THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 
ters. At the age of nineteen she became 
the bride of Count Charles Philippe de 
Bruche of Paris. Of course he was the 
man of her own choice. 
Hating the publicity which has been 
thrust upon her from babyhood be- 
cause so many educators were inter- 
ested in what she accomplished 
through play for a purpose, she has 
tried to keep her marriage a secret. She 
and her husband have been motoring 
in the west, and are now touring the 
south, Winifred acting as chauffeur. 
To the many educators and parents 
that have been interested in the career 
of this so-called prodigy, and are 
curious to learn what manner of man 
she has selected, she presents the fol- 
lowing reasons for her choice : 
“i. I like people who have travelled 
and are not narrow-minded. My hus- 
band has been a globe-trotter, a fact 
that has made him broad in his views 
of the world and has given him much 
subject matter for discussion and com- 
parison. 
“2. I have always enjoyed the com- 
panionship of boys and men older than 
myself because I believe that girls de- 
velop in mind as well as in body sooner 
than boys. Naturally any girl likes a 
man who is superior to herself in physi- 
cal and in mental strength. 
“3. From babyhood I have admired 
athletes and I am fortunate in having 
a husband that combines physical 
strength with mental. He loves the 
sports that I love — swimming, rowing, 
horseback riding, boxing, fencing, ten- 
nis, golf, skating, dancing and long 
walks in the woods. He is also an ex- 
pert at playing my favorite game of 
chess. I am therefore supplied with a 
playmate for indoor amusement as well 
as for games in the open. 
“4. As a lover of books I am drawn 
towards those that like my book 
friends. My husband and I both like 
the same poets and the same writers 
of history, biography and science. He 
is familiar with the literature of many 
countries and is able to read and speak 
a number of languages. As a great psy- 
chologist has said : ‘If one grows weary 
of thinking in one language, use an- 
other to refresh the mind.’ We need 
not grow weary of our thoughts when 
we can talk together in different 
tongues. 
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“5. And most important of all I 
love him. After all what does it mat- 
ter how rich or poor, how great or 
small a man may be if he wins a girl’s 
love ?” 
Marriage has not killed the love of 
writing in this young author. She has 
recently written a poem on “The Un- 
known Dead” and has finished a new 
novel called “Which.” 
A Few Misnamed Trees. 
BY WILLIAM H. HUSE, MANCHESTER, N. H. 
“A woman, a dog and a walnut tree; 
The more you beat them the better they 
be.” 
This disgraceful couplet was quoted 
to me some years ago by an English- 
man as an old English proverb. I hope 
that my ancestors who came from that 
land of “beer, beef and the Bible” did 
not take its advice. 
But it is not my purpose to moralize. 
I only want to prove that the English 
settlers in this land of the free, where 
every one is as good as every one else 
and usually thinks that he is a little 
better, thought that they knew a wal- 
nut tree when they saw it. There were 
a few nut trees growing near the New 
England coast and the settlers, fearing 
that Adam missed some of the trees 
when he named the animals, gave them 
suitable appellations. The butternut 
did not appear to belong to the class 
of trees that needed beating and its 
fat content suggested the name above. 
A variant of this was “oil nut,” with 
the uneducated, “ile nut.” 
The trees that reminded them of 
their walnuts were the hickories, and 
shagbark (or shellbark) walnut and 
pignut walnut were the names given 
to them. Those names still persist in 
New England. As a boy I learned 
them from the previous generation. On 
a recent hike I picked up a few pig- 
nuts, showed them to the teacher of 
botany in our local high school and 
said, “These are pignuts. What do you 
call the tree on which they grew?” 
“Walnut,” came the answer. 
“You were brought up in New Eng- 
land. were you not?” 
“Yes.” 
“I thought so.” 
A friend, a native of Pennsylvania, 
visited the young lady who later be- 
came his wife, at her home in Connecti- 
cut. She had often told him of the 
