good indication that their shop-girl
experience has been an education and an
improvement. They are given work to do,
suited to their capacity, be it small or great;
they are in the way of learning something
of the great economic laws; they learn self-
restraint, courtesy, and----"

"And human nature! Yes, poor things:
they see the American buying-woman, and
that is a discipline more trying than any you
West Pointers know about! Oh, yes, I see
your point. If the fathers of the big family
ARE fathers, and the children ARE children to
them . . . All the same, I fancy the young
ladies, when they marry into the higher
social circles, as you say they do, don't, as
a rule, make their shop girl days a topic of
conversation at five-o'clock teas, or put
'Ex-shop-girl to So-and-so' at the bottom of
their visiting-cards."

"I believe, after all, you're a snob,
Meschines," said the general, pensively. "But,
as I was about to say, when you interrupted
me ten minutes ago, Grace Parsloe is coming
on here to make us a visit. She fell ill, and
her employers, after doing what could be
done for her in the way of medical attendance,
made up their minds to give her a