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lection of the most interesting feature of it all — 
the many charming people who had visited or 
been associated with the Centennial. 
HE task I promised those kindly faces at the 
feS Centennial I would some time perform is 
now finished. If they take half the interest in 
my answer to their questions that their pleasant 
faces expressed in Mrs. Maxwell’s work, I shall 
be satisfied and grateful. 
The field in which she labored still calls for 
courageous observers and tireless workers. If 
this story of her adventures shall stimulate any 
one to a deeper love of her favorite study, what- 
ever her future may be, she will deem her past a 
success. 
To those in whom it may have awakened 
something of a personal interest in her, yet who 
may question what effect such an exceptional 
career may have had upon her as a woman, I 
present no theories. I can only say, through 
all these years, to her friends in trouble she 
has been simply a tender-hearted, sympathetic 
woman. Though she gave herself no rest, nor 
spared time for any pleasure, whether social or 
solitary, she gave months to the care of her 
mother when disabled by an accident, and in her 
