A BOM AND


WORK FOR ALL


their attics of clothes and furniture that do no good,
but an always in the way, they would be surprised to
learn how useful "such rubbish" jan be made, and
how thankfully it would be received.
 But as to the furnishing of that log-house, you
have no conception of the very little furniture that is
really absolutely necessary here-or indeed anywhere
-to make a family reasonably comfortable. Pros-
perity and wealth multiply the things we must have
in a marvelous manner, and increase the work that
must be done in the same proportion. In some leisure
hour take paper and pencil, and, beginning with your
own room, put down the articles in that one spot tbat
you could do without, and be none the less happy or
comfortable.
 When people go into the wilderness, and are inde-


pendent of any
lutely necessary
rapidity. I, fI
ment than to c


"hired help," their w
equipment diminish
r one, would like no
some here with some


yourself, will think I
you how all I have pi
good stock of patience,
without wfich no one is
fear the experiment.


un talking


ants and abso-
with surprising
better amuse-
few who, like
dly, and show


Planned can be done. With a
fortitude, and good nature-
of much value-I should not
A healthful amount of hard


work and self-denial may be expected for a few years;
but that, in itself, brings genuine enjoyment to an in-
dependent spirit, especially when a home lies just be-
yond. And with all this-I could promise, as the chil-
den say, "lots of fun" besides.
 If, in some of those emergencies which will often