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read "Stronger than the men" an incident of a
little boy whom some men were teasing and he turned
the tables by saying he must be stronger than any of
them as he could keep from swearing. She followed
this by Spurgeon's proverbs a few of which we quote -
"He who does most is the one to do more', "Don't fell
a tree to kill a bee", "He is rich enough who wants
nothing, A good conscience is better than a good
income". M.S.H. told us of a horse having been
completely covered by the fall of a straw stack in
their barn yard and it was lost for 30 hrs.
but it was apparently uninjured. M.G. T. Moore gave
some interesting facts relating to the peanut
industry around Suffolk Va. Mary G. Colt
read "The babies of the single year" whose cradles
placed in line would encircle the globe, and in
addition a scrap, "No symptoms of being Friendly"
which introduced us to a boy who thought "father
might be a Friend but he really didn't think Ma
was". Grace Harvey's offering was a boy's
definition of good housekeeping " The home that
it is nice to go to ". E.C. Davis had an article
giving much information about Chautauqua.
A world in itself which was founded 25 yrs. ago
to give a broader scope to the education of
ministers but it had been so extended that now
1500 students are taking courses either there or at
their homes. It has a permanent population
of 5000 increased to 10000 in summer and
since 1878 over 250000 people have availed themselves