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Show The Ring Begging Crusade. How many of the girls have heard of "the friendship ring," that ingenious device de-vice for depleting the pockets and mining min-ing the characters of all mankind? The scheme is to collect a penny from each of your friends until you obtain two hundred and then invest the money in a ring. A score or more of young ladies engaged in this genteel begging in one place will make things exceedingly lively live-ly for the gentlemen they can catch. Their persistence is something wonderful, wonder-ful, and the amount of prevarication they will commit in trying to convince a man that they haven't asked him for a penny before, when, in trnth, they have robbed him of anywhere from three to a dozen, is sad to contemplate. Cor. I Springfield Homestead. ' |