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the same general principle. Lydia G. Thomas
article was a plea for cheerful Christianity
closing with the incident of a cripple having been
seen to push a banana skin, with great difficulty,
into the gutter, because he could not let the
passers by be in danger of an injury which
had disabled him for life.

Beulah S. Thomas read
"No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we one have been.
The hopes that lost in some for distance seem.
May be the truer life and this the dream"

Sarah E Stabler's offerings were a fine poem,
"Hope" and an excellent scrap "Remember
that the little things in life, whether good or bad,
count far more with those we love than we
ever know. We should be watchful of our words
and our actions. The little things make life easy
or hard". A Magazine " Success with Flowers"
was handed round the circle and all who knew
it praised the paper. Pattie T. Farquhar read
extracts from one of Mary A. Sivermore's spirited
addresses which declared it was better to
live five years the latter part of this century
than all fifty of the first half. One hundred
and sixty colleges in this country are now open to
women. Pattie T. Farquhar also brought up the
subject of visiting the jail and almhouse at
Rockville and several expressed a desire to accompany
her on this duty.