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On Washington's birthday 1900. while the
deep snow drifts were gradually disappearing
we gathered at Magnolia before noon with
Hannah B., Pattie R., Cornelia, Alice G, and
Alice T. Stabler, Nellie Hartshorne, Kate D. Thomas
and Martha Vickers.

Elizabeth C. Davis read her excellent minutes of
the recent meeting in Belmont proving what a
good secretary she will make in future.

Mary T. Bond's sentiment was upon "Tomorrow
and Today".
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"Tomorrow hath a rare, alluring sound, Today is very fine
And yet the twain are but one vision seen through altered
eyes.
Our dreams inhabit one, our stress and pain surge
through the other,
Heaven is but today,
Made lovely with tomorrow's face for aye"

Sarah E. Stabler read "All's for the best", if there
were no cross of sorrow there would be no crown
of gold!

Mary E. Moore told us of new uses for milk, from
casein are made billiard balls, hydraulic cement and
a paste that is a substitute for eggs, curdled milk
was said to be an excellent wash for outbuildings
if colored.

Elizabeth G. Thomas read a story , from "The Woman's
Journal" which turned on the old, old question
of an allowance to a wife or giving her the