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ed, did uot beget treecioin. wnenever 

 there had been great political success 

 tliere had been great political training. 



Women In Public Life. 



Mrs. Lucy L. Flower, a trustee of 

 the University of lilinois, writing in 

 The Outlook on "Women In Public 

 Life, " says: 



"Niue-teiitbs of our public school 

 teachers are women. Some of the very 

 best and moht succes.>ful principals are 

 women, and these women should cer- 

 tainly have a representative of their 

 own sex among the school directors, 

 souie pers^on or persons who can see and 

 present the woman's point of view 

 Our state universities are all coeduca- 

 tional, and the interests of the young 

 women in these institutions require rep- 

 resentatives on their governing boards. 



"If a man be left with a family of 

 girls on bis hands to bring up, his help- 

 lessness in the face of this responsibility 

 is often truly pitiful He will generally 

 own frankly that he knows nothing 

 about girls, and he appeals at once for 

 some woman's help. And yet we have 

 been putting the interests of young 

 girls for four of their most impression- 

 able years < atirely in the hands of men, 

 though there is a general acknowledg- 

 ment of man's inability successfully to 

 cope, unaided, with the needs of his 

 own daughters. I believe that if there 

 were more of the right woman's influ- 

 ence in all of our colleges there would 

 be less dissipation, but where there are 

 girls it is a necessity that some one who 

 understand? their wants as women — 

 which few men can — -should be able to 

 stand f&r these interests in the councils 

 of the trustees. " 



Queens to B« Crowned. 



Miss Lavinia Dempsey, queen of the 

 Society of Holland Dames of the New 

 Netherlands, will be recrowned on the 

 next anniversary day, some time next 

 winter. Almost royal state will be at- 

 tempted, Miss Dempsey riding on cor- 

 onation day from her home to the Wal- 

 dorf in a stately carriage drawn by 

 six white horses bedecked with orange 

 colored ribbons and flowers. The queen 

 of the Connecticut Holland Dames and 

 Mrs. Leonard Forsdick, queen of the 

 New Jersey Holland Dames, will also be 

 crowned uoxt winter. 



Froni Her P<9int of View. 



The dentist said something about his 

 little bill, but the woman looked at 

 him coldly. 



"I owe you nothing," she said. 



"Why, madam," protested the den- 

 tist, "you surely won't deny that you 

 had a 'jooth pulled in my office!" 



"It is more than likely that I did," 

 she admitted. "At any rate you gave 

 me gas, and when I regained conscious- 

 ness the tooth was gone. I am quite 

 ready to give you credit for having re- 

 moved it." 



"Then, I do uot see why you should 

 refuse to pay me. " 



The haughty creature still regarded 

 him coldly. 



"It looks to me," she said, "very 

 much like an attempt to defraud." 



"Madam!" he exclaimed. 



"Not to use any harsher language," 

 she went on, "it seems like obtaining 

 goods under false pretenses and also ex- 

 tortion. " 



"I do not understand you," said the 

 astonished dentist. "So far I have had 

 nothing from you." 



"My maid informs me," asserted the 

 haughty creature, "that while under 

 the influence of gas I did not spare my 

 voice. " 



"She is right," admitted the dentist. 

 ' *0n at least one occasion your voice 

 landed up in the top register." 



"So my maid told me," said the 

 haughty creature. "Until I heard that 

 I had intended to pay your bill upon 

 presentation, but when I was finally 

 convinced that you had basely taken ad- 

 vantage of my helpless condition to ex- 

 tract from me some of the high notes 

 for which I am in the habit of receiving 

 not less than $250 I was tempted to 

 have you arrested for larceny." 



Then it was that he recalled that she 

 was an opera singer of some note, and 

 he hastily withdrew, lest in her excite- 

 ment she should pitch her voice high 

 enough to add another item of $250 to 

 her bill for entertaining him while at 

 work. — Chit?ago Post. 



Hard Face. 



"I met that girl face to face last 

 night, " said Cholly. 



"How did she stand the shock?" ask- 

 ed De Gruff e. — Pick Me Up. 



