J:HE CHILDEEN isi 



can, and will, however, spend much time at Four 

 Oaks ; and I need not say they approved our 

 plans. 



Jack is our second. He was a junior at Yale, 

 and I am shy of saying much about him lest I 

 be accused of partiality. Enough to say that he 

 is tall, blond, handsome, and that he has gentle, 

 winning ways that draw the love of men and 

 women. He is a dreamer of dreams, but he has 

 a sturdy drop of Puritan blood in his veins that 

 makes him strong in conviction and brave in 

 action. Jack has never caused me an hour of 

 anxiety, and I was ever proud to see him in any 

 company. 



Concerning Jane, I must be pardoned in ad- 

 vance for a father's favoritism. She is my 

 youngest, and to me she seems all that a father 

 could wish. Of fair height and well moulded, 

 her physique is perfect. Good health and a 

 happy life had set the stamp of superb woman- 

 hood upon her eighteen years. Any effort to 

 describe her would be vain and unsatisfactory. 

 Suffice it to say that she is a pure blonde, with 

 eyes, hair, and skin just to my liking. She is 

 quet and shy in manner, deliberate in speech, 

 sensitive beyond measure, wise in intuitive judg- 

 ment, clever in history and literature, but always 

 a little in doubt as to the result of putting seven 

 and eight together, and not unreasonably domi- 

 nated by the rules of orthography. She is fond 

 of outdoor life, in love with horses and dogs, 



