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Mary E. Moore adhered to the prevailing fashion
of this meeting by giving us poetry
"The Garden of Life," one
verse of which was

"It beareth well, it repays our care;
But the blossoms must always and ever be,
Like the seed that we planted there;
For beautiful thoughts make beautiful lives,
And every word and deed,
will lie in the thought that prompted it,
As the flower lies hid in the seed."

Virginia Steer's selection was upon the subject
of "knitting", which was prescribed as
a remedy for not only rheumatism
and cramp, but for that much more
deadly complaint, "low spirits." Annie E.
Gilpin said she could testify to the truth
of the article, as she had received great
benefit from a persistent effort to use her
fingers in this manner. The woman
who asked how to make a green lawn
dress was advised to put beef's gall in
the water and the color would not fade.
Mary E. Gilpin had verses, "A Spring
Cleaning", telling us to purify our lives
as well as our homes.

"To sweep old ideas away with the dust,
And dress your soul in newer style,
Scrape from your mind its worn
crust
And dump it in the rubbish pile!"

Ellen Stabler read a very old fashioned
story "The Goose" which was recited in
Sandy Spring forty years since but was
new to most of the present generation
probably when it recently appeared in
"The Sentinel". Fanny Snowden encouraged
us all to practice the art of laughter,
to aid digestion, to expand the lungs, and
to keep us in a cheerful frame of mind.
One Dr. declares if people would only laugh