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advice of our President to the fathers of the land
who, too frequently, do not take even a small
share of their obvious duty in helping the Mothers
to bring up the children properly. "No
amount of business force and sagacity will
make the average man a good citizen, unless
he is a good husband and father and a good
bread winner" says the President. Martha Holland
read of the great advance recently made by
the women of Japan, who have even a popular
Magazine edited by one of them, and a
fine school in Tokio is managed by a young
woman, a Christian now, who was educated
in this country. Sarah F. Willson had
some reflections upon Longfellow's place in
literature. He has been named the "Poet of the
People" and his poems will live, it was thought,
while English words are spoken.

Margaret G. T. Moore told us of the wonderful
spiders of Madagascar whose webs are being
woven into beautiful silk fabrics. They are
watched and tended, fed on bamboo leaves,
and treated so scientifically they are sometimes
made to produce 1400 yards of the
fabric a month. Harriet I. Lea had
a sonnet to Shakespeare who was addressed
as a King. The Secretary gave extracts
from a sketch of Lord Strathcona the man
who planned and almost single handed
made possible the Canadian Pacific railroad.
Coming to Canada early youth, poor and
unknown as Donald Smith he was a hardworking
agent of that tyrant the Hudson Bay Co,
for fifteen years in the wilds of Labrador.
His career reads like a fancy story from this
period up to the time when, as President, he
drove the last spike in the railroad and was
knighted by Queen Victoria for his public
services. He was requested, however, before
this honor could be lowered, to conform so
far to British prejudices as to legally marry