walk so far now, surely she will be able to travel, and you will be com- 

 ing til Chicago some day to see your brother; then you can run up and 

 see us. Of course we think the house is pretty. I will send you 

 some photographs of it as soon as the leaves get off the trees , when I 

 hope to have some views of the exterior, and at the same time of the in* 

 terior. The interior has not been dressed up yet, so that we can hard- 

 ly tell what it will look like. Draperies are as necessary to a house 

 as to a woman, though in both cases they are a nuisance from the prac- 

 tical point of view. 



You have no idea, unless you have built a house, how many details 

 there are to be looked after, and how much time it takes to see that 

 "all things work together for good". I was helping mother too, a goo d 

 part of the time in getting the summer cottage that she built this 

 spring into shape. We occupied it a good part of the summer, and there 

 was clearing up the woodland about it, putting in the hooks , shelves and 

 innumerable fixtures necessary for comfort and ornament, to do. The 

 4 weeks summer school and a week of teachers examinations for state 

 certificates took my time for July. About the middle of August I got 

 away for 10 days to the Brooklyn meeting A. A. A. S. — So you see that I 

 have not been idle. 



Mary is quite well, though she had. a cold last week that made her 

 "pretty miserable, thank you" for a few days. Her sister has come to 

 live in Madison, with her three children, and in addition to getting our 

 own house settled she has done a tremendous amount of work in helping 



her sister get her house in order. You know the indefinitely numerous 



