. Wisconsin medical recorder . of associationwith this good woman hadtaught me that she was theone to get when I was in asituation requiring great tactand delicacy. She was one ofthose tactful persons whorush in like a snow plow andliterally cover up all opposition. Noone had the temerity to get in the way;she was a person of quality before dewan, and the family had many slavesin their possession. Unfortunately,their plantation was located in such aplace that Shermans army ate themout of house and home while the Col-onel, her husband, was killed in theBattle of the Wilderness. The good woman,
. Wisconsin medical recorder . of associationwith this good woman hadtaught me that she was theone to get when I was in asituation requiring great tactand delicacy. She was one ofthose tactful persons whorush in like a snow plow andliterally cover up all opposition. Noone had the temerity to get in the way;she was a person of quality before dewan, and the family had many slavesin their possession. Unfortunately,their plantation was located in such aplace that Shermans army ate themout of house and home while the Col-onel, her husband, was killed in theBattle of the Wilderness. The good woman, recognizing the in-evitable, gathered up what family jewelsshe had succeeded in hiding from theraiders, \and having saved one hamwhich she had buried under a stone,with a rabbits foot, in the full of themoon, started out to seek her drifted from Georgia to St. Louisand worked as a seamstress for a whileand eventually was set up in a board-ing house by an old friend of the fami-ly She drifted to Chicago in anticipa-. tion of making a fortuneduring the Worlds Fair, andas usual was one of the ear-lier birds who arrived sever-al years too soon. The board-ing house worms had not be-gun to hatch and Aunt Maryhad to make many shifts inorder to pay the rent andkeep her larder full. Shewas one of those peo-ple who can always be relied upon inan emergency. She would drop every-thing and come when needed, and be-tween keeping boarders, sewing by theday, and in hard seasons taking in awash, she still found time to do somenursing in times of need. I was a long legged third year medi-cal student when Aunt Mary capturedand adopted me in her heart and had been having some serious troublewith my room-mate; he was harder upthan I was and not quite so took to wearing my dirty shirtsafter I had discarded them and worethem so long that the women couldnot wash them. Now this was a seri-ous affair to a student as he must tryto be presentable and when he has onlythree w
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