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A Hoosier Chronicle

CHAPTER XXV
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It tickles me that some women have learned that it's weak-minded to massage and paraffine their wrinkles out--those things, Sylvia, strike me as downright immoral.

What I've been wondering is whether I can do anything for the kind of girls we have at Elizabeth House beyond giving them a place to sleep, and I guess you've struck the idea with that word efficiency.

No girl born to-day, particularly in a town like this, is going back to make her own soap out of grease and lye in her back yard.

But she's got to learn to do something well or she'll starve or go to the bad; or if she doesn't have to work she'll fool her life away doing nothing.

Now you poke a few holes in my ideas, Sylvia." "Please, Aunt Sally, don't think that because I've been to college I can answer all those questions! I'm just beginning to study them.


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