scribed as "very handsome, sleek as a ribbon
and the most splendid black hair I ever looked at." She takes many
drives with still another, "through a delightful country variegated
with hill and valley, past fields of newly-mown grass, splendid forests
and gently winding rivulets, with here and there a large patch of
yellow pond lilies." In writing to a relative she urges her to break
herself of "the miserable habit of borrowing trouble, which saps all
the sweets of life." At another time she writes: "I have made up my
mind that we can expect only a certain amount of comfort wherever we
may be, and that it is the disposition of a person, more than the
surroundings, that creates happiness."

Her first quarterly examination, to be held in the presence of
principal, trustees and parents, is a cause of great anxiety. She
writes that her nerves were on fire and the blood was ready to burst
from her face, and she slept none the night previous. She wore a new
muslin gown, plaid in purple, white, blue and brown, two puffs around
the skirt and on the sleeves at shoulders and wrists, white linen
undersleeves and collarette; new blue prunella gaiters with
patent-leather heels and tips; her cousin's watch with a gold chain and
pencil. Her abundant hair was braided in four long braids, which cousin
Margaret sewed together and wound around a big shell comb. Everybody
said, "The schoolmarm looks beautiful," and "many fears were expressed
lest _some one_ should be so smitten that the school would be deprived
of a teacher." The pupils acquitted themselves with flying colors, and
the teacher then went to spend her vacation with her married sisters at
Easton and Battenville. They had "long talks and good laughs and cries
together," but she writes her parents that if they will make one visit
to this old home they will go back to Rochester thoroughly satisfied
with the new one.

[Illustration:

SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
AT THE AGE OF 28, FROM A DAGUERREOTYPE.]

For the winter she buys a broche shawl for $22.50, a gray fox muff for
$8, a $5.50 white ribbed-silk hat, "which makes the villagers stare,"
and a plum-colored merino dress at $2 a yard, "which everybody admits
to be the sweetest thing entirely;" and she wonders if her sisters "do
not feel rather sad because they are married and can not have nice
clothes." Miss Anthony may be said to have been at this time at the
height of her fashionable career.

In the spring her pupils give an "