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influence were at the service of the oppressed
Quakers. What those persecutions were really
in the years to come may be realized by the experience
of Margaret Fell who eventually became
the wife of Geo. Fox; she spent 10 whole years
in different prisons!

Fanny B. Snowden had a good short essay
entitled. “For What I am Thankful”, which began
a list a blessings with that of being a country
woman who, as she worked, could look from her
window and see, not brick walls, but shady trees,
sunny slopes and green growing things full of
hope and promise, and she prays, “May I
be kept by them from narrowness of mind
and discouragement.” More than all else was
she thankful for the sake of the children, that
shops and factories should not take the health
of her daughters, not the strength of her sons
be wasted in offices and mills.

Ellen Farquhar, one of our strongest Peace
advocates always, contributed a poem, by Israel
Zangwill who utterly disproved the dangerous doctrine
that “To safeguard peace we must prepare for war”.
He said, “The God of War is now a man of business.”

Sallie Randolph Janney gave extracts from
a recent speech by Roseberry to a boys’ school
in England. He said among other excellent things
“Good manners and good appearance are within
the command of everybody”, and these are very
important in all trades and professions, –
politics most especially.

S. R. J.’s 2nd offering was a brief sketch of
Ella Flagg Young of Chicago who has taught
51 of her 68 yrs. and, by latest report, has consented
to retain her high position as Supt.
of the Public Schools of that city. When she resigned
the place, there was such a wave of
protest she could not withstand her friends.

Albina O. Stabler read of a Calif. girl who
raises butterflies so successfully she
supports herself. Within 3 wks. she mounted and sold
$75.00 worth and for several successive weeks her
sales were $100 a week.

Ellen Stabler kindly gave Jas. P. Stabler’s