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told us the secret of a happy old age; a woman of
83 said her cheerfulness was the result of never
carrying domestic burdens to bed and never fretting
at any time. Sarah T. Miller said that although
Suffrage and temperance literature were by no
means exhausted she would vary her course
by a dissertation on the evils of tobacco.

Carrie M. Brooke recited most acceptably Byrants
ever beautiful "Lines to a water fowl" and her
good example was followed by Mrs. Phillips
who gave "The Petrified Fern", Lucy Miller
a third guest told us of a curious fact
connected with the migration of birds from
Europe to Africa. They cross the sea at a
wide point, which has puzzled naturalists,
but it has been explained by the recent
discovery of some submerged islands upon
which the remote ancestors of the winged traveller
probably rested. Lucy also recited some clever
rhyming notes between a young man and
a young woman on the subject of a purse
and a handkerchief for the use of which
he had loaned a pocket for an evening
and forgot to return. The bird story
brough out several others, Eliza N. Moore said
blackbirds always come to Norwood from the
8th to the 11th of _____. Ellen Stabler had
verses containing the moral "Do not look
for the flaws as you go through life " and

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told us the secret of a happy old age; a woman of
83 said her cheerfulness was the result of never
carrying domestic burdens to bed and never fretting
at any time. Sarah J. Miller said that although
Suffrage and temperance literature were by no
means exhausted she would vary her course
by a dissertation on the evils of tobacco.
Carrie M. Brooke recited most acceptably Byrants
ever beautiful "Lines to a water fowl" and her
good example was followed by Mrs. Phillips
who gave "The Petrified Fern", Lucy Miller
a third guest told us of a curious fact
connected with the migration of birds from
Europe to Africa. They cross the sea at a
wide point, which has puzzled naturalists,
but it has been explained by the recent
discovery of some submerged islands upon
which the remote ancestors of the winged traveller
probably rested. Lucy also recited some clever
rhyming notes between a young man and
a young woman on the subject of a purse
and a handkerchief for the use of which
he had loaned a pocket for an evening
and forgot to return. The bird story
brough out several others, Eliza N. Moore said
blackbirds always come to Norwood from the
8th to the 11th of -. Ellen Stabler had
verses entertaining the moral "Do not look
for the flaws as you go through life " and