Trial and Triumph

other of six children, and all of them put together, never gave me as

w, Aunt Susan? What ha

ing herself into trouble with some of the neighbors. She

n doing this morning w

k she had not been in the house five minutes before there came such an uproar from

ngue was on fire, and I

re in the corner looking so innocent, stopped to pour oil on her clean st

nice housekeeper and takes such pride in having everything n

at her right, for after all she is very near to me. She is my poor, dead Lucy's child. Sometimes when I get so angry with her that I feel as though I could almost shake the life out of her, the thought of her dying mother comes back to me and it seems to me as if I could see her eyes looking so wistfully on the child and turning so trustingly to me and saying, 'M

seem different from other children. S

k Miller entered my home and Lucy became so taken up with him. It seemed to me as if my poor girl just worshiped him. I did not feel that he was a

st, and it is the living present with which we have to deal. Annette needs wise guidance, a firm hand

at I am not equ

l men and upbraideth none. There would be so much less stumbling if we looked ear

tive to her books. If you want to keep that child out of mischief just put a book in her hand; but then she has her

hance. I don't believe in saying, let my children do as I have done, when I think some of us have done poorly enough digging and delving from morning till night. I don't believe the good

ave to keep up the family." I asked Mrs. Johnson, who just lives in the wash tub and is the main stay of her family, what would her husband do if she were to die? and she said, 'get another wife.' Now, I just think she has

was a maiden lady who always knew how to manage other people's husbands, but had never succeeded in gettin

former school teacher, entered the room. After an exchange of co

girls treated Annette and how pleasant the teacher was to her. Mr. Scott, who has been so friendly to us, told us not to mind her; that her mother had been an ignorant servan

n because of circumstances over which he had no control; noble, large-hearted men and women are never scornful. Contempt and ridicule are the weapo

openings for her here, and if she gets married she won't wan

or the home more than we do trained teachers for the school room. Not that I would ignore or speak lightly of the value of good colored teachers nor suggest as a race, that we can well afford to do without them; but to-day, if it were left to my decision,

d no chance. We could n

h some of them more tha

e other time we will