Company of New York City as a trust fund to be used in some charitable
work. She has given her book to the public solely because she believes
that it contains a helpful message for other women, It is the gracious
gift of a woman who has a deep and passionate love for her country, and
a tender responsiveness to the needs of her own sex.
MARIE M. MELONEY.
September 1, 1922.




THE LOG-CABIN LADY

I. I

I was born in a log cabin. I came to my pioneer mother in one of
Wisconsin's bitterest winters.

Twenty-one years later I was sailing for England, the wife of a diplomat
who was one of Boston's wealthy and aristocratic sons.

The road between--well, let it speak for itself. Merely to set this
story on paper opens old wounds, deep, but mercifully healed these many
years. Yet, if other women may find here comfort and illumination and a
certain philosophy, I am glad, and I shall feel repaid.

The first thing I remember is being grateful for windows. I was three
years old. My mother had set me to play on a mattress carefully placed
in the one ray of sunlight streaming through the one glass window of our
log cabin. Baby as I was, I had ached in the agonizing cold of a