The New England magazine . lean, ear-nest countenance, and the huge gray bulkof the blind boss, alone in his eyrie, hisface now as expressionless as a gamblersmask, now breaking into a smile of kindlyhumor, overlaid with conscious bravadoand deeply underlaid with a desolate lone-liness of the spirit. Here, as always, youthwill be served. The passing of the boss —of this particular boss, at any rate — isalready taking place as a part of the gen-eral regeneration of Rhode Islands pol-itics. Except in a few of the country towns,public education in Rhode Island is main-tained at a high standard. T
The New England magazine . lean, ear-nest countenance, and the huge gray bulkof the blind boss, alone in his eyrie, hisface now as expressionless as a gamblersmask, now breaking into a smile of kindlyhumor, overlaid with conscious bravadoand deeply underlaid with a desolate lone-liness of the spirit. Here, as always, youthwill be served. The passing of the boss —of this particular boss, at any rate — isalready taking place as a part of the gen-eral regeneration of Rhode Islands pol-itics. Except in a few of the country towns,public education in Rhode Island is main-tained at a high standard. The statementis made officially that free high-school train-ing is provided for all but five per centof the children of the State. As a final word, it may be said that asidefrom the need to get her boys and girls outof the mills into school, to open up herdusty back-country closets, and to obtain afirst-class harbor at Providence, the mostpressing business of Rhode Island at thistime is to get representative LETTERS OF A WELLESLEY GIRL By H. B. ADAMS
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