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A girl plans to run away so that she can do whatever she wishes. But when her father tells her the consequences of her mother's elopment with him she changes her mind.
Worn out by work, a girl collapses and is taken to hospital by a young man who caught her as she fainted. When she regains consciousness days later, she finds him at her bedside.
Deamer tells the story of Yasoddhara [sic], the wife of Buddha. Married at 15, she lived with her husband, then the Prince Siddhartha, for twelve years and bore him a son, before he left her to seek spiritual enlightenment.
Relates the success achieved by Edith Howes in interesting American publishers in her work. Many of her books are about nature and designed to teach children the 'processes of Nature'.