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Y.G. M. We smile just a little as we think of the commotion among the bachelors when it really becomes known that Miss Moore's picture is in the paper. * We feel sure that this issue, if no other, will be care fully preserved, because, you know, to con trary a man a little bit is to win his regard for all time. ‘The old theory about the tree and the ivy is exploded and the ‘ivy’ is now called ‘tweak’ and “childish.” But others besides the bachelors will, hail with joy the pictured face of so popular 2 contributor. foe. We are glad to satisfy curiosity and fore stall all surmises by annnouncing that Miss Moore is twenty-four years old. She was born on the farm, where, with her father and brothers, she still resides. Of herself she says: Tam 'the baby in a family of six children, my youngest brother being five years older than him self. My childhood days were spent with my mother as compaten. my earliest lessons were learned at her knee, as I did not enter school un til nine years of age. From that time witi my seventeenth year many happy days were spent in the country schoolhouse, still the dearest spot outside my home. All my education was obtained there. When TI left school passed a teacher’s examination, expecting to again enter the school room as teacher, and one of my greatest disap pointments In Hfe has been that, owing to my mother’s U-health, I was obliged to give up my plan. Yes, Iwas a disappointment, but to-day I can say Fant glad J i met it; ain ghild that to me was given the privilege of remaining with her, and am glad that I did not, at that age, under take the duties of teacher. it will soon be four years since my dear mother was called to her home in Leaven; how lonely we were only those who have suffered a like loss can know, but we would not wish her back again to where she passed so many days in pain and suffering. The following year I was housekeeper for father and “the boys,” and from that time I have been, where I am today. In the office as assistant post mistress, with father at the head. A quiet, un eventful life! [fat times there has been longi ngs for a buster, nore out-in-the-world are. It is only the longings which come to all, and with thankfulness 1 know 7 am not beyond the line where¢ is impossible to enjoy the simple pleas ures which may come to all of us if we so will, and with Holmes I say: I find that the greatest thing In this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. As for my Iterary work, if I could be so called, it is my other self, the greatest pleasure of my life. Without my books and my writing I could not bee, I would simply exist, I began writing for the paper about two years ago, this depart ment receiving my baby efforts. To am not very Ambitious, so have been satisfied with my success. Today I contribute to some thirty papers, a few educational papers and a great many farm jour nal. To my writings owe many happy hours and many true and pleasant friendships. To each one of those friends I send kindly greetings. May we meet often, if not in our own homes, in the home so kindly given up by the publishers of this paper. That any friend may never forget her literary Alma Mater is the wish of our en tire band.
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Homestead
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Fri, Nov 15, 1895
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