painting of cornelia ward hall and her children is an encapsulated's asian of the whole story we like to present here. we have this lovely family minus their husband, and we like to say the husband was off making his millions. at the same time, what they had here is everything they could produce. a very lush interior. we have the children wearing garments that are not only send it best, but party best. -- sunday best, but party best. the mother is wearing a dress which we believe is probably farm -- from a paris salon. a great french couturier. to have that down means you could travel to paris and you could afford the transatlantic trip. moreover, she is wearing these beautiful pearls around her neck. also around her wrist. at the time in the 1880's, this means they would have been natural pearls, not cut -- cultured pearls. there were extraordinarily valued. the japanese developed a method of culturing pearls. that meant anybody could afford them. not anyone could afford these here. the little girl is holding an ostrich feather fan, which is probably her mother's. that is another sym