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I didn't come to any conclusions about, “just how much work will I do?” I was going to see these things through. It was a pretty hectic year or so.

I have said that it was very little trouble to do all this work with a husband and a child coming. Well, that's not really true. But these were personal accidents that happened to me that I have long since pushed into the background. I haven't brooded over them and had a Freudian collapse on them. I just haven't thought much about them.

I had a serious illness when my first child was born and it died shortly thereafter. It was serious enough so that I didn't show up publicly for some time - a couple of months. That was in May 1915. At that time we were right in the peak of legislation, too. I did a tremendous amount by telephone. Sitting on my bed, I called up all kinds of people and did a lot. I really have never sufficiently acknowledged the enormous help I had from friends and associates who would take my word for it over the telephone that a certain bill or a certain phrase in a certain bill ought to be opposed, or a certain clause ought to be added. They would turn organization, and every other organization, on it.

By this time I had a great many organizations all organized together for support of this factory legislation.