Article March 18, 1905 Issue

That the old-fashioned "Now I lay me" is no longer universally...

That the old-fashioned "Now I lay me" is no longer universally approved is shown in the following press dispatch which recently appeared in several daily papers.—[Ed.]

Chicago, February 24.—Mrs. Edgar A. Hill, president of the West End Mothers' Council, has started a crusade against the "Now I lay me" prayer, declaring that it is out of date. The council supported her attitude and her resolution to offer in its place some other prayer more poetic.

In her remarks Mrs. Hill took particular exception to the lines—

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