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368 lyn, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, and throughout California, where during five winters she has had a large and successful practice. She has also lectured widely in the cities above mentioned on spiritual and ethical topics, teaching many classes, outlining her gospel of health, presenting spiritual truth and the true science of Being through color symbolism and also through musical vibrations, interpretations which have proved very helpful to the many lives thus blessed and uplifted. For a time she held in Boston regular Sunday services, which served as a means of growth and refreshment to interested auditors. Of late, public speaking on a wide range of subjects has largely taken the place of the work of healing, though this duty can never be wholly laid aside. She claims that the true doctor, as the name (docere, to teach) implies, nmst ever be an efficient teacher.

Miss Clark wields also a prolific pen, and some of her books have become household benefactors. Not a few instances have been reported where marked healing has occurred from reading her early volume, "A Look upward," a book which had to be replaced in the Boston Public Library because the first copy was worn out by constant use. Other similar works of hers are entitled "To Bear Witness," "Pilate's Query," "The Melody of Life," and "Key-notes for Daily Harmonies." To quote from the New York Press: " Miss Clark presents her gospel in language quite free from the illogical and dogmatic statements of some writings in this line, and with the clear touch of psychic illumination which many others lack. Her message is one of life, of liberty, of purity, health, and the most exalted spirituality. It is a sincere, earnest, and helpful endeavor to raise mortals above the low material plane on which too many are content to exist and toil and suffer." In lighter vein she has written spicy sketches of travel in "The Round Trip from the Hub to the Golden Gate," "Lorita, an Alaskan Maiden," and "Souvenirs of Travel." Among her metaphysical pamphlets are included "What is Thought?" "The New Renaissance," "Is it Hypnotism?" "Metaphysical Queries," and "Short Lessons in Theosophy." Much editorial work has also been done by her on various journals and magazines.

Among Miss Clark's possessions are artistic gifts, whose unfoldment and exercise are held in abeyance by the more important humanitarian impulse and need. She has crossed the continent ten times, and visited every State and Territory in the Union, even Alaska being to her familiar ground. It is perhaps safe for the writer to predict that the major por- tion of Miss Clark's spiritual and literary work still awaits her.

IZZIE ALLEN PACKARD was born in Falmouth, Me., in 1853, the daughter of Reuben Allen and his wife, Emily J. Allen, who was a woman of sterling character.

Lizzie Allen was educated in the public schools of her native town and at Westbrook Seminary, where she was a student for two years. She was married in March, 1872, to Samuel Adams Packard, who belongs to a well-known Maine family, and who is one of the oldest active practitioners of dentistry in Portland. Seven children have been born of their union, and six of them are living. Socially Mrs. Packard is a favorite, and takes an interest in all the questions of the day. She is a woman of attractive personality, and makes an excellent presiding officer. She is now president of the A. B. C. Klass, a woman's club which has an interesting history, and is named for Mrs. A. B. C. Keene, a cultivated woman, formerly of Bangor, under whose leadership in that city the earlier classes for home study were formed. Mrs. Packard is also treasurer of the Mentone Club, which, since its inception six years ago, has had for its course of study the history of Maine. P'or some years Mrs. Packard has been active in the work of the Samaritan Association, one of the oldest charities in Portland. Conspicuous among her good deeds is the efficient work she did during the year 1899 in the line of school-room decoration. Any stranger going into the Deering High School or the Saunders Street Primary School finds evidence of much thorough,