My next long word is responsibility. It means, as we all know, the answering when we are called, answering to our names. The responsible person can be trusted. Not long ago, in New York city, a fire broke out in the upper stories of a great apartment-house. Two young women, one, a young lady visiting the family in a certain home on the sixth floor of the house, the other a maid in the same home, were confronted suddenly with black volumes of smoke, red tongues of flame, and no way of escape but by the iron ladder that hung along the side of the house. There were two little children there and some valuable papers, and though the young women could not save everything, they took the children and the papers down the fire-escape with calmness and courage. They were responsible.
My last word is consecration. It is a very sacred word, and I leave you to weave your own sweet fancies around it. We must be consecrated to the best possible ideal, we must fill every day with noble work.
Anne B.—Write a formal note of thanks in the third person. It is always proper to return thanks for courtesies of every description.
Perplexed Maiden.—Your long and thick hair is a very great beauty, and you must not complain of it. Of course you are old enough to wear it put up, and I wish you would take my advice, and wind it in a great coil on the top of your head. I may give the same answer to Helen L. R., who is equally perplexed, though as Helen is only fifteen she may continue to wear her long braids another year if she chooses. Both girls should wash their hair once a month, and brush it every night with great care and a clean brush.
Mary W. L.—In addition to the spelling match, ask your friends to lend you their earliest photographs. At a proper time in the evening, just before the refreshments if you choose, unveil your picture gallery, and let the girls guess the originals of the babies on view.
Sally R.—Sets of dishes all alike are not necessary. I think a variety of pretty dishes quite as interesting and equally as appropriate.
Leah G.—Why not have an old-fashioned candy-pull?
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compose the Bicycle Council that passes upon each detail of Columbia construction—engineers, metallurgists, designers, keen-eyed men of science. And they do no guessing. Back of them is one of the most complete Departments of Tests in this country. Such accurate scientific methods must produce standard machines.