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Sarah D. Bond's short but admirable clipping was
headed "Neighbors thistles" an incident of a farmer
who stopped to eradicate a thistle from a field
adjoining his own with the remark that he had
destroyed a personal enemy. The sages of old laid
down the sound doctrine that "no sin was ever
committed whose consequences rested on the head of the
sinner alone". Margaret S. Hallowell had some rules
for a long life a few of which were dissented from
but as Carried S. Brooke had brought the same they
shall be copied here. "Take 8 hrs. sleep. Lie on
your right side. Keep a window open all night
at all seasons. Have a mat at your bedroom door.
Do not have your bedstead against the wall. Take
your baths, daily in water the temperature of the
body. Exercise before breakfast, eat little meat
and see that it is well cooked. Adults should
drink no milk but eat plenty of fat to feed the cells
attacked by disease germs. Allow no pet animals in
your living rooms, live in the country if you can. Watch
the three Ds, drinking water, damp and drains.
Make change of occupation, take frequent and short
holidays, limit your ambition and keep your
temper". Sarah E. Stabler read a pretty poem
"Tired" containing the suggestion that we should
rest our brains as a babe sleeps in its mothers arms.

Ellen Stabler gave an amusing story of an encounter
between an educated Indian and a brainless
fop who addressed the red man in the
venacular of the dime novel and was answered