I often helped my sister Julia who was married and lived in Hooper. At the age of 14, I was engaged in my Uncle Barthomew (Tim) Malan's house in Ogden. They had about 8 or 10 boarders besides their large family. I never was through work until 10PM. My pay was $1.00 a week and board. I would put up the lunches for the men boarders. Often I found eggs empty because one boarder, a painter, Charles Furster, used to suck eggs out of the shell. One time, I gathered the empty egg shells and put them in his lunch bucket. When he returned home from work, he chased me up the stairs and when I was near the top, I slid down the banister. In the fall of 1887, my parents moved from West Weber to Mound Fort. The same fall, my sister Lettie was married to William Forsgren in the Logan Temple, and I undertook to give them a wedding reception at my Uncle Tim's residence. In 1888, I was engaged as an apprentice in Mme. Julia DeLong's Dressmaking shop. I worked for about six months. When I applied for work one time, I must have appeared very awkward as I sewed with my left hand. One of the employers exclaimed with a very negative, determined tone in her voice: "You can't sew for me!" I said to her, "Try me for one day." I remained sewing for her for six years, Though I was left handed, I had trained my right hand so that I could do most work with either though I favored my left hand. She had some 15 women sewing for her. In a short time, her confidence in my ability had grown to where she would turn her entire shop over to my supervision when she was not there. I could look at a dress and make it without having a pattern. Soon Mme. had me cutting out various styles without the use of a pattern for the girls to sew on. I was responsible for most of the work that left the shop. When Mme. was ready to return to France, she wished me to return with her to work in her dressmaking establishment in France. In June 18 93, my sister Jennie was married to George Gibson in the Salt Lake Temple, and I provided a wedding reception at my father's residence. In 18 99, I moved back home and followed dressmaking until July 1, 1990 at which time my brother Simeon took charge of the hotel at Brigham City until the proprietors returned from abroad. I helped in managing the hotel. When we returned to Ogden, I was engaged to sew in Mme. Mahan's Dressmaking establishment located upstairs over the Burt Brothers Store (East side of Washington Blvd. between 24th and 25th Streets) until she left. Afterwards I secured a position in Mme. Maynard's Dressmaking which was upstairs in the National Bank Building. Friends and relatives often enjoyed relating the interesting way in which I met my future husband, Charles. A fellow barber friend of Charles, George Gibson, was courting a pretty young lady, my sister Jennie R. Farley. George was anxious for Charles to meet