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Women’s Literal Circle,The Woman's Literaly Citcle met at the home of iMrs A O. Hill on the beau?-tiful afternoon of April 10.Each Circle day has its motto, the one for this day being “Come forth into tfce light of things; let nature be your teacher.”| The subject under stndy was “EnglishLiterature.” Each memVr responded to roll call with some late invention. In ventiqbs of the eighteenth' century was given in a paper by Mrs Grate H Porter which in her absence was read by Ehnice Publow, bringing out the thought that the English wgra the last people in Europe to introduce the manufacture ofcotton goods into their own homes. In the middle of the 18th century no Eng lishmen had been able to produces cbt-ten thread strong enough for a warp, t In g review of the “George’s of EA-land the fact that English history was truly a history of progress. A constant change in the institution of a ^reat society, w hich, when true to itself is excelled by none. Mrs E. H. Dunn which in herabsence was read by Miss Grace H.Steere. -Entertainment furnished by Mrs H E Stager brought forth much merriment' Itconsisted of songs in a nut-seell. Each member was given a peanut shell in which was enclosed a verse of some song tied with the Circle collars in ribbons. The command was given io sing or pay a penalty, as much as the Pres, might demand. While the circle may not have many Swedish nightingales,” yet it wasfound many had powers of song if they were developed. *
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Carthage Record
Carthage, Indiana, US
Fri, Apr 21, 1899
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