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Show WE'RE NOT SO WICKED. New York and its people. are not half a; bad ae they are painted. The doings of the people In olden times make the weaknesses of the "smart set" of todav appear as mild aa the doings of a well-ordered well-ordered Sunday-school' convention. All this and more Mra Frank Cromise told the Minerva club yesterday afternoon at its meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria, She also said that the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst and the Rev. Madison C. PeWs are the Jeremiahs of our time, and there are Jeremiahs In every age At this the audience audi-ence burst into appladse, for the club has had troubles of its own, and has no use for Jeremiahs of any kind. Tou see a few women drink and gamble, gam-ble, and therefore we forget the millions who do neither, and the hundreds of millions mil-lions of - men who do both." remarked Mrs. Cromise, addressing figuratively the Rev. Dr.- Peters, whom she called "the apostle at large, to the women of Gotham.' Goth-am.' "I contend." she went on, "that we are quite aa good wives and mothers as the women of past generations. We differ dif-fer In deajee and - not in kind. The standard of living has changed and we have changed to meet It." New York Letter In Kansas City Star, " . y - i - - |