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in their wire enclosures. Elizabeth G. Thomas
read, from Drummond, "A Royal Wedding" - that
of service and religion. Out of the researches of chemists
and scientists has been brought something which
might as well be called love. Huxley said he
no longer wished to speak of anything as
unknowable. Martha A. Holland had an
excellent scrap upon "Giving". What one does not
possess he can not impart and the same principle
permeates the whole of life. The father who cheats
and the mother who deceives will never raise an
honest son or daughter. Sarah T. Miller read for
Anna F. Gilpin, an article on the subject of
concealing ones ailments which brought out a
spirited discussion of Christian Science, a
number endorsing the lines.

"Talk health. You can not charm, interest, nor please
by harping on that minor chord, disease".
and others considered it an eminently proper and
safe cure for the vast procession of invalids who
have nothing the matter with them except
imaginary complaints. Margaret S. Hallowell
read an amusing story "Helping Sally to count
forty" and a little poem of merit " Life's Stages"
embodying the idea that those who pick violets in
spring time, roses in summer and apples in autumn
will not lack the cheer and comfort of a hearth
fire in winter, reminding the secretary of an
inscription over the fire place in the beautiful
Womans Bldg. of the Nashville Exposition