cook as causing trouble, and deplored by the rest of the staff as
causing an immoral increase in expense. ECONOMY spelt in
capitals has been the guiding principle of this institution for
so many years that it has become a religion. I assure my timid
co-workers twenty times a day that, owing to the generosity of
our president, the endowment has been exactly doubled, and that I
have vast sums besides from Mrs. Pendleton for necessary purposes
like ice cream. But they simply CAN'T get over the feeling that
it is a wicked extravagance to feed these children.

The doctor and I have been studying with care the menus of
the past, and we are filled with amazement at the mind that could
have devised them. Here is one of her frequently recurring
dinners:

BOILED POTATOES
BOILED RICE
BLANC MANGE


It's a wonder to me that the children are anything more than
one hundred and eleven little lumps of starch.

Looking about this institution, one is moved to misquote
Robert Browning.

"There may be heaven; there must be hell;
Meantime, there is the John Grier--well!"
S. McB.