inches building in their evergreen trees. I think that there are
several pairs. Tell Gregg that I can look from my chamber window
directly into a robin's nest."

In one of her letters to her grandchildren she says: "I went down to the
Young Women's Christian Association rooms yesterday afternoon to take
tea and hear the report of those who have been raising money to support
the work there. Some little girls were having their gymnastic lessons
and were having a very jolly time. At last the leaves are all off of the
trees and I think the little wayside flowers must have had their noses
pinched last night by Jack Frost."

Her interest not only in the beauty of the world about her but in what
others are doing to make it bring forth and bud for the good of mankind
is shown over and over: "Alice is happy," she writes, "to have the
weather warmer for her garden. She thinks that her vegetables have had
too much hail and cold weather, but the last two days have been fine.
The country here responds very quickly to showers, the trees and grass
now are in perfection and the whole town is beautifully dressed. I have
never seen it looking better notwithstanding the dandelions."

The family letters abound in allusions to the grandchildren and touch
upon all the varied interests of her children; many were written
directly to the grandchildren. It was beautiful to see the joy those
little people brought to her, and it was characteristic of her that,
never thinking of what might be considered as due her, she was surprised
when a second grandchild was given her name.

On March 5, 1909, she writes: "I was so pleased this morning to have a
telegram about the new little girl, and you were fooling Farwell about
the name; I can't believe that she is named already and for me. If she
really has the name of Alice, I hope that she will be a better woman
than I have been. I am crazy to see her and am wondering if she looks as
little Faith did and has as much hair. Oh dear! the distance is
tremendous sometimes. I do wish that I had a home nearer my family.

"What did 'Sister' say? What did Alan say and do?... My best love and
congratulations to each. I am so glad to have another granddaughter."

Each one of the grandchildren had a special place in her thought and
affections, and was beautiful to her. "The children are well and really
pretty,--but not in pictures," she writes once.

The strength of her hands was largely used in knitting dainty