The Gavelyte, December 1909

17() THF, GAVF,LY'l'E, winter of illnP!'~ ~he was able to get up sh~ had a cough whi<:h sent her west for a better climate. While on this triµ she became interested in the mountain boys and girls of Oregon and having lo t the hapJJiness of life she entered into the work of teaching these children and it was not long until she had a mi!'sior. started ,.ind with the aid of a missionary and his wife they were able to maKe room for. and teach, many children of the mountains. Gl:'1 t n .de short,Jy after coming home commenced searching for a school. Disappui111,ments came time and again, and hPre \\ as the first of August. If she could only gPt a start ~_he was confident there would never be any more tn1uble for he felt sure she would make a success. Her aunt was coming soon so she forg,·1t about teaching and went to work to give her old relative a pleasant time. A few <lays Lefore her aunt started we t they were sitting before the fire, and her aunt asked her what she intended to do, now she had graduated from college. Was she going into society or was she g,1ing into something useful? Gertrude then told her how she had tried to get a school but it eemed l'\·ery one was afraid she would make a failure. Her father wanted her to stay at home and enter into the Chicago ociety. "Well, Geri,rude, why do1,'t you do it? Your father has lots of money and you will find some young man of brilliant prospects and you can settle down and bP near your father ." If Mi s l3uzhee (for so was her aunt's name) could have seen Gertrude's face ·he would have seen a sad expression pass over it. But Gertrude answered, "Auntie, I do not want to be a do nothing. I want to be of some u,:;e to thP worh.l, do omething noble and good, something that will be remembered." Hef' aunt thought for a few momentR and then a!'kPd ''How would you like to go with me back to Oregon and teach in thP same school with mP. We need another teacher thi,- winter on account of the lumber C'amps coming closn. Of course it will not make you rith but you \\ill have the trip and I think you would like the country and the boy. and girls woulrl intere,,t you ." ''O, auntie, I would he delighted to go but papa would not hear to me teaching in a mission school." "You leave that to me, Gertrude. • ay nothing about teaching. We will tell your father that I want you to go home ancl help me thiR winter