My dear Papa: Before you left home you told me to work at my
trade half of each day. I like my work so much that I want to
work at my trade all day. Besides, I want to earn all the money I
can, so that when I go to another school I shall have money to
pay my expenses.
Your son,
Booker.
My youngest child, Earnest Davidson Washington, says that he is
going to be a physician. In addition to going to school, where he
studies books and has manual training, he regularly spends a
portion of his time in the office of our resident physician, and
has already learned to do many of the studies which pertain to a
doctor's office.
The thing in my life which brings me the keenest regret is that
my work in connection with public affairs keeps me for so much of
the time away from my family, where, of all places in the world,
I delight to be. I always envy the individual whose life-work is
so laid that he can spend his evenings at home. I have sometimes
thought that people who have this rare privilege do not
appreciate it as they should. It is such a rest and relief to get
away from crowds of people, and handshaking, and travelling, to
get home, even if it be for but a very brief while.
Another thing at Tuskegee out of which I get a great deal of
pleasure and satisfaction is in the meeting with our students,
and teachers, and their families, in the chapel for devotional
exercises every evening at half-past eight, the last thing before
retiring for the night.
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