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stantly meeting the same people there. From these meetings, friendships have grown up between her older and newer friends, and all are helpful to each other. If a university professor can discourse eloquently on economic problems, a factory lad can offer his own experiences as a practical example. If a college

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woman can give some of her investigations along the lines of child study, a mother, who by her own hard work has supported and reared seven children to good citizenship, can testify to the mother's insight into the child's needs.

Aside from the hundreds of neighborly calls made at the house each week and it is surprising how much time these people have for visiting there are held there seven weekly organized meetings.

On Monday evening a woman graduate of the University of