neckerchief.  A white under-sleeve came just below the elbow, where it terminated in a very narrow band, nicely stitched, and fastened with two small silver buttons, connected by a chain.  She was a very industrious woman, and remarkably systematic in her household affairs; thus she contrived to find time for everything, though burdened with the care of a large and increasing family.  The apprentices always sat at table with them, and she maintained a perfect equality between them and her own children.  She said it was her wish to treat them precisely as she would like to have her boys treated, if they should become apprentices.  On Sunday evenings, which they called First Day evenings, the whole family assembled to hear Friend Hopper read portions of scripture, or writings of the early Friends.  On such occasions, the mother often gave religious exhortations to the children and apprentices, suited to the occurrences of the week, and the temptations to which they were peculiarly subject.  During the last eight years of her life, she was a recommended minister of the Society of Friends, and often preached at their meetings.  Her manners were affable, and her conversation peculiarly agreeable to young people.  But she knew when silence was seemly, and always restrained her discourse within the limits of discretion.  When any of her children talked more than was useful, she was accustomed to administer this concise caution:  “My dear, it is a nice thing to say nothing, when thou hast nothing to say.”  Her husband was proud of her, and always manifested great deference for her opinion.  She suffered much anxiety on account of the perils to which he was often exposed in his contests with slaveholders and kidnappers; and for many years, the thought was familiar to her mind that she might one day see him brought home a corpse.  While the yellow fever raged in Philadelphia, she had the same anxiety concerning his fearless devotion to the victims of that terrible disease, who were dying by hundreds around them.  But she had a large and sympathizing heart, and she never sought to dissuade him from what he considered the path of duty.  When one of his brothers was stricken with the fever, and the family with whom he resided were afraid to shelter him, she proposed to have him brought under their own roof, where he was carefully nursed till he died.  She was more reluctant to listen to his urgent entreaties that she would retire into the country with the children, and remain with them beyond the reach of contagion; for her heart was divided between the husband of her youth and the nurslings of her bosom.  But his anxiety concerning their children was so great, that she finally consented to pursue the course most conducive to his peace of mind; and he was left in the city with a colored domestic to superintend his household affairs.  Through this terrible ordeal of pestilence he passed unscathed, though his ever ready sympathy brought him into frequent contact with the dying and the dead.