once for a Fourth of July temperance picnic held on the North Plain. This was a day of great remembrance to the pupils; and the songs then learned, "Flowers, Wildwood Flowers," and "The Temperance Banner,' still are as fresh in Mrs. Smith's mind as on that day nearly fifty years ago.
This is intended as but an introduction to a fuller sketch of Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Kinney, her great grand- daughter, has agreed to furnish many more of the par- ticulars of her work, and to gather as nearly as possible her letters still in the family possession. It is hoped that these may be presented to the readers of the QUAR- TERLY at no distant date. Mrs. Brown's home grew and flourished, so that her house had to be enlarged, and so careful was she about useless expenditures that her own private funds became quite a comfortable competence, for those days, enabling her to donate, or bequeath, actual cash, or property, for further educational work.
H. S. LYMAN.
I have read the above and find it very satisfactory and correct.
JANE K. SMITH.
ASTORIA, November 25, 1901.
