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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 Legislature regulating child labor or providing for homeless girls. Religion swept through our suburbs one year in the wake of Amy Semple McPherson and several ^homes houses 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 crossed out" met several times a week to rolling bandages and stitching hospital garments seemed not to provoke much reflection. Everyone