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Show rocoguizlng this now as never before. An Instance of hospitality on the part of southern women, even when they were half starving, is afforded by an experience of Mary Gay. author of "Life in Dixie During the War." Her mother's homo In Decatur, Ga., 1 had been taken as headquarters by a cavalry regiment and her servants and provisions confiscated. When the soldiers went away there was nothing noth-ing eatable left save tho grains of corn scattered on the ground where they had fed their horses. These grains tho ladles reared in luxury picked from the ground, and also out of the cracks of the drawers of their mahogany bureaus, which the soldiers had used as feeding troughs. They crushed the corn Into hominy anil cooked It, and gave a portion of It to a sick Federal soldier who had been left behind and whom they nursed until he was well. HOSPITABLE HEROINES. Tho palm of heroism should be given to the women of the south for their courage, their endurance, their Belf-saerlflcing helpfulness during the Civil War. Our northern brothers aro |