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Mt. Airy. Despite hovering clouds and an east
wind most of the Association gathered in the
cheery parlor at Mt. Airy, on the afternoon of
9/20 1897, when a warm welcome, the dear
children, an open fire and bright flowers made us
forget the gray landscape and hardly notice
the dashing of the rain against the windows as the
evening shadows lengthened. Sickness and absence
from home had prevented some members and
several guests from attending but Harriet Jackson,
Anna J. Speakman, Beulah S. Thomas, Cornelia A.
Stabler, Mary P. T. Jackson, Pattie T. Farquhar, Mary
E. and Ellen H. Thomas, Sarah T. Moore and her Virginia
M. P. Stabler were acceptably with us.

The sentiment of our hostess may be described as
much in little - "In the heart of man a cry, In
the heart of God - reply"; she also contributed a
beautiful poem "The Weaver". Mary G. Colt, who
had been engrossed of late in nursing, was excused
but she read an amusing clipping loaned
by Mary Jackson, the story of a " new woman" who
cycled, golfed and kodaked, was a "Dame" and a
"Daughter" and belonged to so many societies and
had so many social calls that the shock of
finding an unappropriated hour on her tablet
had proved fatal. Sarah H. Stone gave us some
interesting facts on the subject of wasps, one
kind building their nests by stripping off the
outside casing of wood so neatly and methodically
as a carpenter prepares weather boarding and on