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The 615th meeting of the Home Interest was held February 6th
at the home of Allan Farquhar. This lovely spick-and-span house
was a pleasant setting for the occasion. It is so carefully ap-
pointed - doors checks on the doors that should remain closed,
compact conservatories at appropriate points, cold pantries, shin-
ing paint and telephones at all stair landings.

From the kitchen of this model little house issued forth
ambrosial foods - the festive oyster, the sliced ham, the hot and
steaming roll, the English walnut cunningly imbedded in icecream.

At the meeting Milton Bancroft assumed the gavel with his us-
ual smiling grace. Norris Fussell's term as secretary was found
to have expired; and, in accordance with the new scheme of rotation,
the place now fell to Braemar. Faith Morris accepted this duty
with her usual charming willingness and Edwin Morris took the notes.

The question of changing the date of meeting was again brought
up. After some discussion the fourth Tuesday in the month was sug-
gested and, on motion of Edith Thomas was approved. For the March
meeting and thereafter the regular meeting day will be the fourth
Tuesday in each month.

For the Fire Vprotection Committee, Harry Stabler reported that
there had been a meeting of a joint committee composed of re-
presentativesfrom each of the farmers' Clubs, from the Neighbors
and from the Home Interest. At this meeting a sub-committee
had been appointed to formulate a plan. The Home Interest commit-
tee asked to be continued.

The Forethought Committee made graceful speeches. Edith Thomas
said there is nothing new under the sun and this is never so evi-
dent as when one is on the Forethought Committee. Milton Bancroft
slid out by saying that he had had the forethought to be appointed
chairman and that therefore he could not serve.

The Forthought committee for the next meeting is Allan Farqu-
har and Elza Thomas.

We then had the great pleasure of hearing a talk by Arthur
Christy on National Defense. As a matter of convenience, the
speaker requested that since he had not been able to get his data
on national defense in the shape he desired, that he be allowed
to paraphrase the title of the subject by striking out the words
"national defense" and substituting therefor the words "the his-
tory of the X-ray."

He warned the audience that the subject might contain long
words and hard ideas - like the opening sentence of an essay which
defined Conscience as the Catogorical Imperative of the Super-
empirical Reasoning.

The discovery of the X-ray was the culminating achievement
of a century of great scientific Discoveries.

The X-ray is the result of passing a high voltage