n, and this paid the rent. Twice, when the girls were ill,
the Golden Book Fund came to the rescue and made up the temporary
deficiency. I tried to represent to them the dignity of keeping a roof
over their heads by their own efforts. First, it became possible to
dispense with the monthly gift of $1.00. Later, when the girls' wages
were raised, Mrs. C. told me I need not provide fuel,--they would now try
to do that themselves. One summer, whilst I was away, the youngest child
died, and the funeral expenses were paid by the family, through much
self-denial. Every year the girls have been sent to their friends in the
country by the Fresh Air Fund of the Y.W.C.A., and once the younger
children were sent to the Children's Country Home. The parents continued
in wretched health; but as the girls' wages gradually increased, I was
asked by Mrs. C. not to provide further aid, except in case of sickness.
In 1891, Mr. C.'s pension was more than doubled, but they continued in
their poor and unattractive neighborhood until every debt was paid, not
forgetting the doctor. Last summer they moved into a larger house on a
pleasant street, and have enough lodgers to pay more than half the rent.
Mr. C.'s health has improved, and he has a light position at $25.00 a
month and his meals. The oldest girl has married well, the two other
girls are good workers, and my old friends sure now well on their feet.
During absence we have {200} corresponded regularly. Mrs. C. has learned
to come to me in every difficulty, and knows how gladly I share her
encouragements.--"Charities Record," Baltimore, Vol. I, No. 1.

_Persevering under Difficulties._--We are each year more strongly
impressed with the importance and value of patient and careful visiting,
even in the face of great discouragement, believing that sincere and
judicious friendliness is invariably helpful, although it may be long
before any apparent result is produced. Proofs of this are constantly
coming to us, as in a German family which has been for the last six years
under the care of one of our visitors. The family consists of father,
mother, and five children, and, when first visited, they were found
almost destitute,--the woman earning a little by picking berries in the
summer and selling them, and the man by picking coal,--though they were
well able to work. The visitor was received very ungraciously at first,
and it was only after finding some work for the man, and showin