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"Blow high, blow low, not all the winds that ever blow
shall quench our hearth fires ready glow".
Sarah E. Stabler gave us "The most beautiful
love story in literature" that of the Brownings as lovers
and as husband and wife. Sarah H. Stone read of a
naval officer whose trust in a higher power than the
wind and wars made him calm in danger.
Anna Mac. T. Stabler recommended a climbing rose
"the [greden?] chain" Mary G. Colt read "Two
extracts of a subject " which told of a girl who was
drowned because she wore long skirts and a girl in
bloomers who was spanked by an old man when
her wheel knocked him down in the supposition
that she was an ill mannered boy. M.G.Colt also
had a piece upon the burning of books. Nearly all
present had suffered the loss of favorite volumes
and many acknowledged their lack of moral courage
to ask for the return or the payment of small
debts which had been forgotten by a friend or relative.
Eliza N. Moore read "A Yearly Rose" the annual
dole to the heirs of a Colonial nabob named Steitzel
who had given a church in Penna. for this small
return. This eccentric character lived at Easton Pa. and
seems to have been a curious mixture of kindly impulses
and singular deeds. Lydia G. Thomas told us that "Fools cap"
paper was so named when Cromwell disdained to use
Government sheets. Sarah T. Miller had a lovely poem
"Be patient with the children". After a hurried inspection of the
beautifully kept garden we adjourned to Sunnyside and departed in
a drizzle
Mary Bentley Thomas sec.
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