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    Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues
    Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues
    Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues
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    Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues

    By Laura Ingalls Wilder and Stephen W. Hines

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    From helping others in times of need, to keeping and maintaining friendships, to having a positive attitude, Laura's words of wisdom in Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues are applicable even in today's world. As she shares stories and experiences from her own life, she encourages readers to live lives of integrity and to realize their dreams.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateAug 30, 2010
    ISBN9781418553173
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    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) was born in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods. With her family, she pioneered throughout America’s heartland during the 1870s and 1880s, finally settling in Dakota Territory. She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885; their only daughter, Rose, was born the following year. The Wilders moved to Rocky Ridge Farm at Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, where they established a permanent home. After years of farming, Laura wrote the first of her beloved Little House books in 1932. The nine Little House books are international classics. Her writings live on into the twenty-first century as America’s quintessential pioneer story.

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      So much wisdom from Laura. Well worth the read, and will be on my re-read list.
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    Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One - Laura Ingalls Wilder

    WRITINGS TO YOUNG WOMEN FROM

    LAURA INGALLS WILDER

    ON WISDOM AND VIRTUES

    V O L U M E   O N E

    VOLUME ONE

    Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder:

    On Wisdom and Virtues

    VOLUME TWO

    Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder:

    On Life as a Pioneer Woman

    VOLUME THREE

    Writings to Young Women on Laura Ingalls Wilder:

    As Told by Her Family, Friends, and Neighbors

    WRITINGS TO YOUNG WOMEN FROM

    LAURA INGALLS WILDER

    ON WISDOM AND VIRTUES

    V O L U M E   O N E

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Edited by Stephen W. Hines

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    Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder:

    On Wisdom and Virtues

    Volume One

    Adapted from Little House in the Ozarks

    Copyright © 2006 by Stephen W. Hines

    Cover design by Lookout Design, Inc.

    All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts in reviews.

    Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Tommy Nelson®, a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc. Visit us on the Web at www.tommynelson.com.

    Tommy Nelson® books may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail: SpecialMarkets@ThomasNelson.com.

    Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, King James Version.

    This book is not in any way sponsored by or affiliated with HarperCollins Publishers, which claims the exclusive right to use the words Little House as a trademark. Our use of these words simply and truthfully brings to you the warm personal facts about Laura Ingalls Wilder, America’s beloved author, and about her life, times, and beliefs.

    Cover photograph credits: Laura at seventeen (center), Laura’s writing desk (Mansfield Mirror, Courtesy of State Historical Society of Missouri), Laura’s profile (Herbert Hoover Presidential Library), For Those Who Sew advertisement (The Kansas State Historical Society), Laura (The Kansas State Historical Society), You Can Make Your Own Hat advertisement (The Kansas State Historical Society).

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.

          [Prose works. Selections]

          Writings to young women from Laura Ingalls Wilder / Laura Ingalls Wilder ; edited by Stephen W. Hines.

                p. cm.

           ISBN 1-4003-0784-8 (On Wisdom and Virtues, Volume One)

          1. Young women—Conduct of life. I. Hines, Stephen W. II. Title.

          PS3545.I342A6 2006

          814’.52—dc22

    2005033723

    Printed in the United States of America

    06 07 08 09 10 WRZ 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

    CONTENTS

    Foreword

    Acknowledgments

    ONE: IT PAYS TO DO THE RIGHT THING

    The Helping Hand of Helpfulness

    Let Us Be Just

    If We Only Understood

    A Dog’s a Dog for A’ That

    A Few Minutes with a Poet

    Do the Right Thing Always

    Kind Hearts

    Everyday Implications of the Golden Rule

    TWO: HOW MUCH ARE YOUR WORDS WORTH?

    A Man’s Word Is All He Has

    Just a Question of Tact

    Swearing

    Honor and Duty

    Troubles Grow as We Talk about Them

    Keeping Friends

    THREE: THE WINDOW THROUGH WHICH WE SEE THE WORLD

    Lesson from an Irish Fable

    The Armor of a Smile

    Laura and Mary Quarrel at Thanksgiving

    When the Blues Descend

    The Creative Chemistry of Life

    The Light We Throw

    The Blessings of the Year

    FOUR: TO BE WELL-DEVELOPED AND BALANCED

    An Autumn Day

    Simplify, Simplify

    Compensations

    To Stand by Ourselves

    The Things That Matter

    We Keep Right on Eating

    The Hidden Cost of Getting What We Want

    FIVE: MAKE YOUR DREAM A REALITY

    Make Your Garden!

    Opportunity

    Make Every Minute Count

    Challenges

    Make a New Beginning

    The Source of Improvement

    Learning Something New

    About the Author/About the Editor

    FOREWORD

    Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in the nineteenth century in the year 1867. She grew up, married, and lived out most of her life during the era of the western pioneers. Her father, Charles Pa Ingalls, was definitely an early pioneer, having moved west with his own family from Cuba, New York, around the year 1850. Laura herself was born early enough in the history of our country to have heard Native Americans dancing and chanting not far from her farm cabin in Kansas.

    All of this is written about in eight books that came to be the basis for The Little House on the Prairie TV program that can still be seen in reruns on cable TV. Laura’s life was so typical of what it was like during pioneering days that even in this century, Walt Disney Studios made a five-part series about her life on the prairie.

    What most people don’t know about Laura is that after becoming an adult, she was among the first of a group of women to practice the profession of journalism, writing as a columnist and reporter for many years. She was extremely proud of her career and of her writing. She kept a scrapbook, which contained the first piece she ever wrote to the newspapers, a short letter dating from the 1890s.

    Laura’s professional career didn’t begin until she was in her forties and her own daughter was working as a reporter in California. The Missouri Ruralist, which still publishes today, gave Laura her entrance into journalism and promoted her work for some fifteen years, until she began working on her classic stories of her family and pioneer life.

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    Ma—Caroline Lake Quinter Ingalls

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    Pa—Charles Philip Ingalls

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    The founding family of the town of De Smet, South Dakota. Ma and Pa Ingalls and the girls— from left to right—Caroline Lake Quinter Ingalls, Caroline (Carrie) Celestia Ingalls, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls, Charles Philip Ingalls, Grace Pearl Ingalls, and Mary Amelia Ingalls.

    By that time, Laura was in her sixties, but she continued to learn and try new things; so when others were retiring from work, she was launching yet a new career as a book author! Today, her books can be found in bookstores and libraries all over the country.

    Although Laura Ingalls Wilder’s fame is worldwide, with over ten million copies of her books sold, the writings gathered in this book from her journalistic period are treasures, too. The Missouri Ruralist was right to single out Mrs. Wilder for attention, because she wrote of timeless things people of any age can relate to.

    You will see in Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues that nothing of real importance ever changes. Her concerns are not so different from the ones we have today, though they

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