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H/10/1926-4.

Yet the work in hand was never so pressing that she did not
seem ready and glad to leave it when visitors arrived. This
adaptability to circumstances was an outstanding character-
istic, and was not an evidence of an easy-going nature but
of a life well-ordered and efficient. She was an ardent
advocate of peace, and her daily and hourly existence bore
testimony to her principle.

It has been mentioned that she was an enthusiastic
pereson. In the list of her enthusiasms little children, flowers
and her friends come easily first: but at ninety years of
age she also enjoyed to the fullest such secondary things
as travel, books, a bit of beautiful lace bought at a European
shop, walking, a wonderful view, riding at great speed in an
automobile, certain particulalrly good foods, lovely colors
and perfumes, and many other items usually held to be appre-
ciated exclusively by youthful people. Her sense of humor
was unfailing, her sympathy abounding. Of her it could be said
with literal truth that she rejoiced with those who rejoiced
and wept with those who wept. Perhaps the glory of a life
like hers can be most fittingly summed up in these two words:
"She loved."