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seceding, I should at this time be paying rent 

 for a little house or an apartment in some part 

 of New York City, or what is more likely 

 I should live most of the year in some of the 

 little settlements, within easy railroad distance 

 from New York, which dot the Jersey hills. 

 Years ago, before my eyes were opened, I paid 

 seven hundred dollars a year for a cottage in 

 just such a settlement. With that expense 

 and the cost of three months' board in New 

 York, for newspaper work makes it necessary 

 for me to be in New York at least that length 

 of time, I may say that my rent was about a 

 thousand dollars, a moderate sum, and yet large 

 enough, when taken in connection with the 

 other expenses of servants and housekeeping, 

 to necessitate pretty steady drudgery upon my 

 part the year round. In the meantime, my 

 children attended a little school which was 

 quite as good as any preparatory school of the 

 same type to be found in the city. 



From the experience that I have had with 

 children's schools, I have been led to think 

 that the most pretentious are often the least 

 productive of any good to the child, and I 



