I must be honest and simple, I must be manly and true, Or how could I pinch her dimple, Or gaze in her frank eyes’ blue? I feel, not anger, but pity, When workmates go to the bad; I say, “They’ve never a Kitty— They’d all keep square if they had.” Bless her, my own, my wee, She’s better than gold to me! One day she will stand at the altar, Modest, and white, and still, And forth from her lips will falter The beautiful, low, “I will.” Our home shall be bright and pretty As ever a poor man’s may, And my soft little dove, my Kitty, Shall nest in my heart for aye. Bless her, my own, my wee, She’s better than gold to me! C. L. S. C. WORK. By J. H. VINCENT, D. D., SUPERINTENDENT OF INSTRUCTION, C. L. S. C. Read all of the required books for outlook and inspiration but _study_ one of the books at least for discipline. Read it as you do the rest. Read it more carefully than you read the rest. Read it over and over. Read it to recall what you read. Read it with critical helps of every kind. Having read it _think_ about it. Think _and_ think. Think beyond it. By some thought in it be led out to some other thought not in it, but thought of because of the book. Such chosen book out of each year’s list will become dearer to you than all the rest and will make the mere reading of all the rest more profitable. * * * * * Which book shall I select out of the “required” list for 1882, to read thus thoughtfully and critically? All need not choose the same. Follow your “bent.” Take a part of one of the larger books. Begin with a limited amount. Try pages 124-199 in Prof. Wilkinson’s preparatory “Greek Course in English,” or choose one chapter in Bishop Warren’s “Recreations in Astronomy,” or one period in “Geology,” or “Evangeline.” Try the plan. * * * * * Have you seen Prang’s C. L. S. C. Mottoes? Three of them at one dollar each. In exquisite taste. He issues nothing finer. Friends of C. L. S. C. people could do no more graceful thing than to hang one or more of these mottoes, in Prang’s best style, on the Christmas tree. A good idea! * * * * * A busy housewife says: “I must write you one thing I have found out, for perhaps you have never heard it, certainly no one ever told it me: If a woman wants to find time for almost everything, she must keep house and do her own work.” * * * * * The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that will ameliorate in disaster; occupation that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and more useful, and death less terrible.—_Sidney Smith._ * * * * *