What is the matter? And when the cause is found, can a remedy be suggested? Only time and revelation. can solve these and kindred problems.

Closer industrial union and organized industries for women are the guide posts out of this maze of difficulty. Many bright women among our people have been strongly moved upon in the direction of organized labor for women; and some are already at work trying to start some of these industries.

It is idle to scold away at the thousands and tens of thousands of girls who make every effort to get out of the home to get an education, to teach school, to clerk, to do anything honorable to earn money of

their own.

It is likewise wasted time to discuss the vexed hired girl question, for the genus "hired girl" is almost extinct she is rapidly passing. The thing to do, is to supply her place, and let the procession move on.

The question has been asked: what can we women do towards providing human or mechanical means to supply the help we have lost and are losing?

Women in cities have many advantages in the way of close neighborhoods, a supply of money, large patronage, easy transportation, and numbers of progressive women; but they also have the disadvantage of social distraction, country visitors,

The country women have, of course, the advantages which are her city sister's disadvantages.

Now, then, what beginning could a group of earnest women make looking to the establishment of organized activities?

They should begin at the most feasible point of beginning. Among organized branches of industry possible to woman in the city or country, and those, too, which will best serve her own home interests, are: A Co-operative Bakery. A Co-operative Laundry. A Co-operative Dining-room. A Co-operative Sewing. A Co-operative Dairy.

A Co-operative House-cleaning. A Co-operative patching, darning, quilting and bed-furnishing.

A Co-operative Baby Garden.

If every one of these were in active operation in a neighborhood, there will still be enough work left in the home to keep every woman and child busy till 9 o'clock in the morning, and evenings after 5 o'clock.

This list looks formidable, and furthermore, sounds expensive. But say there are eight, or better, sixteen, women who take up these eight industries, each of the sixteen will earn quite enough to supply her with the services of all the other departments. Let this thought develop as our talk proceeds.

A few women felt, who took up this line of thought and work, that the simplest beginning was with a bakery.

These women were blessed in being the honored wives of men who were perfectly willing to let them do as they pleased, for they knew the women pleased, as a rule, to do right. The husbands met at all the bakery meetings, with great delight, for these meetings were usually an ex

cuse for a delicious supper and an evening for social recreation.

One of the sisters volunteered to do the baking, if all united in building an oven on her place. Thirtyfive dollars for each of the three women built an excellent old-fashioned brick oven. The bread was delicious, and everything went swimmingly, all but the excellent baker, who almost went up. Molding fifty pounds of bread a day was too much for one woman; thereafter, for a year or so, there were no more meetings and no more bread.

But the spirit of the hour is abroad! It is progression, specialized labor, industrial independence!

The bakery was at last opened with a man cook, and, managed by the women, the bakery is again a roaring success. The proposition now is to hire a stout baker, pay good wages, enlarge the bakery, sell good, home-made brown and white bread and simple cakes cheaper than ordinary bread; and the dividends of the stockholders give them their bread at actual cost, a cent a loaf.

Every woman in the ward where this is organized is invited to join the industry, and to take shares. This would enable them to build a large dining-room, and under the same management, with added help, serve dinners for ten cents a piece. But that is another story, as Kipling so frequently remarks, and will require another paper to tell of its possibilities.

THE PRACTICAL.

The spring, with its sweet scents and sparkling emeralds, begins to trip gaily over the brown earth; and in her wake spring up the gay buttercup, the tiny mountain daisy, and the shy bluebell, while the lovely sego-lily will soon follow.

The wise man has put in, weeks ago, tentative lettuce seeds and even now radish tops peep above the soil and make us hungry for the firstlings of the garden.

The wise woman begins to study her own and other people's cookbooks to find new ways to serve her fresh and plentiful eggs; for with the warm breath of late spring, meat will be banished from the table altogether.

If the wise woman would avoid the necessity for using spring tonics, and cleansing medicines, she will supply all the system needs of purifying and cleansing with young cresses, radishes, lettuce, and the beneficent and delicious rhubarb.

Here are a few ways to prepare some of these spring edibles.

BOILED EGGS.

Pooh, savs my neighbor, anybody can boil eggs, True, but there are more ways than one to boil an egg, as well as to remove the outer capillary of a feline. Eggs thrown into boiling water, the teakettle, perhaps, and perhaps the water used afterwards for cocoa and other delicious drinks, boiled four minutes and then set on the table, have a hard, tough covering of white with the yolk partly hard and partly soft. The white of an egg cooked hard is difficult to digest. And everyone wants the yolk soft. So try this way of boiling eggs: Pour boiling water over the eggs, and set them on the shelf or away back on the stove, and let them stand ten minutes. The whites will be delicately cooked, and the yolks cream-like in consistency.

SCRAMBLED EGGS.

For a family of eight, break one dozen eggs in a bowl and beat a little. Add half a cup of cream or milk, salt spoon of salt and a little pepper. Have a big spoonful of butter melted in the frying pan, into this pour your eggs, and stir constantly. When the white is well-set all through, take up, as hard cooking spoils them.

POACHED EGGS.

Break the egg in a saucer, then drop, one by one, into slightly salted water, which is almost to the boiling point. Cover tightly, set back from the front of the fire, and in a few moments, your eggs will be full, delicately cooked, the yolk blushing through the thin veil of white spread over its yellow globe. Serve upon fresh toasted and buttered bread.

STUFFED EGGS.

Boil a dozen eggs twenty minutes. Take off the shell, cut into, and cut a thin slice off the end, so that the egg will stand upright. Take out the yolks and mash fine with three tablespoons of melted butter, or more delicious still, two tablespoons of olive oil, and one of thick cream; two drops of onion juice, a little chopped tongue or chicken, if you have it, or chopped celery, use the seed if you have not the celery, salt and a dash of red pepper, with a teaspoon of made mustard. Moisten this thoroughly with vinegar or cream, or both, and fill in your whites with this mixture. A pair of scissors will

FRENCH EGGS-STUFFED AND BAKED.

(From a Paris Cook Book.)

Six hard-boiled eggs, peeled and cut in half. Take out the yolks, mash with a few drops of onion juice, a little red pepper, a pinch of salt, and half a cup of cream. When the paste is smooth, fill in the whites with it, and stand them up in a small pudding-dish. Pour the sauce over

them, and bake twenty minutes.

SAUCE FOR ABOVE.

Rub smooth, three tablespoons of corn-starch, one small tablespoon of butter, salt spoon of salt, dash of red pepper (or white, if preferred), and a few drops of onion juice. Mix this with a little cold milk, and stir into a small pint of boiling cream, and stir until thick and smooth.

The world is fair to you today,
With irisated skies,
And e'en the heavy clouds of gray
Are flushed before your eyes;
But some days bitter winds will blow,
To chill the skies and glen;
You do not need me now, I know,
But you will need me then.

A glint of gold is on the day,
And sweet the smiles you win,
And castle-crowned ambition's way
Your eager feet begin;
Some day the gold will leave the sun,
And fade the smiles of men,-
You do not need me now, dear one,
But you will need me then.

We Must Obtain it.

No joy, no peace, no comfort in this life or in the life to come, can be ours, till we have achieved this principle. How shall we acquire it? Psychologists tell us that it is our high duty each day to do some one good thing which is hard and difficult to do. It is good to do the right and proper things which are easy for us to do; but even then we are standing still. If we would grow, progress and develop, we must do one irksome duty each day. It may be a trifle, but the results will not be trifling. It may be some branch of housework we dislike; to arise early, to speak a cheerful goodmorning, to give away money or goods, to say a morning prayer, to refrain from butter, sugar, tea, candy, or meat; a hundred things there are, proper and necessary things, which we dislike to do. Choose one only for the practice of this principle, as the spirit becomes discouraged with a load; then follow that one up closely till it is conquered. The sins of omission often the gravest sins of women. If this constant, daily struggle be continued, the effects upon the character will be most mellowing and delightful.

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What a feeling of contempt arises in the mind of a student of human nature when he hears some one loudly proclaiming that he likes-pork, candy, tea, meat, cream or any thing, in fact, no matter how harmful or harmless-and the foolish one goes on to say that he or she can't and won't get along without such and such an article. Pity for some, contempt for others! Such have ears and they hear not, they have hearts to understand the Gospel, but they do not exert themselves to comprehend its primary principles. Born in the Gospel, heirs to salvation, they fancy that a meeting on Sunday and a little tithing, compasses their whole religion. They are neither hot nor

cold; and the time may come when they will be spewed out of this Church. The Gospel is a profound work. Only those deeply, reverently in earnest can grasp its meaning.

Teach Self Control to Your

Children.

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Your children may not receive riches from you, no dower of wealth may from you to them. You may not even have power or means to give them that higher education which is the fever and fad of the day. But if you have taught them to control the impatience of youth, so that they pray, pay their tithing, use pure language and drive out evil thoughts, so that they keep the Sabbath Day and observe the Word of Wisdom in all their eating and drinking; if you have done this, you have given the highest legacy possible to bestow upon mortals. If your son can control his tongue, his temper, his carnal desires, god-like is he! Fit for the association of the pure and the great! If your daughter can control her vanity, her ambition, her love of worldliness and other worldliness, her words and her thoughts, noble indeed is she, and blessed are you above women. Oh, women, sisters! Never again justify yourselves in weakness or excuse yourselves in sins; but bravely face your own soul, and resolve to do battle with weakness and sin. It is lack of selfcontrol that makes liars, thieves, cowards, lunatics, adulterers, and all other sinners. It is self-control which gives faith, trust, hope, calmness in the midst of trial, power over every force and power in the universe. The world and all eternity lies within our own soul. Tennyson tells us that