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her than she left behind. She was c'tad bo be at rest. Her only desire was to see James once again. He came on t'-e even"nrr train, ~nd she was readv to depart. He ^ave her a sleeping notion and sho kne^ no more. She lie? in the tomb Dr. Standard had built over the crave.of Ms first wife, Fississi~ni Ci/t Cemetery.
C.J. was teaching in Biloxi	and came at once	and attended	Fa. Charlotte came
also, and Sarah. So at the	last	she Md all	a ?^out her.	Ja^es had placed a
mortgage on the olace to start in business in New Orleans, so he rave me a quit claim to the property. To veen un the mort^ac-e cost us '"?lO nor month, and the children were in need of schools. I had Cousin ^mma (Pyb-as) Glass and her son, Dudley, to snend the first winter ,,rith me. Then C.J.fs friends, Mr. and Fr s. catkins, lived	???,i th	~i.e .a. year.	In n r ^ ?r?a	j vro^ verv i.ll with
bronchitis and no one except the	children to	cor 3 for p-o .	? "rr. r'?vi ?, =*3 is
her way when needed} 5rent days and nights ^t-h ^e, and vrheh I was vre"11 e-nough to be moved, had James cop? over, ?nd t^ey ^cVe'1 us un and took us to his boarding house on St. Charles. Fr. Fowler?? disliked to break un the home, but I do not think he lon^ rerretted it when vo o-ra.dually gathered a-round us the furnishings or a cottage on Celachaise St.
Vie lived there six years, then sol^ tho Viouse at Fi <5?=i ?*sinM City, receiving, only v-1,^00 for it, and bought the house Mo. Jh 10 Coliseum qt., naving ??!?2,700 for it.- The mortgage and fees took. :J700, so we had to dace a mort^a.^e of ?t'1,6^0 upon the last purchase. Tfe nai.d the interest, "HO, for ten years, and in April, ?99, settled that mort^are ^nd took 1? shares in the Security Loan and Building Association,, borrowing '!1,?00 on a piort?:acre to them. <<e new pay. $20 per month, wi th the prosnect of beinr able to cancel the debt in . eight years.
Our house is not modern or convenient, but comfortable, tho a little orowded as the children grow to men and vomen and t^e little f'irl who came to?me on Delachaise street is large en-u^h to be nut out of Fama?s room. Poor little Frankie was injured in some unaccountable.way. T,hen she was about four years old curvature of the spine beg:-n to develop, nnd for sis: or ei?ht years she . underwent great restrictions. Fe sent her first to CMc?.r.o to her cousin j- Phelps, where the climate ?nd '"eat diet did Tuch to strengthen her after two years there. She wore the blaster iacket and ^ead sumort, nut on by the marine surgeon, f*r. Gasewav. Three year?s she vac? undpr his c?re, then he v*ar. removed; and when she outgrew the iacvet vie lei -ter alone for le. Then we had a wire iacket without the head rest. nu.t on, wMc.h r.^e wore 0 year, until she had the fever at i;-'9veland in ? ?7, ^hen t^e nhye-ician said t^e jackets may have helned	the spine	but had comnressed the ve?rt	?nd 1 unrs	uhtil they
. were not sufficient for a	child of ei.^ht,	?nd that she	rust have	chest development. So all	restraint	w?s removed arr1	she ?-.-as nut under Fids	Bear for two
years. She has	developed	remarkably, and	exrent ror a	stoon in the shoulders
which is more habit than necessity, she is a]i v\f?ht. Only a mother knows what these years of cnre and uncertainty wore to r^e. Her ^.henominal good, health, as shown b^ her clear and rosy cotrnlexion and q;ood weight, helned to bring, her through, for she could never run or nlay "Mke other children. V:e had another little girl to copie to us 6n February ?^th, 1$Q5, Fardi 0-ras, or rather Fondav, Rex Day, just as her elder sister PJthel had cone F-ex Day, February 13th, 1^77.
Edward and F-thel had each ?-?on scholarshjns at Newcomb ?nd Tul~ne. ^d^ard had a severe disease of the eyes, caught from cold and exnosure nnd the bright glare of the snow on the the V-th of February, t0?^, th? heaviest fall of snovT ever seen in New ^rl^.ns, la st in<r three da vs. He lost, so much time fro? school it put him behind hr? class, nnd he ^ould not continue, much to hi.s ?. regret/ since; for though he Ms about earned ?-is living since he had no nro-fession and. had to take first cne and then another manual labor, until he studied this spuing and n?<;s?;-] anc| for rodman in the sewage and drainage 'ork. He sees the need of study now nnr' i ? tak^n^ the en^i neeri n^ course, honing to irise in t ime in his profession. How P?.uch of time and lahor could Ke have saved had he continued h? s en^ineer'inp ?t Tulsne. nth el i.s more ^ersi stent, and from the earliest scv,ool '?ays w'as deter?"?ned to excel. Her course in Literature and Sneci.al Science -'a'- nver in T^7, jn	the fal1	term	of	T 07	she^
received the a^poihtment of science teacher in hi^h	school No.	2,	so	she	h^
an agreeable and v>ell nai.d no^ition. Her ^eait.h "?t- noor and s^e feels" badly before the long d(qys June are done; but two nr three months ir mountains of Virginia or ^orth Carolina b??n*n^s her back to us ^'ell a^'' for her work. AnnaTs -health hn;? not b^en so foor!, ?nd in the snrv^
I let hor ston school anH r^o to Ch*? c?f*o ? I "'?p'1 af raid ^nr little baby too long, and beincr. ays a bright, vfinso^o c^ild, v;as vr So she did not like her cousinT 5 wife and. k^nsnoonl^?, hut thr good. She/ returned a woman when she vrent a ohi vi}	tho ^h*'
After tha.t she would not "0 h^ck to scv,6ol , and has	been-'
,, three years. She has friends and pd^^?rers anuigh, but