ork of art. Where guest brushes are celluloid,
these are enamelled, and the dresser cover is hand embroidered. Let me
also call your attention to the chairs touched with gold, cushioned
for ease, and a decorated pitcher and bowl. Watch the bounce of these
springs and the thickness of this mattress and pad, and notice that
where guests, however welcome, get a down cover of sateen, the lady of
the house has silkaline. Won't she prepare us a breakfast after a night
in this room?"

"David, are you in earnest?" gasped the Girl.

"Don't these things prove it?" asked the Harvester. "No woman can enter
my home, when my necessities are so great I have to hire her to come,
and take the WORST in the house. After my wife, she gets the best, every
time. Whenever I need help, the woman who will come and serve me is what
I'd call the real guest of the house. Friend? Where are your friends
when trouble comes? It always brings a crowd on account of the
excitement, and there is noise and racing; but if your soul is saved
alive, it is by a steady, trained hand you pay to help you. Friends
come and go, but a good housekeeper remains and is a business
proposition--one that if conducted rightly for both parties and on a
strictly common-sense basis, gives you living comfort. Now that we have
disposed of the guests that go and the one that remains, we will proceed
downward and arrange for ourselves."

"David, did you ever know any one who treated a housekeeper as you say
you would?"

"No. And I never knew any one who raised medicinal stuff for a living,
but I'm making a gilt-edged success of it, and I would of a housekeeper,
too."

"It doesn't seem----"

"That's the bedrock of all the trouble on the earth," interrupted the
Harvester. "We are a nation and a part of a world that spends our time
on 'seeming.' Our whole outer crust is 'seeming.' When we get beneath
the surface and strike the BEING, then we live as we are privileged by
the Almighty. I don't think I give a tinker how anything SEEMS. What
concerns me is how it IS. It doesn't 'seem' possible to you to hire a
woman to come into your home and take charge of its cleanliness and the
food you eat--the very foundation of life--and treat her as an honoured
guest, and give her the best comfort you have to offer. The cold room,
the old covers, the bare floor, and the cast off furniture are for her.
No wonder, as a rule, she gives what she gets. She dignifies her labour
in the same rati