Prudence Penny is a lady registered in the United States Patent Office, or rather she is several ladies whose name is thus registered. Prudence is one of the ways in which Mr. Hearst collects pennies by the million. In the words of one of Mr. Hearst's full page blurbs : " 'Mother Prudence,' 'Aunt Prudence,' 'Sister Prudence' they call her. She is all that and more." She is a walking dictionary, a "Confidanté of thousands," an expert in all the household arts, past master in how to keep husbands, children and a figure....
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