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164 Ingleside 3-2-1916

The Asso. met at Ingleside on 3-2-1916.

Mary T. Bond, Albina O. Stabler, Martha Holland,
Eliza N. Moore, Eliz. T. Stabler, M. G. T. Moore, Alice Tyson,
Mary Scott and Sallie R. Janney were absent.

Edith Hallowell, Eliz. Willson, Miriam Thomas
and sons, and little Brook Moore aged 6 months,
were guests of the day.

Fanny B. Snowden’s excellent sentiment was
from an unknown source to some of us, - “It may
be a little farther around the corners of a square
deal, but the roads are better.”

Elma P. Chandlee gave a bright sketch of
Robert H. Lord, the man who first wrote and had
printed practical Christmas cards. He was a promising
artist and poet while a school boy, and when
grown he opened a small shop in Springfield
Ill., for the sale of little souvenirs. He began on
Christmas of new designs and mottos and
soon turned them out, suitable for all known purposes
and occasions when people send such
a remembrance. Easter, birth-days, to parents, to
children, to old friends, to lovers, to husbands, wives
and travelers until every human relation had its
own card. He was asked for one appropriate
to a friend going abroad. He made it in the shape
of a baggage-tag and put this rhyme, -

“I’d like to be a baggage tag
With nothing else to do
But dangle from a steamer trunk
And tag along with you.”

Duplicates sold by thousands and it became
the greatest globe-trotter ever known. One day he
was tying up a calendar for a friend and he tucked
in one of his own visiting cards upon which was
written, “It’s and old, old wish – upon a little card,
To wish you Merry Christmas
But I wish it awful hard.”

These reproduced in the same size found 50,000
purchasers. Two others must be quoted, -

“When Santa Claus on Christmas Eve
Upon your door comes knocking,
I hope he’ll find a happy heart
And leave a well-filled stocking.”