a distinguished guest.

A red-letter day in the history of the cottage came when a warm-hearted
and much-beloved trustee of the institution expressed a wish to dine
with the girls during one of his visits to the institution. The flowers
that graced the small table on this day were brought by the
distinguished visitor, who came from a stroll in the "piney" woods. The
girls, apprehensive of their success in preparing the dinner for one
with so cultured a palate, felt visibly relieved on the disappearance of
the roast, the vegetables, and the dessert. The corn bread was voted the
best ever eaten, and the dinner, as a whole, a delicious preparation. If
ever, in the years to come, any of the four forgets the kindly heart
that made all forget station or condition, "the right hand will forget
its cunning."

Days pass all too quickly in work and study. After the supper at six,
the girls in the normal classes go to their rooms or the Carnegie
Library for study, the girls in the preparatory classes go to the
study-hour, and those who have been working at the trades during the day
spend two hours in night-school covering half as much ground as those in
day-school, and consequently spend a longer period in school. At the
ringing of the bell at half past eight all the girls form in line to
pass to the Chapel for prayers.

School and work over for the day, every girl seems to lose her
personality in her blue braided uniform, with her red tie and turnover
on week-day evenings at Chapel, and her white ribbon on Sundays when she
passes the platform as she marches by out of the Chapel to her room. Her
carriage at least identifies her class-standing, and one may easily
note the difference in the manner of her who has newly arrived and
another who has been in school with the advantages of several years.

Friday afternoons mark an hour for lectures, girls' clubs, and circle
entertainments. Saturday evenings are spent optionally. Time for class
gymnastics or sewing or swimming is always spent pleasantly on schedule
time during the week. Our girl attends the Christian Endeavor Sunday
mornings at nine, Chapel at eleven, Sunday-school at one, and, after
dinner is out of the way, spends the enforced quiet hour in her room
from three until four o'clock reading. The band concert on the lawn
calls all to listen, some walking, some sitting on the seats on the
green, but all presenting a picturesque appearance in the blue skirts
and white waists