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assured that rare, choice souls did not recognize me in
literature; that I appealed only to the common, undiscriminating minds. And yet I have worked on.
When I turned my literary craft from the still
waters of magazines to the large, rushing rivers of
American newspapers, I was given up, by these same
critics and by many personal acquaintances, as
one intellectually damned. They said I was prostituting my talent, and those who heretofore insisted
that I had never occupied any eminence in literature,
now seemed to think I had fallen from some hitherto
unrecognized altitude. Nevertheless, I kept to my
own ideals and followed the light of my own spirit.
Life was too big, feeling too intense, time too short, to
wait for books and magazines as a means of expression.
There was so much to say to an appreciative and
ever-increasing audience, that plain prose must assist
her more beautiful sister, poetry.
Every new phase of life gave me a new message
to humanity. Years of blest and satisfying companionship as a wife, where respect supplemented love,
a brief but wonderful knowledge of motherhood, a
domestic and social life full of rich and beautiful
experiences, travel and acquaintance with rare souls of
earth, all have made and are making life mean to me
more and more exhilaration, anticipation, realization,
usefulness, and growth.
To be a part of God's great universe, to be one of
his voices, to be a worker and a helper, means to me
the fullness of satisfaction. I expected much of life; it
has given, in all ways, more than I expected. Everything has happened. I have known loneliness, discontent, trouble. I have waited years for what I felt
I must obtain immediately; yet for each hour of pain I
