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Identifier: pilgrimsoftoday00wade (find matches)
Title: Pilgrims of to-day
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard, 1860-1936
Subjects: Muir, John, 1838-1914 Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914 Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 Steiner, Edward Alfred, 1866-1956 Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Straus, Nathan, 1848-1931 Pulitzer, Joseph, 1847-1911 United States -- Biography
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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udy alone. As the wife ofProfessor Grabau, she continued her studiesfor several years, first at the Teachers Col-lege of Columbia University, and afterwardsat Barnard College. During this time shewas preparing to help her adopted countryand the millions of pilgrims who had cometo its shores. Greatly as she loved and admired this landof freedom, she felt that it was not perfect, andthat the hearts of the people should be filledwith the spirit of brotherhood towards allmen, whether rich or poor, wise or ignorant.So, before long, she began to write with thehope of making all others feel as she did.Her first book, The Promised Land, is thewonderfully written story of her young life,first as the oppressed child of far-away Russia,then of the girlhood in America that could beglorious even though spent in poverty, be-cause of the gifts bestowed on her by thisUnited States. No American can read this book withouta deeper love for his country and a strongerwish to serve it. Mrs. Grabau has also
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. l >.< MAKV ANTIN. MARY ANTIN 141 written other books, with the hope of makingher countrymen better understand the needsof the immigrants who come here. But thisis not all of her work; from time to time sheleaves her charming home to speak to thepeople of America. She has always the samemessage : Be true to the example of our fore-fathers. Keep this country the Land of thefree, and the home of the brave.1 Rememberthe words of our Declaration of Independ-ence, All men are created equal. A few years ago Mrs. Grabau again crossedthe ocean to visit the old friends and rela-tives she had left behind her in Polotzk andto tell them of the riches that America, thefree and beautiful land, had bestowed on her. Mrs. Grabau is a devoted mother; she isa hostess of rare charm; she is the true friendof those who serve her, as well as of the manyin her own station of life who know andadmire her. We cannot measure the great-ness of this young pilgrims work, nor maywe guess what she may yet acco

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