44 ADVENTURES IN IDEALISM 



86th Street, near the East River. The boys Dr. 

 Solotaroff, Dr. Kaplan, the late Nickolai Aleinikoff 

 and others would come for a week-end to the country 

 86th Street! to visit us. At one or two a. m. 

 I would leave them still discussing some book, some 

 philosophic theory, or interesting question of the 

 day. 



In May young Mr. Rice successfully passed his 

 chemistry examinations for Columbia, and the lessons 

 ceased. Fortunately, within a very few days a letter 

 came from Dr. O'Brien, director of the Fort Collins 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, with whom my hus- 

 band had been in correspondence for several months. 

 He was asked whether he could come to Fort Collins 

 in a week's time, and, if so, to wire his conditions. 

 Dr. O'Brien was going to be married and wanted an 

 assistant at once. Then the question arose: How and 

 where was my husband to get the money for the 

 journey to Colorado, not to mention what must be left 

 for his family until the first check could be drawn? 

 My husband had met Mr. Rice several times, and felt 

 that he could go and talk to him. So he showed him 

 Dr. O'Brien's letter. 



"You certainly are not going to turn down such an 

 offer, are you?" said Mr. Rice. 



"Certainly not, if I can borrow the money to get 

 there, and leave some for my family here," answered 

 my husband. 



"Oh, that's all right ! Just name the sum, and don't 



