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-1W- . I there ind novtir a spot or flpack of duut to be:found In the • • i ii • house—everything mia v*ry neat and orderly* She was a very devout Catholic and the trial* and tribulation* that foil upon her hone oho accept*! with Christian resignation. Even her la at vbich extend«d over aany Honttaa and caused greAt pain, she endured without a single camplalDt, We »ay assume that she had to put up with much from her irrasolble huaband and it my be that at tinea she did hove to stand up against hid for the waif ax* of her children. But all of this she probably accapted in the Sana spirit of abnegation* To bar awn children she w&s always extremely affectionate and generous Although there is eoae re&£ou to suppoae that she •aa mean at tiae-s to her two etap-children. la any event, every scrap of evidence indicates that there waa an extreaely str&ng aitachnent batttean herAAlf avd Molph* Ka previously pointed out, thle was duo in part to • the fact that Bhe bod loat two, or poasiply throe, children before Adolph waa born, Since ho, too, «n& frail aa a child It is natural that a. woman of her type should do «-r«rything within har ponr to guard against another r*eurreaca of bar earlier experiences* The result was that she catered to his to the point of spoiling Limr and that sh* was in bar attitude towards bin. We uay ouauiie that during thei flrot five jeara o£ idolph1* life, he wna ta* C apple of hie uother'a eye ajid that ahe lavished a/fection oa REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES