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Have you heard what we are doing— 
 We One Hundred? 
 
 A worthy cause we represent 
 
 And all the labor that is spent, 
 
 Means: we are building a new church; that is, 
 We mean to aid ! 
 
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 We're one hundred women busy- 
 Earning money! 
 
 That's the reason we are hustling 
 
 And are doing so much bustling. 
 
 And when you read these lines you'll learn ; 
 That of work we're not afraid! 
 
We are cooking and we're baking and we're sewing - 
 
 Yes ; we're sewing ! 
 And the fact is we're so busy 
 That 'twill almost make you dizzy 
 Just to know the many things that 
 
 We're making now to sell ! 
 
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 If in any branch domestic you may fail- 
 And you may fail! 
 
 You w^ill find that all your trouble 
 
 Flies away light as a bubble 
 
 If you merely ask assistance of the 
 
 Ones who do things well ! 
 
Is your sewing far behind ? Never mind— 
 
 Never mind ! 
 There^s an adept orders taking, 
 Who will show her skill in making 
 Any product of the needle, plain or fancy 
 
 Just the same, 
 
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 As she keeps us all a-going— 
 Yes ; a-going ! 
 Laying out our work so neatly 
 And she does it so completely 
 That there certainly is magic just in 
 Mrs. Henning's name ! 
 
Does your bodice need a collar- 
 Fancy collar? 
 
 Dainty stock or lawn turnover? 
 
 You will find yourself in clover 
 
 When you see the lovely things made by 
 
 Mrs. Neel and Mrs. D. McClure. 
 
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 There are handkerchiefs so pretty— 
 Yes ; so pretty ! 
 
 So cobwebby that the spider 
 
 May be sorry 'tis denied her 
 
 Just to work along these lines, for 
 
 Miss Taylor, I am sure, 
 
May compete with her in drawn-work— 
 Any drawn- work ! 
 
 Handkerchiefs or Hnen covers. 
 
 Then all you who may be lovers 
 
 Of these things send now your order, 
 
 Be it large or be it small. 
 
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 And while of handkerchiefs weVe telling— 
 
 Handkerchiefs ! 
 Laundry bags are made to hold them, 
 Such creations to enfold them. 
 By Miss Smrcek. Tub awaits them ! You 
 
 Would never dream at all ! 
 
Does your pretty gown for evening 
 
 Need a girdle? 
 One that gives a dainty touch 
 That is distinctive, and just such 
 As will make the perfect finish to your 
 Costume you require. 
 
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 You will draw the line in favor- 
 Yes ; in favor, 
 Of a belt of beads artistic 
 Wrought in a design quite mystic, 
 We know that Mrs. Hynson makes 
 The girdle you desire ! 
 
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Pillows? Bolsters? need new cases— 
 
 Slips or cases ? 
 You may name them what you choose to— 
 Just whatever you are used to— 
 Pillow slips or pillow cases, 
 
 Just whatever pillows wear. 
 
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 But in this case we ask attention— 
 
 Your attention ! 
 To the fact, deft fingers flying 
 In and out the needle plying 
 Fashion work so daintily wrought, from 
 
 Mrs. Burns you'll want a pair. 
 
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And we're sewing for the wee ones— 
 
 Yes ; the Wee Ones ! 
 The little people too are sharing 
 In the many things for wearing 
 After La Mode's way, in smartest frocks 
 And other pretty things. 
 
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 And since your int'rest is aroused— 
 Has been aroused ! 
 
 Well ; we fancy you'd be knowing 
 
 Who is at this branch of sewing. 
 
 Why of course it's Mrs. Forbes, (perhaps you've 
 Known it) and this brings 
 
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Us now to tell of some other things as well- 
 Such as skirts ! 
 Petticoats so dainty, neat, 
 That your wardrobe's incomplete 
 If Mrs. McAnulty does not you with 
 These supply. 
 
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 And there are so many sewing — 
 Yes, so many ! 
 
 That we can't enumerate 
 
 All the very up-to-date 
 
 Things for wearing that are making 
 If we try. 
 
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But if it happen you need aprons- 
 Nice new aprons ! 
 
 Yes; great big ones for the kitchen 
 
 In a style made most bewitchin' 
 
 Miss Black's mistress in the art, as 
 
 We all know, of making these. 
 
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 Merely mentioning the kitchen — 
 
 La Cuisine ! 
 Suddenly does set one thinking. 
 Causing a peculiar sinking 
 At the stomach, which is hunger, 
 
 So we'll opportunely seize 
 
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Upon this chance your hunger whetting— 
 
 And a-betting ! 
 For you see it*s our intention 
 To proceed to try to mention 
 Many things in the department culinary, 
 
 If not all, 
 
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 Now in some process of making— 
 Perhaps baking ! 
 
 And since all are most nutritious 
 
 And are all alike delicious, 
 
 There certainly is danger other markets 
 We'll forestall ! 
 
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So if you eat bread and can't bake it— 
 
 Cannot ? Will not ! 
 There is bread light as a feather 
 And it matters not the weather, 
 White bread made by Mrs. Nebo, who 
 You'll find in this excels ! 
 
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 And some not so light — in color — 
 
 Merely color ! 
 Brown bread, sweet with nutty flavor, 
 Which you'll all agree does savor 
 Of good breakfasts. Mrs. Mortimer 
 
 Does bake it, as this tells. 
 
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And there^s pie too now in baking— 
 
 Apple pie ! 
 Or any kind you ask for 
 You will find not thought a task for 
 Mrs. M. McClure to bake, whose pies 
 
 Are dainties rare ! 
 
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 And macaroons so crispy- 
 Macaroons ! 
 A connoisseur in dainties if you please, 
 Miss Sarah Means is who makes these. 
 As shown at every festival we hold. 
 Bazaar or fair ! 
 
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Or if you hunger for some cake and never bake- 
 
 Well, never bake ! 
 For Mrs. R. McCaslin bakes some, 
 Mrs. Charles too, and so toothsome 
 Will you find these that you'll surely 
 
 Hunger often, yes indeed ! 
 
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 There are lots of other good things— 
 
 Lots of others ! 
 Jellies, salads and confections. 
 Recipes too, and directions 
 How to make and how to bake 
 
 Many things you often need ! 
 
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Do you want to make a salad— 
 Good corn salad? 
 If you let Miss M. McClure know 
 You will find she'll quickly show 
 Just how to make the best you've eaten, 
 You'll agree ! 
 
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 Also in this line of specials— 
 
 Special good things ! 
 
 Potato salad appetizing, 
 
 Why it's not at all surprising 
 
 That to make it Mrs. Weaverling's 
 
 Kept busier than the bee ! 
 
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And there's jelly of the finest- 
 Finest jelly ! 
 Jelly that does take the biscuit— 
 Well, we thought we might just risk it- 
 Mrs. Seward Hays does make it and 
 
 We know you'll find it rare. 
 
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 And of course we all eat butter- 
 But Lemon Butter! 
 That we eat when we can get it 
 And for not one moment let it 
 Be mistaken that you get it, 
 
 Just somewhere ! 
 
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So we'll tell you who does make it— 
 Who does make it? 
 
 Mrs. C. L. Taylor is it 
 
 Makes this butter so exquisite ! 
 
 Delicacy, tart and wholesome. Nothing else 
 You'll ever eat ! 
 
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 That is in butters! There are beans awaiting - 
 
 Baked beans ! 
 Not the kind you often read of 
 But the kind you want to eat of, 
 Baked by Mrs. Harry Baker, all in 
 
 Little jars complete ! 
 
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Perhaps you have a weakness for a certain kind of pie- 
 
 Pumpkin pie ! 
 Well, there's pie that you will relish 
 Pumpkin pie fit to embellish 
 Table of the epicure ! The pie that's known in 
 
 History and rhyme ! 
 
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 We would have you bear in mind— pumpkin pie ! 
 
 Of the kind 
 That is made by Mrs. Huff 
 You can never get enough 
 So be sure to have her bake some while 
 
 It still is pumpkin time ! 
 
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And another skilled in pastries— 
 
 Mrs-. Lemmer. 
 She has not the slightest notion 
 What a very great commotion 
 Such good pies she bakes are making. For all 
 
 Kind is she renowned ! 
 
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 And some neither cook nor bake nor sew- 
 
 Yet, they're busy ! 
 Yes ; they're busy money saving 
 And are fashion's order waiving 
 And will wear old hats and bonnets 
 All year round ! 
 
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There are yet things realistic— 
 And artistic. 
 
 But these are not to eat or wear 
 
 For of that youVe had your share ! 
 
 So we'll peep into the studio of 
 
 One or two or three. 
 
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 There is work on canvas showing 
 
 Real talent. 
 A portrait or a decorative 
 Scheme in oils alike are native 
 To Mrs. H. L. Baker's hand. You will 
 
 Go at once and see ! 
 
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When you give a little dinner and need cards- 
 Dinner cards ! 
 Mrs. J. H. Williams' fingers 
 Create a dainty gem that lingers 
 Long in fancy, but you'll find a 
 
 Finished artist here as well, 
 
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 Who does anything in colors- 
 Water colors ! 
 Everything, the pretty maiden. 
 Or the branch with blossom laden. 
 Bits of sea, or sky, or land. All their 
 Charming story tell ! 
 
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Do you have a special fondness for 
 
 Ceramics ? 
 A dainty piece for cabinet 
 Or a handsome dinner set, 
 Anything in china painting that's artistic 
 
 And quite rare ? 
 
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 You will find that in this branch— 
 
 Branch of the fine arts ! 
 Mrs. Risher's work is such 
 One cannot of it say too much 
 For with any royal work does it 
 
 Most favorably compare ! 
 
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And there's yet another artist— 
 
 Decorative ! 
 Not in painting but in growing 
 Any lovely flower a-blowing, 
 Blooming, Blossoming in Spring 
 
 Or good old Summertime ! 
 
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 Then if you'd like the choicest, growing - 
 Blooming, blowing ! 
 
 For the cares of one to lighten, 
 
 For what like flowers can brighten ? 
 
 Mrs. Peterson's flower garden yields the 
 Sweetest in this clime ! 
 
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And a propos of flowers— 
 
 There are sunflowers ! 
 
 Bright and radiantly gleaming, 
 
 In a blaze of glory beaming, 
 
 By Miss Bryson were they gathered, in a 
 Great big bunch of ten ! 
 
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 Ten of the One Hundred Workers— 
 
 Never shirkers ! 
 You'll find nothing more unique 
 Than the Sunflower Social, seek 
 Where you will. And we hope the 
 
 Sunflowers entertain again ! 
 
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And there are some other people— 
 
 Social people 
 With such a feast did us surprise 
 Musical and otherwise ! 
 Mrs. Duncan and her aids 
 
 We entreat shall feast us more! 
 
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 Strange how does one's mind revert to- 
 
 And convert too— 
 Just the slightest chance we meet 
 To talk of something good to eat, 
 But you see there are still others who do 
 Keep a bakery store ! 
 
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 Everything that's baked they're baking- 
 Baked of flour ! 
 
 Gingerbread, and doughnuts savory, 
 
 Cake, and custard pie so flavory; 
 
 Mrs. Blazier and nine others all these 
 Good things bake for you. 
 
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 Now we hope that you'll find something- 
 
 To your taste ! 
 But your appetite not diminish 
 Not until these rhymes we finish, 
 For there yet remain some people who are 
 
 Interested too ! 
 
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Mrs. Means and Mrs. Norris, Miss Andress 
 
 And Mrs. Young, 
 Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Eight and Mrs. Gillen, 
 It may be these are not willin^ 
 We should know just what they're doing, but 
 
 We very plainly see 
 
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 Their left hand knows not of the right— 
 Nor what it does ! 
 
 And it's not the very oddest. 
 
 Miss Hirth and more are just as modest ! 
 
 Mesdames Ebberts, Ward and West, 
 McCreery, Kennedy. 
 
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There are four-and-twenty others— 
 
 More or less ! 
 Who are equally concerned 
 And though we've tried we haven't learned 
 What they are doing either, but who some are 
 
 We'll try to tell. 
 
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 Mesdames Rhodes, Orr, Hood, Menke, 
 
 Rowse, 
 Wolfe and Barnes and Wisener, 
 Jacobs, Morton, Hoover, Power, 
 Mrs. Francis and some more ! There are so 
 
 Many doing well ! 
 
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Miss Robinson and Mrs. Brockie, 
 
 Mrs. Davis, 
 Mrs. Wiggins, Mrs. Omans, Mrs. Payne, 
 Mrs. Kerruish and may be others, but it's plain, 
 Though names may come and names may go 
 
 We can't go on forever ! 
 
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 Altogether we're a unit that is power - 
 We One Hundred, 
 
 If energies we concentrate. 
 
 And this labor consecrate, 
 
 As being noble work, as well as 
 Work that's clever. 
 
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But we hope since we all know— 
 
 Just what we're doing! 
 We'll be so inclined to labor 
 That we'll not permit our neighbor 
 To excel us earning money for this purpose 
 Good and true. 
 
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 And the sum of all this rhyming— 
 We've been timing, 
 
 Is : we're simply interchanging 
 
 Household duties, and arranging 
 
 Daily cares, material things, that best results 
 For us ensue. 
 
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Wi^t (§m ^m^hrth. 
 
 Mrs. J. B. Henning, Chairman. 
 AIDS. 
 Mrs. Jesse H. Williams. Mrs. William Burns. 
 
 " John H. Gillen. Miss Mary Hirth. 
 
 " George P. Weaverling. Mrs. J. F. Hutson. 
 " Harry L. Baker. " Edwin B. Lyon. 
 
 Miss Cora B. Strickler. 
 
 Mrs. Charles W. Taylor, Chairman. 
 Mrs. Daniel R. McClure. Miss Olive Espy. 
 
 Miss Lulu Black. Mrs. W. S. B. Hays. 
 
 Mrs. J. B. Neel. " Arthur E. Orr. 
 
 " J. C. Rhodes. " August Miller. 
 
 Miss Jeanetta M. Eaton. 
 
 Mrs. W. S. Hood, Chairman. 
 
 Mrs. Robert C. McCaslin. Mrs. Thomas R. Davis. 
 
 " E. A. Means. " James Peterson. 
 
 " Elizabeth McCreery. " Margaret Todd. 
 
 " M. L. McClure. " William Mortimer. 
 
 Mrs. W. C. Miller. 
 
 Mrs. Elma Lemmer, Chairman. 
 Mrs. J. Clyde Miller. Mrs. William F. Nebo. 
 
 '♦ John Wolfe. " Ashel H. Hight. 
 
 Miss Robinson. " H. F. Power. 
 
 Mrs. O. J. Hoover. " William Menk. 
 
 A Friend. 
 
 Mrs. James B. Ward, Chairman. 
 Mrs. Nathan D. Hynson. Mrs. Peter Allen. 
 
 Miss Mattie D. McClure. " E. D. Omans. 
 
 Mrs. W. P. Patten. " R. Patterson. 
 
 " John Forbes. " J. M. Norris. 
 
 Miss Patterson. 
 

 Mrs. Thomas J. 
 
 Duncan, Chairman. 
 
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 . F. Stevens. 
 
 Miss Darlie Shoemaker, 
 
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 H. Morton. 
 
 " Katherine Beazel. 
 
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 " Alberta Morton. 
 
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 D, Charles. 
 
 " Mame Shoemaker, 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mrs. George W. McCleery. 
 
 Miss Mary Taylor, Chairman. 
 
 Mrs. James F. Jamison. Miss Ella C. Andress. 
 
 " Reid Kennedy. " M. A. Burns. 
 
 " G. E. Wisener. Mrs. E. F. Rowse. 
 
 " George Jacobs. " M, H. West. 
 
 Misses Kendall and Hammil. 
 
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 Miss Annie Bryson, Chairman. 
 
 Mrs. Jennie C. McAnulty. Mrs. David S. Francis. 
 
 " Hubert P. Wiggins. " Andrew Brockie. 
 
 ♦' Charles Goeddel. Miss Ethel McCaslin. 
 
 " William M. Wilson. " May Stark. 
 
 Miss Smrcek and Miss Holt. 
 
 Mrs. Bernard H. Blazier, Chairman. 
 Mrs. David F. Bair. Miss Ella Hillman. 
 
 " A. B. Crouch. Mrs. Charles E. Elrick. 
 
 " W. H. Langham. Miss Annetta G. Stroud. 
 
 " James Hillman. " Rose Patterson. 
 
 Miss Elizabeth McVay. 
 
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 Mrs. George C. Barnes, Chairman. 
 
 Mrs. W. W. McLaughlin. Mrs. Adam Brockie, Jr. 
 
 " James H. Grose. " Jacob Pfirrmann. 
 
 " Adam Brockie, Sr. " Gotleib Kinley. 
 
 " F. A. Cummins. " W. S. Cunningham, 
 
 Miss Hillman. " Patrick MuUin. 
 
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