I think so because they made some errors in a statement which she uttered through the press on the 17th of January.

Not large ones, perhaps, still it is a friend's duty to straighten such things out and get them right when he can.

Therefore I will put my other duties aside for a moment and undertake this helpful service.

She said as follows: "In view of the circulation of certain criticisms from the pen of Mark Twain, I submit the following statement: "It is a fact, well understood, that I begged the students who first gave me the endearing appellative 'mother' not to name me thus.

But, without my consent, that word spread like wildfire.