y but it seemed farther away than ever. She had no hope for a
house built for her, but she knew where there was a flat for rental
which she had mentally furnished many times that month. But they could
not afford it. They had added and subtracted and gone over the figures
again and again but it was of no use. He was manly and fine, he had hope
and ambition, but the clerkship was only fifteen dollars a week and he
had tried in vain for another position. Fifteen dollars a week would not
do in their city. Butter, eggs, coal, ice, milk and meat stood in the
way. So they were waiting and there were tears in her eyes at the
wedding of the privileged girl.

That day was a hard one for another girl. She read of the wedding--the
decorations, the gifts, the congratulations of friends--then putting
down the paper forced back the tears and went out to finish the shirt
waist she was making, for it must be ready to wear to the office in the
morning. That evening he would come, she knew, to tell her again that it
was not fair, that her family would get along some way and that he had
been patient for a long time. She knew that he must continue to wait,
for her mother was doing her utmost, Wilbur could earn only a little and
the other two children were too young to leave school. It was three
years since her father's death. The young man had said then that he
could wait _ten_ years. She had begged him to take his release but he
refused. Of late he had been very insistent. She knew she must stand by
her mother and help her through. If he could not see it that way there
was but one thing to do. She found it hard even to think the words that
she must say and she thought of the privileged girl with longing in her
soul. But the privileged girl did not know. If she had, her sympathy and
understanding would have helped.

One rejoices as he remembers the thousands of pure, sweet, wholesome
girls who have been privileged to enjoy the results of a long ancestry
unstained by weakness and sin, the results of training, guidance and
protection, the opportunity for healthful, normal living, for pleasures
and the satisfaction of human friendship and love. Our country looks
today with increasing hopefulness to these privileged girls for the
solution of many of the problems of the other girl. Our country looks to
them for another generation of privileged girls even stronger and wiser
than they.

One of the greatest of the problems with which our country