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 agreeable to the employer is the medical condition. But Tommy's sister, having other reasons for desiring a change, sometimes does her best (when she is not troubled with too much conscience) to drive her coach and horses through the law. In one of the big factories there was, until recently, a young woman, with innocent eyes and a sloppy face, who, thinking she was not earning enough at munitions, had made up her mind to find other occupation. So she came to the office one morning with a most doleful face, and a pennyworth of crêpe pinned on to her hat, saying her mother had died during the night, leaving her with three young sisters, one of them a baby, and therefore she must ask for her discharge. "But what are you going to do?" asked the superintendent. "I'm going to put Aggie and Ellen into a' orphanage," she said; "and then I'll have to stay at home to nurse the baby." As this did not sound plausible, a welfare supervisor was sent to the girl's home to inquire, and