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did all the work.

    My father was twenty-five when he met mother and she was two years older. Their romance was complicated for a time by the presence of another teacher, Mary Burke, my mother's roommate. She was very pretty. It seems that at first, Father liked both of them. He divided his attentions equally between them, squiring first one and then the other on buggy rides in the country and to Armstrong Redwood Grove. At some point, the arrangement ceased to be amusing to Miss Calderwood. One night, when my father was beau-ing Mary, my mother gave way to a fit of temper. She swept up all the articles in Mary's silver dresser set and threw them, one by one, into the garden below. Immediately, she was swept with remorse and she ran down to the garden. She was hastily cleaning and replacing the set when Mary returned from her date. She told Mary what she had done. Mary forgave her and they both had a good cry.

    Mary must have been a good loser. She was the maid of honor at their wedding, Saturday, February 27, 1897. On the following Monday the Santa Rosa Republican gave this