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At all the times you can,
As long as ever you can.”

Lastly verses entitled “Good Life”

He liveth best who liveth well,
All else is life but thrown away.
He liveth longest who can tell,
Of lovely things timely done each day.

Sow love and taste its fruitage pure,
Sow peace and reap the harvest bright,
Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor,
And find a harvest home of light.”

The Sec’y gave part of an article from “The Literary Digest”,
proposing a “Better English Week” which should start
a crusade against all slang & meaningless phrases
in the schools. Rockville & Sherwood took up the subject
with interest. “Nope” for “No” “Yep” “hum-hum”
for “yes” were especially ridiculed & perhaps it may
accomplish more than reasoning has done to abate
a nuisance. Parents & teachers all over the land seem
aroused to the importance of a clean language,
becoming the habit of children.

Estelle T. Moore’s report from the Meeting of the
County Federation was most satisfactory. We are
urged not to become weary of well-doing while so
much in the way of improvement remains undone.
A more active interest in the County Schools is
especially advised. Parents should not only visit
them, but make it a duty to become acquainted
with the teachers. Many of them are strangers
in a strange land where they come to Sandy
Spring to teach & to improve the rising generation.

Adjourned to Clermont on 1-6-1921

Mary Bentley Thomas, Sec’y.

774th Session
January 6th 1921 found us all agog for the home of
Mary B. Hutton, the weather-man giving us the best day in the
week for the trek, there being much evidence that the road was
in a transition state & would probably be improved shortly.

Guests were Mrs. Janney, Sallie H. Adams & daughter, Ethel Janney,
Ethel Thomas & daughter, & Katherine Adams. As this is the Sec’y’s
swan-song she will break a rule & mention the delicious