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Margaret S. Hallowell's article was about
Queen Victoria's cradle afterwards used for
all her children and now being rocked for
the happiness (or misery) of a third generation
of royalty. Alice T. Stabler gave a history of
the coronation chair of England whose stone
seat according to tradition, was that upon
which Jacobs head once rested. Sarah E.
Stabler read "The little Knight" a boy pedler
who picked up his heavy pack before the car stopped
so as to get accustomed to his load. The moral being
that it is best to pick up the right things of life
promptly and get used to doing them.

Admirable extracts from Ella Wheeler Wilcox and
from Stevenson, were given too long to quote entire
and single verse would be too slight a sip.
An allusion to looking on the darker side
brought out an anecdote of Rebecca Russell who
on being asked at the age of 100 years why she
had so few wrinkles replied that the probable reason
was because she did not make herself unhappy
with either dismal retrospects or forebodings.

The question of the establishment of a laundry in
Sandy Spring was thoroughly ventilated, eight or
ten women present expected to patronize it if the
cost were not much more than having the washing
done at home. The secretary had called the chapter
from "What one woman thinks" entitled "The
domestic hunting ground" which seemed to