. Carpenter. n—including himself—to the end ofday. But while the job presents difficultiesthere are in it great possibilities. Therenever was a greater chance for leader-ship. But the demands are more exact-ing, the qualifications more numerous,and the things to be obtained more variedthan ever before. The labor leader mustbe a statesman—not merely a must be an educator—not simply anagitator. He must be a preacher of so-cial righteousness and of justice for allmen. Relaxation I always like the freakish verse, The kind that runs downstairs;The kind that circles round the page, Or
. Carpenter. n—including himself—to the end ofday. But while the job presents difficultiesthere are in it great possibilities. Therenever was a greater chance for leader-ship. But the demands are more exact-ing, the qualifications more numerous,and the things to be obtained more variedthan ever before. The labor leader mustbe a statesman—not merely a must be an educator—not simply anagitator. He must be a preacher of so-cial righteousness and of justice for allmen. Relaxation I always like the freakish verse, The kind that runs downstairs;The kind that circles round the page, Or does its turn in fun to see the poets stunts, Helped by the typo men; Just see again. the way runs up this runs and then down hill I do not think that people ought To keep the same old gait;They ought to break loose now and then And keep an evening long, straight line, without a break,Is bad for verse or men;up hillthis runs and thenthe way runs down Just see again. —Anonymous. 42. The History of the Cabinet(By George Cecil, London, England.)Although the increase in the cravingfor old furniture has lessened the de-mand for the modern cabinet, tastefulpeople, all the world over, in giving thecabinet-maker employment, expect dec-orative work. They have no objection tomodern workmanship, provided it is thebest of its kind; but the patterns andstyles of other days are (very properly)insisted upon. Under the circumstances,some information about the first cabinets(which were made just five hundredyears ago) and their successors, andabout the methods employed in makingthem, may not prove uninteresting. —A Harvest— In the earliest days of the cabinet,only the well-to-do Britons could affordthe luxury of storing their possessionsin closed receptacles; for cabinet-makerswere few and far between, and, unlessthey were serfs, and thus forced to laborat the bidding of the lord of the manor,a stiff price was charged, which com-paratively few could afford. Nor
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