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Show Beautifying Orphans. "The hard luck of that little boy who couldn't get anybody to adopt him because he had freckles has called out a queer kind of correspondence," correspond-ence," said the matron of an orphanage. orphan-age. "Beauty doctors write asking for the job of making over our homely children. They put the proposition partly on a philanthropic basis. For one-tenth the money they get for beautifying beau-tifying adults they offer to clear children's chil-dren's complexions, straighten noses, and make straight hair curly. They argue that it would pay in the long run to patronize them, because the -orphans would be taken off our hands so much sooner. "They present their arguments so plausibly that I am more than half convinced. The very homely child who wants to be adopted is terribly handicapped, and I really believe that if I were a philanthropist with a pile of money to give away I would Bet aside a certain sum for the beautifying beautify-ing of ugly orphans." |