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growth. Honest expression is said to be good for the soul,
your secretary will unburden her overladen conscience
when copying the minutes after an interval of months.

She made no note of the pretty poem read by Mary T. Bond
because the paper was taken at Belmont and it would
be easier to do it there, but when did it ever fail to happen
that the desired paper was not preserved? Although she looked
for it in a day or two, and found all the other May
numbers, that particular one was gone and after trying
to find it in several other homes she is obliged to omit
this months sentiment, and record her own misdeeds
instead, as a warning to all future secretaries who
do not realize that the present only is ours and that "Miss
Ophelia" in "in Uncle Tom's Cabin" was right in her philosophy
the time to perform any duty is now!

Mary E. Moore Began our regular exercises with
an article entitled "Candid Seeing". Each individual
temper sees differently, those who look for straight
lines generally find them, and those who seek the
crooked are not disappointed, the moral being to
shut our minds to the defective, resolutely. Beaulah
L. Thomas read of the curious marriage customs of
the Chinese. Florence Bond described the wonders of
Baltimore, the magnificent Vanderbilt estate near
Asheville and exhibited some fine photographs of the
same. All sorts of local charities are aided by Mrs.
Vanderbilt not the least of which is a free Kindergarten
for colored children. The chicken interest at
Biltmore is apparently a hobby, the buff erchins are
the favorite breed and 3000 young chickens were seen