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"Book of Inspiration and Cheer". "The exquisite first taste. The rare aroma of never before! The charm of the new! The rapture of youth is that there is opportunity
for so many beginnings. The ocean can never be to you what it was that first day
you saw it a strange blue wall that soon stretched out into immensity."

Emily Massey read an address on the situation in Europe by J. Henry Scattergood
of Philadelphia who recently returned from Europe and gave us a very different
idea of the ideals there now cherished by Germans of the passive resistance
practiced by them and also told how much they have paid on their debt three times
more than they paid in 1871. It presented a clear statement of the conditions
there and many lessons for us to learn. We helped them in war and now we must help
them to peace. Charity is only a drop in the bucket. We must go into a League of
Nations or World Court and put Christianity into practice. Love always works and
Christianity will work if you have the courage and faith to try it. Mr. Curo said
to me "We must have a new spirit among nations and with a new spirit new things
are possible" and I said "Dare I come to Europe to hear that from a German? Isnt
that what our boys went over for? Are we going back down the valley once more
or are we going on to the heights with a new spirit?' Food for thought in the article.

Hallie C. Bentley read two poem "On Christmas Eve" and "When Daddy Lighted
the Tree" by Margaret E. Sangster.

Helen Moore read from The Rural New Yorker of the merits of the apple for
health and beauty. The acids of sour apple will weaken and destroy the dreaded
bacteria of pyorrhea; and as a combined tooth paste and brush the apple has few
equals. The act of eating two good mellow apples a day will prove the most useful
exercise you can take up.

Mrs. Scott told us about a new fruit spelled feijoa and pronounced "fay-oho-ha".
It was not known till 1900 and somewhat resembles an elongated apple and can
be used in the various ways that an apple can: it tastes like the pineapple and
strawberry combined and has a delicious odor. The little trees were transported
from Uruguay to France and thence to California has good shipping qualities is
more regularly prolific than the apple is hardy but as yet the rich have them at
Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Julia A. Hallowell
Secretary.