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OUR FRIEND THE ENEMY
To know that tenement mothers and wives
Couldn't help guard their children's lives;
Glad since everything suited her
That other women should stay as they were.
Which shows that being secure, apart,
Petted and sheltered by every art,
Doesn't develop the human heart.
November 4, 1915.
II
"My principal reason against it," said he,
"Is that women don't want it, as far as I see."
"O Father," his daughter exclaimed, "is that true?
You know that I want it, and Mother does, too."
He smiled with omniscience peculiar to him:
"My darling," he said, "that is only a whim."
"But it isn't a whim," she replied, "in Miss Hays,
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