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155 Norwood, Con.

"America." The following anniversary Jacob
Riis had passed away, but 10,000 were present
at the simple services connected with his name.

A second selection was "The Other Woman's
Child", from which we quote,

"One thought she knew what must be done
with every child beneath the sun -
She had none.
And ere her yarn had been quite spun
Another's theories had begun
She had one.
The third was not so sure she knew
But thus and so she thought she'd do -
She had two.
The next one added, "Let me see,
These things may work out differently,"
She had three.
The 5th drew on her wisdom store
And said, "I'd have to think it o'er,"
She had four.
And then one sighed, "I don't contrive
Fixed rules for boys, they're too alive,"
She had five
I know it leaves one in a fix
This straightening of crooked sticks,"
She had six.
And one declared, "There's no rule given,
But do your best and trust to Heaven,"
She had seven.

Rebecca T. Miller had a bright article from
the pen of Mrs. Eva C. Wheeler, Nat'l. Lecturer of
the W.C.T.U. giving an acct. of her first experience
as a woman juror in Calif. She spent
6 wks. in the Court House, five times she
marched with 11 other jurors and 2 bailiffs
to a cafeteria and ate with them. She sat on
nine cases, acting as foreman seven times, and
signing the verdict for the whole jury. She says
she was never insulted, nor did she lose her
love for home, husband, child, church, or society.
No man in the jury room ever forgot there
was a lady present, and when a verdict could
not be reached for hours, she was always

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