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He answered that he would not gather his crops
at all if such were the case. M.S.M. read a
description of an ostrich farm in California, a
good pair of the birds is worth $500.00, the male
is more valuable because of handsomer plumes, he
takes his turn at sitting on the eggs and is
supposed to be in favor of feminine equality.
A Keystone egg beater was exhibited which some
had found satisfactory.

Ellen Farquahar read of a cooking school in San
Fransisco by a teacher thereof who deplored the
general lack of knowledge in culinary matters.
The French term the preparation of suitable and
palatable food "one of the minor moralities"

Martha A. Holland had a helpful clipping,
"Time safely wasted". Of all our belongings it
is the only thing equally distributed, we can neither
give nor lose, borrow nor buy. One wrests from
it an education, a livelihood, a happy and useful
life while another may have almost nothing to
show for just the same number of days.

Sarah E. Stabler gave us a discription of a
"Pleasure book" in which a woman entered each
day a record of something that had made her
happy and thus counted her blessings instead of
her woes. Lydia G. Thomas entertained us by an
account of a sort of mock luncheon in Europe
comprised of bread made from wheat, found in an
Egyptian pyramid, said to be 4000 years old, of
butter that had been in an English mill