Some times we forget how important a role is played by the wife of a president of the United States. She is often a most helpful and important influence in the career of her husband. Here are short, graphic biographies of these famous women from Martha Washington to Mrs. Roosevelt. No American girl can fail to be interested in the lives of these mistresses of the White House. We follow them from their childhood, through their education, and their years as public characters and watch with interest their different methods of shouldering the great responsibilities of president's wife. 

A book which will be read by girls from twelve to sixteen and which will interest them to read farther in American history and biography.

The author is a young newspaper woman in Chicago who has done years of research in history and biography before completing these sketches. The artist, too, has delved long in old records before completing the accurate and charming silhouettes which decorate the book.

From the dust jacket of a later printing