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200 and showing himself anything but pleased at the morning events. Go along and do your work properly and exactly; when spoken to answer pleasantly; do what is absolutely right, and if fault is found with you you can afford to forgive it because you know that time will prove all things. While you have a minute to think, remember that you sit at your desk or your typewriter, and when the end of the week comes draw your salary, and the only responsibility on your shoulders is to do good work, whereas your employer has to study the needs of the market, has to submit to being a loser when the days are dull, and bears on his shoulders the burden of many of you who simply do your work and draw your salaries. Charity toward employers is, according to the newspapers, out of fashion, but I like to think that my girls know how valuable it is in its use toward every one with whom they may come in contact.

To most people charity represents giving. In reality it means as well the giving of kindly words, of material help, or whatever may at times be needed. Many young women think that the giving of a little money here and there constitutes all the acts of charity they need to perform. Now, giving, from a charitable stand-point, is utterly