in the house. But in either case they managed themselves. All thought and care for themselves came from themselves. Now, I am sure it is not natural for girls and women to think of themselves first. So the danger is that they will forget to take care in some of the most important points. They have to provide their own food and their own clothing. I am afraid that wholesome and comforting food very often has to give way to what is considered especially becoming in the way of apparel. Very few are so wise as to resist a temptation of this kind, and so the health suffers.

Who can estimate the blessing those two great societies-the Young Women's Christian Association, and the Girls' Friendly Society

are

trying to be to young girls living away from their own homes. They have opened homes and lodges in almost every town in England, where young women are most comfortably boarded and lodged on moderate terms. There are readingrooms, lecture-rooms, and class-rooms, and a

separate bedroom for each. If ever you are obliged to manage for yourself, think of these safe and comfortable homes. It is better that the providing of your creature

in other hands than your own.

ordinary lodgings, where the

you may be pernicious, and

comforts shall be

You may get into influences round

may affect your

character in no small degree. In a home of the kind I have described it is the very reverse. Every opportunity is provided for self-improvement, for recreation, and for amusement. Your companions will be those who, like yourself, are anxious to be kept from evil, and you will make friends and helpers in those who conduct such homes. I think there is scarcely a town in England where both these societies have not branches. If ever you are in any difficulty, write to the secretary-Young Women's Christian Association, or Girls' Friendly Society-in the town to which you are going, and you will get any information you require.

Take care of yourselves, dear young friends. Take care of your manners, of your dress, of your

own culture; and especially, take care of your precious health.

III.

About those you serve.

ERY much of our success in life depends upon the way in which we can throw

our whole hearts into the business in

hand. The kind of work we are doing is of very little consequence, whether it is sweeping or dusting, making a dress, copying a page, or giving a lesson; it is the earnestness of purpose brought to bear upon it which will alone ensure the success of the performance. And it is this earnestness, thoroughness, and heartiness which is sometimes spoken of as conscientiousness, and that makes every one who has it so very much more valuable in the world than those who have it not.

All have some service to render-some work to do for others. The highest prince in the kingdom has for his motto, "Ich Dien," or "I serve," and is indeed always "serving." If our service is a thorough, hearty service, it is like mercy, "it blesseth him that gives and him that takes."

Your especial service has to be rendered to two different classes—your employers and their customers. This is almost always the case with young women in business. They are a kind of medium or go-between for two parties whose interests do not always blend; and sometimes it is a difficult matter to study both.

Let us look at your duty to your employers first.

It must be a very anxious thing to be in business. We all feel it a very risky sort of thing to invest our capital in articles about the sale of which there is anything like a perhaps. And then, in these days of such very brisk