Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 61568-h.htm or 61568-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61568/61568-h/61568-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61568/61568-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/whentheyweregirl00moor WHEN THEY WERE GIRLS by REBECCA DEMING MOORE Illustrated by Mabel Betsy Hill Edited by Helen Mildred Owen F. A. Owen Publishing Company Dansville, New York Copyright, 1923 F. A. Owen Publishing Company Contents Jane Addams The Girl Who Became a Neighbor to the Needy Louisa M. Alcott Whose Stories of Real Life Are a Delight to Girls and Boys Susan B. Anthony Who Worked for Sixty Years to Secure Rights for Women Clara Barton The Girl Who Unfurled the First American Red Cross Flag Amy Marcy Cheney Beach The Girl Who Made Melodies Cecilia Beaux Whose Paint Brush Has Brought Her Fame Evangeline Booth The Girl Who Lived the Meaning of Her Name Frances Hodgson Burnett The Girl Who Loved Stories and Wrote Them Katharine Bement Davis The Girl Who Has Helped to Straighten Twisted Lives Grace Hoadley Dodge The Girl Who Worked for Working Girls Alice Cunningham Fletcher The Girl Who Befriended the Red Man Louise Homer Who Believes that Hard Work Is the Secret of Her Success as a Singer Harriet Goodhue Hosmer The Girl Who Loved Art More Than Ease Julia Ward Howe Whose Battle Hymn Sang Itself into the Hearts of a Nation Helen Keller The Deaf and Blind Girl Who Found Light and Happiness Through Knowledge Maria Mitchell The Girl Who Studied the Stars Alice Freeman Palmer The Girl Who Guided College Girls Maud Powell The Girl Whose Violin Spread Afar the Message of Music Ellen H. Richards A Scientist Who Helped Home-Makers Elizabeth Cady Stanton The Girl Who Helped to Draft Woman’s Declaration of Independence Harriet Beecher Stowe The Girl Whose Story of Slavery Aroused The Whole World Kate Douglas Wiggin Who Put the Joy of Living into Her Books Frances E. Willard The Girl Who Fought the Dragon, Drink Ella Flagg Young Whose Slogan Was “Better Schools for Girls and Boys” Editor’s Introduction _When They Were Girls_ contains the stories of a group of American women, each one of whom occupies a very important place in her particular field. The stories of these women have been written many times before. We feel, however, that in this book you possibly may find that their stories have been written in a little different way. Our desire has been to bring very closely to the attention of our many readers some of the outstanding characteristics in the girlhoods of these women, and to show the relationship between these qualities in girlhood and the achievements of adult life.