That night she held her audience with such grasp of intellect and iron will that it forgot the absence of mere dimpled feminine grace.

Although poor, friendless, and unknown before, when the curtain fell upon her first performance at the London theater, her reputation was made.

In after years, when physicians told her she had a terrible, incurable disease, she flinched not a particle, but quietly said, "I have learned to live with my trouble." A poor colored woman in a log-cabin in the South had three boys, but could afford only one pair of trousers for the three.

She was so anxious to give them an education that she sent them to school by turns.

The teacher, a Northern girl, noticed that each boy came to school only one day out of three, and that all wore the same pantaloons.