The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

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hours of rising and retiring; regular habits of eating; and
should not be allowed to cram their pockets with goodies,
on which they nibbled all through the school hours.
And I assured my interested auditors that mental quickening and desire for study would be the result of these reforms.
With regard to visits of a week or fortnight to neighboring
plantations, I expressed the wish that my pupils should be
left behind, or that I should be included in the visiting
party, with school apparatus and power to continue instruction as at home. It was a very startling programme to
them, and a long discussion followed.
Mr. Henderson, indolent and self-indulgent, was sure my
programme, if put into practice, would make his children
very unhappy "1No Southerner likes work," he said; "1he
wants ease, jollity, leisure, and a good time. Can't you
make education easy and pleasant for the children, so that
they will hunger for it- as they do now for visiting, hunting,
and fishingr?"
I was quite sure that I could, if permitted to carry out
my plans. "They can be made both studious and ambitious,"l I argued, "1if only I can have control of them."
"66But, " said Mr. Henderson, "I don't want them to
become so studious and ambitious that they will lose interest in me, and in frolic and fun."
"I cannot and do not expect that."
"Your plans are those of a Yankee; they are hard and
grim, and there is no place in your schedule for pleasure."
Mrs. Henderson agreed with me from first to last, as
her husband said she would do.
" O, said he, "with a nonchalant wave of his hand,