anti-ball

Updated: July 13, 2025

We're to give an anti-ball here in Hilton. I'm a patroness. Name to be printed alongside Mrs. ex-Governor Vaile's. How's that? 'On the fence, Ruth! Why, good heavens, there's simply no two sides to the question. You come along to this anti-ball and you'll see, Kiddie!" Well, as I said, Ruth went one day to a suffrage meeting in town. She had never heard the question discussed from a platform.

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