Club Minutes: Mutual Improvement Association, 1944

Brooke Meadow - 6-1-1944 1019th meeting

Sallie Janney welcomed the members and guests of the Mutual Improvement Association to Brooke Meadow - 6-1-194 and after luncheon served by her and some very able assistants, the 1019th meeting was called to order by Helen Hallowell -

The minutes of the last meeting at this place - just two years ago - were read - and the minutes of the last meeting were read and accepted.

The Treasury still remains in a static condition with the same $9.64 on hand.

Next meeting place - with Louise Hough at Francis Lattie Inn.

Sentiment of the hostess - Sallie said she “enjoyed so having you dear people here - there Is no place on

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earth like Sandy Spring and Sandy Spring people.” Question - How is the best way to open these new jars for canning. The ring should be removed before they are put in storage - then they are easy to lift up with a bottle opener.

Mary Brooke - We who want peace - daily use of good words and kind deeds -

Mariana Miller read the prize sonnet on the Four Freedoms - written by Ann Coe Mitchell.

Margaret Bancroft’s article told of the present student body - at Swarthmore College where Japanese, Chinese, Negroes and other nationalities all work peaceably together.

Ethel Janney - no -

Mary Magruder read from Uncle Ray’s Corner how Commodore Perry

opened Japan.

Mary Hutton - some good jokes -

Julia Hallowell - no.

Mary Reading Miller - a family anecdote.

Louise Hough - Garden hints - Then some interesting things about her recent trip to California.

Helen Farquhar - a little sketch - Helen said “Darius Green and his Flying Machine” is in the Book of Knowledge - Vol 19.

Helen Moore told of a cartoon - a boy arguing for peace, - and of a wonderful control of disease germs.

Edith Thomas shared with us some letters from her son Malcolm. Edith has a kind of foam on her iris - and want to know what to do about it? No help given.

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Rose Gilpin read of the reconstruction of an old country home/

Nettie Moore - a quotation from Emerson.

Edith Green gave a little “Grace” which should be taught to the present day children - as it was to those of 1852.

Elizabeth Stabler told of visits she had made to this dear old place “Brooke Meadow” many years ago.

Alice Pierce read of an Old Fashioned Mother - a Madonna.

Anna Busslers article advised that all get their grammar right in order to convey the intended information - She reported her sage plants doing well - and now wants a hop vine.

Elizabeth Ligon gave a very interesting and instructive article on Flower Arrangements.

Helen Shoemaker wanted to know if this year’s wealth of bloom in the flower border is not unusual - Probably due to the wealth of rain in the early spring.

Katherine Adams - no.

Sallie Shields - no.

Helen Moore reported that Florence Wetherald appreciated the message sent by the Association - and sent her love.

Congratulations were sent to the Associations newest Grandmother - Elza. Love was sent to Sarah Adams who is ill.

The secretary had received letters in reply to the request for new rooms at Sherwood. The Lay Health Committee wants new members.

There being no further business the meeting adjourned.

Margaret Elgar Sherman Jones Secretary.