126 ADVENTURES IN IDEALISM 



begun to attract national and even international atten- 

 tion. The experiment had ceased to be an experiment 

 and now pointed the way for a much wider application. 

 The numerous visitors were not merely curiosity seek- 

 ers but men and women of practical vision seeking the 

 man who had blazed trails they were following. 



I well remember how, one beautiful morning, when 

 my husband was expecting Gen. Booth-Tucker and 

 Mr. Morris Pels, on the same train with them came 

 Miss Voltairine de Qeyre, a leader of the anarchist 

 group in Philadelphia. My husband and I were quite 

 worried as to how the dinner would proceed in a social 

 way, having at one table a leader of the Salvation 

 Army; a devoted representative of the principles of 

 ethical culture; and a fanatical exponent of free 

 thought, free love and so on. But the splendid way in 

 which my husband turned the conversation into certain 

 channels effectively prevented a single break; not a 

 hitch took place, and for hours we sat after the meal, 

 talking on different topics, the three leaders in their 

 respective movements leaving with the greatest ad- 

 miration for each other. 



The very same year the great Russian writer, Vlad- 

 imir Korolenko, while on a tour of the United States, 

 visited Woodbine and spent three days with us. He 

 could not admire enough the results that had been 

 accomplished in the colony, and some time after his 

 return to Russia my husband received the following 



