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166 Ingleside, con.

This young woman, who seems to have no
use for a last name, began to made fine candy
in Syracuse when a child. She gradually extended
the business until she now pays $50,000
a year rent, and has been offered $100,000 for her
plant. Her candy never brings less than $1.00
per lb.

Mary E. Gilpin read a few verses in praise
of a laugh, -

“A laugh is just like sunshine
It freshens all the day
It tips the peaks of life with light
And draws the clouds away.”

Emilie T. Massey said her daughter was
still in Ga. enjoying the wonderful negro singers
and the mocking-birds.

Sarah T. Miller told us her taste was reformatory
so she had brought a fine speech by
the Gov. of N.Y. (Chas. S. Whitman) upon “Penology”. The only hopeful
system is that which strives to turn a criminal
into a self-supporting individual who has
become in some sense, a student or an expert
during his incarceration. S. T. M. had visited a
model Prison at Great Meadows near Saratoga.

The prisoners have various recreating and unusual
privileges; in 4 yrs. 1800 men have been
released, on parole, and only 100 have relapsed
into crime and are again within walls.

Estelle T. Moore read lines from “The Bentztown
Bard, - “Life’s Give and Take”, -

“You can’t slip off and be alone
And leave the world to fight its way
While you in some green woodland zone
Disport in free and careless play;
You can’t put by the toil and care,
Forget the strife and fly afar,
Beyond the hatred and despair
The wounding weapon and the scar.”

E. T. M. showed us a patent seed-tape which her
daughter had sent her as a sample from N. Y.
The seed are placed on the tape at just the right
distance apart, and the tape itself is fertilizer, - so
there you are!

Ellen Farquhar had a witty parody on