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Washington, of Abigail Adams, Sarah Polk and Lucy Webb
Hayes all of whom were active in good works while occupying
a more or less exalted position. Virginia Flowers read of the
wonderful advance in Egyptian civilization in the last decade.
Thousands of trees have been planted and there are more miles
of railway than in Spain. Mary E. Moore said both of
her selections had been read before her turn came so
she merely offered two paragraphs of a comic nature.

Caroline H. Miller was sure she could neither instruct nor entertain
us but finally did both when she consented to recite "St. Agnes Eve"

Elizabeth G. Thomas said she had again brought " What all the World
is seeking", a fine moral was drawn from "men who live in
the upper stories of their lives and not in the basement". Martha
Holland had borrowed from Ellen Wheeler Wilcox a bright poem
of which we copy one verse-

"You can never tell when you do an act just what the result will be,
But with every deed you are sowing some seed though the harvest you may not see.
Each kindly act is an acorn dropped in God's productive soil
Though you may not know, yet the tree will grow
And shelter the brows that toil".

Ellen and Pattie T. Farquhar had likewise chosen poetry, the former
a capital take off on old fogyism, entitled "The
Calf Path" and the latter of a little girl who was praised
when she said she had not laughed, though all the rest did,
when one little girl fell off a chair at a party, but it finally
turned out that she had been the victim herself. Cornelia
N. Stabler read of the small courtesies which are so well
worth doing since they bless both giver and receiver.

Mrs. Jackson made a plea for the birds and Mary
G. Colt's admirable "Receipt for a Happy Day" is