of a poor and struggling husband. Her lot may be cast north, south, east, or west, she does not know. I think all girls must have thought of this often. But, believe me, to sit still and wait for the future, precarious and unknown though it is, will make you a very unattractive, incapable woman. If you have a talent, or if you think you have one, cultivate it earnestly. The fact that you are giving your time, labor and devotion will in itself form your character. I believe every girl is the better for trying to study some art. It is the ability to concentrate effort, and to work effectually, that girls need to cultivate. That quality, once they possess it, can in after years be directed where they will. Because you have to work with small tools do not be dissatisfied. If your talent is small, spend upon it all the energies of your being. Not with the hope of achieving renown, but because, by such effort, you are forming priceless qualities within yourself. Be modest, unassuming and faithful in pur suing and developing your gifts. In the end you may have little harvest, but you will have had the joy of service known only to those who follow their star with earnestness of purpose, careless where it leads. "I am glad a task to me is given To labor at day by day; For it brings me health and strength and hope And I cheerfully learn to say, Head, you may think; heart, you may feel, But, hand, you shall work alway.' -SUSAN COOLIDGE. XVI THE WORKING GIRL HAT real place has a grown woman of twenty-five or up in anyone's else wards home? " This somewhat startling question brings us face to face with the fundamental reason why so many women work to-day. It is because they feel that there is no place for them in anyone's else home. On realizing this, proud and independent, they prefer to face the world. It is impossible for any woman who is born into the activity and restlessness of this age of work not to feel an ambition. within her which urges her on to do her share. She prefers to "work out" rather than to "rust out," and if she is not at the head of her own home, rather than occupy |