yellow hair, but a good live boy from nine to thirteen is a drug
on the market. There seems to be a general feeling that they
track in dirt and scratch up mahogany furniture.

Shouldn't you think that men's clubs might like to adopt
boys, as a sort of mascot? The boy could be boarded in a nice
respectable family, and drawn out by the different members on
Saturday afternoons. They could take him to ball games and
the circus, and then return him when they had had enough, just as
you do with a library book. It would be very valuable training
for the bachelors. People are forever talking about the
desirability of training girls for motherhood. Why not institute
a course of training in fatherhood, and get the best men's clubs
to take it up? Will you please have Jervis agitate the matter at
his various clubs, and I'll have Gordon start the idea in
Washington. They both belong to such a lot of clubs that we
ought to dispose of at least a dozen boys.

I remain,

The ever-distracted mother of 113.

S. McB.


THE JOHN GRIER HOME,

March 18.
Dear Judy: