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loss sustained by the writer and her
friends in Southern France, through
the death of their viper killer, who
at ten cents a head had disposed
of many thousands of snakes in the
past twenty years, only to be a victim
himself at last to one of them.

Elizabeth G. Thomas had some verses
entitled "Moth Eaten", containing the
obvious moral that it is far better
to use up things and talents than to
wrap litter in a napkin and lay
it away. Sarah T. Miller gave a bright
poem by Mrs. Stetson, which has
been exemplified in many a public
meeting when there was just so much
time for each speaker, and one senseless
man or woman, by seizing that
belonging to another, disarranged the whole
program. Ellen Farquhar read a
letter from Elsie Elbrey, full of enthusiasm
over the beauty and charm of Paris,
and her European trip generally.

A reference to the difference between understanding
written French and the
same language spoken brought out
some information with regard to a
custom Alice Tyson had known of -
the exchanging of children between
England and countries of the continent
for the express purpose of acquiring a
knowledge of another tongue.

Louisa T. Brooke's selection was of the ever-interesting
and learned Phillipps Brooks;
the writer's impression was of an almost
perfect minister of the gospel whose creed
was of love, of the fatherhood of God and
the brotherhood of man. Mary Bentley
Thomas and Elizabeth C. Davis were appointed
to prepare a memorial of Mary
Osburn, whose decease caused the meeting