. Women of distinction : remarkable in works and invincible in character. e of the Rev. J. B. Reeve,D. D., of Philadelphia, a sketch of whose life appearsin ]\Ien of Mark. ]\Irs. Si lone, a woman of whose noble, self-sacrificing-life of piety from early youth to her latest hours volumesmight be written, began the work of educating herdaughter Josephine in her quiet Chistian liome, conse-crating her to the Lord in infauc\, and earnestly prayingthat above all else the life of her child might be a usefulone. Possessed herself of a fair education, she wellknew the value of intellectual development
. Women of distinction : remarkable in works and invincible in character. e of the Rev. J. B. Reeve,D. D., of Philadelphia, a sketch of whose life appearsin ]\Ien of Mark. ]\Irs. Si lone, a woman of whose noble, self-sacrificing-life of piety from early youth to her latest hours volumesmight be written, began the work of educating herdaughter Josephine in her quiet Chistian liome, conse-crating her to the Lord in infauc\, and earnestly prayingthat above all else the life of her child might be a usefulone. Possessed herself of a fair education, she wellknew the value of intellectual development, and sparedno pains to surround her daughter with all possiblemeans of improvement; the latter, now grown to woman-hood, delights to relate that the earliest event of whichshe has any distinct remembrance is of that saintedmothers taking her upon her knee and teaching her toread from the Bible, by requiring her to call the wordsafter her as she pointed them out. Josephine was sent to school at an early age and hadalready been so well advanced by her mother in JOSEPHINE A. SILONE-YATES. WOMEN OF DISTINCrriON. 41 writing and arithmetic that slie was at once admitted toone of the higher classes of the district school, andbecajLise of her eagerness and readiness to learn soonbecame a favorite with her teachers, although the onlycolored pupil in the school. She possessed an excellentmemory, good reasoning powers, and at the age of ninewas stud3ing physiology and physics, and was welladvanced in mathematics. Through the kindness of a Mrs. Horton, her Sunday-school teacher,jShe had access to a large and well-selectedlibrary for young people, and in all probability thusacquired an additional taste for literature, which wasundoubtedly, primarily, a natural inheritance from herancestors; be this as it may, an ambition to write, anda corresponding love for the best things in literature,began to assert itself at an early period. Her school-girl efforts at comiposition were favor
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