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Stefania Bahrke
Patience is one of the marks of a high character. It might well be called the habit of closing the mind against disagreeable and annoying conditions. To acquire this habit so effectually as to lade even from one's self any sense of suffering or offense from contact with such conditions is what the truly cultivated aim at. Life, it is true, is full of trying. things; but to let the mind dwell upon them only serves to increase their offense to the feelings. or the senses.
On and on the poor old man, almost scared to death, ran and ran. Perhaps he would have been running until now but for a very unfortunate accident. About five miles from the Widow Smith's house he came in contact with the limb of a weeping willow tree that hung across the road. The poor old fellow, already tired out, was knocked speechless and senseless. Toward the break of day the judges, who had followed him, found him lying on the ground doubled up near the tree. Dim consciousness was slowly returning when they picked him up. They rubbed him, and walked him around for a little while, and soon he was able to move himself.
In 1913 the Ladies' Home. Journal, of Philadelphia, offered a prize of fifty dollars for the best way to make pin-money at home. You know,
flo.1922.2010.162.jpg girls, that pin-money means pocket change or spending money. Many hundreds of women all over the world sent in suggestions to the Ladies' Home Journal, each one hoping, I am sure, that her suggestion would win first prize. The following letter sent to my wife will tell you just how her suggestion was received:
"Philadelphia. February 5, 191 "Dear Madam: "It gives me much pleasure to tell you that among the hundreds of letters received in response to the offer made in our January magazine in connection with The Editor's Want-Box, Mr. Bok has chosen your offering as the one entitled to the first prize of fifty dollars. He congratulates you upon your success and thanks you for the interest you have shown. Our Treasurer will send you a check within a week. Very truly yours, "Wm. V. Alexander, "Managing Editor. "Mrs. Ella Floyd."
"Banneker's head was covered with a thick mass of white hair, which gave him a very dignified and venerable appearance. His dress was in-variably of superfine drab broadcloth, made in
flo.1922.2010.227.jpg the old style of a plain coat, with straight collar and long waistcoat, and a broad-brimmed hat. His color was not jet black, but decidedly negro. In size and personal appearance, the statue of Franklin at the library in Philadelphia, as seen from the street, is a perfect likeness of him.