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N every language it has been said that "a women without religion is like a flower without perfume," and that it is true is best proven by the fact that men who have no belief grieve bitterly if the women who belong to them are unbelievers. I am going to have a little talk with my girls about what religion means to them, and what I think it should mean. I say religion because I hope that every one of them respects the faith which is lived up to by the other, and that no one of them would dare question the right or the wrong of a belief that gave forth beautiful blossoms of purity, sweetness, and charity.

First of all, then, your religious life must be real. You probably wonder what I mean when I say this, and I am going to try, as well as I can in black and white, to tell you. Each one of you has, please God, been taught when you were a little girl to say your prayers, to read certain devotional