They took little part in civic work, though they had done much for the city library and city hospital.

Many girls went to college, to the State Institute, to Vassar and Smith.

They came back to teach and to marry.

It was just as it is everywhere." Another to whom I put the same question, answered me in a sympathetic letter full of understanding comment.

The mingled devotion, energy, and blindness of the women the letter described, spoke in its every line.