Thenceforth every khaki covered lad was to her a son, and every soldier's mother a friend.
As her own immediate home circle grew smaller, the intensity of her devotion increased.

Her two daughters became her absorbing concern.

With the modern notion that a girl might make for herself a career in life she had no sympathy whatever.

To see them happily married and in homes of their own became the absorbing ambition of her life.

To this end she administered her social activities, with this purpose in view she encouraged or discouraged her daughters' friendships with men.