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| girls in a sewing school, about that time, twenty-six of whom had attended the public schools of the district more than a year. One wore a badge earned for excellence in her studies. In those days every street corner was placarded with big posters of Napoleon on a white horse riding through fire and smoke. There was one right across the street. Yet only one of the thirty-one knew who Napoleon was. She “thought she had heard of the gentleman before.” It came out that the one impression she retained of what she had heard was that “the gentleman” had two wives, both at one time probably. They knew of Washington that he was the first |