Where she found the time, and still managed to practically run that big house" and be a straight-A student, the president of her class, a leader in the 4-H program and the Young Methodists League, a skilled rider, an excellent musician (piano, clarinet), an annual winner at the county fair (pastry, preserves, needlework, flower arrangement)-how a girl not yet seventeen could haul such a wagonload, and do so without "brag," with, rather, merely a radiant jauntiness, was an enigma the community pondered, and solved by saying, "She's got character.
Denbora nondik ateratzen zuen, eta gainera nola moldatzen zen "etxe handi hura ere ia-ia berak gobernatu" eta horrez gain dena Bikain ateratzeko, bere gelako burua, 4-H programako eta Metodista Gazteen Ligako buruzagia, zaldi-gidari trebea, musikari bikaina (pianoa, klarinetea), konderriko festa-eguneko urteroko irabazlea (gozogintza, kontserbak, jostun lanak, lore-apainketa)... hamazazpi urterik ere ez zuen neskak nola eraman zezakeen horrenbesteko zama, "harrokeriarik" gabe gainera, alderantziz, ganora alai batez besterik gabe, enigma bat zen herritarrentzat, hau esanez ebazten zutena: