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VILLAGE INN AVON PARK, FLA. MRS. M. WALDEN PROPRIETRESS

" the poor boys in the trenches" and "unlike Madam Walden (she is the only person who ever calls me "Madam" and she calls Mother the same) I believe in the War. I believe this War is the grandest thing that ever came to the human race - it's going to bring Democracy, and we're not going to stop until every crowned head in Europe has been deposed, and here we're talking of giving our time to the children of Avon Park! The children here don't need this work. It is work in the abstract - they have plenty of pure air, and good food and clothing - it's only the children in the large cities that need that - we want to do work in the concrete and knit shirts and make warm things for those poor boys in Europe. We want to establish convalescent homes for our poor maimed soldiers where they can be taken care of - (interruption