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ABOUT PEOPLE.

wealthy as the latter are in them. A certain old lady, who in her days of eyesight had been in a printer's office and later was supported by charity, said: "Young girls nowadays dress dowdy when they come to see us poor folks, and call it equality. If it were, they wouldn't make such a fuss to hide it. I'd like to see their silks and satins, and hear about their beaux. It's as good as a love story, even if you haint ever had the chance to get married; but they just talk about my rheumatism and how to cook oatmeal till they don't do one a bit of good."

The demands of socialism in all its various phases can never be adjusted until capital and competition put themselves in thought at the stand-point of wages and coöperation. Comprehension, not of their wrongs so much as of what they think are their wrongs, is the only way in which one can meet, by argument or by law, the requirements of the working-classes. House-keepers have to contend with

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