Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 October 1880 — Page 1

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE^

SECOND EDITIONT Town Talk.

THAJfKS

For the efficient manner in which they dose up the gambling dens T. T. wishes to return the police force his sincere thanks, and now that they have inaugurated, the good work it is to he hoped they will prosecute it with a convincing vigor which will convince those we have in our midst to move on and those who contemplate paying us a visit to give the city a wide berth. The work should be prosecuted in such a lively manner that the keepers of these hells will find it an expensive business to pay the fines of those found oh their premises and to discontinue it as luxury in which even the best known and most successful gambler cannot afford to indulge to even a limited extent. By the way, T. T. heard that on the recent raid a capture of a very valuable set of ivories was made, and would like to know what became of them. It is understood that the proper official is required to destroy thorn and several have been heard inquiring if tliis has been done. It has been intimated that "the well known sporting man" who lost them has been making strenuous efforts for their recovery. As the "chips" are said have been very valuable, their destruction would

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escape the eagle eyes of all tho reporters in tho city, but no such item has yot made its appoarance, so T, T. is compiled to twlieve their destruction is not yet an accomplished fact.

Tho saloon openings on Sunday continue to be a greater nuisance and a source of much greater danger than ever gambling houses were, and could bo hiipyu*0fw©d with Biuch mor© 68A0» The latter are always closely guarded against police raids, while tho doors of the former stand wide open, inviting the passer by to enter. In no other city in the State is such a stale of affairs tolerated und uli good citieena condemn it. Itwas only tho other day T. T. heard

Jjpfour best citizens tell ofajjentle^jfw^ftotfTthe fca«fwVa*t*fishort time ago with the intention of settling and engaging extensively in business, lie remained over Sunday and, seeing all the saloons op#!i and lighted with noon day splendor, said he had a family which he could not afford to subject to such contaminating

Influenced, so he was compelled to go elsewhere. Many such instances could be cited, hat with such evidence before the people it is altogether unnecessary. The authorities see the evil week after week and cannot offer the excuse of being powerless to prevent it. It is just as easy, in fact easier to close them on Sunday than on election day.

MKIUtUKHS

There is a class of people in all communities who are never contented unless they have their noses in some-bud-n«« which does not concern them. Sometimes this Impudent Interference is exercised flu t*lk which varies as far from tl» truth as the North pole is distant from the Sourthcrn extremity tf tin* rotrth. No person is too good to be talked aUut by those people, and no action however commendable, is above suspicion with them. Oftentimes they me«n no harm by it but their inclination to talk is so great that the slightest Uunptatiou is sufUeicnt excuse for them to start upon a talking erusade which would rout a well eqiiippod army. This meddler to not confined to the gentler sex either, T. T. knows many of the sterner sex who could give the moctt accomplished female goadp halt the points in the game and then talk her to death in half an hour. Meddling of thia sort *wlly aioon^Ui fr very little but it is very annoying to those who are imtde the subject of it. It is not killed, but like a mowjnttoV bite it can cause a great deal of scratching.

Hut the worst ohms of meddle*# which T. T. has ever met is comjxwed of a class of men who aro eonUnwally advising their neighbor^ Iro* he afomld iwdnd his bud news. Tlds meddler know* nio^wut everyiWngebe, his own bwin(M« excepted, thim *U the world com Mn«l. Mo «u» settle the ia«ist intricate qudMkns in a minttte and mmrt in the most |HM^Uve manner just «xa*Al.v what nhottli) be done under wy or all dmtnitttattces* K# is ew watchful and is thoroughly posted In everybody's busi ness but his owi\. Nothing can be done which ham# *te^ his fkr sewing eye. U* wh*t may be done he is sure to we it and if it doe* not exactly meet his approbation he is always on hand with his advic*. It often happens that he Is a friend of his victim, which insures Mm gjpin* a rebuff of whWh he is rkAdy tienerving. but which be "too seidtMtr rertd vtw. A n»n maybat* had an expedience of

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Rtaml it thoroughly, bot is no ahietd againtA this ijntomnt^ brans mounted meddler who has impowed upon hirnaHi

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the task of reforming to his narrow guage standard the whole community among whom he resides,and from whom he derives his living. T. T. likes to see a man who can, occasionally at least, see some good in his fellow man and give him credit for it. It is true that the rising generation has much talent, but T. T. does not share in the belief that it enjoys a monopoly of it, and that the Almighty ever made the mistake of creating a man who knows everything at the expense of his neighbors. It is a great pity this meddler does not run against some newspaper man with a talent for writing up snch shallow brained frauds, but perhaps his meddling does not extend to the press which is, perhaps, a fortunate thing for him.

STREET FLIRTING

For some time past T. T. has wondered why so many girls are to be found on the streets in the evening, and thought if their mothers could witness the performances of some of them they would surely keep a closer watch over them and find something at home to occupy their attention, which would be more profitable and less harmful. Nowadays the street is no place for modest girts to be found alone. It has come to be an accepted fact among a large class of men that they are at liberty to flirt with any female they meet alone after dark,and T. T.issorryto say they too often meet with encouragement in their advances. An acquaintance formed in this manner never results in any good. Many girls encourage these advances though no feeling of doing wrong, but eventually discover they have made a great mistake, and such preformances ate going on every night in Terre Haute. Parents who have the best wishes of their children at heart would do well to watch them when they leave home at night. There are always snares set in abundance to catch tho

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ABOUT WOMEN.

One of the most stunning costumes at Saratoga the past season was worn by a lady who registered thus: Mrs. Montgomeryand mado."

The New York Graphic, with its usual enterprise, is publishing A series of por-

of a belle of Richmond, this State. When Mrs. Hariett, the Republican orator, spoke at Port Huron, the other night, she was introduced to the audience by a woll-known Port Huron, lady, and about twenty ladies occupied tho platform.

The New York Evening Post's equanimity was disturbed the other day by seeing a Chicago girl at a New York theater wearing a jeweled sabre in Roman gold for a lace pin, a gold rifle in her black velvet cap, and a brace of enameled pistols as a clasp for her belt.

Mr. Talmage, In discussing,—or rather in holding forth" concerning—domestic life, blamed women for becoming neglectful after marriage of the little arts which make them attractive. "Tho fact is,'' he said, "many women make their charms a net for one haol, and after marriage the net is thrown away. Considering the nature of* many of the "hauls," we don't blame them.

The fashionable girl now lays her head on the shoulder of her male companion when trav«lfK& lacfcbrding to a Cincinnati Enquirer writer, who says: "The nicest girls do it and they are so domure, so innocent, so unconscious in their manner, that nobody could deem the practice harmful. They have the unconcerned air of apillow. This w«uUt hate been n|r|l|^i4ib}e a ymr ago now fashion and mothers permit it. But the man must not so tar forget himMif as to slyly hug the girl. If he does she pops bolt upright, and will lean to him no more forever. That is new but approved etiquette."

Woostcr University, a female college in Ohio, is in a state of fronted excitement, Some time wince, General Order, No. 1, was issued, ordering that no young ladies of the institution should bo allowed to board in the same houses with gentlemA&, as they had hitherto dwne. Tfthf created a great flutter of lace on palpitating bosoms, for it crash' ed out many pleasant Winter anticipations. But General Order No 2 waa too much. It was iron-dad to the last degree. The order runs that no female sttakmt hereafter Is to receive more tiuut one male visitor per week, and be 'shall only litter In the evening until the *ftorth«i point# fo the fatal honr ofcx&tte» H^rpiofore. U»« yoang ladies had

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thcir heanx niuch lat^ than nine o'clock, and really *th«f fwtfstest time they haft was from ten to eleven, when '•the atana wert in the quiet skies *n»ey hint at an bMfigfcition meeting, in wfekh He buirnf 6» cruel Faculty will theoretically suffer.

The wild men of Borneo, so long before the museum and menagerie public, will vote in Connecticut, this fall, having been raised on Barnum's frrm.

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Vol* n.--iNo! i7. TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1880.

THE BETTER WORLD.

CHURCHES, PASTOR AND PEOPLE.

Rev C. R. Henderson's themes to-mor-row at the Baptist Church will bu morning, "The Meekness of Wisdom," and in the evening, "Positive Motives."

Rev. Dr. Thomas, of Chicago, announces his unbelief in a hell of material fire, and defies the Conference to expel him for the heresy.

The Jefferson street Christian church, Louisville, is divided into two factions, the cause of difference being a proposed change in the creed. The brethren indulged in personalities at a recent meeting, and soon began to fight. The police were called upon to quell the disturb. ance.

The Suffolk West Association is a Congregational body in eastern Massachusetts. It has by resolution decided that belief in the endlessness of future punishment is not necessary for admission into the Congregational ministry. The case whfch was acted on was that of the Rev. L. L, Briggsb who had been a Universalist.

Many clergymen in this country have lately received, a circular from a London dealer in second hand sermons. He offers sermons, "lithographed in a bold, round band," so that thOBe who happened to see them would suppose they were manuscript, for 25 cents each, or $20 a hundred. He has a line of cheaper sermons in print, at 10 cents apiece, warranted orthodox and others— a little more expensive—which have "a pleasantness, yet an awful solemnity, about them.'' ^.

The Chicago Advanoe mentions that

few years since the Congregational church of Indianapolis had occasion to borrow a sum of money for a term of years, giving as security a mortgage on the building. The rate of interest was to be 10 per cent. After awhile, finding that they could get money at a considerable lower rate of interest, the officers of ihe church applied to the holder of the mortgage, asking to be allowed to pay off the debt prior to the ekpiration of the time specified in the bond. The, Shylock, with whom tho church had to deal, was this same Mr. English.

There is a suspicious movement nanjt. manV Ittflflf Oil litfW in

the latest to go is the Rev. Wilbur F. Craft, late of Chicago, who goes to Brooklyn. The reason he gives i* the secret probably of similar cases, dissatisfaction with the itinerancy. Many useful ministers have been lost to that church oither by taking to secular pursuits or by joining other denominations within the past few years on account Of that feature of clerical life. It is held not only to interfere with one's domestic life and aspirations for a home, but also to cripple a clergyman's usefulness^ to pick him up from one place and set him down somewhere else, every three years at the longest. The movement for abolishing or modifying it has been increasing in strength for several years years and must very shortly be successful.

At the ordination of the Rev. C. P. Mills, at Newburyport, the Rev. Prof. E. A. Park, D. D., made the "ordaining prayer." This prayer, which is one of the most»remarkable ones ever put in type, occupies nearly a column and a quarter in the Congregationalist. It contains a summary of doctrine and a synopsis of church history, as well as a sketch of the theological and literary training of the gentleman ordained. It refers in detail to the pastoral duties which he is to perform, and delicately touches on "all the gifts with which Thou has honored him, and all the graces .with which Thou hast adorned him." It might be well to condense such prayers into much shorter space, and leave out the information they contain, so as more profitably to give it out in some other way. Even from the lips of so eminent a divine and scholar aa Prof. Park, a prayer of this kind, "revised by him in proof," la not a good model

Professor Swing's tribute to Henry Ward Beecber, in his sermon last Sunday,

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beautiful as it was deserved. After a review of Mr. Beecber'a life, he said "The brain that was so busy with the effort to make the gospels apply to the cabin of the negro was making religion apply to the cottage of the white man, and was making havoc in general of all abstruse and ab&trart theology. In seeking a religion for a few, Mr. Beecher uncovered a religion for all, and thus, while devising a faith tot-« cotton field, he helped develop one for a continent. In such a huge and cqloami form does Mr. Beecher seem, to my own gaaa, stepping along through thOfte thirty-three years be ba» just dotted. It la difficult to make a survey of soch a career without ceasing to be a calm jaritic and becoming a worshiper." ____

A Bangor man and his wife, who have a mutual love for sporting, may be seen tramping about tkm woods, withariNtfiB and the other with a

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The%eef-eater hat is revived. MuQ And laoe fichus remain in high favor.

Seal-brown plush is Mceesivel^ ftshionabto. Dark seal-brown is' the' leading eel or for wxaps.

Polonaises are fashionable, but not very popular. Cheviot suits are made in simple, practical styles. X-Xi

Flower necklace^ will be wo*n with evening toilets. Ourti*tbe,eraof glorified gown and patti**. ,.g%u

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Cocks' plnmeS are mounted in mutuary style for felt hats. Chenille and jet trimmings appear on many of the richest wraps.

Jackets of plush will be worn before the weather is cold enough for furs. •. Reel, gold, old gold, bronze, and purple are the prominent winter colors.

The glitter of gold and the sparkle of colored beads, make dresses and bonnets rarely brilliant thia season

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The handsomest things in fine knit underwear are chemises and drawers of wool crape and silk crape.

Hie demi-train does not yet appear. DresMa are either quite short or with very long trains.

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The little pig has lately appeareatn a gilded and nickel form to serve as a let-ter-weight, in company with frogs and mice.

Sonie of the new combinations are called "color clashes." A few recent importations might aptly be termed "color splashes."

In more distant days it was the ladies before the footlights who wore the sumpfttous dre&ses. Now the costumes are all on the other side.

Anhnals and birds treated in conventional manner and interspersed amid the general design of brocaded stuffb area feature in late importations

Derby felt hats are trimmed wiih so Surah silk or Boft brocaded sashes, finished at the ends with tassels or ball, and these are frequently heavily jetted.

Thfli^ivention of fashion writers is endleffc. The latest bit of sl^ng of one tjmfci is to call a gow% "foatfql."

that tlWgarment is loose and comfortable we are not so well advised as we should like to be.

LITTLE SERMONS /,!,

FOR SUNDAY CONTEMPLATION.

Sometimes words wound more than swards. the man who disclaims pride procl4ms it aloud.

Report, is a quick traveler but ah unsafe guide. A good book supplies the place of a companion. K*

Consider not so much your dress as youraddress. Chirms strike the sight, but merit winsthe soul.

Yaith looks at the possible age at the protuble, fTie heart ought to give charity when the bmd cannot.

Everything good in man leans on gomdhing higher. Th«secret pleasure of a generous act is the land's bribe. li'

Hcwho labors for mankind has already begun his immortality. Its not an easy task to so regulate you riife that when you come to die you will live nothing to regret.^,^

Doft get soured with the world it doesivt mend matters for yon, but it make you very disagreeable to others.

Bekftirteous with all, but intimate with t&r and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Do JfiM wish success in life? Make pemervknee yonr bosom friend, experience^* our elder brother, and hope yourgn^dian genius. ,,,

A sod Christian is just like sour milk, ith were intended to be sweet, but soothing has turned them, and after bejg turned they both become woi

If yonjiave the cork out of the bottle of perfui the perfume will all evaporate and if W are careless about your religion Jt will take itself off in the same

It is erfectly evident to a well balancettnind that everybody else in the worlis called to be religious, and equally Hdent that you are yourself called t* just as yon please.

Good feeding is the remit of much good seie, some good nature, and a Httte eel denial for the sake of others, and wila view to obtain the sameindnlge&^rom tham.

The te wealth of a community lies in the itegxtty ot ita dttaena, and Us chief twor arises not from the oases afarn of eat riches, hot from the possession of *«at and tree men.

A fe) friend renaabiea a shadow. White ie son shines and yon have pteoqrf money, the shadow and the frienirtneboth dose to jroor heals bat wlwtitoMi to be dark, where is the

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Vanity may be likened to the smoothskinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steak and growls at you as he goes.

THE PASSING SHOW.

SHOWS AND SHOW FOLKS..

THE Agnes Robertson dramatic company played "Arrah-na-Pogue" at the Opera House, Wednesday evening, to a good sized audience. The best personation was that of Luke Martin, as "Michael Feeny." Unlike Maggie Mitchell, Agnes does not hold her age well, and as the play progresses there is a painful feeling that it is about time an actress like Mrs. Boucicault gave up the idea of playing parts in which she was only fitted when her name was really Agnes Robertson—say thirty years ago.^.W'i^

At the Opera House last night Rial A Draper's Uncle Tom's Cabin company called the "Uncle Tom" patrons in such a throng as to fill the auditorium from orchestra to the upper gallery. A repetition of this crowd may -be expected this afternoon and again in the evening, when the drama will be repeated. As a drama, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is bosh and its matter is trash. It is a jumble of contradictions and improbabilities, but it draws it seems to draw people from their graves. Among its audiences few of the regular play goers are to be found. Its patrons—most of them—never enter the walls of a theatre except for Uncle Tom and Eva and to catch a glimpse of the "beautiful gates ajar." They laugh and Cry and sprinkle the floors with sentimental tears and are supremely happy. The play is pious and harmless, and it is evidently the right thing to do once a year. The company protf^ting it here now is one of the best ol the many Uncle Tom mors now on the road. The songs of the jubilee singers touch thcr heart with their plaintive^ .sweety meloodies. r/ hift

strong dramatic company including Miss Mary Loduski Young, a young actress of much promise. That greatest of all Irish dramas, "Kerry Gow" will be given. Nothing more is needed to insure a good audienoe than simply to announce that Joo Murphy will play "Kerry Gow," the pleasing comedy drama oftlife and love in the Emerald Isle—"an every day tale in every land."

John T. Raymond will give his new play "My Son," on his appearance here next Saturday evening.

The Lawn-Teunis party announced for next week has changed its route and will come later in the season.'

THE last tent show of the season announced for the 2d of Novemberelection day. This is Van Amburgh'sone of the old-fashioned kind, traveling overland by wagon.

One of the variety dives at Indianapolis announces as an attraction a female performer who does a "bare-footed clog dance."

Emma Abbott recently told a'Chioa^o reporter that she is one of the healthiest women in the world. She never cyen nursed a young and sensitive corn. JI

One of the bloodhounds with the Uncle Tom's Cabin party used to be one of the guards of the Peoria (Ol.,) workhouse, and killed one of the prisoners while he was attempting to escape.

Ben Magin ley, who used to oome through this town asa circus down, has made a hit as "Deacon Crankett" in John Habberton's play of that name. It is spoken of as being equally as good as Den Thompson's famous "Joshua Whitcomb." T,

John McCnllough and his company were playing "Othello" in Rochester, N. Y., the other night, when, during the scene where Iago excites the Moor's jealousy, a fellow in the gallery exclaimed, "Shoot the son-of-a-gun!" The tragedy was turnecT to a comedy for a while. J"

A bmtal fellow, who is empToyed by the Elmira Free Press, declares that Mary Anderson is b—w-1—gg—ed. This i» undoubtedly a campaign roorback, and, if the truth were known, it would be proven that her 1—ha have merely a new style of graoesfnl curve. But some editors will persist In discussing subjects with which they are totally nnacquainted, and the public should frown them down.

There gtWerMmragementlhthe fact that thia year it is the better class of dramaa which are the greatest successes. In New York "Haaei Kirke" has been played now over two hundred and fifty consecutive times at the Madison Square Theater, and still, says the Home Journal, 'is a powerful magnet of attraction." The play is pore In its tone and elevated In its sentiments, with no conventional stage villain, and withont

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Mary Anderson made her first essay at the assumption of male characters during an engagement in Buffklo, recently, playing the part of "Ion" in thedrama of that name. Her appearance on the stage in a short tunic excited the liveliest interest in her audience. The critics had presence of mind enough to decide that the more they saw of her the better they liked her.

Nebraska theatre andieiT?$8 are unconventional in their conduct. At Lincoln, while John T. Raymond was presenting the trial sobne in "Colonel Sellers," two dogs began to fight in the centre aiale.

All attention was instantly diverted from the stage to the fight. "I move we suspend proceedings in this court," said Raymond, "and I'll beta dollar on tho white dog." "I'll take you," cried a man in the audience. The white dog won, the dollar was passed across tho footlights to the star, and the acting of the play was resumed.

There was a church fair at Muncte, Ark., and photographs of the youtfg women who were to serve at the stands were displayed in the windows of the. stores, including those who were in character costumes. A traveling burlesque company came along at the same time, and portraits of blondes in tights were placed alongside the others. The pastor hastily removed the pictures of tho Munde girls. Thgn the theatrical manager placarded the Actresses' pictures with: "These artists 'have no conneetton whatever with the amateur performance at the Baptist church, and can only be seen at Tabor Hall."

The Kansaa City Times fca^sihat Miss iMifrttfwHui the gushing Emma to the interviewer of that paper: "I told him the other day that he was my lamb, and that I led him round with a silken string. I was afraid when be came witli us that I was going to have a terrible time with him ho had always been so cross and ill mannered with me in concert. But I find he is as gentle and kindly as a child. He has his foibles, as we ull have but under a rough exterior, he has a great big, noble heart. He has never been cross but once, and that was in

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either rant or cant. "The American Girl" of Anna Dickinson which is also having a great run, is an exceptionally meritorious play, fully thought rather than action, and though richly mounted yet depending rather upon its real merit than upon its plot or any art or tricks of of the stage. Persons of refined tastee hoped it would draw, but were afraid it would not, yet it has been a grand »uooess. In Chicago, week before last, MoCullough, Barrett and Keene were all playing in the legitimate draa», and all with full houses. Let us be thankful that with the return of prosperity to the country there are indications of increased culture and a higher morality.

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said I took hold of him so fiercely that I almost tore his velvet coat then he took my bands and threw them off angrily."

Says the Boston Courier: Mr. R. M. Jlooley, the veteran theatrical manager of Chicago, has announced his determination not to use a solitary lithograph in any of the windows of the city, and he calls upon his fellow managers to sustain him in his position. He does not believe in this kind of advertising, for lithographs are expensive in themselves, and their employment increases materially the number of dtwd heads at the theatrical entertainments. He evidently believes in the legitimate means of securing public attention through the newspapers, and the sooner other managers wake up to the same idea, sooner they will see their receipts augmented. It is a well known fact, dwelt upon by Dickens and others, that those who have one® received free admission to a theatre are never afterwards willing to buy tickets, and this class has been greatly increased by the system of utilizing shop windows for the purpose of exhibiting pictures of dramatic celebrities and of scenes from the popular plays of the day.

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THE REA80N WHY SHE 8TAY8 ON THE HTAGE.

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Denver Tribune.

Maggie Mitchell has been on the stage for thirty years. She acknowledges to forty-three, and as she has made a great deal of money, people wonder why she does not retire. The truth is, that she is not as rich as she was, ami her work Is now

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imw wr u«? ciiiuir^n, rWIJifi V€&m AJ?0 her husband, Paddock, bought the Kon*t Place at Long Branch, paying #7MOO therefor, *0,000 of wbi^wM c£hdo»™.

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ran on and interest and taxes with it, bot the little comedienne is in no sense a business woman, so she left everything to husband. On* day the remaining ttt.flOO fell due. and eould not be met. The place was sold under mortgage, and brought less than her first payment, and she awoke to a realization of the tact that she had a hard time bofore her, and so the little woman is still

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