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MARCH, 1902.
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For Woman’s Work.
H HCTo
Margaret A. Richard.
nn A, ha,” he laughed, “if there should But is it right, think you, that we
IfH sound Judge men to-day,
A- war 8 alarms, Whom never yet the fates have called
I wonder if these soldier boys, « oin the f rftY?
Would shoulder arms?” J y
He laughed that those so young should wear It e’er hath been, and e’er will be,
A nation’s hue, As say the wise,
And felt that should that nation call That when the times for brave men call,
They’d prove untrue. Brave men arise.
Then dare not call one cowardly
Until proved so;
He thus adjudged may yet be deemed
A world’s hero!
For Woman’s Work.
WHICH WAS THE BETTER WAI?
ING DONG-DING went the front
11.2/ door-bell, aud Lillian and Louise
Foster, or “the twins” as they were com
monly called, rushed with expectant faces
to the door. It was the morning of their
twelfth birthday, and of course they were
on the lookout for the remembrance from
Aunt Blanche, which had never failed to
arrive on their birthday, as long as they
could remember.
“Oh, Mamma,” cried Louise, “two tiny
boxes! Whatever do you suppose they can
be? Os course they are just alike, for
Aunt Blanche, you know, believes in treat
ing us exactly the same because we are
twins.”
‘•I don’t believe they can be anything
very nice,” said Lillian, “they are so lit
tle,” in rather a disappointed tone. “Mine
doesn’t seem to have much in it but cotton
batten, anyway.”
“Ah, but the best things are sometimes
done up in the smallest packages,” was
Mamma s encouraging rejoinder. “What
is this that I see shining so brightly—al
most hidden from sight—way down in the
bottom of the box?”
“We don’t know any more than you do,
Mamma, but it won’t take us long to find
out,” and two little fingers went down in
to the bottom of each tiny box. Now,
what do you suppose those shining
bits proved to be? Nothing more nor lass
than two bright, five-dollar gold pieces,
which Aunt Blanche requested—in a letter
to Mamma—the twins should have the
privilege of spending “just as they wished.’’
Can you not imagine what a happy pair
they were? They had never once dreamed
of having such a splendid birthday gift as
this, and the all-absorbing question for the
rest of the day was: “How shall we spend
it?”
I wonder if my little readers have any
idea how very hard it was to decide.
There are so very many ways in which
one can spend five dollars, you know.
“I know what I’m going to do,’’ at last
cried Lillian! “I’m just going to have a
lovely new fur muff and tippet, just like
Mabel Graham’s. I asked Mamma about
it, and she said I could buy a beautiful one
for five dollars, if I wanted to spend my
money in that way. Let’s both have new
furs just alike. Don’t you want to,
Louise?” in a coaxing voice.
“No, I don’t exactly think I do,” and
Louise slowly shook her head. “Don t
you think the muffs and tippets we had
last year are plenty good enough, Lillian?”
“No, I don’t. Ail this whole winter
I’ve just wanted one like Mabel Graham's,
and I think you might get one to please
me, so there, now, Louise Foster” —and if
you could have seen Lillian’s angry face,
you would scarcely have recognized
the happy little girl of a few moments be
fore. “I bet you would like a new muff
and tippet just as much as I would, only
you are mean and don't want to please
me.
“Indeed, Lillian, I do want to please
you,” replied Louise, lovingly putting her
arm around her twin sister. “But 1 was
thinking it would be nice to do someone
some real good with our money, instead of
spending it all just on ourselves—especially
when Papa and Mamma are so kind, and
give us everything we really need. Don’t
you think so, sister?” in a persuasive little
voice.
“No, I don’t,” angrily pushing her sister
away. ‘“Besides, Aunt Blanche gave us
the money and said we should spend it
just as we pleased, and that is what I mean
to do. lam just going to have my new
muff and tippet, whether you do or not,
and I guess when you see me with them
on next Sunday, in Sunday School, you’ll
wish you had some, too.”
“Perhaps I shall, dear, but I hardly
think so. To be sure, the money is ours,
and we can do what we please with it; but
I am sure it would gladden Aunt Blanche’s
heart to have us spend at least a part of it
in making others happy. You know just
as well as I do how good and kind she
always is, and how much she gives to the
poor and needy: and since Mamma told
us yesterday about poor Mrs. Gray, who
does our washing, I have so wished that
I could help her. You know she has been
sick for six long weeks, and her four
little children have had to go cold and
hungry so many of these bitter, winter
days. It just makes my heart ache to
think of them. Mamma said she would
help them as much as she could, but with
two little daughters of herown, shecouldn’t
do as much as she would like to.”
“Well, what are you going to do about
it? It’s too bad, of course, but a little
girl like you can’t do anything.”
“Ah, but I don’t agree with you,” an
swered Louise, with a happy smile light
ing up her otherwise plain little face.
“That is where my five dollars is going.
Mamma and I have it all planned, and I
was so in hopes you would help us. We
are going down town next Saturday after
noon, to buy so many things to make those
poor little children and their sick Mamma
happy, and to keep them from being cold
and hungry for a little while at least.”
“Well, Louise Foster, r didn’t think
you were quite as silly as that,” and Lil
lian looked at her sister disdainfully.
“You won’t get any help from me, that’s
one sure thing,” and the door banged,
leaving her twin sister gazing after her
with a wistful little face.
“I truly would like to please her,” she
told Mamma that night, “but 1 so much
want to do some good with my five dol
lars, and make somebody happy, who
hasn’t as many good times as I have ”
“Never mind, dearie,” was Mamma’s
comforting reply. “My little daughter, by
her unselfish spirit, is certainly pleasing
One who sought not to please Himself.”
“You mean Jesus, Mamma?” asked
Louise, in a whisper.
•‘Yes, dear, that is whom I mean. Now
go to sleep, and dream of all the nice
things that shining coin will buy for four
hungry, cold little children.”
Such a delightful shopping expedition as
Mamma and Louise did have, and such a
long time as that five dollars did hold outl
Package after package kept arriving at
the poor little cottage of Mrs. Gray that
evening. There was a ten-pound bag of
sugar, a ten-pound bag of flour, two pounds
of butter, enough goods to make a nice,
warm wrapper for Mrs. Gray, and a dress
for each of the little girls, a stout pair of
boots for one of the little boys, and a warm
cap and a pair of mittens for the other. In
fact, there were so many sorely needed
things, which there had seemed so little
prospect of getting, that the poor woman
was overwhelmed with surprise and could
hardly say a word. I wish you could
have seen her happy face, as she lifted her
WOMAN’S WORK.
tearful eyes to Heaven and asked God to
bless the kind little lady for all her good
ness.
“Oh, Mamma, I have found that ‘it is
more blessed to give than to receive.’ I
am such a happy little girl to-night,” said
Louise, as she and Mamma were having
their good night talk before going to bed.
And I venture to say that Lillian, with
her new muff and tippet, was not half so
happy the next Sunday, as was her little
twin sister. Indeed, Mamma saw her look
wistfully from time to time, at Louise’s
happy face, as if she had not found the
selfish way the better way, after all.
And .which do you, my little readers,
think was the better way—Louise’s or Lil
lian’s? lam very sure you will every one
of you answer “Louise’s,” without the least
hesitation.
I know, too, you will be glad to learn
that Aunt Blanche heard of her little
niece’s unselfish act, and, out of the kind
ness and generosity of her heart, saw that
Mrs. Gray and her little family lacked for
none of the necessities of life, until the
poor woman was once more well and able
to work for them.
Edna M. Jones.
For Woman’s Work.
Percy’s Easter
WHEN PEKcY lived in the city he
had many dull days, because he
had no playmates. But when the family
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Percy
It did not take Percy long to discover
that his new friends had many plays and
customs different from those he was used
to. One day when he was at their house,
the little Swartzes brought out a basket
full of gay colored eggs to show him.
They had been kept so long that the in
sides had dried up, and rattled like mar
bles within the thin shells. Two of the
eggs were larger than the others, of a beau
tiful, bright-gold color, and one had
“Freda” in raised white letters upon it,
while upon the other the name of “Hans”
stood boldly out.
“Oh, oh,” cried the delighted Percy,
‘where did you get them?”
“Das Kaninschen hat's gebrancht,” said
Freda gravely.
“She means that the rabbit brought
them,” explained Hans.
“The rabbits always lay pretty eggs for
children, at Easter-time,” he added.
“Pooh! I don’t believe it!” declared
Percy stoutly, “that’s silly, Freda.”
“Well, you see alretty once,” Freda re
plied, nodding her flaxen head sagely,
“you see, Percy.”
But there were so many things to think
of that Percy forgot the Easter rabbit un
til the day before Easter. Then a strange
thing happened. The family were at din
ner, when Percy’s father said softly:
“Look out of the window.”
Tne window looked out upon a small
summer-house, and as Percy looked he
saw, at the door of the summer-house, a lit
tle brown rabbit, sitting as stiff and straight
as a statue. It sat there fully five min
utes, then suddenly pricked up its ears and
hopped away, and was lost from sight, in
the grass.
“Guess that was Freda’s Easter rabbit,”
said Percy, with a laugh, as he finished his
bread and butter.
The next morning when he went into
the summer house—where he fed his pet
pigeons—Percy found that something very
strange had happened. Under a rustic
seat a few wisps of hay formed a nest, and
it was full of lovely eggs of all colors. In
the center was one egg that shone like
gold, and it had “Petcy" written upon it
in whitecandy letters. And Percy thought
-the rabbit had laid all these beautiful eggs.
I wonder what our little readers think of
it.
WANTED.
For next year two traveling salesmen in
each Southern State. $50.00 and expenses.
Experience not absolutely necessary. Po
cahontas Tobacco Works Co., Bedford
City, Ya.
moved to a little vil
lage, dull days van
ished.
In the first place,
their new home was a
miniature farm; chick
ens ran around at will,
there was a cow in the
pasture, pigs in the lot,
and the whole front
yard was full of beauti
ful flowers that would
bloom in the summer
time. But, best of all,
two dear little German
children, Hans and
Freda Swartz, lived
next doorand soon be
came great friends with
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