Dear Enemy

Did you know all that? It's very necessary information for a politician

to have. Get the book and read it, please; I'd send my copy only that

it's borrowed.

It's also very necessary information for me to have. There are eleven of

these chicks that I suspect a bit, and I am SURE of Loretta Higgins. I

have been trying for a month to introduce one or two basic ideas into

that child's brain, and now I know what the trouble is: her head is

filled with a sort of soft cheesy substance instead of brain.

I came up here to make over this asylum in such little details as fresh

air and food and clothes and sunshine, but, heavens! you can see what

problems I am facing. I've got to make over society first, so that it

won't send me sub-normal children to work with. Excuse all this

excited conversation; but I've just met up with the subject of

feeble-mindedness, and it's appalling--and interesting. It is your

business as a legislator to make laws that will remove it from the

world. Please attend to this immediately, And oblige,

S. McBRIDE,

Sup't John Grier Home.

Friday.

Dear Man of Science:

You didn't come today. Please don't skip us tomorrow. I have finished

the Kallikak family and I am bursting with talk. Don't you think we

ought to have a psychologist examine these children?

We owe it to adopting parents not to saddle them with feeble-minded

offspring.

You know, I'm tempted to ask you to prescribe arsenic for Loretta's

cold. I've diagnosed her case; she's a Kallikak. Is it right to let her

grow up and found a line of 378 feeble-minded people for society to care

for? Oh dear! I do hate to poison the child, but what can I do?

S. McB.

Dear Gordon:

You aren't interested in feeble-minded people, and you are shocked

because I am? Well, I am equally shocked because you are not. If you

aren't interested in everything of the sort that there unfortunately is

in this world, how can you make wise laws?

You can't.

However, at your request, I will converse upon a less morbid subject.

I've just bought fifty yards of blue and rose and green and corn-colored

hair-ribbon as an Easter present for my fifty little daughters. I am

also thinking of sending you an Easter present. How would a nice fluffy

little kitten please you? I can offer any of the following patterns:--

Number 3 comes in any color, gray, black, or yellow. If you will let me

know which you would rather have, I will express it at once.