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Then if you would quarrels avoid
And in peace and love rejoice
Keep anger not only out of your words
But keep it out of your voice"

Rebecca T. M. Stabler had an excellent scrap on
the uselessness of worrying assuring us that "the
world gets very tired of the men and women who
placard the word "worry" on their countenances.

Louisa T. Brooke read for M.S. Hallowell "The
Mother Heart". Vaccination pro and con, was
next discussed, a vote showed there were 10 in
favor and 9 against it or doubtful of its value.

Fanny Snowden told of her success in keeping
eggs from May to Dec. she made a solution of
22 gallons of boiled water, 1/2 pt. salt and 1pt.
air slaked lime, the eggs were placed carefully
in jars and the mixture poured on they kept
perfectly in a cellar. A number present gave
personal experience of the wonderful snow storm
of two weeks since and all agreed there had
not been a similar fall within their recollection.

These were followed by some remarkable
hen tales, of a hen who laid 300 eggs in one
year, of another who always flew up in a cedar
tree to lay and finally went to sitting in the same
place without an egg in sight, of another that
answered when spoken to and greeted her mistress
with a pleased cluck whenever they met.

Adjourned to Oak Grove
Mary Bentley Thomas sec.