I found a number of young men that used to attend the Wayland Seminary
that had the greatest regard for the girls, and I could not but notice
them in this respect and their kind acts while there, although I was not
in the same classes with them, but I never saw them make any difference
while I was in school. I always found good friends among them and I
never saw a young man meet one of the young ladies but they lifted their
hats, and that made the people of Washington, D. C., always speak of it
in the kindest terms. One never loses anything in this way, and their
virtues are greater than gold.

When the weather was very bad one day and I was coming from school and a
young man saw me fall down, he came to help me home and I felt very
grateful and I feel that wherever that young man shall go he will have
favor in the eyes of all, and God will be his leader for he has made a
good beginning.




School Life


While at the Harper's Ferry school I found the loveliest teachers that
ever were in a school. Professor Brackett, the head of the school, is a
fine gentleman, and his wife, Mrs. W. Brackett, is a lovely lady and she
is one of the finest teachers that ever lived. She has three nice
children, two of them are girls and one boy, who is a young man by this
time, for I have not seen him since he went to Maine to attend school,
which is the Bates'. It is a fine school of Latin, and a number of the
students went to that same school.