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Show Lenten Gir Does fea WorA Abu? SJ S0SDSto?l8iS5SaS: Onuh. upon a time not many years ago tho Lenten girl folt that sho had done all that could be required of her when she wont to afternoon church uervicos each day, and onco a -week repaired with others of her kind to the meeting m of a missionary society, the purposo of -which wa3 to make pink gingham aprons for the heathen. I Neither of theao occupations occa- Bloned her great distress of mind. In tt church sho sat llko a stained glass al angel with a ray of sunlight caught In ML the meshes of her hair, and -wondered Hl which of her suitors would bo at tho dor to walk homo wvlth her when the benediction had been said. At the meeting of the missionary society she sewed buttons on the wrong sldo of tho aforesaid pink aprons, using a gold thimble for the purpose, and 'languidly discussed tho town's gossip with her next door ncjghbor. Onco tho hour of sowing was over, out sho bounded llko a young gazelle and lightly forgot tho heathen until tho next meeting. But that was boforo tho social conscience con-science had been awakened. That was boforo it was recognized that tho heathen in your own city Is Just as Important as the one near Greenland's ley mountain or in India's coral strand, and Just as much to bo carod for. Since this fact has bee,n put beforo her with some force the Lenten young woman has revised her activities during dur-ing that period. Now she tries to be of real use In the world. For instanco one has mado arrangements ar-rangements to visit a hospital for crippled children thrco times a week during Lent and read to tho littlo patients pa-tients as thoy lie, hour after hour, strapped to braces, encased in stool, stretched on pulleys, in tholr littlo whito beds. They have plenty of food and comfortable com-fortable clothes; all of the things that tho hospital can give them indeed, theso sufferers, but entertalnmont And what they want Is entertainment. They want to have their minds taken off their troubles; they want the amusement that tho hard-driven nurses havo no time to glvo them. It Is here that the Lenten girl steps In. She has gathered togethor tho most wonderful books to read to tho youngsters; young-sters; sho has provided herself with scissors, with things to cut out of paper; with needles and worsteds for sewing cardboard patterns. And whilo sho reads aloud she Is going to dren. "Any work," cried the Social Worker, "an workl Thero is so much work that If you were a hundred hun-dred girls I could keep you busy all day. "will you really go to soo some of my mothors for me; tho mothers, that is, of some of the children who havo been In this hospital and havo now gono home. Will you seo that tho little Invalid Is getting tho proper food; that tho room In which It lies Is clean and properly ventilated? Will you see that the child Is brought back to tho hospital for Inspection, periodically? Why it Willi bo a godsend god-send to havo you If you will do this." So for tho next forty days that young woman will on threo mornings each week go to help tho sick babies and perhaps she, too, will become so Interested that sho will koep on with ladles," said tho charity worker. "They aro very, very old and both are bod-rlddcn. Tholr tiny little house is kept neat by a girl of Uie neighborhood, neighbor-hood, who comes in in the morning, gives them their breakfast puts some food for tho othor meals within roach and then goes away again. For the remainder of tho time the old ladles aro quite alono. And what do you think Is their greatest ambition; the thing that they want moro than anything any-thing in tho world? Why to have tho Blblo read to them. Neither can uso her hands to hold a book, and they lie thero and talk to each othor about how wonderful It would bo If only someone would como In and read to thorn tho Psalms of David. Thoy talk about it as you and I would talk about a trip to Europe. And I'have not yet been able to got anyone to |