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94. (Magnolia, con.)

Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard,
Said she, “I must thoroughly clean it;
For germs and things,
And microbes with wings,
My cupboard, they demean it.”

So Old Mother Hubbard
She cleaned out her cupboard.
She sterilized, scalded, and scrubbed it;
Like a very Jack Horner,
She cleaned out each corner,
Then brushed, and polished and rubbed it.

When old Mother Hubbard
Stepped back from the cupboard,
And viewed it with much elation,
Said she, “I am sure
Germs could not endure
Such up-to-date sanitation.”

Next morn, when Dame Hubbard
Inspected her cupboard
She raved, and her hair she tore;
For one lone parasite
Had lived through the night,
And now there were thousands more!

Our valued former member, Mary G. Colt, sent
a travesty upon the present scanty fashions, which
was sarcastic in reality, but not a whit too
much so for some of us old-fashioned people.

Most of the house-keepers now pay 60 cts. a
day for washing and 75 cts. per day for house-cleaning
or for a whole day’s work in preparing
supper for a large company.

Nellie Hartshorne wished to call attention
to the needs and the value of the “Traveller’s Aid
Society.” Estelle T. Moore had a good
little rhyme upon “A Friend in Need” thought to
be in reality what the heart needs and craves
all the time. Lucille Deemer, who has been in
Mexico most of the past 8 yrs. gave a very graphic
acct. of the life and conditions in that “most
distressful country”, where our own citizens have