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Show IIC. KITE OILLiD HUES FROM NEW JERSEY Writing from Trenton, N. J., to one of the club members in Ogden, Mrs. I Kate S. Illlliard. a former Ogdenlte, ! conveys the pleasing information that her daughter Ituth has' been made su perlntond'ent of the State Home for Girls in New Jersey, which Is a most Important position. Mrs. Hllll.-yd's letter follows: "I sec you are afflicted in Ogden With the influenza We have had it over a month and the quarantine has lasted three weeks and is still on. It i reads like the old stories of the yellow fever, only there is no use fleeing from the city, for It is everywhere. So far we have been exempt. "I have some news for you and the club members who knew Ruth. She has been elected superintendent of the Stale Home for Girls in New Jorsoy, I am as- proud as a peacock about It. Every ono of the officers at the home qtp glad of the appointment for they all like her There aro some 208 girls in the home, and about forty officers. So, you see, It is some responsibility. Thoy are In quarantine now havo had two influenza cases one girl died In about twenty-four hours. 1 don't see much of my girl these days. The year, book came 0. K. I "New Jersey has the chance of her life to give the country the right of equal suffrage, if she elects a Democratic Demo-cratic senator for the short term. It needs two votes to par sthe tederal amendment, and one of these can come I from New Jersoy. So the 'suffs' ar.o here to campaign for Hennessy's elec-! lion and Baird's defeat. The militarist militar-ist suffs got here first and started, i They want lo join hands with tho old j nationals, but they will have none ofj them but will not interfere with their ' campaign. As usual I got In vith the! live wires and we are starting things. 1 am not in accord with the militant methods but. bolieve me, they are alive i and it Is a pleasure to meet them. I feel years younger ftince I have been with them. We aro to havo street meeting meet-ing if the ban is lifted. "My heart aches for every mother who has sons in tho awful war. 1 hope and pray that neither your of j'our boys will have to go across. I have finished reading Under Fire' by Henri Barhusse, a Frenchman! It is great, but oh, so terrible. He tolls "the tale of i r i f n-t H mi" rf-rn n . mn 1 i i . d-. h 1 c life in the trenches and at the front ! so simply yet so vividly you can see ; and feel it all with him. I could only j read a little at a time, it made me feql j so badly for all the boys there." 1 1 i i M i |