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Martha Draper was Ruth Draper's older sister. She was one of the great Drapers, whose mother was a Dana (Charles) of the Sun. It seems like yesterday that Martha Draper was alive, but she has been dead a long time. She's one of the first people who stepped out and made a fuss about public education. She allowed herself to serve on boards of education. She allowed herself to serve on citizens' committees on improving education. She was very good-looking, very sort of superior in pattern and form. She had those finely cut features that most Drapers had, but she was more austere than Ruth. She was a little taller. While not handsome she had great distinction. She had very straight iron-gray hair. She had very good, strong, smooth hair which she dressed back smoothly. She always wore the most elegant, simple black clothes and always a band around the neck, either of velvet, or of steel beads woven in. You used to get those in Paris and they were very fashionable. She was elderly by the time I knew her at all. She always wore little round hats. They were very stylish, but didn't follow the style of the day. She looked stylish without being in fashion. She smoked a cigarette with complete disregard of the fact that very few women smoked cigarettes in those days. She smoked it in a most unique holder which had a little band that went around the cigarette and then had a stem that