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by E. G. Thomas. Albina O. Stabler brought us a
funny story of a boy who displayed the interests of
a true lawyer by "keeping his eye on the squirrel"
although various other distractions by subjects had
been purposely introduced. Margaret S. Hallowell
read "Two Women's Lives" and she promised the
Assoc. a receipt for soft gingerbread. Sarah H.
Stone recounted an incident in the life of Frances
E. Willard when riding with Mrs Stanton she
sprang from the vehicle and dragged a fallen
tree out of the road by seizing the top branches
saying "many of the blocks of life could be
readily removed if we went at them with a
will". Anna F. Gilpin wrote from Brownsville
a very interesting letter to the Asso. read by
Sarah E. Stabler who had in addition a fine
poem in "Trustfulness". Louisa Nesbit and Carrie
L. Brooke also favored us and we are pleased to
note that our guests do so more and more frequently.

Martha Holland's good clipping said
in part "a kind word put out at interest
brings an enormous percentage of love and appreciation
and little acts of daily kindness
are really greater than one immense act of
philanthropy. The ability to keep a friend was
thought to be rarer than the power of making one".

Sarah A. Bond read of the antiquity, the importance
and the respectability of the profession of
agriculture. Eliza N. Moore gave a short poem
by Frederic Tennyson who would have been more