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{76. (The Rochambeau, con)}

Somewhere within her sky;
Nothing was ever quite just right
She used to say and sigh.

And yet her sister strange to say,
Whose lot was quite the same,
Found something pleasant for herself
In every day that came.
Of course things tangled up sometimes
For just a little while;
But nothing ever stayed all wrong,
She used to say, and smile.

So one girl sighed and one girl smiled
Through all their lives together;
It didn’t come from luck or fate,
From clear or cloudy weather,
The reason lay within their hearts,
And colored all outside;
One chose to hope and one to mope,
And so they smiled and sighed.” Priscilla Leonard

Mrs. McMasters said she had recently met with
a quotation from a book on etiquette that was supposed
to have belonged to Geo. Washington. There
were rules for table manners among which occurred
the following, “Do not handle the cake, you
can cast your eyes over it before and note the largest
piece.” Ellen Farquhar who had just
returned from the Peace Conference at Lake Mohonk
said she had made the acquaintance of “General”
Rosalie Jones and was most pleasantly impressed.

She then gave a clipping from the N. Y. Tribune
“Why We Oppose Pockets for Women”

#1. Because pockets are not a natural right
#2. Because the great majority of women do not want
pockets. If they did, they would have them.
#3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them
#4. Because women are expected to carry enough things as it is
without the additional burden of pockets.
#5. Because it would make dissension between husband and
wife as to whose pockets were to be filled.
#6. Because it would destroy man’s chivalry toward women if he did
not have to carry all her things in his pockets.