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Show DAINTY WOMEN MEND ROADS IN VENICE, CAL. VENICE, CaL, April 11. As an object lesson to dilatory highway commissioners commission-ers who have answered appeals for road Improvements with pleas of poverty, the women of Venice turned out with picks and shovels and smoothed the wrinkles out of Washington boulevard. In the army of roadmakers were the wives and daughters of men worth several millions, and although the day's work left blisters on many dainty palms, the result is seen in the perfect condition of a mile of roadway. Dirt began flying under the supervision of Miss Marie Ruff, and chuck holes, "which have been, the bane of travelers along this thoroughfare, were filled and given a high finish. At noon lunch was served under the trees at the roadside. Coffee was poured from a stew pan heated heat-ed over a bonfire. Mrs. Frank Peltret drove a road roller. |