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who said she was thinking of us and she sent a
message of love which was heartily returned and
the wish of all present was that she might soon be
able to take her place in our circle again.

Albina O. Stabler had a short but beautiful extract
on "Summer". Ellen Farquhar told us she
had conquered rose bugs by knocking them off
and smashing them under foot with a humorous
allusion to the value of a good understanding for
this purpose. Sarah A. Bond gave a clipping
that seemed at first to prove the danger of
locking car doors in England and all prepared
their minds for a tragic story, but the supposed
lunatic was found to be merely endeavoring to
reclaim his hat upon which his fair fellow
tourist had unwittingly seated herself.

Mary E. Moore's article was a fine essay "Common
Sense in Religion", a plea for the kind which is
brought into daily use and strengthened with the
using. "Religious character is developed, as everything
else is developed , by a gradual effort and growth,
a step by step process involving exertion on our
part". "Speak Gently" a little incident in the
life of the Duke of Wellington read by Mary G.
Colt conveyed a lesson to all setting forth the old
truism that genuine courtesy is one element of
greatness. We could wish some woman much
wiser in flower lore had chanced to be your
scribe at the Cedars. But even as dense a
horticulturist as your whilom secretary could