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Show The Face Unseen. Mrs. Mary G. Baker Eddy, tho head of the Christian Science movement, Is noted throughout New England for her love of .cleanliness. Mrs. Eddy lived In hor youth In Lynn, Mass., and the other day a Lynn woman wo-man said of her: Mrs. Eddy was very charitable when she lived here. Is'o one was ever turned from her door. Only, always, she insisted in-sisted that her petitioners be neat and clean. A tramp, dirty and lazy, stood small chance of enlisting her sympathy till he had cleaned himself up. "One day a very dirty tramp came to her house. She admitted him. She regarded re-garded him closely. She asked him what he wanted. " 'Lady,' the tramp whined, 'I'm try-In' try-In' to get back to mo poor old mother She ain't seen me face for ten years ' Mrs. Eddy smiled grimly. " I guess that's true,' she said. 'Why don't you wash It?' " |