Julia Anne had been practicing on her backyard “trapeze” and demonstrated some of her “stunts” for her doting papa. These included a backward flip and “skin the cat.” She was not only athletic, her father attested. “Her little mind is alert, and her memory retentive. If we can only get her nerves calm and steady.”
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