Further contributions to. the study of some early chapters in American history were read by members of the American Women's Club at the- meeting held in the Palace Hotel on Tuesday afternoon. The three papers read covered the romantic and tragic story of the founding of Virginia. Miss Alice Allen gave an admirable summary of the history of "Jamestown", Miss Lacy told the story of "John Jamestown," and Miss Gertrude Oldroyd vividly described "The starving time," when the Virginian colonists suffered unimaginable privations and their enterprise came near complete disaster.
The hardship of these Eliza-bethany Empire buildsrs—officially styled "adventures and planters' are brought home to us with such details as the following: "The corpse of a slain Indian, was boiled down and eaten, and then the
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