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Let me illustrate her
View by a little incident.

When Francis Willard was
about seventeen years
old, one day she was looking from the
window with her sister
watching their father and
brother who were harnessing
the horse to go to the
voting precinct.

It was election day. The
brother, having just
reached his majority, was
for the first time going
to cast his vote.

With tears in her eyes,
Francis turned to her sister and said, Why