Green Mount, Jan 9th, 1881
We opened our Society as usual by reading a Psalm after which we adjourned to the Music room & after the usual duties Lou played much to our enjoyment "Pensee Celeste" then Sallie played "Voice from Heaven." Her execution of it well merited the applause she received. Mattie Kate read "Woman's Work" very well. Every woman should try to work up to this standard that she may received, this applaudit at Heaven's Gate." (not sure of some of those last words but it looks like those are how the words are spelled). "She hath done what she chould." This excellent piece was followed by another equally so by Lucy entitled Perfect Through Suffering which teaches us that every sorrow we have in this life tends to draw us up from the transient things of this world to Heaven with its joys & blessings. Loulie read very nicely a piece called The Teacher. Mattie repeated very sweetly "Kind Hearts." Nannie then sung "The Danube River," and then Miss Lou ended a pleasant evening's exercises by reading for our enjoyment "How Deacon Tubman & Darson Adams Spent the New Year."
S (probably Sallie Blount-she wrote the S very fancy)
