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Show o Butter Balls Not New to Her. Mrs. Delia Lathrop Williams, secretary secre-tary of the Methodist Woman's Homo Missionary society, wa describing the wretched life that poor children lead in tho slums of great cities. "Why," she said, "such children can not open th"'r mouths without revealing reveal-ing some deplorable homo fact or condition. con-dition. "A friend of mine game a Thanksgiving Thanks-giving dinner to somo eight or nlno slum children from Cleveland, with their mothers. She had them all out at her farm In the country for tho day. To ono child, a little girl, she said at dinner as sho put on her plate a pretty butter ball: " 'There Is something you don't see In Cleveland.' '"Don't we, though?' said tho little girl. 'That's where you're mistaken. There's three great big butter balls hangln' outside of the shop where mother takes our clothes every Monday Mon-day morning. Ain't there, mother?'" |