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ing the glory of Solomon. If the plant-people 

 have criticised, there has been no consciousness 

 of it. 



But the blood courses through the veins 

 more healthfully. How bright and good and 

 sweet a thing the world is after all! Ah! we 

 have been in the Presence. Heaven seems so 

 near. We will live worthy of it. We will love 

 and help each other and be kind and true, keep- 

 ing high faith with all the hearts that trust us ! 



October, 1900. 



Not alone because of what the women of Ohio 

 have done in the botanical work of the State, 

 but that they may be encouraged to greater 

 accomplishment therein, is this written. 



The fame of many a woman in the past 

 has been merged in that of her husband or 

 other male relative, and history fails to give 

 her any credit. The false sentimentalism, 

 amounting to a dogma with some, that a woman 

 should not wish to see her name in print, is 

 scarcely outlived, but we are getting along, as 

 the world grows, toward a basis of independent 

 personal responsibility. 



In any case, there is nothing more delightful 

 to a true woman than to help somebody to 

 further a humane and beneficial cause. In a 



