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Show I BRINGS HER HUSBAND UP TO TIME In tho April number of the Amcrl-I Amcrl-I can Magazine la tho story ot Mrs. I Frank S. Stoddard, a Lo8 Angeles woman who has made her namo n I terror to men who abandon helpless H v. omen. Hj "Tho cftcctlvo work of this natlvo I daughter of California In apprehend- lng men, both married and single, B who abandon helpless women lias I made her services popular In this pe-I pe-I cullar "eld of philanthropy. I "In pursuing fugltlvo hsbands and lovers and In bringing them to Jus-I Jus-I tlce, Mrs. Stoddard displays unusual I tact', energy and resourcefulness and I haB behind her at nil times a pow-I pow-I erful machine, composed of tho good I will of tho courts, tho cooperation of tho pollco forces, tho assistance of I the district attorney's staff, nnd tho I gratuitous services of a group of able I lawyers. Even tho Btato legislature I was willing to becomo Mrs. Stod-I Stod-I dard's handmaid; and it passed, at I her Instance, a law which makes her I work much easier. I "Mrs. Stoddard's fame as a sue- I cessful Nemesis of runaway men has I brought so many appeals for help I that her domestic Hfo was seriously I Interrupted. Then she established an offlco and set apart Thursday of each I week for receiving rejected mothers. tk With tho exception of emergency 'rF cases, their stories are heard on tho I regular day." |