ALDEHYDES

organic compounds of the general formula R.CHO, in which Ris an aryl or alkyl are derived from alcohols by oxidation, and yield acids when oxidized themselves, (e.g.), methyl alcohol (CH:OH) yields formaldehyde (H.CHO) which may be oxidized to formic acid (H.COOH). OVER (1862), journalist; 6. Afton, Iowa; m. (1906) John Alden of the Brooklyn Eagle. At the beginning of her career, after graduating at the Denver Busine College and obtaining the B. A. degree of the University of Colorado, she engaged in teaching geology, book-keeping and vocal music. In New York City she became known as a soprano soloist in a number of church choirs, where she sang for several years. She was chiefly known in her journalistic work for interest in child welfare, founding the International Sunshine Society, an extensive philanthropic newspaper club with a membership of more than 300,000, and the International Sunshine Blind Babies’ nurseries, homes, hospitals and kindergartens, the only institutions of the kind in the United States. In many states laws have been enacted for the care of the baby blind, largely through her efforts. As an author she wrote Child Life in the Far West; Women’s Ways of Harning Money; and The Baby Blind (1915) among other works.