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 POOR DEAR MAMMA AND FOTHERGIL FINCH

(Hermione's Boswell Loquitur) ERMIONE'S mother, who has figured so often as "Poor dear Mamma" in these pages, has come out definitely for Suffrage. Someone told her that there was an alliance between the liquor interests and the anti-Suffragists and she believed it, and it shocked her.

Since the activities of her daughter have brought her into contact with Modern Thought her life has been chiefly passed in one or another of three phases: She has just been shocked, she is being shocked, or she fears that she is about to be shocked.

She is nearing fifty and rather stout, though her figure is still not bad. She has an abundance of chestnut hair, all her own, and naturally wavy; her hands are pretty, her feet are pretty, her face is pretty. Her mouth is very small, almost disproportionately so, and her eyes are very large and blue and very wide open. She was intended for a placid woman, but Hermione and Modern Thought have made complete placidity impossible. She has [134]