Produced by MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: Image of Book Cover] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: “AUTHORESS AND CHILD”] Ruth’s Marriage in Mars ---------- A SCIENTIFIC NOVEL ---------- BY MRS. CHARLES WILDER GLASS [Illustration: title page] Copyright by MRS. CHARLES WILDER GLASS 1912 --- Books sold at 856 West Fifty-seventh Street Los Angeles, Cal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DEDICATION. It gives me great pleasure to dedicate this book to all my readers. I also dedicate it to my dear father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Perkins. To my two brothers and three sweet, lovely sisters; to my dear friends Dr. Willard P. Burke and his brother, Dr. Benjamin Franklin Burke and his only son, Willard Franklin Burke, and only daughter, Millie Burke. To my husband, Charles Wilder Glass, and to my only child, Jennie May Glass. All these dear souls have been a great comfort and blessing to me. In my darkest hours they have thrown their sacred influence around me. I dearly love all these and many hundreds of others. I wish I could express in this little book my love for all humanity. May my daughter be as great a blessing to the world as she is to her father and mother. My earnest prayer is, May God protect her, Love be true to her, Joy draw near to her, Home a joy to her, Health stay close to her, Life be dear to her. Wealth find what you can do for her; Search your treasure house thro and thro for her. May God and His dear angels, and our loving Saviour guide her steps forever, is my prayer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE.