mouse; while it's neither good nor wise to be always parading troubles before everybody; if you'll do this, I'll thank you. From burnt bread to a toothache, women are always telling all their troubles to each other and everybody else. Nina:-Well, upon my wordAunt M.-Let me answer, dear. What you say is often true, Russel, but a kind, gentle sympathy would teach us to tell our friends their faults in a mild, suggestive way, suggestive way, would it not? And you know the Savior's admonition of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is the foundation of all ethics. Nina: Give us something about table-manners, Aunt Rie, for this brother of mine, Mr. Russel, has no idea that there is such a thing. Lucy:-And, Auntie, tell us about behaving in public places, for I know we all need that. Emma: Don't omit truth-telling and honesty. David: Good gracious, Emma; do you think we are given to lying and stealing? Emma (softly):-I think social customs united to thoughtlessness has taken us far from the true line of conduct in many ways. Lucy:--That's true; I've lost seven pair of rubbers in school this winter. Aunt M.:-What about absolute cleanliness and purity of thought, word, and action? John: We all need more strictness on that, Auntie. I think the plays we see on the stage are demoralizing many of us. Kathie:--Dear Auntie, put in something about the Art of Gratitude, for we forget, so often, to show the real gratitude we feel. Claire:-And respect for the aged, too, Auntie. My mamma says we don't properly respect people or places or things. Amanda: I would like to sug gest that we need a lesson on envy. For nearly all the girls wish they had the blessings the other girls have, and it makes them dissatisfied with their own. Emma: And let it all rest on the deep foundation of sympathy and love, Aunt Rie. If we can only learn to love everybody, we can do anythink else we choose. John: That's a fine suggestion, Suppose you begin by lovWhat do you say? Nina:-Say he's too forward, Em. Emma: What a nonsensical fellow you are, John. I will love you just as much as and no more than I love any one else. Will that do? Emma. ing me. ing me. Aunt M.:-My dear young lads and lassies; I have listened intently to all you have said so lightly and with such seeming confusion. And I want to tell you one or two things which I have discovered; no one person has all the virtues, nor has he all the vices. Some of you girls are kind, reverent and well behaved; but you may vary from strict probity in some of your words or actions. Others may be honest, strictly so, but cowardly and envious. This Russelboy may not have good table manners, but he can control his tongue and his temper. Indeed, there is something for us all to learn in the matter of ethics. One of you asked to study the ethics of love and sympathy, and that really is the foundation of all the rest. Well, dears, I want to tell you a secret; the General Board of the Young Ladies' Association has also been considering this subject of ethics, and if you girls will all attend your meetings this winter, you can take up these various subjects and, no doubt, your minds will be awakened to much deep thought on subjects hitherto only vaguely thought about. Your boy friends will be made welcome as visitors when they can come, and we will endeavor to so impress the lessons upon you all that nothing in The idea of instituting traveling libraries in the various Stake organizations was suggested about a year ago to the members of the General board of the Y. L. M. I. A. The matter was first spoken of, publicly, at the June Conference, and met with marked favor. The idea is, for each Stake to collect books to fill one or more boxes, which shall be well boxed, the box marked clearly with the name of the Stake or ward to which it belongs. These boxes shall be sent from ward to ward, and from town to town, as they are read and passed along. Many wards have libraries, but the books, being once read, are left idle upon the shelves. By boxing them up, and sending them out, they become useful again, while another lot of books from a neighboring ward find eager readers in the first association. It may be possible, in the future, to send such collections of good and wholesome books to our various missions to give our young converts some earnest of the fact that the girls in Zion love their sisters in the world. Arrangements are made by the Library Committee, which was appointed by President Elmina S. Taylor, to purchase books for the associa Stakes may, tions at a discount. however, purchase their own books; but before doing so, they should submit the list of titles to the Library Committee, as the greatest care must be exercised in the choice and selection of books to be read by our young sisters. Lists of desirable books will be published from time to time, in this department, suitable for this or other purposes of reading for our girls. Questions may be addressed to the Chairman of Library Committee, or to the Journal, and such as are of common interest, will be answered in the Journal. Otherwise, the chairman will answer by private letter. Questions already submitted: 1. Is it proper to choose Library Committee from Stake Aids? Answer: It is quite proper to do so, but is not essential. Any competent member will do. 2.-What number constitutes a suitable committee? Answer: Three is sufficient. 3. Does the Committee relieve the President of any further responsibility in this matter? Answer: Not wholly. The President should keep in touch with this as with all other committees. Broadly speaking, it is the duty of a Committee to do the work, and it is the duty of the President to see that it is done. 4. Kindly suggest ways of raising means for this purpose? Answer:-By ward entertainments, donations, or such other ways as may be feasible. 5.-What number of books would be necessary to make a beginning in a Stake comprising twenty associations? Answer: The counsel is to begin, if you have but a dozen books. It would be better to have a dozen for each association, but we creep before we walk. Ruth M. Fox, Chairman Library Committee. 264 W. Second South, Salt Lake City, Utah LIST OF BOOKS. All the Standard Church Works. Little Men, Louisa M. Alcott. Little Women, Louisa M. Alcott. Clever sons, clever mothers. Parents should know what fiction their girls, as well as their boys, are reading. Remember that the novel is but an unrhymed poem, valuable only for the scenes and characters it brings before us, and the right feelings it awakens. Be on the watch to supply young readers with the best at fitting times. Teachers should join with parents to make select fiction the handmaid of true learning, turning the interest in modern fiction to whet the appetite for ancient history or classic poetry, or to refresh the mind for new scientific learning.-J. C. Fernad. A dainty Christmas book is announced as soon to appear from the press of the Wood-Allen Publishing Company. The book will without doubt be a great favorite with the public, for it fills in a most acceptable manner a long-felt need. Fond An Old Fashioned Girl, Louisa M. Al- parents are always anxious to keep a cott. Rose in Bloom, Louisa M. Alcott. Eight Cousins, Louisa M. Alcott. Aunt Jo's Boys, Louisa M. Alcott. record of the important events of baby's life, his cute sayings and doings. The "Baby's Record" is ar Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Louisa M. Al- ranged to meet this demand. On each cott. left-hand page is a poem appropriate to the event to be recorded and a beautiful illustration. The page opposite is blank, ready for the entry to be made. Every momentous event is prepared for, from the first smile to the first day at school. The book is bound in dainty white, while on the inside cover is a page ready to receive the photograph of king baby and surround it with a wreath of beautiful printed and embossed forget-me-nots. The book, once seen by baby lovers, cannot be resisted. (Price, fifty cents. Wood-Allen Pub. Co., Ann Arbor, Mich.) YOUNG WOMAN'S JOURNAL loved, and still do love! True, we THE ORGAN OF THE YOUNG LADIES' NATIONAL MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS. love our own selves-we wish 'twere not so-but God has seen that somewhat better than we love our own poor selves, we love you, and in lov Published at Salt Lake City, Utah, by the General ing you, love Christ! How personal Board, Monthly. THE GENERAL BOARD. President Second Counselor Corresponding Secretary First Counselor Secretary and Treasurer Recording Secretary MRS. ALICE K. SMITH MRS ELIZABETH C. McCUNE MRS RUTH M. FOX MRS. JULIA M. BRIXEN MRS. AUGUSTA W. GRANT Officers of Young Woman's Journal. Board of Directors: Literary Committee: this is! But how deeply personal all true love is. And we love you, my sweet girl friend, afar off in England, in Canada, in Mexico, in nearer states and towns-and rich and poor, or unlearned and poring hardly over these new pages, or scanning with a cultured eye the modest words set MRS. HELEN W. WOODRUF down here: We love you! How we love you! And loving is but serving. And so, we pray God to make us worthy to serve you! To help, to MRS. MAY BOOTH TALMAGE cheer, to warn and to caution; to bear your griefs and joys upon our own true hearts and lay them on the altar whene'er we pray to God. MRS. AUGUSTA W. GRANT MRS. EMMA GODDARD SUSA YOUNG GATES JANUARY, 1900. A NEW YEAR'S GREETING. Around the Editorial Come along, girls, all of you. We can make Hearth. the circle wide enough for the whole crowd. It is an ideal New Year's Eve, and the bright fire of welcome never blazed brighter on the Journal hearthstone than it does tonight. Stretch out your hands and get them warm, for love kindled the fire, and faith keeps it burning. It is delightful, isn't it, this great circle of friends, comrades, companions, sisters? We've travelled the checkered road of life a long while together, haven't we? Ten years of constant companionship makes pretty close friends, or else pretty bitter enemies. And we are friends, dear girls! See, these tears are flowing with love and gentle gratitude to God, His servants and to you, that you can still sit there, you girl-readers, and listen to these weak words of ours. It is not because we are good or great, or wise or noble, that we still hold this high, responsible place; it is only that we The Faith and Hope Ahead. Look at our beautiful front picture! 'Tis Faith and Hope who bring the Such shall baby year towards us. be our ideals for this year. Put doubt and fear, mistrust and envy far behind us and hand in hand we'll go to meet the future, with the same brave front. We may meet trial and discouragement-be sure, the Journal meets it every month and every year! But we'll hide our trials from you, nor let you see the heavy crosses that we sometimes bear. And so will you? Come, let it be so. You send to God your prayer and love for make the every one who helps to Journal what it is, and we will give you of our heart's best love. We'll coin our thoughts in words of tender truth, and draw all our needed counsel from sympathy's deep well. So will we be indeed of mutual help. and hope unto each other. TO PLEASE YOU ALL. What strange, contrasting faults are found in any public work. "Tis so with us. Some say, "How much the Journal has improved." Others R. The articles on our people and their history are written by the late lamented President Franklin D. again, "the Journal is not half as good as formerly." One Stake reports, the girls want more religious articles. Another cries out Richards and Orson F. Whitfor "more stories." And still again ney. There are also many 'tis said, we are too high-toned. Now facts and statistics of our all are listened to, with respect and resources and wealth, which would great consideration, by the Board. be interesting to any one inside or President Elmina S. Taylor outside the State. The book would has no cause more deeply be a charming Christmas or New at heart than the work of Year gift from any Utah girl to an the Journal. She is determined absent missionary, father, brother, that there shall be something found or-oh, excuse me girls-lover! in every issue which shall please "Child's Life of Christ," each reader. Not all may please all, "Utah and Her People". but, surely, each writer will appeal Sold at Juvenile Office or at this to a certain class, and all writers are Office. very desirous to please you all. So take your Journal, read it thoroughly, don't throw it aside because one thing may not please you. Then when you have done with it, send it abroad to the missionaries to continue the good work. BROTHER WM. MORTON'S BOOKS. IMPORTANT TO WRITERS. 20 cts. 60 cts. a hieroglyphics. This copy is almost always set up after dark and even after midnight by young folks. Dull or crowded writing takes away their time and profit. Remember the trite but good old motto, "Live and let live!" To every contributor to these paPlease ges, let one word be said: write plainly, legibly and with dark, clear pencil mark, or good, black ink. Don't be too economical with paper and try to crowd two pages on to one. Paper is cheap, but No young writer among us has a the eyesight of the young typesetters more earnest desire to build up truth who do our work is very precious inthan Brother Morton. He has writ- deed. Don't crowd a line away at ten considerably for the Juvenile, the bottom of a page; nin on a piece and some for the Journal. Lately if necessary. Don't crowd your writhe has been engaged in preparing ing until it looks like Egyptian books for publication. His latest one, "The Child's Life of Christ," is simple, entirely in harmony with the Gospel, and very cheap. It is useful for Sunday School use, for Primaries and for the Sunday reading about the family hearthstone. We commend it to all. Another book of his will be found no less useful, although in a different line. "Utah and Her People" is a very handsome book, suitable to give to outsiders and to all friends of Utah. The book is well bound, printed on good paper, and profusely and beautifully illustrated with cuts of our leaders and prophets, scenes and places of interest in the State, as well as views of mountain and gorge scenery en route to Denver via the R. G. W. R. Do not feel too greatly disappointed if your article fails to appear in the next number of the Journal after you have sent it. Many times at the last moment an article is crowded out because it happens to be one page longer than the remaining space will admit. Then something shorter must be substituted. Ofttimes two or more articles on the same subject are on hand at the same time. This necessitates a postponement of publication, or a return of the manuscript. |