor’s roses scent the air;
And though her gain is not my loss,
To see her bushes loaded down with bloom
Makes me quite cross. It does, -
It makes me cross.”

Mary E. Gilpin read of the relations between
“Mistress and Maid” in France which are regulated
by Law. A cook, who was discharged, demanded a
“character” and the one given was decidedly topsy-
turvey, as it was apparently from the servant
instead of for her.

Alice Tyson said she expected to be
away from S. S. until Apr. or May, and
should like to have Florence Wetherald again
take her place in which the society concurred.

Sarah T. Miller had brought a cheery little
book, given to her some time since by the
lamented La Vergne Gardner, and the following
good extracts will speak for themselves, -

“There’s a bad side, ‘tis the sad side
Never mind it,
There’s a bright side, ‘tis the right side
Try and find it!
Pessimism’s but a screen
Thrust the light and you between,
And the sun shines bright, I ween
Just behind it.”
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“It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have
the habit of looking on the bright side of things.”
Samuel Johnson

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by
standing in our own sunshine.” Emerson

Margaret B. Magruder had mislaid her
clipping but gave two bright little verses by
Chas. Mackay, - “Today and To-morrow.

Mrs. Bluck, formerly Miss Laura Cox, a
Stanmore scholar, expressed her great pleasure in
revisiting the scenes of her girlhood, and invited
any and all S. S. travelers who went to Bermuda, to