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"And only speak the words that move
Like white-winged messengers of love".

Anna F. Gilpin had selected a companion piece
"You can never tell" which fitted on to the other
idea exactly. Elizabeth G. Thomas read of the attire
of New England women when this century was in its
teens, thus leghorn bonnets and stays, and of the
time spent upon elaborate quilting and the preparation
of vast stores of bedding. E.G.T. also gave
a scrap proving that conventional phrases are too
often but a mockery. At this stage the sec. discovered
that the last reader and Sarah E. Stabler
had changed places so frequently it became a
matter of doubt how many turns each wanted.

Sarah H. Stone had selected poetry " Into Thy
Keeping" which Catherine Janney kindly read,
and then gave her own contribution, an account
of Spurgeons encounter with a virago whom he
non-plussed and conquered by feigning deafness
and answering her vituperation by pleasant
remarks relating to the weather and the walking.

Eliza N. Moore had some curious information
about the Chinese Jews of whose origin wiseacres
disagree. They themselves claim to have been in
China for ten centuries which would seem long
enough to have founded almost anything human
anywhere. E. N. M.'s second article treated of the
great liberties taken by florists in changing the
color of flowers by sulphur fumes, iron and
steel filings or watering with indigo. Rose