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Grove Hill 9-4-1913

The 695th mtg of the Asso. took place
by invitation on Martha T. Hopkins, at Grove
Hill, she having kindly loaned this beautiful
old home for her cousin Harriet I. Lea for the
occasion. So far as known it was the only
gathering of a society at Grove Hill since
Thos. Tyson’s club convened there at least 65 yrs.
before this date. Guests were Martha T. Hopkins and
daughter Mary; Letitia Kummer of Mass., Janie
Talliaferro, Beatrix Rumford, Fanny L. Dickinson
and daughter Alice, Rebecca T. Miller, “Sharlot”
Brigham, [Leuld?] Moore, Mary McP. Janney and
Frances Osburn. The sentiment was a single
good line from Lucretia Mott, “No man nor woman
can do as much for the truth as it does for them.”

Eliza N. Moore read for the “Travel Magazine”
of journeys that may be taken at home, beginning
with the study of a geography and atlas supplements
later, by guide-books. A man who had lost
much and was in danger of becoming melancholy
from brooding over his sorrows, began to explore
London, street by street, in this way and found
solace in the knowledge acquired. After recounting
his experience he wrote, - “If one can not
get away from trouble it is possible to make it
get away from you by a persistent effort.”

Louisa T. Brooke gave from our old poetess
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “I said I would have my fling
and do as a young man may,”- a really terrible
exposure of the possible effects upon a future generation
of immorality in thoughtless youth.

A question in regard to cleaning mahogany
furniture brought out the information that rubbing
with kerosene and them using olive oil by means
of soft woolen cloths had been found satisfactory.

Janie Taliaferro told of the exquisite phosphoric
effect she had witnessed more than once on the
Severn River in Va. during tremendous thunderstorms.
She also said that she had found
common salt would remove tea stains from China.

Rebecca T. Miller had recently visited Long Island
and was much interested in seeing the successful transplanting
of very large trees, by a firm who have made it a specialty.

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