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Carrie S. Brooke told us of the vast apartment
store of Cooper, Siegal and Co. in New York, it
includes a menagerie, a huge butcher shop
and a fine collection of Dore's paintings, She
read of a servant who said her mistress had
"nervous prosperity" a disease which the busy
house mother is not apt to contract. An article on
the strange money used in the mountains of North
Carolina was in a museum corroborated by Ellen
Farquhar and Eliza N. Moore who had seen cabins
nearly covered with skins of wild animals
in the section referred to. Kate Bradley by
request recounted the triumphant establishment
of a Homeopathic Hospital in Washington, - an old
brewery being put to this beneficent purpose; the
institution is 16 yrs. old and has treated 1000 free
patients in the past 12 months. We fancy its
success may be traced partly to the fact that
women have taken such an active interest in
all its departments. Sarah T. Miller read a few
paragraphs which explained the apparent difference
of opinion between Lady Henry Somerset
and Frances E. Willard with regard to the
social evil and it was stated the former had
acknowledged she was in error when she
proposed to sacrifice principle in such a vital
question. The secretary announced the time
for holding an election had arrived. As it seemed
to be a general wish that the present lamb