The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

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THE STORY OF MY LIFE.

frage Association, and the honorary president of the Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union, I do not
hold myself aloof from the philanthropic work of society.
For fifteen years I have been president of the " Beneficent
Society of the New England Conservatory of Music," in
Boston. It assists indigent young people, who have musical
gifts, to the education and training which will fit them for
service to the world, or to obtain their own livelihood.
With the Boston Women's Educational and Industrial
Union, I have been connected from the beginning of its
existence, and am one of its life members. Its office is to
befriend needy women in every department of their lives.
The Protective Bureau of the Union guards the earnings
of women wage-workers, so that they are rarely defrauded
of what is justly their own. Its Women's Exchange finds
a sale for the various products of women for which there
is no recognized market, to the amount of forty and fifty
thousand dollars a year. Its lectures and library, and its
large reception or waiting-room, are at the service of
women of all classes, who make large use of their privileges.
Its lunch-room is extensively patronized by women, who,
with limited means, have dainty appetites, its Employment Bureau finds occupation for women who are skilled
in a grade of work higher than domestic service. It maintains evening and day classes for the instruction of women
in pursuits by which they can earn a living. It is a most
beneficent and many-sided institution, which becomes more
potential in its helpfulness to women, with every passing
year
I am also indentified with the Massachusetts Indian
Association, and the National Conference of Charities and
Correction. I am a member of the Woman's Relief
Corps, and of the Aid Society of the Massachusetts