Nobody gave her the cake for which she had asked. Peggy considered it exceedingly rude and ill-bred; but while she was thinking of it she grew tired again, and rolling round into a soft little bundle among the blankets, fell afresh into sweet refreshing slumbers.
(To be continued.)
[GOOD CHEER FOR WOMEN WORKERS.]
A Short Sketch of “Kent House,” the Y. W. C. A. Home for Students and Others at 91, Great Portland Street, London.
By the Hon. SUPERINTENDENT.
Their number is so great now that the most old-fashioned and conservative of us are bound to recognise women workers as a separate factor in our national life.
There has been a gradual, though very evident, upheaval in our social system during the last few years; new occupations are opening to women on every side, and girls flock to London and other large centres to fit themselves for these. They are the women of the future, keen, eager for the fray, with fresh interests, hopes and ambitions—a motley crowd gathered from every section of middle-class society.
It is both a happiness and an education to come into close personal touch with fresh young lives whose work will so greatly affect the well-being of England in the near future. For in each life there lie elements of the eternal and the divine, capacities for good or evil. It is a time for building. Character, tastes, habits, faith, may either be unformed or in a transition state. When the floods rise and storm winds blow, strong foundations laid at the outset of a girl’s independent career will help her to resist and stand firm.