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176 She spares neither time nor money in making her school first-class in every particular. This year she has purchased, at her own expense, a symphonion which will play an unlimited number of pieces, for the purpose of meeting the want she felt of a piano to conduct her classes in writing and calisthenics.

She is very unassuming and her unpretentious manners have endeared her to many hearts in our city. She has a few friends whom she has tried and to these she is true, but she has no fondness for society or notoriety.

Having been properly directed in her earlier years as to the value of work, the child of ten years was a fair index of the woman of to-day, for the tidy, lady-like appearance which she always made when her own hands washed and ironed the spotless garments she wore as a child still follows her, and it can now be said to her credit that, although she has not earned less than $80 per month for the past six years, she still makes every article of clothing she wears, such as dresses, cloaks, underclothing, etc., which most young women regard as such an irksome task.

Miss Hand is a member of the Presbyterian Church and has had charge of the infant department for the past eight years.