other paper to find it out
before you get started, but I know papa would not tell a
soul if I told him not to. Only I am glad now that I
couldn't, for he is so conservative, you know, in his
business methods that I am sure he would have laughed at the
plan, and perhaps proved to me in some way that it wasn't
practical-- I mean, of course, he might have _made me_
believe it wasn't practical, for he knows so much about
business and is always so matter-of-fact that I can't argue
with him at all. Then I should have been discouraged and
uneasy, instead of overflowing with happiness and dreams.

"I am glad you are going to have a good man to solicit
advertising right away; and how fine it is that he can get
those cash contracts before the paper starts, so you can
have ample means right from the first! It all seems so
simple and easy now that I wonder people have not done these
things long ago. But it is always that way--the simple
things are the great ones and the last to be found out. It
isn't often, either, that those who discover them get the
benefit, and that seems too bad; but it is a comfort to feel
that at last genius is to have its just reward, especially
when it is the genius of those near and dear to us, and when
through it so many others will be benefited and made happy,
too.

"I am awfully interested in what you have told me now and
then about your picture of the bread line, and the little
sketch you made of it on the margin of your last letter is
delightful. I hope you will not let it go unfinished, though
I know, of course, you are very busy and have so much to
think of. But painting will be a rest to you, sometimes, and
a change; and then, I like to think of you at your work,
too. Besides, it must be completed when I come, you know,
and that will be--well, no; I'm not quite ready to fix the
exact date yet, because, you see, you will have so much to
do for a while, even after the paper is started, that I
think we would better wait until it is fairly under way
before you try to leave, even if that should not be much
before the holidays.

"We can wait and see, and when the time comes I shall be
ready, for papa doesn't believe in grand weddings, nor I,
either, and I shall have very little preparation to make.