About two years ago the matron of Atlanta University selected two little dormitory rooms that opened into each other, and turned them into dining-room and kitchen. An old Stewart cook stove used in the big kitchen long ago, before the range was a necessity, was a large part of the little kitchen’s outfit. The clothes press was easily changed to cupboard, and an old flower stand was made into a tidy closet for pots and kettles. In the dining-room the floor was stained in alternate strips of dark and light color; a fly screen put in the window, a few pictures and a rough shelf covered with a pretty lambrequin brightened the walls; and, best of all, while this revolution was going on, an old friend happened to drop in, on her way to Florida. She was so delighted with the matron’s idea that she filled the China closet of the little dining-room with such pretty things that the dainty tea table at once put on airs in its new home. Well, in these two little rooms the two highest classes of girls are honored with practice in household arts, with the matron for their teacher. At first gatherings in the little dining-room were quite rare. The birthdays of the senior class were celebrated there, and guests sometimes entertained, but the girls are so proud of their housekeeping that now they are allowed all the practice they have time for. Absent graduates must remember the room with pleasure, as they send beautiful bouquets for the table. The senior girls take turns in being responsible for the breakfasts and teas, and in presiding at table. In addition to the two girls who preside, there is room for about a third of the teachers. So, as we cannot all go, there can be no general invitations, but each visit there has all the charm of a special invitation out to breakfast or tea. But the best of it all is the encouragement it gives the girls to practice the too often neglected art of good cooking. So now you see why we are proud of the little dining-room, and why Hennie trips through the halls so merrily as she carries from door to door the coveted invitation. * * * * * RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1882. * * * * * MAINE, $71.05. Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $26.19 Foxcroft. Mrs. D. Blanchard 5.00 Machias. Mrs. C. F. Stone, two bbls. of C., _for Lady Missionary, Wilmington, N.C._ North Bridgton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 South Paris. W. D. B., _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst. (Building)_ 1.00 Waterville. _For Tillotson C. and N. Inst. (Building)_ 0.10 Woolwich. Cong. Ch., 11.50; “Family Gift,” 2; J. P. T., 1; T. M., 1. 15.50 York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.26 NEW HAMPSHIRE, $260.49.