SUSANNA PHELPS GAGE 15 
for her attractive personality. She had high ideals, unswerving hon- 
esty and singleness of purpose, and great power of helpfulness to the 
person or cause that might be in need. She had a genius for friendship 
for her heart was loyal and loving. Her strong mental fiber and keen , 
intellect rendered her friendship as stimulating as it was comforting. 
On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, the 2d, 3d, and 4th of 
October, 1915, the son, Henry Phelps Gage, Ph.D., visited the 
home and during that time explained and demonstrated to his 
mother the daylight glass he had succeeded in producing, and 
showed its use for microscopic work in demonstrating the most 
delicate colors and tints equal to what could be accomplished 
by daylight, and also the use of a large lamp with the daylight 
glass for matching delicate colors of silks, and for water color 
work. What parent is there who cannot imagine the happi- 
ness that came to the mother’s heart to see realized in the ac- 
complishment of her son some of the dreams that the long-before 
laboratory work in physics of her own youth gave rise to. 
On Sunday there was an automobile ride along Cayuga 
Lake and on the return was one of the gorgeous sunsets that 
Ithaca is famed for. We did not know then as we gazed upon it 
that one of our number was so soon to enter into that glory. 
After four years of failing health, death came suddenly and 
painlessly on the morning of October 5, 1915. 
In the home at Ithaca were simple funeral services, a part of 
which were some of the heart-sustaining and soul-uplifting 
hymns she loved so well, played upon the university chimes. 
As long mutually agreed upon, the body was cremated; and 
in the childhood home which she had given for the village 
library, with the books looking down from the shelves, and in 
the presence of life-long friends, some fitting words were spoken 
over the ashes. These now rest in the village cemetary beside 
those of the father and mother and brother who had preceded 
her. 
The sky that she looked up to with such joy in childhood 
looks down upon the quiet resting place. The encircling hills, 
from which in youth she looked forth with such enthusiasm 
and high courage to the world of work and service, shall hold 
forevermore their guardianship over the beautiful valley. 
