ANOTHER VIEW OF THE ASSEMBLY ROOM, SHOWING PLATFORM AND BLACKBOARD

-Hodge and Sampson

are.

Then another came forward and offered to move us free of any expense, as his contribution to the Guild. This fairy was a member, though not all our fairies So all of our belongings in Trinity Court were packed up, moved to "339," and placed anywhere in that great house we chose to have them placed. Fairies? Fairies? Why, the Speech Readers Guild is full of them. Wait and hear some more of our experiences and see if you don't agree!

The other loads of furniture from the storage warehouse came soon after. These things were put into place with such efficiency and taste that when the members came to the classes on Monday night, January 2, it positively looked as if we had been in the house for weeks. True, the final touches were not completed (they are not completed yet), but the atmosphere was "settled" and (more. fairies to our aid) the curtains and portieres in that wonderful trunk fitted our windows without our having to do one single thing to them. (Please Mr. Editor, I'd like those words printed in italics.)

Well, I can't tell you all the wonderful things that have happened at the Guild House since January 1. You'll have to come and see for yourself the California redwood table loaned us; the carved-oak, leather-seated dining-room chairs-ten of them, too-given; beautiful hand-made, hemstitched sheets and pillow-cases for another bed given for another room (Would any but a fairy be guilty of such a labor of love?); a large hand-painted, beautifully executed reproduction of our seal, framed in a gilt frame, not to mention the reproduction in filet lace made last summer, before the possibility of a Guild House was even known-made just "for the Directors' room"-another labor of love, made by another Guild fairy. That place is veritably filled with them.

woodwork onto the soft, springy mattress. My grandmother had just such a bed, and I used to do just such a stunt, so I know. With this a rich, aristocratic old bureau, a solid severe table of the same period, and chairs. These were given, all given, together with cretonne curtains and two steel engravings, to complete the beauty of the room. We who were there when they arrived felt almost awed and hushed by the wondrous beauty of the gift and the wondrous beauty of the Guild, since it could awaken in the hearts of our donors the desire to bestow upon us all such treasures. Yes, upon us all, for the Guild House is ours, and we will, we must, come up to what is expected of us—we must demonstrate that our work really is worth while. There is not one member of the Board of Directors or the Finance Committee who fails to realize the extent of the moral and spiritual responsibility that has been placed upon us all through these acts of confidence and trust in our ability to "carry on."

The Board tried in the beginning to help the cause through using practical methods, and the fairies of the Guild have helped us beyond belief or our wildest dreams, through bestowing upon us a host of beautiful and practical gifts. At our annual birthday party (it was five years ago last January that our little organization started) over $100 in cash and checks was received, besides many lovely useful and necessary things for the equipment of a large house. With this money the Board of Directors is buying needed things that are in harmony with our gifts, such as a mahogany mantel-shelf clock and a table lamp for the reception-room, to add to its comfort and the artistic effect.

The beauty in what we all cherish and call the spirit of the Guild seems to us to have found an actual material expression in the quality of our gifts and loans. The members are "catching" more and more the sense of responsibility and each helps us more and more to work out the problems that confront us. It is not going to be all easy, smooth sailing, by any means; but the service, no matter how taxing, how problematical, is going to be worth while. The fairies have demonstrated this already. Don't misjudge the Guild

House and think it is all due to our "mysterious Mr. Smith." He did furnish the house itself. We are grateful to him for this grateful beyond words, and he knows the depth of our gratitude-but the house is merely a shell, and of itself alone could mean nothing to us save four

square walls. The fairies of the Guild have made it something far more, more than we ever dreamed any house could be; they have made it our home.

A cordial welcome awaits you always, and our sign still hangs upon our door"PLEASE WALK IN."

NOTICE is hereby given that the ad

journed annual meeting of the members of the American Association for the Hard of Hearing (Incorporated), which was adjourned from the 11th day of March, 1921, will be held at Boston, Mass., on the 8th, 9th, and 10th days of June, 1921, for the purpose of electing five managers and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

The headquarters of the Association will be the Speech-Readers' Guild, 339 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, and the sessions will be held at the Guild House and at such other places as may be selected by the Committee on Arrangements, including a joint session with the Section. on Otology of the American Medical Association.

In conjunction with the meeting an exhibition on Educational and Social Alleviations of Acquired Deafness will be held.

A copy of the tentative program is appended to this notice and all members are urged to attend.

ANNETTA W. PECK,

Corresponding Secretary.

Dated New York, May 8, 1921.

PROGRAM FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE HARD
OF HEARING (INCORPORATED),
AT BOSTON, 1921

(This program is subject to possible alterations.)

Wednesday, June 8

Morning Session, 9 a. m.

1. Address of Welcome. Dr. David Harold Walker, 2d Vice-President.

2. Announcement by the Chairman of the Committee on Arrangements.

3. President's address. Dr. Wendell C. Phillips. 4. Reports from constituent bodies:

a. The New York League for the Hard of Hearing.

b. San Francisco League for the Hard of Hearing.

c. Chicago League for the Hard of Hearing, by Miss Valeria D. McDermott, Field Secretary.

d. Jersey City League for the Hard of Hearing.

e. Newark League for the Hard of Hearing.

f. Toledo League for the Hard of Hearing.

g. Pittsburgh League for the Hard of

Hearing.

5. Reports from organizations not members of the Association :

a. The Speech-Readers' Guild of Bos

Afternoon Session, 2 or 2.30 p. m.

The following papers will be presented, to be followed by discussion:

1. How to Prevent Deafness. James Kerr Love, M. D., F. R. F. P. S. G.

2. Deafened Service Men in the United Kingdom. Dundas Grant, M. A., M. D., F. R. C. S., Major (retired), President of Special Aural Board, Ministry of Pensions, and Henry Lloyd Ingram, Captain, late teacher of lip-reading at Belleville, Ont., Secretary Special Aural Board.

3. The Physician's Responsibility to the Deafened. Wendell C. Phillips, M. D., F. A. C. S., and Harold M. Hays, M. D., F. A. C. S.