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Our hostess said she wished the Association had met on the
23rd instead of the 24th because that was Queen Victoria's
birthday and she read a glowing description of the inspiring
ceremonies at Windsor and an editorial which treated of
the nobility of the woman rather than the mighty sovereign.
Victoria was said to have outlived 19 of our Presidents coming
to the throne when Andrew Jackson was at the White House.

Sarah Stone and Martha Holland were excused. Caroline
Scott read a short poem part of which was caught-

"Keep out of the past, it is lonely and barren and bleak to the view,
It's fires have grown cold, its stories are old
Turn, turn to the present and new".

Elizabeth Scott told of the curious custom of saluting a
passing cat at an army post in India by the superstitious
native soldiers. Ellen Farquhar have a cute letter from a
little girl in Tenleytown Md. to Rudyard Kipling and his apt
and courteous reply to his young admirer. She also read a
poem contrasting the woman teacher who could not vote with
the toper who could. Mary G. Colt had an interesting article
treating of the manner in which children perfectly blind
are being taught to cook, the results were remarkable when
one considers the handicapped condition of the pupils. Carrie
S. Brooke said she had brought something upon the vexed
servant question which would seem to have not two sides
but seven occasionally. A cooking class was formed by enthusiastic
reformers in a poor section of New York City , but
scarcely anybody attended to learn while a class in the
manufacture of tissue paper flowers was popular. May this
not have been due, however, to the unlovely surroundings
of these poverty stricken women who naturally turned