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"Have you had a kindness shown? pass it on.
T'was not meant for you alone, pass it on.
Let it travel down the years, let it wipe anothers tears
Till in Heaven the deed appears, pass it on"

Mary G. Colt also gave a short comic poem
"The meditations of little Teddy". Hallie J. Bentley
followed with some remarkable advertisements
from London papers. Sarah E. Stabler had nothing
but so seldom fails us she may well be excused.

Helen Stabler read of the "good old days" of open
houses, brick ovens, turn spits, smoky lamps,
tallow dips and straight backed chairs.
Many of these were picturesque but the writer
was evidently thankful they were things of the
past. Helen Lea by request gave extracts
from most interesting letters written by her
nephew Frank T. Lea who, with his young
wife, is a missionary in South Western
Africa some 200 miles from the coast.

A picture was shown of some grass thatched
huts and a small chapel erected by himself
aided by his dusky neighbors whom his
friends trust, may continue to be docile.
He told of having assisted to save 1000lbs of
good meat after the mode of the "jerked beef"
of the west, and described their cook as attired
in a greasy cloth around her waist, a string of
red beads on her neck, another, upon her
matted hair and a snuff box. "only these
and nothing more". Her wages were