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Of a new book which becomes necessary
every four or five years. It was moved
and carried that Amy Hutton and
sister Elise, and Julia Hallowell all of
Brookeville be made members of the
Association and Margaret Bancroft an
Associate member from date

Estelle T. Moore gave from the Independent
a very original essay “Why I like to be poor”.
The writer defended her unusual attitude
of mind by recounting the many blessings
of poverty and pro contra the treats of wealth.
In the act of marrying a poor man the
lady said she had anchored herself
securely to poverty in whose blessed
reality she firmly believed.

Mary E. Thomas read one of Walt Masons
clever parodies but as she and the Sec
live together she has been unable
to secure the article.

Rebecca T. Miller had phlox plants to give
away. Elizabeth T. Stabler brought a bright
little poem “Daffy-down dilly” and recommended
a new material to make wash
day more easy which is called Gyx”
and sold at the rate of three boxes 25 cts.

E. C. Davis read of a letter 2200 years old
which was recently opened for the first
time with a mallet taken out of its Clay
Envelope and read by Dr. Langdon of
The Pa University. The Epistle was merely
a haughty order from some dignitary to a
flour merchant, and evidently been a
“dead letter” for 64 generations. Query
did the family have to live on corn bread
in consequence. Mary E. Gilpin had an
interesting sketch of Amelia E. Barr who
at the age of 87 years works nine hours
a day, mentally young and physically
strong she is busy planning more books
although the author of 77 volumes and
hundreds of short stories essays & editorials.
A native of England she married at nineteen