Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
Mary Ellen ChaseAbout author
- Author's profession: Educator
- Nationality: american
- Born: February 24, 1887
- Died: July 28, 1973
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