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"We may live without poetry, music aud art, 

 We uiay live without coiiseieuce aiul live without heart ; 

 We may live witiiout friends, we may live without books, 

 But civilized men cannot live without cooks. 



He may live without books —what is knowIedj?e l)ut grieving? 

 He may live without liope — what is hope l)ut (lecei\ iiisrV 

 He may live without love — what is jiassion but ])iningy 

 But where is the man that can live without dining?" 



And who has more to do with the quantity and quality of the dinner 

 than those who produce it? Then let the Society Hourish, and with 

 a ;j^ood orj^fanization will come <i;ood dinners, and mankind will there- 

 fore be better tempered, and hence the community be better for it. 



On motion the Society adjourned. 



DECEMBER ANNUAL MEETING. 



On December 1st. 1883. the Society held its annual meeting- in 

 the Circuit (^)urt room, in Kankakee, with about fifty members in 

 attendance. The meetin<i^ was called to order at half-past one. i).m.. 

 President Milo Barnard in the chair. 



UNFINISHED BUSINESS. 



That })art of the constitution and Ijy-Uiws postponed at the last 

 meetino; was first considered. 



A. L. Miner moved that the rej^ular meetings be held monthly. 

 Several amendments, purposing to lessen the number of meetings, 

 were offered to this motion, and considerable discussion followed. 

 The amendments were finally voted down, and the original motion 

 prevailed. 



The Secretary's and Treasurer's reports were then read. 



SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Mr. Presidfuf. <iii>l /''rl/oir-Mcnihprs of the 



Kaiihtkcc V((JIri/ Hortindfitral Society : 



It has become an established custom for secretaries of associa- 

 tions of this kind to make annual re])orts. 



Realizing that the tinu' for our deliberations this afternoon is 

 ver}' limited, I shall ask for but few moments in which to review our 

 year's work and offer some suggestions. I congratulate you upon 



