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Rh ter, gave talks before different clubs in that city and elsewhere.

After several years of successful work in Worcester, Miss Rust, being closely confined by the amount of labor required in her schools, realized that she was shut off from many things with which she needed to keep in touch in order to grow. She therefore felt that she must return to her former home, Boston, where she would have all desired advantages, and here re-establish herself in her Kindergarten Normal Classes.

Although urged by former pupils, being now parents, to again organize a kindergarten and school for children, she has decided to give her time to the instruction of Normal Classes only and to talks before clubs. Miss Rust has now returned to this city for her permanent home, and has her Kindergarten Normal Classes well established at the New Century Building. She was a member of the American Froebel Union started in Boston by Miss Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. This became the Kindergarten Department of the National Edcational Association. At this time s}ie was urged by Miss Peabody to join the New England Woman's Club. She is a member of the Eastern Kindergarten Association, the National Education Association, the International Kindergarten Union, and the Women's Educational and Industrial Union. She was formerly a member of the Worcester Woman's Club, and helped to organize the Women in Council Club, Roxbury, Mass. In all the years since she started as a Kindergartner, she has never lowered her high standard, nor hesitated to make any sacrifice demanded by the cause to whose advancement her life is consecrated. She belongs to Trinity (Episcopal) Church, Boston.

She has lived to see the children of her earlier classes develop in noble men and women, several of the number having distinguished themselves in literature, science, and art.

The strongest testimony to her ability as an educator is given in these results of character and achievement, which in a special way have marked Miss Rust's work in Boston and elsewhere in her Froebel School and Kindergarten Normal Classes. It is just and right, however, that those of a later generation who now reap from fruitful fields should acknowledge their debt to the pioneer kindergartners who prepared the ground and planted the good seed.

ARY ELIZA KNOWLES, Past National Chaplain of the Woman's Relief Corps, was born in Boston, February 14, 1847. Daughter of Jacob and Emmeline (Reed) Clones and one of a large family of children, .she was brought up at the North End, in a locality rich in historic and patriotic associations, her home being in the vicinity of Christ Church and Copp's Hill, and was educated at the Hancock School. After her graduation she made a special study of elocution, of which she has been a successful teacher. She is also a popular public reader. The marriage of Mary E. Clones and Zoeth Rich Knowles took place June 14, 1866.

Mrs. Knowles's father was the third Jacob Clones in direct line residing in Boston. His grandfather Clones died in 1799. His father, Jacob Clones, 2d, who married Phebe Ann Low, daughter of William Low, died in 1815. William Low, great-grandfather of Mrs. Knowles, was a Revolutionary soldier, belonging to a company of militia that was called into service at the time of the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775.

Mrs. Knowles is a charter member of Abraham Lincoln Corps, No. 39, auxiliary to Post No. 11, Charlestown. She was installed April 22, 1884, as its first Senior ^'ice-President, and in January, 1885, accepted the position of President, serving continually in office and on committees. Her first participation in a Department Convention was in 1886, when she was invited to present a banner procured by contribution from members. The pleasing manner in which she performed this duty made such a favorable impression that she was elected Department Chaplain, and re-elected in 1887. In her second annual report as Chaplain she recommended that a special service in honor of the unknown dead and of deceased army nurses be prepared for use on Memorial Day.

Mrs. Knowles was elected Department Junior Vice-President in 1888, and m this capacity