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Show New One to Her. One of Kansas City's welfare societies so-cieties provides a summer camp for children. Each child is given a thorough thor-ough outing for $1 a week. Children are not accepted under the age of I nine, but now and then a well-coached child gets by a few months younger. The other day a little girl with all the earmarks of seven years applied with a dollar at the camp. "How old are i you?" she was asked. "Nine," replied 1 the child glibly. "When were you . eight?" This was an unexpected question. ques-tion. "Eight?" she stammered; "why, do you have to be eight before you are nine?" Kansas City Star. |