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Show The Right Retort. Mrs Mary G. Baker Eddy, the head of the Chrlotlnn Science movement. Is noted throughout through-out New England for her cleanliness. Mrs. Eddy lived In her youth In Iynn. Mass., and tho other day a Lynn woman siM of her- ".Mr. Eddy was very charltnblo when she lived here. No one wan ever turned from her door Only, always, sho Insisted that hor. petitioners pe-titioners be neat and clean. A tramp, dirty nnd Ia2y. stood small chance of enlisting her sympathy till he had cleaned himself up. "Ono day a very dirty trnmp came to her houso She admitted him. She regarded him closely. Sho asked him what ho wanted. 'Lady,' tho IrumfJ whined. 'I m tryln' to get back to m )Kor old mother She nln't soon me face for ten years.' ' Mrs. Eddy smiled grimly 'I guess that's true.' she Bald. "Why don't, you wash It?" " |