1924.45 November 18 1924

Regular Meeting. Nov. 18, 1924.

The regular meeting of the Tuesday Club was held November eighteenth at the Unitarian Parish House and was opened by the president. After the customary announcments, Mrs. Thomas G. Rees, Chairman of the Social Service and Legislative Committee, introduced Mr. Eliot H. Robinson who gave an interesting talk on "Our Contemporary Ancestors". These proved to be the Cumberlain mountaineers, who are still so primitive that a visit among them is like going back two hundred years, which suggested this unusual title. Mr. Robinson told of the quaint customs of these people, their religion, their feuds, their persistent "moonshining" ["and" strikethrough] the peculiarities of Kentucky justice and politics, and ended with an earnest plea for education. The talk was also enlivened by several of their folk songs, entitled "With his old shoes on and his leggins," "My Blue Eyed Boy," "Down in the Valley" and "The Whiffle* of the Smell." After the meeting the club adjourned

to the Loring-Greenough House for tea. The tables were attractively lighted and the pourers were, Mrs. Arthur P. Perry, Mrs. Fred P. Kinney, Mrs. Benjamin F. Godfrey, Mrs. Stephen F. Gardiner, Mrs. Edmund J. Baker, Miss Ethel M. Beaumont, Mrs. Edwin F. Adams, and Mrs. Sewall C. Brackett.

Respectfully submitted, Lucy E. Henderson, Rec. Sec.