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and enjoyed, - it is always interesting to look
back over the bright things read and said by
our friends. Then the minutes of the first
meeting at Ingleside were read and approved,
and we are glad to welcome that hospitable
home to the Association.

The hostess gave a beautiful sentiment
by Chas G. Ames, “The summits are gained not
by leaping the bold mountain walls, nor by
dashing against the forbidden crags; but by
climbing the long slope, step by step.”

Fannie Snowden had a very scientific
piece upon the relative values of brown and
white bread. Brown bread is advised for the
use of our soldiers as being far more wholesome.

Rebecca Stabler gave us a paper from
George School Ides – advising us first “to live by
the hour if we cannot live by the day.”

You cannot have too many friendships
of the right kind. Keep the hours profitable
and you can say with the Poet,
“And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.”

Ellen Stabler gave us several funny
little stories. In one on the Automobile,
a boy said, “I can manage the horse if you
will lead Mother past”. Margaret Magruder
had a good poem on “My Duty”, -

“Guard well thy tongue, thou cans’t not know
What evils from thy tongue may flow
What grief, what guilt may be incurred
By using one incautious word.”

She also gave us a good anecdote about
a little girl who did not mind the spanking
one bit, not the hurt, but she “just hated to see her
Mother make herself so ridiculous.”

Martha Holland read to us of “chatting”.
It is not conversation, not talking, it is just
words. Making one wonder what will come next,
never mind details, pass lightly and naturally
from one subject to another, and be entertaining.

Rebecca Miller asks us to, -