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46 Her doors and heart are always open to young people, for whom she has an intense sympathy and love, as many students in various States will testify.

In the midst of a round of social, household and maternal duties she finds time to pursue a regular line of study and of literary work; in this she has the full sympathy of her genial husband. He is. very proud of his wife's attainments, and she feels that his searching criticism aids her not a little in her efforts. Besides the work already referred to she has, during a portion of the time since her marriage, taught in Lincoln High School of Kansas City, performing the work assigned her to the entire satisfaction of all parties concerned. Reading French and German with case, she has made quite a study of the literature of both these languages, and a few years ago wrote a series of articles upon German literature which was very well received by the press.

Russian life and literature possess for her a peculiar fascination, possibly because of the large class of persons in Russia which, in some respects like the negro in America, is struggling for a more complete independence. Gogol, Turgénief, Tolstoi, Stepniak, and other Russian writers who set forth the cause of the people, find in her an appreciative admirer.

She has great pride of race, and fully believes in the bright future of the negro, provided the young people for the next quarter of a century are fully alive to the great responsibilities resting upon them. For years she has been a close observer of human nature and of the great