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Show 35 condensed form, and was the only regular dessert of the time. Ellis remembered those trips to her home town as the "beauty spots" of her life. She felt that the loving services provided by family and friends, small as they might have seemed to the donors, lifted "mountains of weight from shoulders and heart." These dear people, in their loving and intuitive ways, let Ellis know that they believed in her, thereby providing her with confidence to aspire to noble things. When she reached home again, faced with the many duties of maintaining her household, milking her cow, and caring for her small sons, Ellis was nevertheless grateful to have two sources of income through the boarding of the son of a friend from Pleasant Grove while he went to school in Salt Lake, and through teaching the "Ward school," permitting her to provide for herself "without the need of charity." At about that time, Ellis's life found "a wonderful field of development" through her activity as secretary in the newly-organized Retrenchment Society and Y.L.M.I.A. whose aims were "culture and the growth of faith as well as improvement in all phases of our religious and secular affairs." "It was the custom," she wrote, "for mothers to come with their babies in arms else they could not come at all, and it is remarkable how slight was the disturbance." At about this time in her life, though no date is mentioned, Ellis developed her early-morning study regimen. She realized that |