Marm Lisa

ortly after she had been welcomed and ensconced in a rocking-chair. 'As Madame Goldmarker says, nobody else in

ur husband must have been a very good

ly uninteresting,' said

you say that Lisa's mother left Mr. Grubb three hundred dollars for her food and clothing,

t went to freeing our religious society from debt. It was a case of the greatest good of the greatest number, and I didn't flinch. I thought it was a good deal more

ently Perfect soldiers would have been rather uncomfortable under

than I have; but Mr. Grubb could never accept any belief that had been held less than a thousand years, and before he died he gave some money to a friend of his, and told him to pay me ten dollars every month to

ger,' said M

come to them, not so much as a scratch. If I had taken a brighter child, she would have been for ever playing on her own account and thinking of her own pleasure; bu

hadn't that virtue of ob

perhaps it isn't; it's a

trong one,'

ancer's, had no connection with, nor relation to, the matter of her speech or her state of feeling; it was what a watchmaker would call a detached movement. '

hy

er or faint by the wayside, hundreds of women who depend on me for inspi

ruffle the surface of Mrs. Grubb's exasperating placidity. 'Or would they, of course aft

same revelation as any other, and that there are some who are born to interpret truth to the multitude. I can say in all humility that it has been so

is so busy trying to keep one's little corner clean and sweet and ple

exclaimed Mrs. Grubb. 'But then, I'm no

t remember that activity doesn't always make for good; sometimes it

d made a note, for she had an ear for any

since yesterday morning, nor sat down to eat at the same table. I shall do all I can, as the presiding officer, to keep things pleasant at the meetings, but it will be difficult. You've never been in public life and can't understand it, but you see there are women among the delegates who've suffered the tyranny of man so long that they will cook anything their husbands demand; wome

iet question?' asked Mary,

s and sons of the lady members, and at the next meeting two of them are going to be expelled for backsliding. I declare, if I was a man, I'd be ashamed to confess that I was all stomach; but that's what most of them are. Not that it's easy work to be an Edenite: it's impossible to any but a highly spiritual nature. I have been on the diet for six months, and nothing but my position as vice-president of the society, and my desire

tain

u are filling yourself full of carnal, brutal, murderous passions every time you eat it.

too weak and hungry to resi

all the edible grains nicely boiled. It stands to reason that if you can subdue your earthly, devilish, sensual inst

ter, the spectacle of an angel eating dried-a

rest in Theosophy that brought me to the Edenic diet. I have good and sufficient motiv

for it. Oh, how I should like a hot mutt

open-minded. Now Mr. Grubb wouldn't and couldn't bear discussion of any sort. His soul never grew, for he wouldn't open a clink where a new idea might creep in. He'd always accompany me to all my meetings (such advantages as th

tain

her anti-societies; negatives seemed to give her more scope for argument.) 'I say to my classes, "You must not blame those to whom higher truths do not appeal, for refusing to believe in that which they cannot understand; but you m

settled that, although we've had a most

ion. I've kept the child four years, and now when my good care and feeding, together with the regular work and early hours I've always prescribed, have begun to show their fr

to take the next step. She needs a skilled physician who is master both of body and mind, as well as a teacher

at little imbecile? Am I, with my ambitions and aspirations, to be for ever hampered by these three

for them in some way, and she is freed from a responsibility for which she is not, and never was, fit. It is a mirac

hackles that keep me in daily slavery. The twins are as likely to go to the gallows as anywhere

sinned against through ignorance, it is possible, barely possible, that the fault may be atoned for; but any neglect of duty now would be a criminal offence. It does not behove us to be too scornful when we remember that the

of interest dawned in her eye, and she

act?' she as

s a f

enerally

the education of defective persons, since it touch

this city devoted to th

the point of opening an institution f

encil. (If there was anything she enjoyed, it was the sensation o

henomena. Just give me a letter to the president,--have they elected officers yet?--where do they meet?--and tell him I'll call on him and throw all the weight of my influence on his side. It's wonderful! Handel, Moliere, Buddha, was it--Buddha?--Caesar, Petrarch, and Wel

f Mrs. Grubb with every interview, and she knew that

ed now by the fear that she will go on a lecturing-tour through the country, and exhibit poor