l reminiscences_ of childhood Thanksgiving Days.

_Recitation_ from Whittier's "Thanksgiving Day."

If possible hang up a large picture of the "Return of the _Mayflower_,"
or other appropriate picture in the room.

XV--AN AFTERNOON WITH OUR SOUTHERN WRITERS

Thomas Nelson Page: Readings from "The Old South," Chapter I; "An Old
Virginia Sunday;" "The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock," Chapter V.

James Lane Allen: Readings from "A Home of the Silent Brotherhood," "Two
Gentlemen of Kentucky."

Richard Malcolm Johnston: Readings from "Dukesborough Tales."

The Poet of the South, Sidney Lanier: Selections from his biography, by
his wife. Short poems: "Life and Song," "The Stirrup Cup," "A Song of
the Future," "A Ballad of the Trees and the Master."

George W. Cable: Reading from "'Sieur George."

Ruth McEnery Stuart: Readings from "Sonny," "The Second Wooing of Salina
Sue," "Thanksgiving on Crawfish Bayou."

The program may be interspersed by plantation songs: "Old Black Joe,"
"The Suwanee River," "My Old Kentucky Home," "Camptown Races" and
others.

XVI--THE CHILD IN THE HOME

I. _Music_: Ballad.

II. _Talk or paper_: The child's right to a welcome.

III. _Discussion_ by three members:

(1) Squabbling and how to deal with it.

(2) Unselfishness.

(3) Equal rights for boys and girls.

IV. _Music_: Child songs.

V. _Paper_: The family evenings: Parents and children.

VI. _Discussion_:

(1) Reading aloud.

(2) Games and music.

VII. _Paper_: Parents as friends.

VIII. _Talk_, followed by general experiences.

XVII--MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

Commencement and Afterward.

The Relation of Parents to the Grown Daughter.

The Training for Housekeeping.

Friends and Entertaining.

Preparations for a Life-Work Away from Home.

The Married Daughter.

The Unmarried Middle-Aged Daughter.

A general discussion.

XVIII--CHRISTMAS PROGRAM

_Song_: "Noel," by Gounod.

_Reading_ from Dickens: the story of Scrooge's Christmas.

_Paper or talk_ on Curious Christmas Customs (in England, Germany,
Sweden, etc.).

_Song_: "When from the East the Wise Men Came," by Bullard.

_Reading_ from "Sonny," by Ruth McEnery Stuart.

_Reading_ from Howells's "Christmas Every Day."

_Song_: "The Virgin's Lullaby," by Dudley Buck.

_Reading_: "George Washington Jones, A Christmas Gift That Went
a-Begging," by Ruth McEnery Stuart.

_Song_: "Over the Hills of Bethlehem," by Nei