I also helped them all in their school work, and started them in music, etc.

But as they grew older I got behind the times.

I never belonged to a club or a society or lodge, nor went to any one's house scarcely; there wasn't time.

In consequence, I knew nothing that was going on in the town, much less the events of the country, and at the same time my husband kept growing in wisdom and knowledge, from mixing with men and hearing topics of the times discussed.

At the beginning of our married life I had just as quick a mind to grasp things as he did, and had more school education, having graduated from a three years' high school.