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I had two people staying with me. Many other people will tell the same story. One of the women who stayed with me came from Wyoming. I thought she would go out of her mind. She had left her little boy of about eight or nine. She had made arrangements for one week. That seemed to her to be all right. By the second week she was fearful things wouldn't go right. He was way out on a ranch somewhere and she explained to me in great detail the ranch life. She said, “It wouldn't be so terrible except that we're right in the heart of the rattlesnake country. At this time of year every time he goes out to the little creek he's just likely to run into a nest of rattlesnakes. I live in terror that So-and-so who's in charge of him won't foresee all these things.”

You began to realize what these people had on their minds. One woman had a husband who was very sick. He had tuberculosis and that's why they had gone out to wherever they lived - Color ado or Nevada I think. He was an arrested tuberculosis case, but he was very delicate and very weak. He couldn't take the full responsibility for the children. He had to be looked after. This was preying on her mind and giving her great worry.

Practically everybody who took on these women delegates was so impressed by the quality of these women and the fact





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