My Mother and I

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This is a really noteworthy story a pro foundly touching story of the Americaniz ing of a young girl, who between baby hood and young womanhood leaps over a space which in all cultural and humanizing essentials is far more important than the dis tance painfully traversed by her fore-fathers during the preceding thousand years. When we tend to grow disheartened over some of the developments of our American civiliza tion, it is well worth while seeing what this same civilization holds for starved and eager souls who have elsewhere been denied what here we hold to be, as a matter of course, rights free to all although we do not, as we should do, make these rights accessible to all who are willing with resolute earnestness to strive for them. I most cordially com.