ir, and which would also be handy for an additional covering in case
of a cold night.

"A curtain on the window would soften the light on hot afternoons," Miss
Alice thought. So she made one of some white barred muslin she had and
put it up. She also thought that as Jennie still had not much appetite,
some prettier dishes than those Mrs. Scott had--they were very few, and
very coarse and battered--might make the food taste better.

"I know, when I am ill," she said to Mrs. Ashford, "the way my food is
served makes a great difference."

So she brought a cheap but pretty plate, cup, and saucer, with which
Jennie was extremely delighted.

"After we all go away there wont be anybody to take flowers to Jennie,"
said Edith, "and I'm afraid she'll miss them. She does enjoy them so
much. I've a great mind to buy her a geranium. May I, mamma? They're
only ten cents."

"Of course you may. I think it would be very nice for Jennie and her
mother to have something of the kind growing in their room," said Mrs.
Howell.

She went with Edith to the florist's, and after helping her to select a
scarlet geranium, she bought a pot of mignonette and another of sweet
alyssum for Edith to give to Jennie.

Marty helped Edith to carry their plants to their destination, and what
rejoicing there was over that window-garden!

"It's too much! too much!" exclaimed Mrs. Scott, wiping her eyes as she
looked around the now really comfortable room.

Then when Miss Alice came in, as she did presently, with four
bright-colored Japanese fans which she proceeded to fasten on the bare
walls, that seemed to cap the climax.

"There never were kinder ladies--never!" exclaimed Mrs. Scott, while
Jennie was too much overcome to say anything.

"It wont be so hard for Jennie to be shut up here, and she wont miss
Marty and Edith so much, if she has these little bits of bright things
to look at," said Miss Alice.

Marty took the greatest interest in helping to arrange all these things
for Jennie's comfort and happiness, and in thinking, too, how much
pleasure they would bring into poor Mrs. Scott's hard-working life. When
she went home after her final visit to Landis Court, she said with a
sigh of relief,

"Now they're fixed comfor'ble, and we can go as soon as we like."

All this time that she had been so engaged with Jennie she had not
neglected the mission band, but attended the meetings regularly and
became more and more interested in what she hea