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our mental apathy? The parents of all our friends remained married and nobody misbehaved except the minister's wife who was found, at a party, sitting in the pagoda on the lap of somebody who wasn't the minster. Several of the mothers were active in getting laws through the Legislation regulating child labor or providing for homeless girls. Religion swept through our schools one year in the wake of Amy Semple McPherson and several homes were offered for revival meetings: My mother, however, disapproved of what she considered unwholesome emotionalism and recommended the conventional Sunday services as sufficient to all by way of religious observances to all intents and purposes

Even the outbreak of the First World War, although it lent a new solemnity to some of the hymns we sang in church, found us still safe behind the Monroe Doctrine,*, the women of the church guilds to rolling bandages and stitching hospital garments seemed not to provoke much reflection. Everyone