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...half-breed Indians. He grows up a strong young adept at their life with ax, rod, gun, canoe. Their children are his playmates and he, after attending Princeton University, is not convinced that some dainty creature from Philadelphia or New York would make him as good a wife as Lena Wilson, the stocky daughter of his mother's north-woods cook...
...Lena carries no lipstick. Lena has not read much. But she is healthy and capable. She has the humor and hardihood of people to whom pleasure and pain are natural phenomena, not nervous problems. The young man is going to be a doctor, not a banker or poet, so after his junior year at Princeton he asks Lena Wilson and she accepts...
Some 2,000 leaders among U. S. women workers gathered last week at Oakland, Calif. They were delegates to the annual convention of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, an organization with a membership of 60,000 and a surplus of $17,000. With Miss Lena Madesin Phillips presiding they discussed various topics of economic feminism...
Chief business items of the convention included: passage of a resolution criticizing those who criticize the U. S. Government; the decision to seek Government aid for women War veterans disabled during their War-time services; the election of Miss Lena Hitchcock, of Washington, D. C., as president, succeeding Miss Helen Douglas of Atlanta, Ga. Miss Hitchcock, during the War, was therapist reconstruction aid at a base hospital, taught handicrafts to disabled soldiers...
...people in the world. Corollary: U. S. civiliza- tion is largely to blame. Somewhere in China a childlike Briton, Clifford Cotton, with a witchlike mother and Daley, his healthy-animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy. In addition to being childlike, Clifford is some kind of fairy changeling. Lena's dose of Wisdom, combined with an effect of moonlight on mountains, subjects him to an experience that is meant to be beautiful...