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I'd like the city pretty well,
But when it comes to getting rest, I like the
country much the best."

Lastly - she had a few lines upon the longing
for home which at times afflicts old wanderers
and young alike.

Albina O. Stabler gave curious lore about
patents. Thomas Jefferson was called the
"Father of the Patent Office" since it was almost
entirely owing to his efforts than Congress
passed an enabling act creating the department.
He was on the examining committee
for many years. Among accidental discoveries
thus made profitable to individuals, was
the process of classifying crude sugar with
clay. A keen observeer noticed a hen that
had run through some clay, and then across
a pile of brown sugar, left white tracks in the
latter; a method of utilizing this chemical action
was soon patented. Another man found
his dog's mouth stained a vivid purple
after eating a shell fish in the Massachusetts
coast and the discovery of a beautiful and
valuable dye was the result. The first woman
patentee sent a model of a machine for weaving
straw braid for bonnets; one recently taken out
is upon something that we suppose is a modification
of the ever useful hair-pin as it can be
turned into a skirt supporter, bookmark
a paper cutter, a crimping-pin, a bouqet
holder, a safety pin and a shawl fastener.

Emlie T. Massey warned us of the danger
of kissing. This form of a greeting is assuredly
much less common than in years gone by and
perhaps after listening to such dismal predictions
"The Association" will be even more abstemious
in future in this respect.

Sarah T. Miller had a sketch of Joesphine
Butler of England, the brave spirit who has done
so much at home and abroad to hasten the
era of a "white life for two". In 1864 when