nd a new outfit of clothes.

"Andy," she said, "this is your Christmas present from my friend, and
now you are going to give me a Christmas present, too. You are going to
wash up and dress up."

Andy followed directions, and when he emerged from the room in his spick
and span outfit, his hat set side-wise on his wet, newly combed hair, he
stood up very straight, surveying himself as best he could from head to
foot, and exclaimed,--"Gee! I feel just like George Washington." The
bath and the new suit were a realization of his highest ideal.

"Andy and I were always friends after that," said the teacher, "and
since Andy was the moving spirit among the boys in the village, the boys
and I got along well together. It was my introduction to the heart of
the community, and it came with Andy's realization of an ideal which he
had long cherished."

IX A Step Toward Good Health

Having won Andy over, the teacher prepared to work her way past some of
the barriers of prejudice which the community had placed between itself
and civilization. The girls offered the readiest opening.

"The homes were wretched," the teacher said. "The people did not know
the simplest health rules. They were strangers to sanitation or
cleanliness. Their housekeeping was primitive and their cooking
miserable. I had won the boys by getting them together in something that
resembled a club. I decided that my best path to the girls, and from
them to the community, lay through housekeeping."

The hypothesis was, at least, worthy of a try-out. The teacher began by
keeping her own house in the most approved manner, and asking the girls
to come in and help her do it.

"You'll like to take supper with me this evening," she would say to a
group of girls at recess time. "Speak to your mothers when you go home,
and you, Sadie and Annie, will stay over night and sleep in the spare
bed."

They were slow to respond at first. Long habit made them suspicious, but
when the first few girls had spent their night with the teacher and had
come home with the tales of her wonderful household arrangements, the
others were looking eagerly for a chance to duplicate their experiences.

"Am I next?" a little girl asked anxiously one day, after the
invitations to a party had been given out. The assurance that she was,
made her face shine for the remainder of the afternoon.

"The school girls all came willingly," the teacher said. "It was after I
had them so interested tha