Excerpt from Echoes From the Green Hills

It is a real pleasure to introduce to a wider circle of readers and admirers the choice col lection of poems by Miss Myrtie A. Aldrich that are contained in this little volume. Handicapped by the loss of her eyesight in her early childhood by a fall while at play, for nearly fifty years she has overcome all obstacles and exhibited a rare spirit of optimism in a life of ceaseless activity. She has always lived with her mother in the home in West Burke, Vt., where she was born June 28, 1872. The record of her life commands the ad miration of all her friends. After a common school education she entered in 1884 the Perkins Institute at South Boston, where she remained seven years. While there she became acquainted with Laura Bridgeman and Helen Keller, as well as a noted coterie of Boston literati, including Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale 'and Hezekiah Butterworth. She also had the oppor tunity of hearing all the famous musicians of the day and enjoying the finest concerts given at that time in Boston. Entering Montpelier Sem inary as a junior in 1893 she was graduated with first honors in 1895, also winning the second prize in the senior prize-speaking contest. For the next ten vears she gave dramatic recitals through northern New England and Canada. Since 1905she has been the day Operator of the West Burke telephone exchange, doing her work with won derful accuracy and promptness.

Miss Aldrich began writing poetry when 18 years old, her poems having appeared in the St. Nicholas, the Zeigler Magazine for the Blind, Boston dailies and many Vermont papers. Her greeting-card sentiments have also a wide rep-u tation.

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