We should bring ourselves to an accounting at the beginning of the New Year and ask these questions: What have I accomplished? Where have I fallen short of what I desired and planned to do and be? I never have…

The snow was scudding low over the drifts of the white world outside the little claim shanty. it was blowing thru the cracks in its walls and forming little piles and miniature drifts on the floor and even on the…

A Santa Claus went from San Francisco to the battle front in France carrying with him more than $600 worth of presents for the French soldiers. This Santa Claus was Alphonse Gabriel Nicole. When the war began he was a…

Grace’s Christmas present was to be the most beautiful of all. They had all worked at it together in the warm room, for Grace was so little that she didn’t notice. Ma had taken the swan’s skin from its careful…

“The food administration now becomes a great machine of mercy destined to carry the American spirit into the homes and hearts of a great host of bewildered, confused human beings, hungry, discouraged, saddened, submerged by the wreckage resulting from the…

The topic that had been given me for my club lesson was music. Now the only instrument I can play is the phonograph and I venture to sing only in a crowd where I can drown my voice in the…

King Winter has sent warning of his coming! There was a delightful freshness in the air the other morning, and all over the low places lay the first frost of the season. What a beautiful world this is! Have you…

There is a purple haze over the hill tops and a hint of sadness in the sunshine, because of summer’s departure; on the low ground down by the spring the walnuts are dropping from the trees and squirrels are busy…