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Show i ; p 1 I LJ i ; ! VVA6HINQTON. July 1 Now and il.cn the world forgets the truth thai 1 "work Is honorable" nnd "the best I intidote foi lupendlng falluic" and someone has to prove it. J Out it Evakota, a Florence Crltton-den Crltton-den home for girls In lhc hills or Virginia. Vir-ginia. Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett Is proving that this much-shunned work, incessantly applied, will reform even erring ;rls, Hundred,: of girls, who bad b. come the wrecks of society be-forc be-forc Ihej went there, do all the "work or. a 325-acrc farm. The record of tho farm Is: Ml the girls are happy after they have been there a few months. Not one who has left has returned tc the broad path and had to be taken buck. Not one graduate from tho school who has married has failed to make a Kood housewife. The girls run the electric light plant, feed find milk the cows, care for th hlckfiis. hoe the potatoes, pick th I beans and saw the wood for fuel. They -are kepi busy at something from the time they K'M to the farm to the very hour the., are prepared to leave. "No girl Is past reform," says Mrs, Barrett. "Mothers and wrong home-life home-life are to blame for a girl's trans- ' gresslons. No girl is bom bad; th world makes her so. Society girls set the pice, the poor girls pay the fid ' diet Idleness Is the devil's own work. :ri.op Honest work is godly," The Hardlngs must have been born under lucky stars. George Tyron Harding celebrated his 76th blrthdav , anniversary June 12. the day his son v is gl en the Republican nomination foi the presidency. Warren o Hard-)iig. Hard-)iig. the son and nominee, will cclc-brate cclc-brate his 65th birthday anniversarv November 2. the dav he Is either elected or defeated for the highest office In the world. 1 |