10 Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting 
venient man in the country also with us, our treasurer, Mr. Will- 
ard, who pays the bills and debts of the society and trusts to us 
to reimburse him later on. (Great laughter and applause.) We 
also have with us as usual, our secretary, Mr. Peabody, who daes 
all the work in preparing for these meetings and gets out the re- 
ports afterwards; then, of course, the president takes the credit 
for the entire job. (Applause.) I might go on and mention 
the familiar faces that we see here, but it is not necessary ; it is 
good to see all these familiar faces again. 
I now take pleasure, gentlemen, in introducing to you the 
mayor of Grand Rapids, Mr. Ellis, who will welcome you. 
Mr. George E. Ellis of Grand Rapids: Mr. President and 
gentlemen, it is surely a great pleasure to say to you a few words 
just now, although at this particular hour I know that you do 
not expect very much. It is a good deal ike a man who was in- 
vited to talk to a Sunday school class and he said: “Now, child- 
ren what would you rather I would talk about.” One of them 
said: “We would rather you would talk about a minute.” 
(Laughter.) I guess that is about the way it is now, as it is so 
nearly your luncheon hour. 
Your president is feeling especially good today. He was tell- 
ing of a little incident that happened to him in Detroit the other 
day. He came down town and he told how well he felt. He said, 
“T feel better than I have for a long while, because my wife 
thinks Tam such a good man. Why, this morning before I came 
down she told me that I was a model husband.” So he told that 
to two or three people, and he was so pleased that he finally met 
his pastor and he told him about it. And he said, “Mr. Joslyn, 
before you tell that to many more people you better look in the 
dictionary and find out what ‘model’ means, and then you will 
learn just what kind of a husband you are.” So he looked in the 
dictionary and found out that a ‘model’ was ‘a small imitation of 
the real thing.’ (Laughter. ) 
Now we are greatly pleased to see you here, and while you are 
in the city there will be no closed season, and you can go in any 
part that you want, and I will guarantee in this metropolitan 
city that, no matter what your desires and tastes are, you can 
gratify them, (laughter and applause) and if you do not find 
