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Show 238 some classes which do not turn out as well as expected. She hopes to follow, in the next week, an itinerary that will take her to Fairview for a couple of days (hopefully the business will be better there), then north to Lehi where she hopes to do some collecting, then home that evening. This 65-year-old woman, having stayed in Mt. Pleasant where her father and his people had lived for many years, has seen nearly all of the relatives, as well as many friends. She comments rather comically upon people's reactions to each other as they observe the ravages of time in "bowed and broken forms," and the "furrows of age and pain and care on once fair and handsome faces." Ellis follows with an account of various relatives, including "poor Aunt Christina" who is "frail and weak like the down of a dandelion that a breath could blow away." Anticipating a visit with Nellie in Pleasant Grove as she moves north toward Salt Lake City, Ellis indulges in an excess of feeling toward this cherished last child, the only one not yet married. "Oh I feel like I cannot wait to hold you in my arms and listen to your sweet voice tell me all of your experiences, all of your cares and worries, all of your hopes and joys and ambitions...may angels of peace guard you, beloved one, and all that is beautiful and bright and true and good come into your life." In another month (January 1913), writing from Second avenue, Ellis has eight in her class, half of them "free booters," the other half, she guesses, will "pay something." Ah, but that doesn't |