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should continue to be sacrificial there was
no opposing candidate and the salary! and
the pencil were still at her disposal.

Adjourned to Knollton.

Mary Bentley Thomas Sec.

3/31 1898. The Association assembled for the
first time in the bright and homelike parlour
at Knollton with Elizabeth C. Davis, and
although she seemed to think there was still
an immense amount of work to be done around
their new home, many expressed surprise at
what had been accomplished in a few months.

The admirable sentiment for the day was " Good
resolutions are like vines, a mass of beauty when
supported on a frame of good deeds, but very
poor things when allowed to lie untrained on
the ground". Our guests were Caroline H. Miller,
Sarah M. Hallowell, Louisa Nesbit, Louisa T.
Brooke, Carrie L. Brooke, Sue L. Thomas, Ellen Stabler,
Margaret B. Magruder, Edith Hallowell, Beatrice
Tyson and Augusta N. Thomas. Eliza N.
Moore kindly presided by request of the secretary.

There being no minutes of a previous meeting
at this place the latter read those of a meeting
held at Mt, Airy 40 yrs. since, Sarah A. Gilpin
being hostess and Margaret Farquhar secretary.

Elizabeth G. Thomas read "Whatever is, is right"
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and asked how many
believed with the writer. A number dissented