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MISS RUBY E. BRADSHAW.

Her father, Mr. P. J. Sanderson, is teaching blacksmithing  at Lincoln Institute, and this makes it necessary for his wife to be in Jefferson City. But he has not lessened his acreage in wheat, nor has he relinquished any of his property holdings at home. Miss Lizzie is there and things go on just the same.

She has made a country place seven miles from town appear only a suburb of the city, by providing herself with easy and comfortable conveyances, subscribing for newspapers and magazines, owning a piano and equipping a well-chosen library.

She is a graduate of the class of 1903.
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Miss RUBY E. BRADSHAW, who was graduated from Lincoln Institute in 1903, has recently finished the kindergarten course in St. Louis, Missouri.

Miss Bradshaw spent two years in the Normal department of Lincoln Institute and in the Department of Instrumental Music.

She has been fortunate in having attended some of the best schools in the country for colored people, such as the schools of Kansas City, Missouri, Washington, D.C., and Fisk University.

This preparation, with the pedagogical and musical training at Lincoln Institute, renders Miss Bradshaw well equipped for the work of a kindergarten teacher. Her accomplishments in music should make her very desirable as a teacher.

Miss Bradshaw has chosen a field which is not at all

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crowded with workers, for it is not every one who has finished a course that can labor in this field. This work must be done by those who are adapted to it, as well as being prepared for it. Both of these qualifications are hers.

She is the daughter of Mrs. Frances J. Jackson, the teacher of pedagogy at Lincoln Institute.