that time.

The opportunities for an education among the factory help
were exceedingly limited, as you can well see, both from the
standpoint of time and from the standpoint of money.

But, gentlemen, we are living in better days. We work less
hours, get better pay, live in better homes, and have better
opportunities to obtain an education.

In place of eighty-four hours we now work fifty-eight hours
per week, a difference of twenty-six hours, and as an
employer of help I am glad of it. We are not allowed to
employ children at the tender age that was in vogue
seventy-one years ago; as an employer of help, I am glad of
that.

We get better pay for our services. There is at least an
advance of two hundred per cent, and in many cases more than
that.

More Opportunity To-Day.

We live in better homes; our houses are larger, better
finished, and kept in better repair. When I was a boy, if we
wanted a room re-papered or painted, or even whitewashed, we
had to do it at our own expense. It is quite different now.
Every village of any size employs painters and other help
enough to keep our houses in good, neat, and healthy
condition, while the sanitary condition receives especial
care. Many of our employees have homes of their own, built
with money earned in our manufactories--a thing almost
unknown seventy years ago.

I have many times been asked if, in my opinion, the young
man of to-day had as good a chance to make his mark in the
business world as did his elders? My answer is--never since
our Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of Plymouth were
the opportunities for the young man's success greater than
they are to-day. It is for him to determine whether he will
be a success or not. The gates and the avenues are open to
him, and it is for him to elect whether he will or will not
avail himself of the golden opportunities awaiting him.

Such a comparison as Mr. Knight draws from his actual experience does the
work of volumes of argument. That the span of one man's life could bridge
extremes so widely separated is evidence enough that our country has made
remarkable progress.

GIVING THE MIND ITS THREE SQUARE MEALS.

A Paper by the Late Lewis Carroll, in
Which the Desirability of Feeding the
Intellect Is Dwelt Upon.

The late Lewis Carroll was, first of all, prof