“As soon as I am in work again,” he said, “we must find a strong servant once more,” and on our protesting he answered, “My darlings, you were perfectly right in doing without servants as you have done. Now there is really no necessity, and it is wiser for Cecilly to spend her time over her music, to enable her to teach others. You, dear Kitty, we will gladly spare to Mrs. Moore, knowing you can help her in her infirmity. This work you are both fitted to undertake, and you can then conscientiously leave the housework to those other girls, who, not having had the education God has permitted you to have, can only labour with their hands and hearts. Your experience will make you better mistresses, I am convinced. You will be more competent to teach and more sympathetic over failures and shortcomings, and will never in all your life regret that all these months you have managed without servants.” VARIETIES. SOME GAELIC PROVERBS. Most shallow—most noisy. The eye of a friend is an unerring mirror. Oft has the wise advice proceeded from the mouth of folly. As a man’s own life, so is his judgment of the lives of others. God cometh in the time of distress, and it is no longer distress when He comes. The fortunate man awaits and he shall arrive in peace; the unlucky hastens and evil shall be his fate. LIFE AND DEATH. I live, and yet I know not why, Unless it be I live to die: I die—and dying live in vain, Unless I die to live again. AN ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY.—Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that man is ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed. PASSING AN EXAMINATION. Here is how Professor William James of Harvard, in his student days, passed an examination before the late Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The first question put to him was as to the nerves at the base of the brain. It so happened that Mr. James was well up in the subject, and he promptly gave an exhaustive reply. “Oh, well, if you know that you know everything,” said Dr. Holmes cheerfully. “Let’s talk about something else. How are all your people at home?” SHEILA’S COUSIN EFFIE. A STORY FOR GIRLS. BY EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN, Author of “Greyfriars,” “Half-a-dozen Sisters,” etc. CHAPTER XX. THE STORM BREAKS. “It is simply disgraceful. You have made yourself the talk of the hotel. I am ashamed that you belong to my party; and you shall go home on Monday in the mail. I will not have the responsibility any longer of a girl who has no sense of obedience or of the fitness of things. Back you shall go at once. Your uncle will telegraph, and somebody shall meet you at the other end. But stay here any longer to behave in this way you most certainly shall not!”