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 ...

MY HELPMATE THROUGH LIFE. 597
the winter's work. We have been housekeepers over fifty
years, and in all the manifold cares and perplexities of the
home-making and home-keeping, in the rearing of children,
their training and education, their sickness, death, marriage,
and settlement in homes of their own, I have been sure not
only of sympathy and appreciation from my husband, but
of active, wise, hearty cooperation. To no other person am
I so deeply indebted, as to him, who has been for more than
fifty years my lover, friend, husband, housemate, and efficient
helpmate.