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The Jolliest School of All

CHAPTER XVII
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America has been populated by people from practically all the older countries, but I read that children who are being born there now differ in their head measurements from babies of the older races.
Perhaps some of you may be interested in this and some of you may only be bored, but what I want to rub in is that if a new, and perhaps superior, race is evolving it's surely part of our work to help it on.
Here we all are, girls from England, America, and the British Colonies, of the same race and speaking the same language.

Let us make an Anglo-Saxon League, and pledge ourselves that wherever we go over the face of the world we will carry with us the best traditions.

We're out for Peace, not War, and Peace comes through sympathy.

The women of those great eastern nations, the Chinese, the Japanese, and the Hindoos, who are only just awakening to a sense of freedom, will look to us Westerners for their example.

Can't we hold out the hand of sisterhood to them, and teach them our highest ideals, so that in the centuries to come they may be our friends instead of our enemies?
It's a case of 'Take up the White Man's burden.' We stand together, not as Scotch, or Canadians, or New Zealanders or Americans, but as good Anglo-Saxons, the apostles of peace, not 'frightfulness.' "I'm going to ask every girl in this room to join the League.


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