other pupil at Aurora she shared
the palm of being "the beauty of the school," the
other being Miss Katherine Willard, of Illinois,
who was her intimate friend, though not a
fellow-senior, and she is now in Germany
cultivating her voice. Miss F. has been with her
there during much of the past winter. Many of the
young ladies have flowers pressed in their albums,
labelled "From the White House," these being
mementoes given by her from the boxes of flowers
weekly sent her by the President from his
conservatories here. For her graduation, last
June, he forwarded a particularly lavish supply.
On that occasion she wore white satin, and, as one
of her schoolmates describes her, "looked more
like a goddess than a woman." Her student life has
been marked by seriousness and deep religious
feeling. She is a member of the First Presbyterian
Church of Buffalo. She was deeply loved by her
teachers, more for her solidity of character and
amiability of disposition than for exceptionally
brilliant intellectual traits, though her average
of scholarship was good.

The postal arrangements are good in the States. Postage is cheap, and
letters are carried and delivered as safely there as in England. The
street post-boxes though are not equal to English ones--they are
small in size and fastened against the walls, instead of being
prominent objects like ours. In some few towns, owing to the scarcity
of labour, letters are not delivered at all. Each resident has a
number assigned, and a corresponding pigeon-hole at the post-office,
where his or her letters are placed. The letters have to be called or
sent for. This was the case at Colorado Springs.

Why I know not, but the rule of the road is different in the States
to ours. On meeting we take the left side, on passing the right;
there they do just the opposite, as in France.

As a rule the Americans are not good drivers. A very common, not
universal, habit is to hold a rein in each hand, and it goes without
saying that a person doing so cannot drive well.

Their trotting-horses in the trotting-carriages (very light,
four-wheeled vehicles, models of good workmanship, with fore and hind
wheels of the same size) perform wonders. I speak under correction,
but believe fifteen or sixteen miles in the hour is not an unusual
feat. Anyhow, I am sure they can trot much faster than any