Looking back to that vision, It would be dif- 

 ficult indeed to find a happier girlhood than 

 ours was, or a girlhood coming from dearer 

 homes. At the head of the one was the ener- 

 getic, successful, honorable business man, and 

 of the other the high-toned scholar, editor, 

 publisher, and the beauty, Intelligence, and 

 Christian virtues of the mothers in those two 

 households are a famous heritage to their 

 children. 



It was from Brooklyn, then, that Luola was 

 to draw her vision, and on this vision she 

 builded a foundation which all through the 

 years to come she could look back upon and 

 thank her God that the foundation she had 

 laid would last not only through the years of 

 her earthly pilgrimage, but into all eternity. 

 That she builded with no uncertain hand; that 

 her vision was broad and comprehending, and 

 that a beautiful gentleness was there, the 

 pages of this book bearing loving apprecia- 

 tion of the many who came in touch with her 

 after years will attest. And she — as the years 

 grew and time filled her life with the keener 

 joys and deeper sorrows of womanhood — she 

 looked back and rejoiced because of the sweet- 

 ness and the strength which she had gathered 

 in those happy girlhood days. 



She Is always present to me as on that day 

 when first we met. A girl of twelve years, 

 with brown hair curling over her brow, and 

 beneath these curls were wonderful, far-seeing 



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