Our book has a brown suede cover with gold gilt titles, it has slight foxing but on the whole is in good condition given the age. Actual photographs are shown for you to inspect. This small antiquarian book, Series one has 31 days of stories to lift the spirits and was regularly published in the Daily Graphic. “Her smiling philosophy”, in the Daily Graphic, “bring ease where it is wanted, and courage where it is lacking”. Indeed in her day she received letters and gifts from admirers. Published in 1925 Wilhelmina Stitch was a pseudonym for Ruth Collie (1889-1936) an English author who had also lived in Canada.