house beyond their own services.

Nevertheless, we have succeeded in meeting all our expenses, except the rent, through the proceeds of the various classes." Among the regular attendants are found Atheists, Jews, Protestants and Catholics, and yet the residents are on the friendliest terms with them all. "We are more than ever convinced of the futility of presenting religious truth to the masses without a practical demonstration of the brotherhood of man, and the equal hopelessness of attempted social reform based on any other foundation than that of the Incarnation."

The following may serve as an example of the routine of a week in a Social Settlement.

A WEEK'S WORK AT THE CHURCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE.

Daily.-Kindergarten and Primary School. Classes in the English branches for backward, sickly and crippled children, and for those who cannot gain admission to the Public Schools. Instruction in the Piano, Violin, Mandolin and Zither.

Monday.-Penny Provident Bank. Sewing Class for Girls. Dancing Class A, for adults.

Tuesday.-Class in Object Drawing for boys. Dancing Class B, children from four to ten years of age. Class in German Language and Literature. French Class. Drum and Fife Corps.

Wednesday.-Class in Crocheting and Knitting. Juvenile Auxiliary to the Department of Street Cleaning. Church Settlement Clean Street League (boys).

Good Order

Club (girls). The Church Settlement Cadets.

Thursday.-Women's Sewing Club: informal talks on household management, sewing, reading aloud afternoon tea

is served. French Class. Singing Class. Church Settlement Band of Mercy, boys and girls, a juvenile auxiliary to S. P. C. A. St. Mary's Guild (girls).

Friday. Class of Kindergarten Mothers, for study of Child Culture. Dancing Class C. Children's Orchestra. Women's Bible Class. Guild of the Guardian Angel. Saturday.-Dancing Class D. Class in Physical Culture and Elocution. Classes in Embroidery, Painting and Stenography. Young Men's Reading Club. Knights of the Cross (boys from 12 to 16 years old).

Sunday.-Kindergarten Sunday School, 9 A. M. General Sunday School, 3 P. M.

Dispensary. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 2 to 4 P. M.

It will be noticed in this programme that a large place is given to dancing, and this is true of many of the Settlements. The report says on this point: "In spite of the strictures of many conscientious people upon this feature of our work, good results are almost more noticeable here than in any other department. The gain in orderliness, quietness and courtesy has been very great." Finding that young men were too weary to read in the evening, the residents formed a reading club, in which good literature was read aloud to the visitors; eye-gate being closed, great ideas entered at ear-gate. Discovering that many families would suffer rather than enjoy charity outings, they arranged a summer home, where the board was two dollars a week for adults and one dollar for children, just about the amount of their living expenses at home, and yet enough to make them feel independent."

The report concludes by saying: "As we discern more and more clearly the outlines of our future work, we see that our chief function is not so much to work for the people as with them."

KINGSLEY HOUSE, Pittsburgh, has clubs, classes, sewing school, kindergarten, kitchen-garden, penny provident stamp station, entertainments and parties, and relief agencies. A few sentences from Miss Gertrude H. Noyes will reveal the mode of approach, and the results of friendly intercourse between the instructed teacher and the ill-taught children.

When Kingsley House first opened its doors to children, we knew very little of the special conditions of the children's lives, of the home environment, race prejudices and all the hereditary influences moulding their characters. The first thing to be done then was to get near the children, to know their fathers and mothers, and to get in touch with the home spirit. With five widely differing nationalities represented in our kindergarten -German, Polish, Hebrew, Irish and Americanthe first problem to consider was harmony, to discover a common basis of interest, and to unite all upon that one point, if upon no other, was the first step. Our half-dozen Poles looked with greatest suspicion upon the five Jews, and the Irish and Americans were united in their contempt of both the other races. A great romp all together in some lively game soon made them forget everything but their fun. Thus through daily development of common interests, and most vitally of all through

love of our common country, a broad platform of unity has been established.

"When race barriers were weakened, we began reaching out into the world little by little. From what the children were familiar with, we gradually approached the unfamiliar. Since our neighborhood is one of the greatest labor centers in the city, everything pertaining to the trades and industrial life was very near the children. Shoemakers and puddlers, tailors and mill-workers, glass-blowers and carpenters, blacksmiths and painters were all represented. We played we were blacksmiths, and traced back the iron to the foundry, and from the foundry to the mine. Then, perhaps, we were bakers, and discovered that our flour came from the miller, and that the miller obtained his wheat from the farmer, and that the farmer planted seeds which the sun and the rain helped to grow. Thus, in every possible way, the children have been led to see the value of all labor, and the interdependence of industries.

. . . It would be difficult to imagine a neighborhood more hopelessly barren than ours of all that nature gives to make the world beautiful; never having seen grass and trees, and birds and flowers, the children felt no lack, and found in their cobblestones ample delight. To arouse the instinct for the beautiful, we brought all the world to them in fragments, leaves and grasses and flowers, and a thousand things which every country-bred child knows and loves. The instinct awoke and grew, and received its fulfillment when we all sper

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glorious day in the country. With the wonder and beauty of it in all their hearts, the highest spiritual life must come, for the Divine source of all beauty is very near when the beauty has entered the soul.”

It is from these sketches from life that we see at once the separation of classes and families, the spiritual poverty, the antagonisms and inner destitution, the pettiness and narrowness of poverty. And from the same faithful picture we learn how to understand our neighbors, and how to lead them upward from common things to patriotism, devotion to ideals, aesthetic joy and the comforts and inspiration of religion.

The Directors of Kingsley House sum up some of the more tangible forms of their work:

"So many people ask the question, 'What good are you doing?' We still find it hard to take up and add the source of happiness that flows from the portals of Kingsley House each calendar year, and yet the past year has been filled with work. But very good people press for answer, and let us, for 'their benefit, enumerate some few results of the year. Women and children have been taught how to bake good bread; how to sew; how to keep house; how, with but little, to brighten the home; positions for young ladies secured; sanitary conditions of houses and alleys made better; mothers taught the care of children; daughters taught how to care for themselves; the grievance of girls working in factories, when infringement of laws was very apparent, made known to proper authorities, and the wrong righted, physicians sent to homes