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Sarah H. Stones offering was a postal card telling of
the extreme illness of a former resident Sarah Anne
Chandlee who several years since returned to her
old home in Virginia (Note, she passed away a day
or two after this but she will long be remembered here
by those who recognised her sterling worth of
character.) Esther Wetherald, always acceptably
with us at Norwood gave a quaint story by
Thomas Wood entitled "The fall of the Leaf",
reading fluently without the aid of glasses
although she has passed her 82nd birthday.

Sarah A. Bond's article contrasted the two
ways of taking life's disasters and sorrows, one is
to struggle and refuse to yield, the other to make
the best of all circumstances and by so doing
keep the heart young and make the individual
happy. Mary E. Moore contributed some short
paragraphs containing both sense and fun
and a longer extract on "Boys Rights" - a plea
for justice to the boys who are too often ill
used or ill judged. She gave by request some
incidents of a recent visit to Toronto and
Buffalo and of the N.C.T.U. meeting which
seated 8000 people. Margaret S. Hallowell told
us of a lecture delivered by Mrs Hoffman of
Kansas who recounted an experience of her
father; long years ago in New York he determined
to try the experiment of harvesting without
the aid of whisky to his men and of his success
although his neighbors thought it could not be done.