CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 13 
tionate, a home lover, a good housekeeper, an observer of the con- 
ventions, a good mother, and a devout Christian. Kate was at 
all times an uncompromising rebel. Her sister sometimes chided 
her for the way she kept house and for her dress, but she would 
tolerate no other way. To demand that she should conform to 
any custom meant war to her. She interfered with no ones affair 
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her attitude toward the world than any woman I ever knew, and 
consider him an unfortunate. I noticed the same attitude in her 
reaction toward her second husband in certain things that would 
make most women furious. This tolerant attitude toward us as 
though we were half savages is quite agreeable to some men, but 
we do not require any such treatment, for self-control is the glory 
of men. I am convinced that the savage reaction toward me when 
I said to her ‘You owe it to the world to let us have the story of 
your life“, and she savagely turned to me and bitterly replied 
**What does the world care formc ?‘*, was the cry of 2 woun- 
ded heart, of one longing for recognition long over-due. ; 
