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A heavy shower during the meeting had made the
air cool and pleasant but the grass was too wet
to allow a walk in the garden. So we easily
contented ourselves on the enlarged piazza and
finally took leave regretfully. Adjourned to
Evergreen

Elizabeth C. Davis
sec pro tem.

The Association gathered at Evergreen on 8/25 -1898
Esther Wetherald, Annie Wetherald, Cornelia N.
Stabler, Margaret G. T. Moore, Grace Harvey and Miss
Moores were guests of the day. Sarah A Bonds
sentiment was -- "Faith is the brightest evidence
Of things beyond our sight,
It pierceth through the veil of sense
And dwells in heavenly light".

Sarah E. Stabler opened our regular proceedings
with "Just do your Best" which contained much
in little.

"Some day what seems punishment or loss or strain,
will prove to be Gods blessing sent for every pain".

She also gave "At school and at home" showing
the remarkable difference between a teacher's
estimate of a childs acquirements and a grandfathers
appreciation of the same. Esther Wetherald
read a little story "How Hannah Chard ran away"
an interesting narrative of the life of a young girl in
Pa. nearly 100 years ago and she also gave a poem
by Mrs. Skipwith Coale which paid a high tribute to
the Queen Regent of Spain who was said to be
not in favor of war. Margaret S. Hallowell