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decidedly above mediocrity, Margaret S. Holland in
"Victoria's Regal Right" straightened out the somewhat
tangled relationship of English royalty past and
present and explained how the crown naturally reposed
upon Victoria's braided locks and poke bonnet instead
of upon the perukes of several uncle Dukes. This
was followed by verses of Eugene Fields " My Playmates"
full of birds, and flowers, and country byways, and
little folk, which recalled childhood and anured by
school house to memory. We were told that Miss
Field was reading her fathers poems to pleased
audiences in the large cities. Lydia G. Thomas gave
us an incident in the early life of Florence Nightingale,
her first patient was a favorite dog whose life she
saved by formenting its bruised leg for hours.

Elizabeth G. Thomas contributed " A Southern Woman's
view of Colorado", a most favorable showing of the practical
working of Woman Suffrage in that state and a
short piece called "The Worlds good and bad" which
claimed that the daily press was responsible for
our too low estimate of our brother man in the
aggregate and assured us that people are better than
many of us suppose. Virginia Steer read "The
unseen Toilers" containing the fine thought that the
humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline
for the highest Heaven. Mary S. Osborne brought us
a short story, given her long ago by Lucy Fawcett
of an old colored woman, " Thanksgiving Ann, who
practised what the called "systematics in givin"

Sarah T. Miller recounted her impressions of