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Invercauld
Sept 5^th 1916

The hour of meeting nearly observed
The Minutes of the last meeting written by
Lydia B. Stabler in the absence of the Secretary
were highly commended and she is a
marked girl from this time and will
not fail to be elected when we need to fill
the office of Secretary. 1^st Reader Marianna Miller
read "The Summer of Butterflies" as the
writer E. E. L. of The Baltimore Sun. terms her
vacation days of 198. She gave a beautiful
description of the summer which the many
rains kept so beautifuller green and of the
unusal number of butterflies which enhanced
its Lovliness . 2^nd Reader Eliza Moore read
that Vegetarians make the best Husbands
from the Washington Post. Dr. Robison calls
meat a blood heater much domestic unhappiness
can be avoided by a vegetable diet and
says further that it would cut the cost
of living one half."

Volunteer. A catalogue of nursery stock
sent by F. D. Stabler. It was published
nearly 100 years ago. The prices were
much higher then than now.

Marian Mills read "Imagination in
Art" Imagination is an element by
which artists are able to inflict their wares
upon the public. When Millet painted two
peasants in a potato field with bowed heads
Suggesting prayer he wisely named
the painting the Angelus. Had he