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"The baby has no skies but mother's eyes
Nor any God above but mother's love.
This angel sees the Fathers face
But he the mother's full of grace
And yet the Heavenly Kingdom is of such as this."
L.T.B. also read "Frances E. Willards advice to
boys and girls whom she thought should be treated alike
in many respects. The pieces Sarah T. Miller had
intended to bring were all "lost, stolen or mislaid " so
she culled from Harper a laughable description of the
futile efforts of a stammering man to escape from
an elevator that carried him 20 stories too far up.
Mary Osborne brought a short story, new to all,
apparently, though written long ago by Louisa M. Alcott.
It was entitled "Grandmas Team" which consisted of
a pair of grandsons who drew the old lady to church
when there was no available horse and in the pleasant
guise of fiction contained the sound moral lesson
of greater humanity to dumb animals. Sarah E.
Stabler favored us with a most interesting sketch of
Rosa Bonheur in her old age. She prefaced it by
saying that she was reminded of Edith D. Bentley
whenever she saw the name of the artist's name who was such
a favorite with one of our first and most devoted
members. The famous painter was found surrounded
by her animal friends many of these old like
herself. Annie F. Gilpin contributed a receipt for
Tomato Soy which several had tried and
pronounced excellent.