Club Minutes: Mutual Improvement Association, 1923

ledge of and a delight in that spirit you are hurting him woefully. Truth is a spiritual perception a spiritual interpretation a spiritual instruction and it is best conveyed by symbols. Indeed that is the only way it can be conveyed and it the more illusive things you simply must rely upon symbols and parables or you will never get your message over. Santa Claus is a parable a folk-lore parable old as the ages and the love in the hearts of men for one another. He is the spirit of all gracious giving.

Margaret G. T. Moore also read from Elsie Robinson who again says "Listen World!" on the subject of "Parent and Child." We hear a great deal about the childs indebtedness to the parent but how ^about the parents indebtedness to the child? Parenthood is not merely a service it is a privilege and the supreme human opportunity and the parent if he be 100% proposition gets more than he gives. She asked why her tomatoes did not keep this year but no one could tell her.

Alice Tyson read two very interesting articles sent to her by her sister in England. One was entitled "The Village SIgnpost" memories of Harvard and Penn and the other "Ringmer" telling how the little village in the Sussex Downs gave a wife to John Harvard and to William Penn.

Cousin Ellen Farquhar read us a most interesting account from the Literary Digest "Chocolate Millions for Charity." The ambitions of a man to help fatherless boys. Milton S. Hershey gives $60000000.00 to the orphanage founded at his old home. There are 180 boys enrolled in the school.

Mary Gilpin had two good articles "Stopping the Mouth of Gossip" by a new plan. The newcomer at the boarding house told all her affairs the first day she came so no one had the pleasure of conjecturing why when and how about her and "Was It the Same Crow" a most Interesting story of a tame crow who lived with a family of children for several years when one day he did not come to his dinner and they never could find him. Many years passed when one day a little boy opened the front door and a crow was waiting and walked in and down the long hall turning into a cross Nell and into the living room where he used to stay and walked to the open fire as he used to do he ate heartily and lived with them for several days and died. Was it the same crow?

Rebecca T. Miller read "the Flavor of Beginnings" from Dr. Frank Crane's

"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.