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Show 150 lay in a stock- of staples sufficient to carry them through the winter. We can now look back two summers and propose that the canning which Ellis had done during the summer with fruit from her orchard in Pleasant Grove, plus the products from the Sugar House farm and a rented city lot were probably the saving grace in this critical time. Of her return to school under adverse financial conditions, she recalled many years later, "I knew the situation at home and I made a resolution while I studied never to ask for money. If they wanted 14 to send some to me they knew what I needed." ' This was almost a direct paraphrase of Maggie's mandate to Ellis that she stay on and finish school at a time when her spirits were really sagging: "You know the situation here..." Ellis succeeds in allaying her husband's anxiety with respect to her financial condition, all the while praying that her "loved ones might not suffer even though [she] should." It is New Year's Day, over three months since she returned to Philadelphia. Ellis has one dollar remaining and is just pondering what course to pursue, whether to give up her lectures as she takes time out to sell some models, when the postman rings and her name is called. A letter from Lizzie, who has been spending some time visiting her mother, contains a fifty-dollar order, "all the result of her own patient labor, and all for me. For a time, the grateful tears fell fast. Oh, how.. .thankful I feel to my Heavenly Father for blessing me with so kind and generous a sister...And, oh, I pray that I may be able to succeed in my undertaking, that I may be able |