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like "Laughing Water" in Longfellow's poem 

 of "Hiawatha," has to endure 



"The long and dreary winter, 

 The cold and cruel winter; 

 Ever thicker, thicker, thicker, 

 Froze the ice on lake and river; 

 Ever deeper, deeper, deeper, 

 Fell the snow on all the landscape." 



Yet she is ever busy, ever cheerful, with her 

 hands and mind both at work to help her chil- 

 dren and her husband. Well may the men 

 of Kluana Lake sing her praises. 



The Business Woman. 



Some time in the latter part of the year 

 1897, a man died in the far West, leaving a 

 wife and three young sons. After the funeral, 

 a revelation came to the sorely stricken wife 

 when she found that no money of any moment 

 was left her, but that mortgages aggregating 

 thirteen thousand dollars covered the property 

 that was now hers by reason of her husband's 

 death. The interest was due and she had not 

 enough money to meet it. Besides this, five 

 horses were left as an additional asset to 

 augment her troubles, for there was no work 

 for the horses and they had to be fed. 



