Perry letters

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will bring about the happiness of both.

A thousand years ago there lived in Rome a woman named Cornelia. She had two sons, Tiberius and Sempronius. They were called the Gracchi. Although an excellent woman, noted for her beauty and talent, yet she never sought fame - as "Cornelia, the sage, but as "the

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Thursday A.M.

My dearest Mama: I have just received your letter and this prompt reply is good evidence of my willingness to write to you.

I think it is the most beautiful letter I ever received. I was both amused and pained at your little analogy - amused at the similarity between you and

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the little fat girl; pained, that fate had destined such an unhappy married life for you. Beneath it all I saw the infinite love of a mother. How, out of six little ones two only remained in whom she centered all her hopes, for whom she directed all her prayers to God, and with whom she shared all their troubles. God bless such a mother. May her many hopes for them never be un-

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realized. If you were once happy, if you have found wedded bliss to be a deceptive term for conjugal misfortune, remember, my dear mama, that you have at least two jewels who love you more than your husband, who will some day make you as happy as you were before you met papa.

A mother's prayers are seldom unanswered, a son's love is always requited, and the combined supplications of two hearts

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rising, always falling, and finding at every step that his miserable life fails to harmonize with the needs and requirements of this sordid world.

God bless Elmo, and may this late education not prove in vain.

Your loving boy,

Jewell.

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"mother of the Gracchi."

By this name all knew her. She relied on her "two jewels", as she called them, to bring to her the felicity and comfort which she rightly deserved. Their perils were hers, their tribulations were hers, and at last with them she shared their success.

She is still known to every reader; she has been admired

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by every age and to day she remains the transcendent model of a true mother.

Not a night passes but that I thank God for blessing me with the love of just such a mother.

I am so glad that Elmo has at last noticed the neglect of his early education. He has now a dear wife to support, and inspired by that fact, and realizing the impoverished condition of his faculties I am sure that he will profit by this course. He can

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now see the need of a good education in this living, struggling and progressive world of ours; for the only man who now arises from the clamoring multitudes at the foot of the ladder of life is the one equipped with a good mental training. Brain has usurped the position of muscle, and the intelligent man makes his way in the world as if he had seven-leagued boots, while the uneducated being plods along slowly and unhappily, never

Stanford University, California, Sunday 1897

My dearest Mama:

I want to go home, boo! hoo! boo! hoo!

I want to go home boo! hoo! boo! hoo!

Ma! Ma! Pa! Pa!

I want to go home, to Frisc-co!

This is a personal adaptation of a well known Stanford yell which seems to be quite applicable to my case

I want to thank you for sending me those papers. I was very glad to get them, as city news is somewhat unknown in these regions.

do not stop now in your good work but "continue in the path that you have