The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

Mrs. Hoover's job required extensive travel throughout remote and dangerous areas which they did together. In 1898 the year Lou Henry Hoover graduated from Stanford Hoover cabled a marriage proposal which Lou Henry Hoover promptly accepted by return wire.

Lou Henry Hoover (March 29 1874 – January 7 1944) was the wife of President of the United States Herbert Hoover and served as First Lady from 1929 to 1933. She oversaw construction of the presidential retreat at Rapidan Camp in Madison County Virginia.