THE APPLE TREE GIRL
the Three Great Sums which she had set herself, they also had in them that magnificient quality of simplicity—stupendous simplicity, if you like—which might be said to be the spirit of America. Indeed, in an allegorical way of speaking I like to think that Charlotte's story is a story of the spirit of American womanhood, daring in its ideals, regarding no ambition too high to be realized, and building up, step by step, a beacon light which yet may illumine the world.
For two years after organizing her Marlin Mills Golf Association (with its total membership of one!) Charlotte practiced, and worked, and studied with a single end in view. She sent for all the golf books she could find, subscribed to a golf magazine, memorized the records, studied the diagrams of the leading links, discovered there was a golf course near New London, became a non-resident member (which required the help of Judge Darbie and Mr. Chapman),
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