THE
ELECTED MOTHER

A STORY OF WOMAN'S
EQUAL RIGHTS

By
Maria Thompson Daviess

Author of
The Road to Providence
The Melting of Molly, etc.


Indianapolis
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers



Copyright 1912
The Bobbs-Merrill Company



REPRINTED FROM A VOLUME OF SHORT STORIES
AND PUBLISHED BY REQUEST



WITH THE GREATEST CONFIDENCE
IN THEM AND THEIR FUTURE,
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE
SMALL DAUGHTERS OF MY FRIENDS