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Show 120 know they will all be kind," she admits, "but will they think to rub those dear little backs and prevent them lifting heavy burdens. I know they will if they think, but we are so liable to not realize the danger and let little things pass unnoticed until it is too late." This preoccupation with the physical health of her children will persist well into her old age and will be laced through her letters to her then grown children. Ellis feels that, with her natural love for her children, a mother has a great need to understand the laws of health. "Truly I think she is the only one to study Medicine." A clue as to where women then stand in relation to the professions is given in Ellis's report of a reading by Dr. White (one of the women faculty members) of a "'scientific discussion" between herself and Dr. Vandwalker upon the 'Relation of women to professions and skilled labor.' He declares women totally unfit for any advanced or intellectual profession, which she ably defends in the most eloquent and perfect manner." A letter from her grandparents conveys the news that her grandfather is "happy in the great Latter-day work" and "seems to possess so much of the pure good spirit." This must be extremely reassuring to Ellis because this man whom she has always dearly loved, spent quite a number of years deprived of church membership through something which Ellis previously referred to in only the vaguest terms as probably being his fault. A visit as a class to the Pennsylvania Hospital is very |