THE STORY OF A LIFE



hearth. Nothing is to be seen to suggest
Latin and Geometry! It is, first of all, a home
for young ladies.
  But when we are shown the mystic way that
leads to schoolrooms, we find them stript, as it
were, for service. Here is little or no adorn-
ment. They are placed before us in stern real-
ity-desk and blackboard and floor-with no
pretense that knowledge walks on velvet car-
pets. In this wing, we find ourselves indeed in
a school; and we feel instinctively that if we do
not immediately fall to, at some difficult text-
book, we have no business here, and should be
sent home to our parents.
  And that is just what Mrs. Carr would have
done for us. Education had always for her,
meant something serious, something life-long,
something to become an integral part of one's
character. First, Carr-Burdette College is to be
a home in which young ladies are to be taught
conduct and hygiene; but it is a College Home,
where study is not play, any more than play is
study. We cannot determine where we feel
Mrs. Carr's influence stronger-whether in
these unadorned schoolrooms, or in the luxur-
ious parlors. Taken together, they typify the
extremes of her character. She sought to build



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