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small in proportion to the rest of her body and it built out her head to give a kind of top side size that was becoming to the whole figure. That did prevent her from having good-looking hats because nobody could make a hat that would go over so much hair.

I don't think she was happier in this period than in any other. The fact that she had to get herself a job of teaching would indicate that she was not altogether at ease. I've often wondered why she felt this drive to get herself a job and to prove that she could do it. Of course, it didn't really prove much because she got a job with some girls who needed her capital to run the school. Miss Marion Dickerman didn't have any money and Mrs. Roosevelt put some capital into running the Todhunter school, which Miss Dickerman bought from the Todhunter sisters. It was strictly a privately owned school. They had high ideas and ideals. Miss Dickerman had become a very, very close friend and very dependent on Mrs. Roosevelt. I think Mrs. Roosevelt to a certain extent depended on her. Miss Dickerman certainly encouraged her to believe that she could do this teaching, that although she had a limited education herself and had no training or experience as a teacher, nevertheless she could teach. As a matter of fact, I think from what I have learned from students and their parents at the Todhunter