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Rh Colchester, England, in fulfillment of a promise made to his young wife by its owner that their home should be called "Ringwood" if the first-born were a girl.

Upon this farm and after it Mrs. Coston was named. She was brought to Washington, D. C., when an infant, and having been reared at the nation's capital, it is naturally reg-arded as her home. Her education was commenced in the public schools, which she attended until reaching the highest grade, when her mother's health failed and she was compelled to leave school. Accepting the position as governess in the family of a general of the United States army, she found time and received both assistance and encouragement in the prosecution of her studies. In the spring of 1886 she became the wife of Rev. W. H. Coston, B. D., then a student at Yale University, the Right Rev. J. M. Brown officiating. Two little ones have been born to them, the oldest a lovely little girl of five years, the youngest a boy of three years, named, respectively, Julia R. and W. H. Coston. So far along the journey of life this esteemed couple have proved that marriage is not a failure. They are mutually and justly proud of each other. Mr. Coston has found in his wife a helpmeet "in whom his heart doth safely trust"; that pearl of pearls, a good woman, "whose price is far above rubies"; a faithful, affectionate, earnest, Christian wife, who fills her position in his household and congregation with the dignity and grace which appertain thereto. From the fact that Mr. Coston is the author of "A Freeman and Yet a Slave" it will be seen that ambition has led him