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1-1-1891 New Year's Day (S. T. Thomas)

The Association met at Cherry Grove with all members
present escept H. J. Moore, Sally Bond, Jane Scofield,
and Lydia G. Thomas. The minutes were read and approved.

E. G. Thomas gave this sentiment from Whittier:

We shape ourselves the joy or fear
Of which the coming life is made,
And fill our futures atmosphere
with sunshine or with shade.
The tissues of the life to be
we weave with colors all our own
And in the field of destiny
We reap as we have sown.

Then read "When to give" an admirable article
from the Phil. Ledger. If men of wealth did not lack
the wisdom of giving timely, as well as in giving
well. The result would not be as is so Common when
left to executors for distribution instead of doing it
himself; his will is contested and if possible his
benevolent purposes are defeated. Had he
done in life that which he directed his executors
to do when he was dead, he would have had the
assurance that it was well done.

Sarah E. Stabler, very appropriately read "The
New Year's Heart". Anna F. Gilpin, Different ways
of Keeping house by different nationalities Chinese,
Egyptians, Scotch and French etc. from Phil. Press.