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with the green aphis and to water a sickly palm
generously and repot after washing the roots.

"Fatal Food" was said to rid closets of black ants.
A question about the use of liquid manure
brought out the mode of applying it as follows-
Pour water on the article and after allowing it
to stand a short time use enough of the liquid
to color water the shade of strong coffee, water
the plants once a week with the solution.

Several persons admired the fine appearance
of the bay window which had not committed
the sin of crowding its occupants so they barely
lived, usually the case with that belonging to
your secretary- Adjourned to Cherry Grove.

11/23-1899 we gathered at Cherry grove with most
of our members in attendance and Mrs. Jackson,
Helen Shoemaker, Mary P. T. Jackson, Pattie T. Farquhar,
Mary A. Gilpin, Elizabeth T. Stabler, Marianna Brown,
Grace Harvey, Eliza Brooke and Mary Magruder
guests.

The sentiment of the day was an extract from
Ruskin. - "You will find it less easy to uproot
faults than to choke them by gaining virtue.
Do not think of your faults, still less of
others faults, in every person who comes