Inglenook, The (1907) . el the sallow- ness of my flesh, the cold, unsympathetic gleam of myeyes, and I didnt shrug or sneer. I went to my room, and tnought,—and failed tosolve the problem, except to realize that I was in-tensely unhappy. That evening Miss Remban delivered the last lec-ture of the seasons course. I got a good, comfortable place at the end of a rowof chairs, and stayed there, although a half dozenpersons had to crowd past me to reach the inner Rembans subject was People. .(l atlast she came to the paragraph that proved, so far asI was concerned, to be the vital cent
Inglenook, The (1907) . el the sallow- ness of my flesh, the cold, unsympathetic gleam of myeyes, and I didnt shrug or sneer. I went to my room, and tnought,—and failed tosolve the problem, except to realize that I was in-tensely unhappy. That evening Miss Remban delivered the last lec-ture of the seasons course. I got a good, comfortable place at the end of a rowof chairs, and stayed there, although a half dozenpersons had to crowd past me to reach the inner Rembans subject was People. .(l atlast she came to the paragraph that proved, so far asI was concerned, to be the vital center of the lecture. There are some people, said Miss Remban, whoremind me of spoons that were given to my motherby a peddler in exchange for his dinner. The spoons were not silver. They were iron,with a thin coating of tin. Soon the tin plate wasworn off. Then we had to scour the spoons eachtime before we could use them. We could not de-pend on them for service in cases of unexpected need. fffiRfitQiEi Public Library. LIBRART AT MT. VERNON, ILL. This building was built by Mt. Vernon people after had agreed to put into it a $10,000 library. Theedifice is built of fine stone brick, with a roof of red tile, andaltogether proves a useful and ornamental addition to our cityof Mt. Vernon.—D. Z. Angle, Mt. Vernon, 111. There are people who do good work now andthen. They bend all their energies toward the achieve-ment of their ambitions. They become brilliant bytheir thorough preparation; so brilliant that, after thevictory, they relapse, Hke our rusted spoons. Like the scouring of the spoons, there must beno interference with the peoples preparing. Theydare not condescend to the performance of some deedthat appears to them less So the everydayservices, the kind acts, the little courtesies, are crowd-ed out of these persons lives for fear the doing ofthem would make the great deed impossible, On the other hand, the spoons that are of silverare always ready for a
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