THE PIERCE BROTHERS, SONS OF MR. MELLEN C. PIERCE.


 PHOEBE PICKERING JENKS.

 M RS. JENKS was not a picture-making child.
 It was not till she had grown up, and mar-
 ried, and had a little child of her own, that she
 began to paint pictures. This little son, indeed,
 S,  had m uch to do w ith her become ing a painter of
 children.
 B As a child, Mrs. Jenks was musical rather than
 S," artistic. Her earliest remembrance runs back to a
 i': day, forty-odd years ago, when she sat on her
 mother's knee and sang the soprano of a song, to
 MRS. JENKS, FROM THE her mother's alto, for a neighbor. She was only
CHARCOAL BY I. M. GAU-
 GENGIGL. four then, but she remembers how the neighbor
 exclaimed, Why, she can carry a tune just as well as anybody!"
 Even more remarkable than her musical gift was her memory. If a
 poem of six or eight four-line verses were read to her twice, she could
 then repeat it from beginning to end.