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A message from Mary E. Thomas was
given at this time in the proceedings.
She had been requested to send a
box of chickens, eggs, butter, biscuit,
celery in fact almost anything nice
of that kind to Baltimore for the
Annual supper at the Friends Meet-
ing House, to raise funds for the Hollywood
children's summer home, it
may be recorded here that the response
was generous. Eliza N. Moore's selection
was "Petty Economies" that
were often the reverse of economical.
There was said to be a sort of fearful
joy in occasionally getting something
one knows he cannot afford.

Alice Tyson read of a new enterprise
the raising of goats for the double
purpose of clearing land and of
furnishing mohair which sold at
37 cts a lb. readily, and about 4 lbs.
were sheared from each animal.
They clean the ground off down to the
roots, and are then moved to another
plot and go to work as grubbers.

Mary S. Gilpin read a prediction of
Edison who thought the next twenty
years would witness a revolution
in building, concrete taking the place
of wood for even houses of small
size. The steam engine must give
place to electric motors, and nitrogen
will be drawn from the air by electri-
city. Cancer and tuberculosis will be
conquered, and coal will be utilized
without losing 90 per cent of the heat.

Ellen Stabler had an amusing rhyme
on the "China Egg." It was declared

Now perseverance is a grace
By which success is won,
But hatching China egg's a case