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The need for it is a need of the hour, and the woman is Dr. Sarah Howe Mor- ris, known by thousands to be giving a lifetime to loving, earnest work for the good of the world. For years and by degrees Dr. Morris has been getting to this special task— the scientific and effectual raising not of the dead, but of those sometimes more hopeless, the inebriate. She has endeavored to reach them through the Woman's Christian Tempérance union; she has looked into prohibition; she has labored with drunkards individu- ally and in the jails. Twenty-five years ago she established in Brooklyn the famous Morris home, where hundreds of inebriates were cured simply by the power of good hygienic living and wholesome teaching. But there has al- ways been something lacking until the year of grace 1896. What that some- thing is and how she found it make a very interesting chapter of their own. “Thirty years ago Horace Greeley gXid, ‘Drunkenness is a disease, not a crime,’ and he was roundly abused. for his idea. The habitual drunkard was the cherished target of the pulpit, the press, the reformer and the judge, and these powers refused to have their bulls- eye knocked out in that easy way. The drunkard was jailed with enthusiasm, and he has been kept jailed most of the time since at large expense to him and tous. It is only of late that Greeley’s advice has struck home, and by the help of scientists we are finding that it is as wise to imprison a man for drunkenness as it is to ‘cage’ him for rheumatism. His disease may be, often is, his own doing—most diseases are the result of our own mistakes—but a disease, dipso- mania, remains, and we now rightly turn to the physician for the solution of the great temperance problem.”’ Dr. Morris was one of the first to come out and agree with Mr. Greeley, and she has her half of a very interest- DR. SARAH HOWE MORRIS. ing correspondence which the two car- ried on over the situation. The inebriate was a sick man. He needed medicine. Man cannot live by bread alone nor can the drunkard be cured by moral suasion. After awhile the home in Brooklyn was given up, but through all these long years of heavy and varying labors Dr. Morris never gave up her hope of finding a remedy, a specific, for the liquor habit. Strangely enough, for many of us look for nothing practical from a re- former, the suggestion that led to Dr. Morris’ new work came from Francis Murphy. While visiting at her Buffalo home he told her of a liquor cure which was being used with great success. She immediately went to Chicago, investi- gated the remedy and was convinced that at last the lacking something was in her hand. With this remedy at her command, with a determination to begin anew the work of raising broken men and women from worthlessness to useful- ness, and with a preparation, an expe- rience and a personality extraordinary, Dr. Morris has opened a home here for the cure of dipsomania and the morphine habit. She will not have it called an ““institution.’’ It has none of the ear- marks, or hall marks, one might say, of an institution. It is a home in every sense of the word. She is decided about another phase of dhe matter also. It is not a cure for worthless creatures, but a veritable door of hope for men—men worthy of the name—who have fallen through drink. There is no shutting our eyes to the fact that there are thousands of these brainy, educated, valuable men and women drifting round like wrecks. This is the class she chooses to set back into pros- perity and peace. 1t is interesting to see the home life It might be copied in all homes to advantage. There is proper living without too much rule, there is earnest direction without dicta- tion, there is encouragement without palaver and goodness without cant. Of course there is good cheer, for while Dr. Morris is able to bring a good, big thunderstorm down upon things when they need clearing she herself is a veri- table sunbeam. —Buffalo Express. Trained Nursery Maids. In these days when all fields of work, especially woman's work, are said to be overcrowded it is a relief to find one exception. This exception is the profes- sion of trained nursery maids, the de- mand being from £0 to 100 per cent greater than the supply. ‘‘We can graduate only about 28 girls a year,’’ said the superintendent of the New York Training School For Nursery Maids, ‘‘and we have applicants for several hundred during that time. The subject of training nurses for the care of children is receiving each year more attention, and intelligent parents are beginning to feel that the old idea that any person could mind the baby is about exhausted. “In our training we do not attempt to give medical knowledge, for we con- sider ‘a little knowledge a dangerous thing,’ but we seek to make them capable of taking a healthy baby and keeping it healthy. The nurse learns nursery hygiene in its broadest sense with the rudiments of kindergarten. As a life work for women this profession seems much to be preferred to that of a shop or a factory girl. We have appli- cants for our graduates from every state in the Union and almost every country in the world. Several of our graduates are abroad now as nurses in the fami- lies of the nobility. Of course, as I re- marked at first, the demand is greater than the supply, so we are forced to answer ‘No’ many times where we would be only too glad to supply a good nursery maid. Only a short while ago we had an application from the West Indies, and the place was an admirable one, but we had no one to send there. Every girl graduated is already engaged. ‘‘During the last two years there have been similar schools founded in Montreal, Newark, Brooklyn and De- troit. All of these institutions have been modeled after this school. The managers of one of these have frequent- ly visited us, and in one case sent their superintendent to us for several months’ experience. Whenever a new institu- tion of the kind is projected the call im- mediately comes, ‘Have you not some one whom you can send to us to organ- ize the work? We are always forced to say, ‘No.’ ”’ Wom: Engineers. The Engineering Record notes the fact that female draftsmen have for several years been employed in archi- tectural and other offices in clerical and copying work chiefly and that one wom- an in the Chicago drainage canal en- gineer’s office is doing creditable map and color work. A firm of architectural engineers in New York has gone beyond this and employed one young woman who has graduated from an engineering school and shares the ordinary duties of her associates, though, of course, at = disadvantage concerning shop, mill and field work. This moves The Engineering Record to say: *‘kvery encouragement should, of course, be given to extending and de- veloping the scope of suitable female employment, but it should not, in the novelty of anew field, be forgotten that the profession of engineering is a most jealous mistress and exacts the utmost effort and eternal enthusiasm, together with indomitable perseverance and per- gistence and superior special qualifica- tions and sound judgment from those who are to secure a permanent foothold or acceptably to perform the responsible duties assigned the engineer. No tran- gient occupation or divided aim is toler- able. The profession must be supreme, and, further, to be truly a competent engineer involves the necessity of inti- mate acquaintance with all the prac- tical sides of the work—the reconnois- sance, the location, trial surveys, years of patient study and laborious physical work in the mines, mills and shops, life in camp and in the field, hazardous duties faithfully performed on the dizzy heights of lofty false work for erection, handling, of iron and machinery in tun- pels and excavations, blasting and building as well as drawing or even cal- calculating a plan, and these lessons are not only necessary to success, but for the safety of lives and property always dependent upon the engineer’s construc- tions.”’ The Girl Bachelor. There is no occasion to commiserate the condition of the girl bachelors who keep house. They do not want it, but are rather to be envied. This is a mat- ter of wonder to those who worry about women going into trade on the ground that it will destroy their love of home. On the contrary, it develops it. The woman who is forced to earn her living and resents it seeks the consolation of a boarding house. The real girl bachelor, at least the sort with whom I have come most in contact, is not a dis- gruntled person who has known bette days and always takes pains to remind you of it. She is a healthy, hearty be- ing, who wants, to be sure, to help out the family income, to relieve her father of at least one of his burdens, but she is, more than anything else, an actual homemaker and a housekeeper. It is the girl bachelor who loves chil- dren and is not ashamed to say so, the girl bachelor who lives not unto herself, but to all the world, because no visitor is so unwelcome that he may not have a cup of tea and a cracker, be his visit ne’er so untimely. It is the girl bachelor who does not apologize for dust, or care a rap for what the neighbors think, or hope to marry a rich man. She is the future mother, because the velun- tary one, of better men and women. My sunbonnet is off to her. She is settling the wc question while other people talk of it. Financial inde- pendence for herself is the explanation of everything. -—&t. Louis Post-Dispatch. Her Politica Professor Felix Adler, in an address on ‘‘The Political Aspirations of Wom- en,’’ says: “In no country is there more defer- ence shown to woman than in ours, not alone in the outward exhibition ghown them of courtesy, but genuine respect, which comes from all ranks of society. Yet she is denied the franchise, except in a few states, and there her franchise is in most cases confined to local matters. “Her position, it has been often said, is similar to that of infants, criminals Aspirations. and the insane. Some even go further and say it is worse, for the infant will grow to manhood and inherit the right of citizenship, the sentence of the crim- inal will expire and his rights be re- stored to him, and even the insane per- son may recover his reasoning power and enjoy the franchise again, In no country is there greater liberty, yet it was the intention of our fathers to limit the male voters by a property require- ment, which was swept uway by a tide of democracy early in the century. Our fathers probably never intended matters to be as they are, but their barriers were unable to stand before the rushing tide of young democracy. Then cane the civil war, and the franchise was given to the colored man, yet it is still with- held from half of the population. ‘‘Women need the ballot for self pro- tection. It is true no class can safely trust its interest to another. This is to me one of the convincing arguments in favor of woman suffrage, and I think it should be worked for deliberately and conscientiously. I believe that when the time is ripe they should be participants in the government. I strongly believe that, but I believe the time, however, is not yet ripe.” In conclusion, Professor Adler said that education was the argument to open the gates. Great power, he assert- ed, did not beget freedom. Whenever there had been great political success there had been great political training. Women In Public Life. Mrs. Lucy lu. Flower, a trustee of the Universit; of Illinois, writing in The Outlook on ‘Women In Public Life,’ says: ““Nine-tenths of our public school teachers are women. Some of the very best and most successful principals are Women, and these women should cer- tainly have a representative of their own sex among the school directors, some person 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 his 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 entirely in the hands of men, though there is a general acknowledg- ment of man’s inability successfully to cope, unaided, with the needs of Lis 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 understands their wants as women— which few men ¢an—should be able to stand for these interests in the councils of the trustees.’ An Interesting Reminiscence. A. Wilder of Newark, N. J., writing to the New York Voice, gives the fol- lowing ren.iniscence: “In the autumn of 1852 the naticnal woman's rights convention was held at Syracuse. Iwas present and reported the proceedings for the Assceiated Press. The lights of the cause were present, Lu- cretia Mott, Paulina Wright Davis, Eliz- abeth Oakes Smith, Ernestine L. Rose, Clarissa Nichols, Martha Dickinson, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone and An- toinette L. Brown. The latter two had recently graduated from Oberlin. Mrs. Mott presided and displayed parlia- mentary ability and tact of a superior character.-/Miss Brown evinced her log- ical ability, Mrs. Rose her characteristic energy, Miss Stone her readiness and grace of delivery. She was the star, but the others supported her well. This, however, is not the point. There was free speech on all sides, and some of it was very free. Several men were far from complimentary, and the defects, the petty spites and other naughtinesses of women were forcefully depicted. One evening a lady whose name I forget took the j2atform. ‘We read,’ said she, ‘that God made heaven and earth in six days. Then he created man. After that he created woman from one of his ribs. Now, if that one bone of man is so wicked what must the “whole of him be?’ Oueens to Be Crowned. Miss Lavinia Dempsey, queen of the Scciety of Hollund Dames of the New Netherlands, will be recrowned on the ext anniversary day, some time next winter. Almecst ror al state will be at- tempted, Miss Den. j sey riding on cor- onaticn day from her home to the Wal- if in a stately carriage drawn by six white horses bedecked with orange colored ribbons and flowers. The queen of the Cennecticut Holland Dames and Mrs. Leonard Forsdick, queen of the New Jersey Holland Dames, will also be crowned vext winter. The Society of New England Women intends to give an entertainment in November, and the ‘‘ Mask of History” will be presented. The central feature will be the representation of events of general and local American history by the descendants of those makers of the nation who participated in thom. Miss Hocart, a daughter of a Wesley- an minister residing in Paris, has been awarded the second of the prizes annu- ally presented by the French academy for “‘noble living.’”’ The award is in appreciation of her work in the slums of Paris and the value of the prize is $300. An old cook noted for making the most delicious of loaf cakes was asked her secret for never having a failure and replied: ‘‘It’s all in the baking. The richer the cake the slower must be the oven, ”’ A woman's journal has been started in Constantinople, in which the doe- trine of the equality of the sexes is vig- orously advocated. ) A BRIGHT ILLINOIS GIRL. She Has Been Called to the Chair of Elo- cution at Alleghany College. Miss Alice Huntington Spalding, an Evanston girl, hus been elected instruct- | or in elocution and physical culture at Alleghany college. Her remarkable rec- ord while a student of Cumnock School of Oratory, Northwestern university, gained her this important position. The news of election came to her as a sur- prise, as she did not know she was un- der consideration for the appointment. She has accepted and will leave for the east Sept. 22. Miss Spalding is one of the foremost young women of Evanston. She isa member of the Country club and was prominent in college affairs. After completing a course in the Evanston high school she entered the school of oratory and was graduated last June. For her work while under Professor Cumnock she was given honors in Eng- lish, the first ever conferred upon a stu- dent of the school. In local dramatic affairs she has figured prominently, having taken leading parts in several popular entertainments. The Country Club Dramatic association, of which she is a member, is composed of the best talent in the suburb. Miss Spalding has been a member of the casts of near- ly all the club affairs for the past two years. Her acceptance of the instructorship at Alleghany college is not a surprise to those of her friends who knew her as a favorite. Miss Spalding lives at 1984 Orrington avenue and is only 20 years of age.—Chicago Times-Herald. An American Woman Abroad. The wife of General Porter, present embassador to France, is thus described by the correspondent of the London Telegraph: ‘‘A bright, sunny faced wo- man, with berry brown eyes and gray hair of that peculiarly attractive snow flecked, silvery gray that American wo- men so advantageously monopolize, sug- gestive of a marquise Quinze Louis, with powdered coiffure, and who has won golden opinions from the many for her pleasant and kindly way of receiv- ing. It may truthfully be said that in no embassy in Paris are good looks or elegance so well represented as at that of the United States. Upon the present occasion the embassador’s wife wore a lovely gown of soft, silver gray, silken material, slightly a traine and made over pale green glace silk, the dress and basqued corsage spangled lightly with steel and inset with pale yellow gui- pure, forming a floral design, branching to right and left of the tablier in grace- ful fashion, the green of the underdress peeping charmingly from between the trimming and spangled outline of the lace foliage design. The corsage was finished with narrow plaitings of cream colored mousseline de soie. Her éxcel- lency’s ornaments were pearls and dia- monds.”’ Women, Bicycles and Consumption. At a meeting of the American Statis- tical association Dr. S. W. Abbott, sec- retary of the state board of health of Massachusetts, presented some figures regarding the proportion of pulmonary tuberculosis in females to that in males in Massachusetts. The rate in 1851 was 1,451 females to 1,000 males; in 1890, 1,065 females to 1,000 males, and in 1895, only 974 females to 1,000 males. Eighteen hundred and ninety-five was the first year in the history of the state in which the number of deaths from phthisis in females was smaller than that in males. The fact that a uniform reduction in the rate of female deaths began some five years ago, about the game time women were beginning to ride the bicycle extensively, Dr. Ab- bott considers significant, and he is in clined to attribute the decrease in the death rate to the great increase in open air exercise among women by the use of the bicycle.—Sunitarinm. The Indiana Way. In order to find that women have not the right to vote under the present law the supreme court of Indiana has been compelled to reverse itself. Indeed within three years it has reversed itscit three times on this most perplexing woman question—first, in admitting women to the practice of law it holds that the express use of the word ‘male’ in the constitution is no bar to the fe- male; second, in interpreting the right of women to sell liquor the same court holds that the express use of the word ‘‘male’’ is a bar to the right of a fe- male; third, in the right to vote the court holds that by the express mention of the male the female is barred from suffrage. Truly the way of justice is hard in Indiana.— Union Signal. Women and Colleges. Of the 451 colleges and universities in this country, only 41 are closed to women. But. to make up for this lack, there are 143 schools of higher learning open to women only and having 30,000 students. The University Courier says: “Will it not soon be time to raise the question why men should be shut out from the advantages of these 143 schools of higher education which now are open to women only? Forty-one institutions are closed to women and 148 are closed to men. Why?” Woman ‘foward Woman. The new woman might well emulate the virtues in which men excek The kindliness of intercourse found among men does not characterize the attitnde of woman toward woman. A man will make himself comfortable on a long journey, and at its conclusion will have made an acquaintance and perhaps a friend of his neighbor. But for a wom- an to speak to a fellow travelca gt her own sex without the conventional in- troduction is to invite a snub. Should she inform her neighbor at the dry goods counter that she has found a cer- tain new lining for her frock most sat- isfactory, the information would very likely be received with a haughty stare, plainly declaring the suspicion that the informer gets a percentage on sales. There is small opportunity under such circumstances to love your neighbor as yourself. The experiment has but to be tried to demonstrate to the graciously inclined woman that there is little room for her who would, even in a small way, wish her sister woman good luck upon her way. Steamers in passing each other display a white flutter of handkerchiefs from the human freight aboard, but the wayfaring woman is considered a fool if she inclines to that sort of gracious- ness on land. And yet a woman is not necessarily either disreputable or de- signing simply because she speaks to another woman. without introduction. Graciousness, however, need never sug- gest familiarity. A helpful word may be spoken with dignity and yet with kindly interest, and she who resents it is to be pitied for her lack of under- standing. A gracious ‘‘Thank you,” even if the well meant information is not needed, proclaims the gentlewoman. —Delineator. Sense In Exercise. Fired by the commendable desire to be slender as to waist lines and lithe as to motion, half the young womga and fully a third of the old cnes oy into athletics. A small, almost unnoticeable percentage of them go properly toa gymnasium, are £veighed, measured, tested according to approved methods and then are set to excrcises suited to their needs and their strenp th. The rest read, mark, learn and inv ardly digest rules for reducing the size «i their Lips or acquiring a graceful pese of the neck, but they skip the impcrinnt statement that all excrcises must Le talen goutly and gradually. The result is sad. Ilclen, who ~“arted out on Monday to scqaire a swunlike neck, has a stiff cue on Wednesday. She has bent her head in 17 directions for 2 minutes instead of tor four. She is dis- couraged by her experience, and when her muscles finally regain their normal limberness she gives up beaut fying ex- ercises for good. Elaine, whose ambi- tion it is to have a 24 instead of a 29 inch waist, goes through wearying con- tortions on the floor for L:.!f an hour on Saturday and is unable even to limp to church on Sunday, so stiff is her back. Muscles unused to exercise must Le gradually trained into it. Exercises ad- mirable in themselves become positively dangerous when taken violently by per- sons not used to exercise. The time spent in effort at first should be but little, and not until the body is used to exer- cise should it be violent.-—Ihiladelphia Times. ! Woman’s Fitness to Govern. Ask not whether woman is fit te participate in the government, for that was answered 1,000 years ago. The answer is preserved in the archives of every house in every empire and repub- lic since the world began. The world is governed Ly man, and man is governed by woman. In Rome woman abolished the crown and established the republic. FOR LITTLE FOLKS. | SMALLEST IN THE WORLD. Atom Is This Pony's Name, and You'll Agree It Fits His Size. Atom, the smallest pony which deal- ers in horses ever saw, recently went from David Dahlman's stables, on East Twenty-fourth street, not to Queen ATOM AND YARRUM. Mab, but to Robert W. Fitzsimmons, Jr., who is 18 months old. Atom is 843/ inches high, and he will never be taller. He is dark brown, black and white—the horsemen say piebald. He is the son of Howland L. and of Stella, and he was born two years agoon a farm on Long Island, near Jamaica. He has dainty little hoofs which are of the color of old ivory, delicately shaped legs and the oddest little whine, affectionate and pathetic, that one ever heard. He is apparently an aristocrat, which may be explained by the fact that his parents have won premiums at the Madison Square Garden shows for five successive years. Atem will find in Fitzsimmons’ yard Yarrum, who is only a dog, taller than he and a bear in comparison with the weight of which his will be insignifi- cant indeed. —New York Journal. ' So Hot! “Oh, it is so hot!” said Betty. ‘‘It is so hot! Mammy, I don’t know what I shall do, it is so hot!"’ Now, Betty was not doing anything. She was sitting by the window, with her head on the sill, and the shade of the big horse chestnut tree made a little coolness, so mammy went on with her mending and said nothing except that it was hot and she was sorry for Betty. Presently Betty saw a hand organ man with a monkey coming. She raised her head, and he stopped under the win- dow and began to play. “Oh, mammy,’’ cried Betty, ‘‘the monkey is dancing! May I go out and dance too? Oh, he is such a dear little monkey! Now he is climbing up the fence and walking along the top. Oh, mammy, may I climb up and walk along the fence? Please, mammy, say I may.” And Betty jumped up and down and danced little steps like the monkey's and tried to look like him, but fortunately did not succeed. “I thought it was so hot,” said mammy. ‘‘Do you think dancing will make you cooler, Betty?’ “I don’t think it is so hot now,’’ said Betty. ‘‘Not quite so hot, mammy. You see I didn’t know what to do then. It's always hotter whcn you don’t know what to do, but now I do know.”’ | —Laura E. Richards in Youth’s Com- panion. The Iirst Steamboat Whistle. Early in May, 1844, the steamer Rochester departed from Buffalo, bound for Chic: The engineer was a me- chunical 1s named McGee, and he hed cor wcted a steam whistle from plius ¥ » had seen in a scientific pagcr. On the way up the lakés he blew it at every stop, much to the astonish- ment and t:rror of the inhabitants. Just tefore reaching Mackinac the Rochester, after a lively 3, Pt steamer General Porter, She abolished the decemvirate and re- stcred the consular government. She wrought the constitutional change which gave the plebeian the right to hold the highest office in the world’s government. When the master mind of the world’s literature sought to solve the problem which had baffled the wis- I Gager. Engineer McGee celebrated the | victory by blowing his whistle derisive- | ly and noisily. When both boats reached | the wharves, Captain ( r rushed up- Jin a rage, shaking his fist and daring McGee to come down and face him. ““ What are you squawking that thing at me for?’’ he roared. est man, he called a woman to the bench, and in the character of Portia we have a second Daniel come to judg- ment. Unfit to govern? The contradic- tion comes fiom hosts of women who their individual efforts, who have waged a thousand battles and won a thousand ality and humanity.—James Francis Burke. Go West, Young Woman! Thee are thousands of acres of gov- ernnis nt land yet unclaimed. Self sup- poi {.ug women have Lere an opportuni- ty to obtain land and homes in the west. 1c discomferts aud loneliness incident to pioneering are the greatest draw- Lacks, but they are materially le when friends go in colonies. The lencth cf residence «n a homestead is to o cer tain degree optional with the *‘filer.”’ The filing fee, including all expense, is $18. At the end of five years one may make final proof on the land, but the homesteader is not compelled to make proof until the end of seven, Where a claimant temporarily leaves her land for the purpose of earning an honest livelihood, coupled with bona fide in- tention of complying with the law, such absence is accounted a constructive resi- dence.—New York Tribune. sser ed Marriage. It is high time that the mothers and daughters of the Anglo-Saxon race should unite in a league in defense of marriage, banding themselves together in a solemn covenant to fight to the death the pernicious influences that are corrupting our literature and through our literature the minds and conduct of our generation. Regard for the order of society, regard for the children of the fireside, regard for the common weal above personal interest and the mere selfish gratification of the mo- ment, call in clarion tones to all lovers of their kind to rally in defense of the abused and attacked institution of mar- Zion's Herald. stand toduy in the front rank of the pro- | fessions, who have :wcquired property by | victories in the cause of charity, mor- | And if it had not been for mutual | friends steamboat whistling on the | lakes might have been iutreduced with | : 0 + : . " . | w lively battle of fisticuffs. —Chicago- Record. Five Little Erothers. | Five little brothers set out together | To journey the livelo | n a curious cary | They hurried aw away | One big brother and three quite small | And one wee fellow, no size at all : of leather mad: dark and none too roomy, not move about The carriage wa i And they co i The five little brothers grew very And the w ne began to pout i Till the biggest one whispered: “What do ye | say ? ) Let’s leave the carriage and run away!’ fo out they ered, the five topett And off awuy they sped. When some ody found thet carnage ol waiher, | OR, my, how she stec! r bot Twas her little boy's slice, #8 every knows, And the five little brothers were five little toes. —Independent. | Not the Ones Meant. | In a western school a li fellow { was called up to read for the county su- perintendent, who was paying the schgol a visit. The boy was a good reader in all respects but one. He gave absolutely +1 {tio no heed to punctuation marks. When he had finished, the superintendent asked: “Willie, where Willie both hands ‘‘ Here they are, six, delphia Times. lropped his Your ¥ Has it ever occun how far your eyes The distance will not haps, for 1,000,000 lette: type would measure Lurdly mile, placed side by side. In a however, the average reader wen way through 2,000 miles of print average novel of 300 pages con mile of reading-—thi 1,760 yards in reading the bool ~New Moon.
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