“Heaven speed the time when men and women find out how little money it requires to sustain the body in good health and keep the brain clear and the eye bright.”
About Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born on 5 November 1850 in Johnstown Center, Wisconsin, a rural community whose fields, seasons, family routines, and wide horizons remained central to her imaginative life. She died on 30 October 1919 at her home in Short Beach, Connecticut, only days before her sixty-ninth birthday. Between…