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[[strikethrough]] If [[/strikethrough]]  Should you, dear Mrs Hearst, [[strikethrough]] you are [[/strikethrough]] be inclined to continue your benefaction, [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] toward these girls, or any other of the Porto Rican children, of which there is a large number at Carlisle, forty or more, I would suggest that [[strikethrough]] Capt. [[/strikethrough]] Col. Pratt be your almoner.  He can apply the assistance in such a way as to be of real benefit to the children, and the help may be most timely in the future.  You can trust Col. Pratt.  He has had large experience, and is a very kind, altho. a very firm, man.  If you could talk with him, I am quite sure you would appreciate his [[strikethrough]] ma [[/strikethrough]] ideas, and approve of his plans.  He spoke warmly of your generosity toward these girls, and regretted that the present [[strikethrough]] conditions [[/strikethrough]] conditions were not more satisfactory.

[[strikethrough]] As for me [[/strikethrough]]  If I am proposing what may seem hard lives for these girls, [[strikethrough]] in que [[/strikethrough]] it is because I believe that their future will be best served, [[strikethrough]] if they have more [[/strikethrough]] by their learning how to live with economy.  [[strikethrough]] They must I am their living & and  [[/strikethrough]]  They will be happier in the end, of that I am sure, & be more useful and helpful to their parents, and to their countrymen.  It is not a gloomy outlook,, but one which will bring self respect and will help them to withstand [[strikethrough]] if [[/strikethrough]] temptation, & dangers of [[?grants]].