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Lucy Jane Gean (Jean) Williams

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Durham        North Carolina

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Memories of a Long Life                                               1

MY ONE DESIRE

 

            I do want to write a little of my life.  In what I write I will surely not try to harm the readers, if people do read the book.  I do hope young girls, also boys, will take the advice I give, for it is all given in a spirit of true love for their good here and their happiness in the world to come.  Listen to one who loves all the children.  I have taught school in different counties in North Carolina and in other states, and have never taught a school but it was said by parents and children that they were sorry for me to leave and they would love to have me come back.  Since I have been in the city of Durham I have made many friends, and many among the children wherever I go, for I never refuse to speak kindly to any child anywhere and say a word to little ones on the street.  Sometimes I meet a child looking sad and lonely, sometimes hopeful and gay.  Never, dear children, speak a word to father or mother but in a true and polite way, and when you are told or asked to do the smallest little errand do not wait to be told the second time.  Remember a good father and mother will never leave or forsake you, and if you get in trouble, go to mother for sympathy and advice.  Never keep anything from mother even if you have said or done some wrong.  I am glad that I never kept anything from mother, and it did her good.  I never put any paint or rouge on my face nor used anything to keep my hair from turning gray.  I have put something on my face after taking a bath if I expected to go out in the wind, but that was not often.  I think sometimes I will, but will forget to, not that I think it sinful but because I care so little about it.