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minutes of the last meeting which was approved and
then some interesting minutes of the last meeting at
this place. To leave her free for her duties as hostess
she was then excused for the day and at the suggestion
of Ellen Farquhar and Sarah T. Miller Elizabeth C. Davis was
chosen secretary. This arrangement having been made
Mary B. Thomas was called upon and gave the
following sentiment by Emerson. "Character is always
known. Thefts never enrich, alms never improverish, murder
will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie,
the smallest mixture of vanity, the least attempt to make a
good impression will instantly vitiate the effect. But
speak the truth and all nature and all spirits help
you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth and
all things are vouchers". This was received with
decided approval and she then read a humorous
article upon soap making. The writer was evidently a
man who declared that soap making grease
used to smell to Heaven and that soft soap was
hard on a mans morals because he tried to achieve
the impossible, to carry it without spilling. Mrs.
Leadbeater, a visitor, offered an amusing climax
in a story of some people of means in whom old habits
are so strong that they still make soft soap. Sarah
T. Miller said she had only scraps but a home critic
had pronounced them good enough for the weather.
The first "Evened up" a few comic verses showing
how the kisses stolen before marriage were evened up by
change abstracted from the pockets of the sleeping husband
afterwards. The second scrap " When Christian Science