Excerpt from Lettie Lavilla Burlingame: Her Life Pages, Stories, Poems and Essays; Including a Glimpse of Her Success as the First Lady Lawyer of Will County, Illinois, the Home of Her Girlhood; Also as President, Up to the Time of Her Death, of the First "Equal Suffrage Association," of Joliet She ever looked back with fond recollections to the days of her childhood, recalling in the last days of her life many a pleasant incident of early years. The world was always beautiful to her, but never more so than when surveyed through her own loving, exalted idea of God. She heard His voice in the rustling of the trees, the warbling of birds, the deep, mossy dells. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.