Ethel Morton's Holidays

f the time of the members of the United Service Club. When at last their three packing cases of gifts were expressed to Brooklyn,

at the Morton's a Red Cross nurse, invalided home from Belgium, bringing with her the Belgian baby which

t she hoped to be sent to some hospital in Belgium. Ethel Blue, who had been reading a great deal about the suffering of the women and children in Belgium, cried, "Belgium! Oh, do send us

s nurse came with her tiny charge and told them how Mademoiselle Millerand had not been able to resist taking their off

ld have been hard for any one to resist the appeal made by the pale little creature whose hands

Mademoiselle had written that her name was Elisabeth and the nurse said that she called herself that, but, so far as her new friends could find out, that was the extent of her vocabulary. "Aylee

uest for whom there was no provision. Even the wardrobe of the new member of the family was almost nothing, consisting of the garments she w

rland of starvation that he cannot understand the uses of plenty, and then sh

ame over from their cotta

they are going to attend to her clothing, and it's right they should, for she is the Club bab

ons of the Morton house were regarded as a joke since the family was so large and the

s. She can have Dicky's old crib, o

"that the baby must come to us. Dorothy and I have plenty of room in the cottage, and it would

at she was thinking about the bab

best way," replied

to be a bit better prepared for an unexpected guest, because I have more space. Then Dorothy has been just as cra

reminded them and they all laughed, re

e. "Let us have her just one night. We can put Dicky's

aken to Dorothy's until the next day, but Mrs. Morton

she ought to have an experienced eye watc

, and tall Helen felt a catch in her throat no less than Eth

t room until their own bedtime, so that the faintest whimper might not go unheard. "I wonder where we are going to find some

ves," Dorothy began, when He

g to ask you or Grandmother or Aunt Louise to take me there some Saturday, only we've been so busy with the Ship we didn't have time for any

ool," she explained to Mrs. Smith. "The students are young women who are studying the science and art

es an

ave college. Mother says I may," cried Helen, delighted that her favori

mother helper

d young women. Many of them are college gra

e baby in Mary's care tomorrow and go in to New York and see what we can find at t

ho will be available. That was a brilliant idea of yours, Helen," and Helen sank back into

reparing to go home when the bell

he said when, he had greeted everybody, "and I thought I'd better come over and h

told him of their plan to secure a h

'm on the Advisory Board of the School with several other physic

, but her breathing was even and her skin pr

promised. "We must make the little creature beli

heir trip of inquiry on the next day. As it was, they decided that it was of some importance that Helen shoul

eriod," she explained, "and I can ma

was telephoned to Mrs. Emerson she

d Louise and we'll pick up Helen at the schoolhouse and we s

d half an hour early so that she might make the acquaintance of Elis

lay, if she ever knew," said Mrs. Mor

astly as she gazed seriously into Mrs. Emerson's smiling face. Then for the second time since her arrival she smiled. It was a smile th

l alone now," said Grandmother, wiping her eyes. "Let u

pointment that Mrs. Emerson saw at once that if she wanted a

admitted. "Here she will have the children and

en she had a request to

y interested in the idea of the helper from the School of Mothercraft. She gets out of school earlier than we do-she'd b

. To everybody's surprise, when they reached the New York en

ined, "and about your coming in today and I thought perha

glad to have you go with us. I don't know that we shall need to call on you

'm richest in," smiled the young doctor

soon as possible they swung in to Fifth Avenue, whose brilliant shop windows and swiftly moving traffic excited them. They were quite thrilled when they drew up

garet in a low tone as they followed the elders up the steps, "

te they were being greeted by the Director who remembered meeting at Chautauqua all of them except Edward, and she recall

d also the reasons that had brought so

should like to have the young woman you select for us understand that we are going to rely on her knowledge a

rector

me there with the work we did in measurements and in making out food schedules and so on for children whose mothers brought them to us for our advice. Miss Merriam-Gertrude Merriam is

e nursery with its spotless white beds and furniture and its simple and appropriate pictures was as good to look at as a hospital ward, "and a lot pleasanter," said Dr. Watkins. Out of it opened a wee roof garden and there a few of the children dressed in thick coats an

r, introducing her. "Will you ask Miss Morgan to come out here

ent in again to see the children's dining-room and the arrangeme

f hospitals. They are learning thoroughly the scientific side. Miss Merriam, who, I hope, will go to you, is a college graduate, and in college she studied biology and food values and ventilation and sanitation and such matters. Si

y a motion of the eyebrows if he should withdraw. When her reply was negative he sat down again. Miss Me

f her! Why, Mrs. Morton, there's nothing in the world I shou

t her today in charge of my little boy's old nurse, but as

quiringly to Mrs. Smit

d herself in her family so she has m

er from us so we can see the

ow morning," said Miss Merriam. "T

Morton, but Dr. Wa

e an errand in Rosemont tomorrow and

ue eyes rested on

ther and sister, Tom and Della, are devoted members

aw,' too," laughed Mrs. Smith. "Do

nary face? I do indeed remember him,"

a few weeks ago for the Christmas Ship and I think

Edward had a comfortable feeling that he was accepted as a friend, though he was not quite sure whether

next morning and found Miss Merriam waiting for him. She w

out this Mothercraft girl. The blue eyes were serious this morning, but they had a laugh in them, too, when he told her of the way the Be

them," Miss Merriam said in the soft voice

ll like you," r

ry to make them. But the bab

l and went off upon his errand, and Mrs. Emerson and Miss Merriam drove to Mrs. Smith's where they found Elisabeth already installed in a sunny

r mother, "and please don't say a word abou

n its brightness. The baby was lying before the window of her own room

eth gave her infrequent smile as if she knew that woman