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Updated: June 25, 2025

They tossed thirty-and forty-pound shells from one to the other as they once may have tossed a cluster of artificial flowers. Their skins were clean and often ruddy. Their eyes were bright. They showed no signs whatever of overwork. They were almost without exception the original applicants. I asked the superintendent if there were no danger of heart strain.

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton - The Living Present