Scrapbook: Mary Magruder,1901-1903

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Mary Magruder Sandy Spring Maryland

1901-1903

A MEMORY BOOK

BOTH YOUNG AND OLD TAKE PLEASURE IN IT.

Record of Enjoyments at Home and Elsewhere a Timely Fad.

Written for The Evening Star.

A good many young people and older people, too, have begun the delightful task of arranging a Memory Book to record the happy times they have had and the delightful people they have met. Its make-up is easier, it is of more general interest, and much less tedious than the old-fashioned journal, with its daily recount of often trivial and unimportant events. A large scrap book, strongly bound, with guards or extra strips between the leaves to admit the pastings and entry of souvenirs, is the first requisite. A pretty over-cover can be made of denim in blue, green or brown, or of the ordinary tan canvas, with the title in embroidered lettering in outline, or in gold running through the center.

The title itself may be as fanciful and poetic as one wishes, so long as it is in harmony with the idea, "For Memory's Sake," "The Light of Other Days," etc. A spray of forget-me-nots or a scattering of the blossoms on the outside or on the flyleaf inside gives a dainty suggestiveness.

Let the cover be large enough to meet over the edges and bound with a neat braid or ribbon, stitched on and tied across the ends and at the front.

As this is a keepsake book for the years of after life, it is worth some trouble to make it pretty and attractive. The filling of the pages will be according to the tastes of the maker. A girl of nineteen summers has made her memory book really a very dainty piece of work. She selected almost

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entirely social happenings, using invitations and other suggestive mementos. One whole page was given to a visit to a friend at Thanksgiving time. On the upper part of the large page was the tag which was on her trunk; under it, arranged in a design, were the little hand-painted dinner cards, and so on. Again, on a page commemorating a clambake, given on the rocks of a summer watering place, were some sprays of the seaweed that the clams were baked in, dried, pressed and fastened in the book by little strips of brightly tinted paper, etc.

Programs of operas, plays and lectures, dance cards, tally cards from whist and euchre parties, filled out the pages, which showed great variety.

The Memory Book of a college student showed on one page a torn scrap of a sweater worn at a memorable foot ball game, and on another the program of some college entertainment at which he assisted. Every woman has some bright spots that she would be glad to recall - an evening at the grand opera with a congenial friend - a merry sleigh ride, a gay dance, a sailing party. Even insignificant and homely relics bring pleasant thoughts and a smile of gladness. The pages can be varied and made attractive and artistic with the help of the brush and paint box. An occasional sketch in water color or black and white often brings to mind very vividly the scene itself, as well as the incidents. Another good idea for the Memory Book is to have a page or so for the autographs of friends. Even though an acquaintance drops out of one's life, when the pages are turned his name is there, with some pleasant association.

The Memory Book for traveling should be much smaller - portfolio size - to admit of use on the steamer's deck, or on the long journeys by train. Many a delightful incident, with its accompanying souvenir, can be slipped into its pages for future fastening, that would otherwise be forgotten and lost forever in the crowding experiences that follow.

"My Memory Book is the most precious thing I own," said a young fellow. "It has helped me through many a dismal evening in a lonely city room." Years added to its value, and in the library of the maturer man or woman successive numbers will stand like ledgers of the pleasure times of youth.

A.P.R.

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1901

Summer Meeting of the Central Committee of Friends' General Conference at Sandy Spring, Maryland

Seventh-day, Eighth Month 31st : AFTERNOON. ARRIVAL.

First-day, Ninth Month 1st : 10:30 A.M. Meeting for Worship. 2:00 P.M. Bible Class. 3:00 P.M. Young Friends' Association. Arthur [C?] Smedley. Value of young Friends' Associations to the Society of Friends William Taylor, of West Chester, Pa. Mary Ash, of Philadelphia.

Second-day, Ninth Month 2nd : 10:00 A.M. Devotional Meeting. 10:30 A.M. Session of Central Committee. 2:00 P.M. Devotional Meeting. 2:30 P.M. Session of Central Committee.

Third-day, Ninth Month 3rd : 10:00 A.M. Devotional Meeting. 10:30 A.M. Conference. Topic : "The present duty of the Society of Friends. To be introduced by Henry W. Wilbur, of New York. 2.00 P.M. Closing Session of the Central Committee. 3.00 P.M. Closing Exercises.

Fourth-day, Ninth Month 4th: MORNING. DEPARTURE.

Meetings of the Committees on Philanthropic Labor and First-day School interests will also be arranged.

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1901

YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AN EXHIBITION AND SALE OF ART WORK TO BE HELD AT SANDY SPRING LYCEUM, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER, 7TH FROM 2 TO 7 AFTERNOON-TEA COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS. MRS. H H. MILLER. MISS. EMMA T. STABLER

9-11-1901 The Phil Com - will meet - First-day morning the 15th - 9:45 - Meeting House Please attend

[round postal stamp - OLNEY'MO SEP 12 1901 11 AM REC'D]

C.D. Thomas Sec.