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10/26-1899 found us assembled at Sunnyside,
Pattie R. Stabler, Annie Bell Higgins, Carrie Bond,
Florence Bond, Mary H., Emma and Lillie Stabler
and Clara P. Moore were guests. Mary Osborn's
sentiment was from Hawthorne - "In chaste and
warm affections, humble wishes and honest toil
for some useful end there is health for the mind,
quiet for the heart the prospect of a happy life
and the fairest hope of Heaven."

Sarah T. Miller's article was a protest against
the spirit of caste which it was believed had
a mighty influence in deterring the debased from
all effort to rise. This protest met with approbation;
she supplemented it by a fine poem on thanksgiving.

Ellen Farquhar read interesting extracts from a
most voluminous Postal card written by Caroline
H. Miller from St.Louis where her twin grand
daughters are evidently a source of both pride
and pleasure to their family.

Martha Holland's selection was a story of a
minister who had the happy faculty of turning
all the affairs of life with "the best side out"
and Sarah Stone's was a curious list of
charms, and medicines sold by a sort
of witch doctor on the East side of New York City.

Elizabeth G. Thomas had a fine extract upon
the heroism of drudgery, comparing the
[Dewey?] pageants with the lack of praise