her mother strained the milk for her to enjoy the special treat of still warm milk. She also remembers a small rocking chair in which she spent so many pleasant hours. She recollects (when she was seven years old) her brother Darius passing away from diphtheria. She recalls the sound of her father's anguished crying at the death of his ten-year-old son. On a bitter-cold day, friends and relatives came to view him from outside the home through the living room window. This unusual viewing was due to the nature of the disease. Soon Mary's sister, Julia Miller, wrote to invite her sister and nieces to her home in California hoping that the trip might ease the sorrow for Mary. Charles and Orion made plans for Mary and the girls to travel to Julia's by rail. Madeleine remembers lying in the berth at night, hearing the clickety-clack of train wheels, seeing an occasional light in the far distance as she peered out into the dark, and hearing the mournful sound of the train whistle. When Madeleine was nine years of age, the terrible flu epidemic of 1918 occurred. Schools and churches were closed for a time. Madeleine caught the flu followed by pneumonia which nearly took her life. About a month after recuperating from the flu, Madeleine remembers the day World War One ended. The family was delighted in that Orion would soon be coming home. On Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, her father bundled Madeleine up in a quilt and with her mother and sister traveled to town where he parked in front of the Boyle Furniture Store. They watched the throngs of exuberant people as they danced, ran, sang, shouted, and made merry with whistles, confetti, and toy canes thus celebrating the end of the war. Madeleine recalls "The Garden of Sweets" owned by her Aunt Jennie Gibson. This was a candy store located on the northeast corner of Twenty-fifth Street and Washington Blvd. Aunt Jennie hired a professional candy maker and this shop became a favorite stopping place for Charles as he would enjoy delighting his daughters by bringing home special treats for them. Her playmates were her sister and the neighborhood girl next door, an only child by the name of Charlotte (Lottie) White. The girls became close, and Lottie was accepted like another sister. They are still close friends to this day. Dora Gibson and Donna Forsgren were cousins near their age. They enjoyed being with them whenever possible. She remembers her grandmother and grandfather Farley. He dearly loved to play phonograph records and have his grandchildren dance to the music. Their reward was a white or pink wintergreen mint. Her grandmother, Madeleine Malan Farley, came over daily to have Madeleine's mother comb her long, white hair, braid it, and pin it up in an attractive fashion. At age ten she remembers her grandmother dying. Her other Grandmother, Teresa Southwick Marriott, lived a little over a block away. Madeleine remembers her well. She died when Madeleine was a little over eleven. Childhood games such as jump-the-rope, jacks, hopscotch, and hide-and-seek were some of the favorite games enjoyed. Listening to phonograph records and hearing her sister duplicating them on the piano was most delightful. She also enjoyed listening to her father's Indian storiessome from actual experience, and some "doctored-up" by his imagination. After the flu and pneumonia, Madeleine had other ailments such as bronchial pneumonia, rheumatic