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On 2/4 1909 the Association wended its way
to Longmeade where we received a warm
welcome from George and Sarah Wilson.
We note improvements in this home and
its surroundings at each visit, a new
drive way to the porch being among the la-
test. Sarah T. Miller, who served as Sec.
at the Belmont mtg. telephoned she had
just returned from Baltimore, and could
not be present, so we will hope to have
her, and her minutes at our next session.

As usual lunch was served before proceeding
to business, and we may be allowed
to expatiate a little upon the rare
dish of boned turkey stuffed with boned
chicken stuffed with oysters which had been
prepared by the skilled hands of our hostess
after a few lessons from her brother, Earl Forsythe
of New Jersey. I fear few of us possess
the necessary courage to turn just about
all the outside skin of a turkey, dig out
the bones with a sharp knife and then manage
to get it replaced and roasted in such
perfect shape eventually. Returning to
the pleasant parlor we noted the absence
of Ellen Farquhar, Eliza N. Moore,
Sarah T. Miller, Carrie L. Brooke, Elizabeth
B. Davis, Alice Tyson, and Mary G.
Colt. Guests were Anna G. Lea, Mary
Muncaster, Margaret B. Bancroft, Nellie
Brooke, Elizabeth Wilson, Elizabeth T.
Stabler, Eliza and Anna Canby, Lucy
S. Moore, and Isabel Stabler. The
sentiment of Sarah Willson was a good
little thought, Oliver Wendell Holmes,

"Apology is only egotism turned wrong
side out. Nine times in ten the first
thing a man's companions know of his
shortcomings is from his apology.
Our hostess also contributed this beautiful
prayer --