than provincial. From girlhood she travelled extensively for her time. She associated with persons of large mind, in the United States, in England, and in France. As a cosmopolitan person she had the ability to see political situations in broad perspective. Naturally, she had an interest in and an

threshold of an era in which a mechanical giant was developing rapidly. During Mrs. Johnston's life the United States and much of the world moved from a rather simple agrarian civilization to a somewhat sophisticated manufactur- ing age. During her last few years she was afflicted with cancer but probably

Two Monuments for the Fifteenth President of the United States by Homer T. Rosenberger Who knows wheh the idea of erecting a monument in honor of any President of the United States first evolved? No doubt some of Buchanan's fond admirers conceived withih his own lifetime that a monument of some

Harriet Lane Johnston: Pioneer Advocate of Special Care for Children with Chronic Diseases. by Homer T. Rosenberger The renowned Harriet Lane Home at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has had a tremendous effect upon pediatrics through- out the United States. The "Harriet Lane" set the pattern in

1890's was a period of hard times in the United States. The Panic of 1893 began with the failure of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in February of that year and the failure of the National Cordage Company in May. From 1893 to 1897, the period in which Mrs. Johnston made her will, there was a