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Knowing not life's hidden force,
seeing not amid the evil,
All the golden grains of good:
Oh! we'd love each other better
If we only understood."

Ellen Farquhar had something entitled
"The June Bride-groom's Account of Himself,"
a plaint that his wedding, like all the
rest, was all bride, he was completely
ignored and submerged, and his carefully
arranged attire dubbed as "a conventional
suit," which paragraphs were
devoted to the bride's gown, and appearance
generally. Martha Holland had
an interesting sketch of "the Personal
side of Emerson," which served a double
purpose as many present had something
to add. Emerson was particularly happy
in his intercourse with the little ones,
and would give a crying child an
errand in the open air, if only to see if
the gate was locked, sure that Nature
would effect a cure. Mary E. Moore
said she had a common-place article,
but the moral was not so, for the lesson
was obvious that he or she who looks for
the best things in life is sure to find
them. Contentment is enjoined upon us
but this may not prevent our seeing that
a brother farmer may have a good
crop too. Virginia Steer gave a short
biography of Jessie Benton Fremont, who
forty years ago was termed "the most influential
woman in the U. S." Maria
T. Willis told us that Mrs. Fremont had
been taught in youth to do something every
body could not do and consequently was
original and interesting from girlhood to old
age. Harriet Kirk brought an extract
from a sermon by Phillips Brooks, who
said there is nothing so bad for man