OUR GUEST BOOK 



preparing her remarks en route, be the guest of honor 

 at a luncheon or dinner or both, and lecture afternoon 

 or evening! Here, where each guest is implored to 

 be selfish and please herself only, she chose the chimney 

 corner when the rest of us went off to the woods. It 

 was in the cool days of October, and when we returned 

 laden with woodland treasure, we found her in rest- 

 ful abandonment to the peace and quiet of the country. 



"I feel," she cried, "like the old woman in Mother 

 Goose who exclaimed, 'Can this be I?' To sit by the 

 fire at ten in the morning reading the Atlantic Monthly! 

 It seems incredible." 



Since that day the dear lady has been forced to sit 

 idle many mornings in order that she might ultimately 

 accomplish her work in this world. Most of our 

 American women live at high tension; they may vary 

 their occupations, but they generally go from one to 

 the other with a feeling of haste. The old rule of my 

 swimming teacher impresses me as peculiarly appli- 

 cable to our modern life. "Take a stroke and then 

 rest." Is n't it full of true philosophy? "Take a 



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