es when you should be permitted to rest from your
labors. It is truly irksome to me to see everybody still eager to learn
more. The artist of the kitchen was up to the National College yesterday
attending a lecture on chemistry. The artist who arranges my rooms is up
there to-day listening to one on air. I can not understand why, having
learned to make beds and cook to perfection, they should not be content
with their knowledge and their work."

"If you were one of us you would know," said Wauna. "It is a duty with
us to constantly seek improvement. The culinary artist at the house
where you are visiting, is a very fine chemist. She has a predilection
for analyzing the construction of food. She may some day discover how
_to_ produce vegetables from the elements.

"The artist who arranges your room is attending a lecture on air because
her vocation calls for an accurate knowledge of it. She attends to the
atmosphere in the whole house, and sees that it is in perfect health
sustaining condition. Your hostess has a particular fondness for flowers
and decorates all her rooms with them. All plants are not harmless
occupants of livingrooms. Some give forth exhalations that are really
noxious. That artist has so accurate a knowledge of air that she can
keep the atmosphere of your home in a condition of perfect purity; yet
she knows that her education is not finished. She is constantly studying
and advancing. The time may come when she, too, will add a grand
discovery to science.

"Had my ancestors thought as you do, and rested on an inferior
education, I should not represent the advanced stage of development that
I do. As it is, when my mind reaches the age of my mother's, it will
have a larger comprehensiveness than hers. She already discerns it. My
children will have intellects of a finer grade than mine. This is our
system of mind culture. The intellect is of slower development than the
body, and takes longer to decay. The gradations of advancement from one
intellectual basis to another, in a social body, requires centuries to
mark a distinct change in the earlier ages of civilization, but we have
now arrived at a stage when advancement is clearly perceptible between
one generation and the next."

Wauna's mother added:

"Universal education is the great destroyer of castes. It is the
conqueror of poverty and the foundation of patriotism. It purifies and
strengthens national, as well as individual character. In the earl