Chapter XVI: RECONSTRUCTING A NEW JERSEY VILLAGE The Mutual 220

Admiration Society of Scotch Plains.—My Husband
Becomes a Leader in Local Politics and
Activities.—The Passing of the Mossbacks.—How We
Gained a Public Library, a New School-house and a New
Truck-house.—An Overseer of the Poor with Peculiar
Methods.

XVII. “I TAKE MY PEN IN HAND” Following the Family 233
Tradition.—_Demorest’s_ and “Jennie June.”—Marion
Crawford and the Little Green Parlor.—Town and
Country Club.—Charles Dudley Warner.—How I Came to
Write about Manners.—Life of Laura Bridgman.—Helen
Keller at the Perkins Institution. A Luncheon at
“Boothden,” the Home of Edwin Booth.—Joseph Jefferson
and William Warren.