TEACHING TRUTH SERIES
ALMOST A WOMAN
By Mary Wood-Allen, M. D.
Author of “Teaching Truth”; “Almost a Man”;“Child-Confidence Rewarded;” “Caring forthe Baby”; “The Man Wonderful”;“Ideal Married Life;” Etc.
“Standing with reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet!
Like the swell of some sweet tune
Morning rises into noon,
May glides onward into June.”
—Longfellow.
“Earth’s noblest thing, a woman perfected.”
—James Russell Lowell.
PUBLISHED BY
THE ARTHUR H. CRIST CO.
Cooperstown, N. Y.
1911
Copyrighted by
CRIST, SCOTT & PARSHALL
1907
All Rights Reserved.
Entered at Stationer’s Hall.
CONTENTS.
| Prelude. | 5 |
| Chapter I. | 9 |
| Chapter II. | 29 |
| Chapter III. | 38 |
| Chapter IV. | 69 |
Mr. Wayne, glancing out of the window, sawsome one passing down the front steps. Suddenlya look of recognition came into his face, and heturned to his wife with the exclamation, “I declare,Mary, our daughter Helen is almost a woman,isn’t she?”
“Yes,” replied Mrs. Wayne, coming to his sideand watching the slender figure going down thestreet. Her face bore a look of motherly pride,but she sighed, as she said,
“Yes, Time and Death are equally inexorable;they both take our babies from us.”
“But not afte