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Cary Club minutes, 1883-1886

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December 1st 1885. Club met with Mrs Mitchell. Five members present. The Secretary being among the absent ones. Mrs Sathern was made sec protem. The subject being France Mrs Mitchell first read a foreign letter [illegible] of that Republic. comparing the systems and advantages with ours. Its methods of choosing its officers and making its division and representing its President as little else than a figure head. Mrs Cook furnishes information concerning French Authors and translators, also facts relating to home production of silk, lace, etc. Mrs Jackson gave a brief report from the Alliance with Editorial comments and a promise to bring the [illegible] article next time. Mrs Rathburn read a letter from the South describing the prohibitive election in Atlanta and the scenes incident [illegible]. The closing read by Mrs Mitchell was a description of the poor children of New Jersey and their sufferings in the mills and it was unanimously agreed that to bring children into existence only to subject them to such trials was a crime of which we are should be guilty. The programme for the next meeting is still France with miscellaneous appendages and news of the day. Adj to meet on
 
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