ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE. 19 "In the spring-time a young man's fancies lightly turn to thoughts of love' "The true woman is not afraid of poverty; she desires to share the fortunes of the man she loves' "Wherever a true wife comes, this home is always round her " "This house stood in the midst of a beautiful meadow with trees around it " "The wife is often inclined to spare her husband' "God's free air and sunlight coming at every turn " "The lamp on the table in the corner "One large room on ground floor answers for parlor, dining room and library "The dainty pretty daughter of the house" "She will have her desk, at which she writes her letters " "It is they who are storehouses of story and song His Own Place. "I am not in sympathy with the old-fashioned rule that forbids them to speak" Her Few Letters Were Spasmodic and Brief "It is not always expensive" "A doctor, a lawyer, a clergyman always has his own peculiar working library "There is opportunity if you have low book cases for pretty vases on the shelf" "This great fire-place which cast its eerie redness over the dark kitchen 78 80 66 "Fidelia's husband was devotion itself" 'Lives under one's own vine and fig tree" 117 124 "Cannot be seen at any time out of her own room in negligee costume" 125 "The coming of the first little one marks an event of great importance" Happy Childhood Days 144 146 16 'When instead of one beloved child the mother has several little ones" 149 |