. Focus. u could give frontage, andif I didnt buy them, some one else might. And are you satisfied with your deal ? Satisfied? Listen: I bought those lots yesterday at $150each for those on the car line, $100 each for the others, paying-down $210. To-day I receive $4,500 cash, giving me aprofit of $2,250—a good start for the houses I intend tobuild on the six lots fronting the car line on Mr. Wendalsside. The remaining lots I shall put on the market to-mor-row at an advance of $50 each. Jack had long ago capitulated. He was absolutely hum-ble now. Anne, said he, the admiration shining in his e
. Focus. u could give frontage, andif I didnt buy them, some one else might. And are you satisfied with your deal ? Satisfied? Listen: I bought those lots yesterday at $150each for those on the car line, $100 each for the others, paying-down $210. To-day I receive $4,500 cash, giving me aprofit of $2,250—a good start for the houses I intend tobuild on the six lots fronting the car line on Mr. Wendalsside. The remaining lots I shall put on the market to-mor-row at an advance of $50 each. Jack had long ago capitulated. He was absolutely hum-ble now. Anne, said he, the admiration shining in his eyes,trembling into tenderness in his voice, theres just one morequestion,—why did you do it ? Annes eyes fell, but she answered in her own light way:Jack, not all the Confederate victories of the Civil War werewon by the men. It was again a question of the ISTorthversus the South, and you know All is fair But for some cause her reason was never completed. Alumna, 97. THE FOCUS 221 an Dppprtune ^eg^age. HEJSr the members of The Focus staff cameto me for material for the magazine Icould not let pass the opportunity for giv-ing a word of mj teaching experience toour graduating class. Many of this classi have formed friendships with and all ofthem have my best wishes when they start out as brave teach-ers next fall. Especially is my heart with the girl destinedto be the country school teacher. I feel that her pupils willknow and love her more intimately than the children of thewell graded school in which the childs teacher changes fromyear to year and from subject to subject. And so her mis-takes will be enduring mistakes and her successes life suc-cesses. Among the hundreds of children I have taught, one standsapart as peculiarly dear to me. His was a very sensitive soulin an apparently hardened exterior. Garry is the child Iwish to tell you about. My first school was in a little villageon an inlet of the Chesapeake Bay. The people of thatplace make their living from the water
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