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Following Mrs. Harding's death, within only a few hours, came the death of Mrs. Harry M. Daugherty, wife of the onetime Attorney General, at Columbus, Ohio. The two women had been friends from girlhood. Mrs. Daugherty had been an invalid for many years, but was in comparatively good health until a few days before her death when she succumbed to an attack of pneumonia...
...message from Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., contained this paragraph: "As a member of the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association, the welfare of the girlhood of this country is very near to my heart, and as the mother of six children, confronted as they are with the present laxity, I am impelled to join with those who are working to make these United States a proper place for the protection as well as the development of our young men and women...
...most beautiful children I have ever seen. . . . Although she was but budding into young girlhood, you could visualize the sort of woman she was going to grow to be -strong, keen-minded, intelligent, a woman of quality, fit to mother a prince or a president. I used to call her the wonder girl. Then came the day when they bared her soft, well-rounded arm and jabbed it with the virus point. She didn't want it done. . . . And her par-ents fought against it. ... but the authorities, the tools of the medical autocrats, insisted. So they injected into...
...Calvin Coolidge: "Accompanied by Assistant Secretary of War Davis, I went to Fort Myer, a cavalry post near Washington, spent half an hour under the instruction of riding experts. The newspapers pointed out that I did some riding in my girlhood days, said that I am expected to accompany the President on his early morning canters when I again master...
...GARDEN OF MEMORY?the late Kate Douglas Wiggin?Houghton Mifflin ($5.00). The autobiography of the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The story of an energetic and joyous life?childhood in a small New England hamlet?a meeting with Charles Dickens?girlhood in California?the difficult, unsparing task of establishing the first free kindergartens on the Pacific Coast? literary celebrity?travel?adventures of mind and body. One wonders, timidly, while reading, how Mrs. Riggs ever found time, in a life much interrupted by illness, to do and see so much, and to tell of it with such charm...