of sympathy and affection. The mother had not enjoyed early advantages of instruction, but she had a hunger for books, and in the meagre opportunities afforded by a life of incessant drudgery, she gleaned what she could from the pages of her favourite authors. She had a room at the top of the house, and here for an hour in the afternoon or in the evening when she could steal away from the group about the hearth, she meditated and studied, striving to hold fast to what she had. The daughter inheriting the maternal tastes and talents was able to go to school and college, returning from the latter with a disciplined mind enriched by familiarity with the best literature. The family fortunes had improved, and the mother had more time than formerly to devote to reading, but she had arrived at a period when the shadows fall and it is hard to maintain one's heart at even poise and fight against discouragement. She looked almost with envy at her highly educated daughter, and compared herself unfavourably with the child to whom she had taught the alphabet. The daughter, exercising marvellous tact and inspired by devotion and sympathy, met her mother more than half way, and led her gently into the paths hitherto closed to her feet. Morning after morning the two read and studied together. Day after

day they talked on themes broader than the trivial round of daily toil, and little by little they emerged upon a plane of common interest and congenial study brightening the mother's life and filling the daughter with satisfaction too deep for words.

If college means anything to a daughter it should spell culture to a mother who missed at an earlier time the opportunities that have been sown broadcast in the daughter's path.

All blessings for the asking
Beneath the moon of May.
Bend bravely to life's tasking,
Go gaily to life's play.

HE reigning sovereign of the nursery finds that province easier of administration than the one that later enlists her highest powers when the children advance to hold of maturity. Kindergarten, prinmar and high school successively set o on the boys and girls, and the mother ch of these stages keeps her moulding aracter and assists in shaping destiny. n follow the college and the university, aduate and the professional course, and ldren are gone and in their place are people, the youth in his first pride of e girl in the dawning flush of womanly