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Show NO WONDER SHE DIDN'T KNOW. Woman of Experience Not Hasty In ''Expressing Opinion. Heforo ho had been In tho car thrco ! minutes most of tho women passengers passen-gers nnd somo of the men wcro explaining ex-plaining to their neighbors whnt they would do with the llttlo Imp If ho belonged be-longed to them. Spanking was tho popular remedy, nnd If thnt boy had recolved then and thero nil tho pad-dllngs pad-dllngs that his critics wcro aching to administer ho certaluly would have been well blistered. To tho general babel of ndvico and fault-finding, however, there was ono woman who 'contributed nothing. Sho was a gentle, grny-halred body, who remained unruffled In the midst of tho email tempest raging. "If that child was m!n" nld thr determined womnn bcsldo her, "I'd mnko him mind If I hnd to half kill him. Wouldn't you?" "I don't know," Bald tho llttlo womnn, wom-nn, mildly, "whnt I'd do." "You don't?" said tho determined womnn. "Well, I know. Hut maybe you aro not used to children? Mnybo you nover had any of your own?" "Oh, yes," said tho little woman. "I brought up 13. That Is why I don't know what I would do." |