Elsie and the Raymonds

by Martha Finley

Still the image of maternal beauty and grace, Elsie celebrates her fiftieth birthday as family and friends from far and near gather to express their love. Max and Lulu accompany Captain Raymond on a business trip to the West, where they commerorate the Fourth of July with a grand party. Their business accomplished, the Raymonds travel by train to join the rest of the family at the summer cottages by the shore.