“ The men of her family have been brave and patriotic, taking part in all the country's wars The women, left at home, in addition to their family cares often took up the business that their war-going husbands laid down. It is not strange, therefore, that Mrs. Doe should be a self-reliant business woman, strong in her disbelief of the "clinging-vine" theory. Mrs Doe's early instruction was received from a private tutor and in select schools. ”