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April 24, 1928.
The President of the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club presided at the Meeting held in the Unitarian Parish House April twenty-fourth.
The report of the recording secretary as read was approved.
Mrs. Walter E. Henderson stated that arrangements had been made for the Club luncheon to be held May fourteenth at the Weber Duck Inn. The price of the luncheon will be One Dollar and Forty Cents and the round trip by automobile One Dollar.
Miss Rose Dexter spoke briefly concerning the activities of the Traveler’s Aid Society, of their need of workers and money and made an appeal for friendship and sympathetic interest in the Society.
Under the auspices of the Home Economics Department, Miss Minnie A. Gilbert, Chairman, introduced Mr. Ralph W. Burnham whose subject was Hooked Rugs. In an informal and interesting talk, the speaker informed the members of the Club of the revival of the art of making hooked rugs which are a product of our ancestors. Judging from the rugs collectors, have found, the finest makers in the United States lives near Waldoboro, Maine although fine specimens have been secured in Essex County, Massachusetts and Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Mr. Burnham is a collector of hooked rugs and he exhibited many of his choice specimens which are of great artistic beauty. The speaker referred briefly to the collecting of antique furniture and in closing displayed a copy of the great seal of the United States. This reproduction is a work of art and consists of silk embroidery on silk and was made about eighteen hundred thirty. The speaker answered questions from the floor.
Respectfully submitted, Blanche U. Eldridge Rec. Sec.