. Review of reviews and world's work . inthe woods, the Willard children forthwith determinedto constitute their farmhouse a city. I propose,said Frances, that we set at work and have a towTiof our own. It was carried unanimously, and FortCity came into being. Everything was done that a 434 THE REJ^IEW OF REJ/IEIVS. budding township out West does when it decides tobe a city. Imposing names were tacked on to humbleedifices ; the cornyard became the city market; thehenhouse, the family supply store ; and the pigpen,the city stockyard. They constituted a board of trade,issued paper money, edited
. Review of reviews and world's work . inthe woods, the Willard children forthwith determinedto constitute their farmhouse a city. I propose,said Frances, that we set at work and have a towTiof our own. It was carried unanimously, and FortCity came into being. Everything was done that a 434 THE REJ^IEW OF REJ/IEIVS. budding township out West does when it decides tobe a city. Imposing names were tacked on to humbleedifices ; the cornyard became the city market; thehenhouse, the family supply store ; and the pigpen,the city stockyard. They constituted a board of trade,issued paper money, edited a newspaper, and, finally,drew up a complete constitution for Fort City. Thenthe laws of Fort City were drawn uj) by find as the first clause : The officers shall beelected once a month by ballot. These officers con-sist of a mayor, secretary, treasurer, taxgatherer andpostmaster. Their duties were laid down, fines im-posed for infringement, while Mrs. Mary T. Willardshall on all occasions act as .judge in law cases as to. MISS WILLARD AT NINETEEN. which side has gained the day. Politics surely runin the blood of a race whose children, fresh from thenursery, find their pastime in making their family lifea microcosm of the political organization of the Re-public. THE ORGANIZING INSTINCT. The mania for organization showed itself in otherways. When they went to a picnic Mary wore the official badge of Provider, for thepractical part of the expedition was in her badge was a bit of carved pine, like a email cane,painted in many colors and decorated with a rib-bon. Frances Willard, who began to keep a journal whentwelve 5^ears old, wrote poems to the old trees doomedto the axe, and began a novel which never got fin-ished, organized two clubs, the and the Rus-tics, for the purpose of giving a sufficiently grandioseand constitutional setting to the sketching and hunt-ing amusements of herself and her sister. The clubswere duly constituted, with presiden
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