She thanks Hudson for the $10 for the Christmas story. Her recent Ave Marias have been forwarded from New York, indicating that her address has not been changed as requested. She again gives her present address. She is still on the sick list suffering from overtaxed nerves. If only she could die rather than suffer and live in a way that is against her whole nature. She must seek her livelihood by teaching in Protestant Schools and everything she is forced to teach is anti-Catholic. Her students cannot understand why she is a Catholic when Catholics are so wicked. Is there no school where Catholic women can teach those of their own faith? Why do Catholic schools and magazines employ Protestant teachers and writers, forcing Catholics to work for a living as best they can in other ways? She fears she will be forced back into atheism because she cannot understand the inconsistency of Catholics. She feels that if the Catholic creed is false then there is no faith, and creatures are mere atoms blown about by fate. She hopes that the New Year will be brighter to others than it appears to be for her. :: X-2-j A. L. S. 8pp. 16mo.