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had that day returned from a trip to Niagara,
Toronto and Watkin's Glen gave, after some questioning
the most laughable and terribly annoying experience
of sea sickness we have ever heard from any traveler
Mary T. Moore furnished reminiscences of Whittier
and Louisa T. Brooke a short, but beautiful poem.

The sec. read the much talked of "Man with
a Hoe" by Prof. Markham and then a most
decided refutation of the idea by a critic
who reserved his pity for the man without
any love. Adjourned to the home of Virginia
H. Steer.

Mary Bentley Thomas Sec.

9/28-1899 The Association was held at the home of
Virginia H. Steer our latest acquisition. Her sentiment was
"There is but one failure and that is not to be true to the best one
knows. When thou wouldst help another, study to please, not
thyself in the doing but him thou servest. So shalt
thou be unselfish indeed". This admirable thought was
succeeded by another equally good. "Let us be only patient
and God will teach his own lesson in his own way. Let
us try to learn it well and learn it quickly but do not
let us fancy that He will ring the school bell and send us
to play before the lesson is learned". Elizabeth G. Thomas
read of a brave Sister of Charity in France who had seized
a mad dog and saved the lives of some children by sacrificing
her own, and Louisa T. Brooke gave a pretty
poem by a Priest which we copy-