The stone wall

A few plants of mullein, commonly known in the East as “Indian tobacco,” showed themselves in my garden. Weeds. They must be hoed up, but the velvety sage green of the fuzzy lea...

In the midst of one of the great and glorious games in the big barns, when I was in my element, dressed in one of the boy’s suits, it became necessary for me to retire to the ho...

I must have been about eight or nine years old when another experience came into my life. Living as I did on a farm, I was ever on the alert about any happenings outside of the...

After spending much of a long life trying to bury all of the unhappiness which has come into my life, it is a rather hard task to bring all of these things to life again.

I look back now and realize the training school of deceit founded by the parents of the olden days in making such a mystery of the simple truths of life and causing the most bea...

The knowledge I had gained of life in the awful ways which I have described made me detest anything tending towards the sexual in men or boys. As playmates and companions I have...

The following year my father was obliged to be away from home teaching music, so my mother took part of a large house in the village for herself, my youngest brother and me, all...

Right in the midst of this solemn love affair of mine, when I felt that I was doing the one and only thing a girl should do: have a beau, there came to me the first urge of sex...

In September began another chapter of my inner history. I had never before been all night on a train, and of course the trip west was of great interest to me. Examinations were...

The second year in college brought into my life probably the most astonishing experience that ever a girl went through. My earlier experiences I know that all girls—or rather ma...

I think it shows that my real interest was not in the matters sexual of which I have written, in that I really had a glorious time during my years in college. I did my studying...

The year following my great disappointment was one of even worse torture. I was again anxious to become pregnant and was met with an equal determination on the part of my husban...

One family who had been guests at the summer home of my husband’s family lived in New York. They were all fond of me and I liked them well. A young daughter, who was one of my a...

When the suggestion came from one who has given the subject of sex exhaustive study, and with whom I had talked at some length though without revealing the most vital experience...

For several years, my little school kept me in the city near both my friends. The Professor’s wife was not actively in my life, however, after the night when I made my last desp...

My work brought me nearer and nearer to the great city where I was to tackle one of the largest contracts yet. This was with a big department store where, if successful, I would...

The boat docked and the rain fell in torrents. I called a cab and gave the driver directions to go to a wholesale florist, anywhere he could find one on the way uptown. It took...

In the fall, after a most successful season so far as crops went, my mother decided she could not let me do the hard work of carrying on the farm in order to give her a home. Sh...

Being very fond of the theater, we were rather faithful “first-nighters.” One play opened in which an actress impersonated several different characters during the performance, m...

Juno and I always felt out of place among the people who were “different,” we felt so secure in our love for each other and so out of their class; yet we kept in touch with them...

Our summers spent on the farm were ideal. Our friends and relatives came often to visit us, much at times to the depletion of our bank account, but we could not refuse them as t...

As soon as we were established in Paris I began to look about for some position whereby I could add to my funds and occupy my mind. I tried to make myself feel that it was joy t...

Negotiations had begun towards another field of work, which were completed by November. In the meantime, Juno had agreed to storing what things we thought we might individually...

I heard from Juno regularly and she came to this country once a year to visit me. There was very little comfort for me in those visits, but still I wanted to see her, hoping all...