Her intimates are only of the best.

She is always thinking how she can do good to those around her--planning for this one and that in case of need and making such judicious arrangements or presents as surprise those cooeperating with her.
I cannot imagine myself going through these twenty years without her.
Nor can I endure the thought of living after her.

In the course of nature I have not that to meet; but then the thought of what will be cast upon her, a woman left alone with so much requiring attention and needing a man to decide, gives me intense pain and I sometimes wish I had this to endure for her.

But then she will have our blessed daughter in her life and perhaps that will keep her patient.

Besides, Margaret needs her more than she does her father.
[Illustration: MRS.