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"SMILES": A Rose of the Cumberlands$1.90 SMILING PASS: Being a Further Account of the Career of "Smiles": A Rose of the Cumberlands$1.90 MARK GRAY'S HERITAGE$1.90 THE MAID OF MIRABELLE: A Romance of Lorraine$1.90 MAN PROPOSES; or, The Romance of John Alden Shaw $1.90 GO GET 'EM! The True Adventures of an American Aviator of the Lafayette Flying Corps$1.50 By Eliot H. Robinson and Lieutenant William A. Wellman. WITH OLD GLORY IN BERLIN; or, The Story of an American Girl's Life and Trials in Germany and Her Escape from the Huns$2.00 By Eliot H. Robinson and Josephine Therese.
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"A MAN AND A WOMAN—AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING" (See Page 374)
“SMILES” A ROSE OF THE CUMBERLANDS BY ELIOT H. ROBINSON Author of "Man Proposes" ILLUSTRATED BY H. WESTON TAYLOR THE PAGE COMPANY BOSTON PUBLISHERS
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TO MY BOYS THIS STORY OF A GIRL WHO LOVED CHILDREN IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
The Keynote of Life is Love— Lacking it, naught is worth while— The Symbol of Service, the Cross And the Sign of Courage, A Smile.
AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I wish to acknowledge, most gratefully, the valuable assistance rendered to me, in the preparation of the chapters dealing with the medical and hospital incidents, by Robert W. Guiler, M.D.; by Alonzo J. Shadman, M.D., to whom I am indebted for my description of the unusual operation in Chapter XXI; and by Miss Elizabeth E. Sullivan, Superintendent of Nurses at the Boston Children's Hospital. And, above all, I desire to make acknowledgment of the debt of gratitude that I owe to Mr. Henry Wightman Packer for his helpful criticism throughout the writing of this story.
Eliot Harlow Robinson.