clothes and without work, long before the 

 Relief Committee suggested the selfsame 

 plan? Some one who came to Wilmington 

 about that time was so thrilled at the wonder- 

 ful thoughtfulness of her generosity that she 

 said, "What a woman! Every time I come 

 back to Wilmington I hear of some great new 

 charity of hers." "First she gave herself." 

 This I think explains all her giving, her per- 

 sonal sympathy and appreciation of others' 

 needs. Then her appreciation of others' lives 

 and character was most sincere, and she gave 

 her praise with as ardent a spirit as she gave 

 her help. Her deep and adoring love for 

 my mother is one of our very most precious 

 memories. I often think that in the affec- 

 tionate letters she wrote mother, she was writ- 

 ing unknowingly the very things we who love 

 them both feel and say of herself. "Sweet- 

 est sister," she loved to call mother, which 

 was the title her own sisters had given her. 



And another proof of her great and gen- 

 erous spirit was her appreciation of the serv- 

 ices done her by those who loved her, from 

 her own beloved family to the humblest serv- 

 ant. You remember how she said to Lucy, 

 the cook at Orton, during a time when things 

 were temporarily disorganized in the kitchen, 

 "Oh, Lucy, you are so good to me; I think 

 you are a real Christian to work away so 

 patiently with a stove no bigger than a pocket- 

 handkerchief." Poor grateful Lucy could 



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