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268 few weeks that have elapsed since she registered. Her husband also is doing well; they do not interfere with each other in the least. They are a handsome young couple, intelligent and refined looking.

As Dr. Harris she had good success in Mississippi, where she was welcomed by both races. The women of the South, she says, would flock to a woman physician. There is a pressing need for educated women in the South, not only to practice medicine, but to teach the laws of health, which are there sadly ignored. Even the Southern cities are not overstocked with practitioners of either sex.

The very acute little girl who grew to womanhood and by perseverance has come to the mark of distinction was born in King George county, Virginia, and was taken by her mother to Washington, D. C., in 1862 in the fifth year of her age, her father having fled for freedom when she was only two years old.

She attended the schools of the District until the plan of opening a public high school for colored children was completed, when she entered the highest grade in the public grammar schools in order to be eligible for admission into the high school. She pursued the studies of the preparatory high school for two years, and during the third year was made assistant to the principal of the grammar schools from which she had been transferred. Her services seemed to be satisfactory in this position, for in less than five months she was promoted to the