Club Minutes: Mutual Improvement Association, 1930

3] Much evidence to prove from that it is derived from the figure eight.

Sadie Adams contributed what she called "some little snatches" by some good jokes. Question: - Are electric stoves satisfactory? Several who use theirs think they are very satisfactory and not very expensive.

Mary Robison read extracts from an article by John Erskine who is very much interested in the musical education of children.

Margaret Moore - a clipping from an English newspaper telling about Paul Revere's Anvil.

4] Mrs Davis - a guest, asked if this Association is the oldest _Womens club in the United States. We were sorry to admit that the Association is not the oldest in the United States but is surely the oldest in the State of Maryland.

Alice Pierce read a letter mailed from California in 1847 by her father, Edward Pierce.

Edith Alcock - president of the Maryland Federation of Womens Club - a guest - read an account of some of the work being done by Women for the Cause and Cure of War - the Key Idea being to Study and Act. Question - Why did my fruit cake fall

5] apart when I cut it? - There were many suggestions, the principal one being that it was probably too rich. A glass of jelly added to the batter will often remedy this trouble.

____ Koch, Vice- president of the Montgomery County Federation of Women's Clubs, also a guest, contributed an interesting article on the Justices of the Supreme Court - Chief Justice Taft's recognition being the tenth one in its history.

Miss Mc Elroy - had no contribution but gave us a greeting.

Helen Hallowell - read a letter written by her father, Alban G. Thomas to his brother Richard Thomas in 1864.

6] telling most vividly of a rebel raid in the Sandy Spring Store. During the skirmish Captain Bowie was killed.

Sallie Janney's article on Henry James was unusually interesting.

Mary Hutton related two family anecdotes - in her usual amusing way - one being about her grandchild.

Margaret Bancroft gave a story of her grandchild. The rivalry among the grandmother's promises to grow more interesting as time goes on.

Dorothy Owings - nothing.

Helen Morris article on bonuses for the doctors who work in rural environments - paid from

7] public funds gave food for thought.

Beatrice Moore and Louise Hough - nothing.

Rose Gilpin had selected an article on Home Life, but had neglected to bring it. She gave some of the ideas - as she remembered them - all good.

Mary Gilpin - no.

Fanny Iddings - read a letter written by Alban Gilpin to her father, then in California, detailing much neighborhood gossip.

Helen Shoemaker - another proud grandmother - told of her granddaughter, eight years old, who has set to music, aboslutely correctly, a line of poetry.