But they come of good stock and will turn out all right." They did come of good, honest parents, and this may have been what saved their moral, while their physical being has suffered from the course pursued during their infancy and early youth.

There were six children; now there are four.

One died when a mere baby from cold contracted from running about the house in winter weather in her bare feet.

She was so fond of doing this that her mother could not bear to put shoes and stockings on the dear little tot.

The other, a sweet, affectionate boy, suffered at regular intervals during the fifteen years of his life from acute indigestion.