Poor we’ve been, but not forsaken;

Grief we’ve known, but never shame--

Father for Thy endless mercies

Still we bless Thy Holy Name.[[2]]

TABLEAUX.

[1]. Aged couple at supper table; woman at end, man at side facing audience; lighted lamp on table--small, so as not to hide man’s face.

[2]. Heads bowed while blessing is asked.


LESSONS IN COOKERY.

Miss Cicely Jones is just home from boarding-school and engaged to be married, and as she knows nothing about cooking or housework, she is going to take a few lessons in the culinary art to fit her for the new station in life which she is expected to adorn with housewifely grace.