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amusing parody on Maud Muller
which began

"Maud Muller on a summers day
mounted her wheel & rode away"

Elizabeth G. Thomas read "Jonas & Matilda
from the Atlantic Monthly, written
by an invalid lady who made a
good story by watching the home
making of two birds.

Mary Bond was excused.

Sarah T. Miller's Neapolitin legend
contained a good moral.

Bessie Miller Thom's selection told of
a rail road accident where a
judge awarded damages to a man
who had lost an arm three times
more than he allowed a woman
who had lost her husband. He
argued that the poor man could
not replace his limb but the
woman could get another husband.

Miss Jannice a guest read an interesting
letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes to
her father Isaac Edward Morse
written in 1860 they were warm
personal friends altho' the latter was
a Southerner living in Louisianna.

Mary Magruder read for Sarah H. Stone
"Home a center of distribution "