=Joy in her work.=—­Her teaching and her life do not occupy separate compartments but are identical in time and space; only her teaching is but one phase or manifestation of her life.  She fitly exemplifies the statement that “Art is the expression of man’s joy in his work.”  She has great joy in her work and, therefore, it is done as any other artist does his work.  She enjoys all life, including her work.  Indeed, she has contracted the habit of happiness and is so engrossed in the big elemental things of life that she can laugh at the incidental pin-pricks that others call troubles.  She differentiates major from minor and never permits a minor to usurp the throne.  Being an integral part of her life, her work takes on all the hues of her life.  For her, culture is not something added; rather it is a something that permeates her whole nature and her whole life.  She does not read poetry and other forms of literature, study the great masterpieces of music and art, and seek communion with the great, either in person or through their works—­she does not do these things that she may acquire culture, but does them because she has culture.

=Dynamic qualities.=—­Her character is the sum of all her habits of thinking, feeling, and action and, therefore, is herself.  Since she is an artist, her habits are all pitched in a high key and she is culture personified.  Her immaculateness of body and spirit is not a superficial acquisition but a fundamental expression of her real self.  Just as the electric bulb diffuses light, so she diffuses an atmosphere of culture.  She gives the artistic touch to every detail of her work because she is an artist, a genuine, sincere artist in all that makes up life.  She has the heart of an artist, the eyes of an artist, the touch of an artist.  Whether these qualities are inherent or acquired is beside the point, at present, but it may be remarked, in passing, that unless they were capable of cultivation, the world would be at a standstill.  There is no place in her exuberant vitality for a jaundiced view, and hence her world does not become “stale, flat, and unprofitable.”

=Aspiration and worship.=—­Every sincere, noble aspiration is a prayer; hence, she prays without ceasing in obedience to the admonition of the Apostle.  And, let it be said in reverence, she helps to answer her own prayers.  Her spirit yearns out toward higher and wider attainments every hour of the day, not morbidly but exultantly.  And while she aspires she worships.  The starry sky holds her in rapt attention and admiration, and the modest flower does no less.  She is thankful for the rain, and revels in the beauty and abundance of the snow.  The heat may enervate, but she is grateful, none the less, because of its beneficent influence upon the farmer’s work.  Like food and sleep, her attitude of worship conserves her powers and preserves her balance.  When physical weariness comes, she sends her spirit out to the star, or the sea, or the mountain, and so forgets her burden in the contemplation of majesty and beauty.  In short, her spirit is attuned to all beauty and sublimity and truth, and so she is inherently an artist.