I had a letter from the boys today, they are well and are dong well. I do not know whether they will come home or not. They will leave the lumber Shanties I think if they do not change their minds.

My friend Eliza H.is to be married today to a Mr. Girton, a farmer from St Thomas. She is looking very poorly and she has not been well all last summer. I think this time of getting ready to be married must be hard on the ladies.
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I sent a paper to Nell asking her about dentistry as a study and afterwards as a profession for a lady. Now I have been thinking seriously about trying my hand at it and I want her advice. I have been speaking to Pa and he thinks it is a good paying business and his only objection would be the inhaling of the breath of so many persons. I wonder if it would be profitable? Maybe Nell would know what it would cost to learn how to be a dentist? I wonder if $450.00 would be enough? That is what I’ll have saved I expect after this year of teaching.

Pa thinks it would be well if I ever did study to be dentist to get the money first and teach for a while and have a little capital to start on and keep me until I would have a business worked up. What do you think? I rather think it would be the better way. I’m going to write down some numbers now and write again to Nell tomorrow night after school.

February 1891
 
My Dear Nell,
You have been married now for nearly 5 months and it seems far longer than that since I have seen you. I hear that you are going to have a little visitor before Christmas. I hope all is well.
I suppose you thought that I was going to forget you this time for sure. Well, I have little news of any importance but will write anyway to tell you what is happening in my life and about all your old friends here.
I got all my teeth filled. Allen filled the real bad one and three others that cost me $12.00 exactly but I am not sorry as they are so much improved. I think one of the others has commenced to decay but I will not let it go so far as the others went. Had a letter from sister Bertha not long ago. She is well, enjoying her teaching but does not say much about her prospects of any sort. I know Bertha would like to marry. Enough for now,
Lovingly, Jennie
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​I like it fine being a teacher and I am happy where I board. I have to board out because it is too far to go home each night and when it rains the roads are just awful mud.

​I have had an inspection by one of the trustees. It seems I have established myself as a fine teacher notable for my ability to maintain control in my classroom. They do not know at what cost that control comes. When I have to reprimand my students it upsets me something dreadful, but I must do it. 
The attendance has been very poor this winter but I think it is on account of the changeable weather because when the day is at all fine I have a good attendance.
It is very cold tonight. I sit by a small stove in the parlour of my boarding house as I write to Nell.
How I hate the cold. My joints ache and I am wearing gloves to hold my pen; even the ink is thick with the cold and I have it as close to the heat as I can manage without setting my paper ablaze.