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Even as Helena's table-setting had also been a lesson in neatness; and with her eagerness to learn she felt that she had been amply repaid for giving up her sleep. Chattering as if she had always known the stranger she led the way safely to the pool, deep in the woods; and Helena never forgot that scene.

The woman who is fresh from reading Gauss and Pindar, and who has taken sides in the discussion between the adherents of Roscher and of Mill, cannot easily content herself with the petty economies that result from doing her own cutting and fitting and dusting and table-setting.

Then came the feast, and then games until twilight, and more table-setting; and the baby, whoever he was, was tucked away upstairs before tea, and the evening ended with singing, gathered about Mother at the piano. "How happy we all were!" Margaret said; "and how she worked for us!" And suddenly theories and speculation ended, and she knew.

No girl is graduated from the school without the finishing touch of the little home. Marketing, the planning of meals, table-setting, the care of table- and bed-linen, dusting, sweeping, and everything else pertaining to a well-kept house, are taught by the teacher in domestic science who is in charge of the training-kitchen where the senior girls received their first lessons in cookery.

"Well, my dear child," Sir Charles cried. "And are you not satisfied? That table-setting is perfect; I never saw anything in more exquisite taste." "It will all have to be paid for," Beatrice said wearily. "The money " "Will be forthcoming. I have no doubt of it. Whether I have it at the bank or not I cannot for the moment say. If not, then our good friend Stephen Richford must lend it me.

Salisbury, leaning over to read certain pages with the others. "'First year," she read aloud. "'Care of kitchen, pantry, and utensils fire-making disposal of refuse table-setting service care of furniture cooking with gas patent sweepers sweeping dusting care of silver bread vegetables puddings " "Help!" said Sandy. "It sounds like the essence of a thousand Mondays!

It came out a fine mottled solid that could be sliced thin, and eaten delicately between the halves of a buttered biscuit. Sandwiches were known but only in books. Which was well they would have dried out so badly, for this was before the era of wax paper. Since everything was packed in the baskets whole, there was much work for mothers and Mammies at the unpacking and table-setting.

Nevertheless, as the weary days succeeded each other into weeks, she found that while her skill in table-setting and waiting was much prized, it was more than offset by her discrepancies in other lines, and so it came about that with mutual consent she and Mrs. Rhinehart parted company.

She had moved to the china closet at one end of the room, and now stood staring at it. "What did I come here for?" she asked, helplessly. "Glasses," prompted Susan, taking some down herself. "Glasses," Mrs. Lancaster echoed, in relief. "Get the butter, Mary Lou?" "In the kitchen, Ma." Miss Lancaster went into the kitchen herself, and Susan went on with the table-setting.

Davis had been cross and fractious, had scolded a great deal, and found many little jobs for Mell to do in addition to her usual tasks of dish-washing, table-setting, and looking after the children.