CHAPTER SIXTEEN
 THE HOME LIFE OF DR. MURPHREE

 "The great need of the present day is that the spiritual values
 shall be kept abreast-nay, in the lead, of material progress. The
 task is great, but it can be accomplished in homes in which are
 cultivated an appreciation of what is truly worth while in life; in
 homes that hold before the growing lives the beauty and value of
 the spiritual."
 -ARMAND.

 Tender and heartfelt tributes have been paid the
 memory of Dr. A. A. Murphree by his intimate
 friends relative to his home life, and all have cen-
 tered about this theme: He was as devoted to Jen-
nie Henderson Murphree, his life companion, as his great
heart and soul could be, as a man of his culture and manli-
ness would be; and as a father he was both guiding light and
companion to his sons and daughters.
 Frequently in this study of his life and work mention has
been made of his love and devotion for his wife, and of their
remarkable compatibility. Theirs was a companionship of a
unique but truly blessed community of interests, springing
from a determination to maintain a home in which would be
felt the beneficent influences both of material comfort and
spiritual values.
 It would be fruitless to attempt the faintest picture of Dr.
Murphree's home life without some delineation of the radiant
character and personality of Mrs. Murphree. Among the
many who contributed from their intimate knowledge of this
phase of the life of the great educator none omitted to touch
upon her life and her influence upon him and his household.
 Jennie Henderson's home had been one in keeping with
the finest of the traditional old southern families, with a cer-
tain poise and character typical of those families rooted in
the soil of the old capital city of Florida. Tallahassee had
an aristocracy distinctly its own and the Henderson family
was a fitting representative of the best that aristocracy stood
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