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The 608th meeting of the HOME INTEREST was held at 1927 Sweetbriar in exchange with Springfield, in July. It was well attended by members and numerous guests. The hostess, Elza Bentley Thomas, knowing the appointed forethought committee would not be present, requested Norris Fussell and Huldah Janney to do their best, and they did, he giving a learned treatise on moles, and she sending the following:
This is the dull season when commencements and June weddings are over and the sky rockets have not yet started blooming. The gardens are all planted and no one can offer drought as an excuse for a poor one.
My store of useful knowledge is slight and since my Encyclopedia has stopped being a producer and become a middle man, I am reduced to the dictionary (but it is a new one). After all, as Josh Billings says "It is better to know less, than know so much that aint so."
Ragged robbins and calendulas should be kept picked to make them continue blooming. Grapes should be bagged soon, Bathing suits should be mended and extended.
Fishing licenses should be purchased - summer is coming.
I offer this as an infallible receipt for preserving children: Take one large grassy field, one half dozen children, two or three small dogs, a pinch of brook and some pebbles. Mix the children and dogs well together and put them in the field, stirring constantly. Pour the brook over the pebbles. Sprinkle the field with flowers. Spread over all a deep blue sky and bake in the hot sun. When brown remove and set away to coll in the bath tub.
The pectin test for jelly is as follows:
1 T. alcohol
1 T. cooled fruit juice
A solid mass indicates equal measures.
1 C. sugar 1 C. juice
Broken messes 3/4 C. sugar 1 C. fruit juice
small broken masses 1/2 C. sugar 1 C. juice
Edwin Morris sent list arraged by his committee on subjects for essays and those to prepare them.
Elza Thomas suggested a memorial for Martha T Farquhar should be written, and Annie B. Kirk was asked to write it.
Forethought committee for next time Elizabeth Ligon, H. H. Stabler and Edwin Morris.
Bessie Stabler gave us an excellent and interesting paper on "What I like in Moving Pictures."
Questions. Elza, Does anyone know of ice chest or second hand refrigerator for sale.
Fred, What care barberry needs. Trim in spring and loosen ground.
Lucy Moore, Will it pay to raise red raspberries for sale. Yes.
Huldah Janney, How to avoid plating trees and shrubs which often grow too large for location. Milton Bancroft says