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Show 239 matter a whole lot. She loves to teach, and hopes it will do her students some good, as well as the ones they help. For her birthday, Olea's family in Burley, Idaho sent a pair of pillow slips with Irish crochet lace. Brother "M" (this could be daughter Ellis's husband or father-in-law) gave her some lovely warm slippers, so she was "well remembered." There is no mention of Milford. By February 4, her sister has died and Nellie has been ill but has recovered. This letter is a sermon on taking an active part in church programs and not sitting at home in lonesomeness on Sundays. She lists her "air" castles: to build hospitals for suffering women, schools for nurses, write books to make the physical and aesthetic lives of women perfect and complete. But the practical possibilities are that there are few years, fewer dollars, and life is uncertain. What to do? Eradicate all that is selfish and worldly, love humanity, and be true to God, mankind, and self. Ellis, after a delicious dinner with the folks downstairs, is ready to take Nellie's money to the bank. Her mother thinks she is doing wonderfully. "Think of my baby with such a bank account!" She is sorry her Ladybird was so long without money, but really she hasn't had very much herself. Ellis' maternal dedication, displayed in frequent warmly affectionate letters to her children, receives payment in kind when her children write to her. At one point she mentions that she receives one letter for every two she writes. She is obviously in the season where a mother needs her children-emotionally-raore than |