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Show MlssWillard sa)S that few forms of hypocrisy arc more common on the lips of women than this: 'I would on no account have my name In the newspaper." news-paper." If a woman has accomplished something helpful to humanity it Is just as desirable to have it known ns if a man hnd accomplished the same. Indeed, In-deed, she adds, it is more so, because this knowledge will encourage other women tolift their hands in some good cmplo)ment. Miss Kale Holdcn, matron of the women nurses on North llrothcr Island, where the New aork city paupers nfillcted with contagious diseases arc sent, has for ten years led n life of solitude nnd sacrifice, frequently spending spend-ing mouths at a time without crossing to the mainland. When fifty Russian t) phus patients u ere sent In n slncle day to this Island hospital, Miss lloiden spent forty consecutive hours among them without sleep or food. |