Roll Call: Selections from Spring Poems. Paper: "Turkey and the Turks."
Roll call: Epigrams. Paper: "The Balkan States."
One of the most interesting clubs in New England has a membership of farmers' wives and daughters, scattered around for ten miles. It has astonishingly clever programs, prepared with few library helps. Each program is clearly written on a small folder, adorned with a Perry picture bearing on the subject of the day. One program was:
Our Friend the Horse. Music; Current Events; paper, "Horses, Past and Present"; reading, "The Council of Horse," by Gay; reading, "The Blood Horse," by Barry Cornwall; reading, "The Leap of Roushan Beg," by Longfellow; paper, "Some of the Horses in Bookland"; reading, "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix," by Browning.
Another meeting, a social one, had for its subject:
Tea. Paper, "Tea Culture"; "Tea in literature"; reading, "The Boston Tea Party," by Holmes; reading from "Cranford," The Tea Party; toasts, presented by members, drunk in tea.
A program for the year on Domestic Science begins each month with a roll call, answered by Helpful Hints. Here is one meeting:
Roll call: Helpful Hints on Vegetables and Soups.