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 great sheaf of pamphlets, newspaper clippings and illustrated circulars, which she placed before the master of the house.

"Exhibits A, B and C," explained their host, as their guests looked with interest at the collection.

"All that about parcel post?" inquired Mr. Norton respectfully.

"I felt the same way when I left Postmaster Kelley's office," said Mr. Larry, as he sorted the collection. "I don't suppose one-tenth of the practical housekeepers in America realize what Uncle Sam is trying to do to reduce the high cost of living. And it should be most important to the wives of men like ourselves, in moderately prosperous circumstances, who know the importance of good food to family health and who, therefore, deprive themselves of many advantages and pleasures that their families shall have wholesome meals. These are the women who resent most deeply the rise in food prices; they pass resolutions in their clubs; they demand that we men legislate—when they ought to appoint practical committees to investigate