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secondly an eulogy upon the woman who has
the trick of always seeing the bright side or of
shining up the dark one. Elizabeth C. Davis read
amusing extracts from the life of Douglas
Jerrold who never seems to grow old. Eliza
N. Moore gave a sonnet to October and she
announced a Scotch Recital to be given at Norwood
by Mrs. Parker of Mass. Catherine Janney's
clipping raised a general laugh, an account
of colored twins named "Simply John Roseberry
and Deliet Roseberry". Martha Holland read of
Helen Gould and the many good works in and
around New York. Her income of a million
dollars a year is devoted largely to charity and
she is doing the things her father "left undone"

Mrs. Phillips corroborated the article and told
us of the Gould summer home for poor children
Mary Osborne read "Babies and Supervision"
advising mothers not to attempt to do everything
for their children if they could secure capable
help. Albina O. Stabler read " A Mask of
Life" a sort of fairy story relating to human
propensities, the solution of all difficulties being
the possesson of love and wisdom. Louisa
Nesbit read "Hannah the Quakeress by
Edna Proctor Clark formerly a Rockland girl
and now a poetess of some fame. Carrie L.
Brooke's selection described the cranberry harvest
of Cape Cod. 50 acres were said to yield
8000 barrels of the fruit, whole families