duty. The girls say that I can shampoo and manicure as well
as a professional. Yes, I will try to do that this year."

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January 15th, 1917.

"Thank goodness my worries about finances are almost over!

"The last few months have been simply terrible, and the hardest part of
all, I think, has been my not being able to give anything to the number
of splendid causes which so touch the sympathies these dark days.
Perhaps I gave too much before; but I am not a bit sorry, especially now
that some of the seed which I cast upon the waters is soon to bear
golden fruit for me. I never believe the pessimistic people who say that
those who receive charity are never really grateful, and now I _know_
that they are wrong. Jimmy's father has been so appreciative of my
pitifully small presents to them, that sometimes he has cried over them,
and I knew that he was in earnest when he promised to repay me as soon
as he possibly could. Now the chance has come. I was there yesterday and
he said that he had been thinking about me just before I appeared.

"It seems that he sells stock, and has just obtained a wonderful
position as agent, or whatever they call it, for a new copper mine which
he says is better than the 'Calumet and Hecla.'

"He explained to me all about that one and showed me in the paper how
high it was selling now--for $550 a share. He is the sole representative
for all of New England, and he says that the company is at present
selling its stock only to special friends in order to 'let them in on
the ground floor.' The shares are only ten dollars apiece and are sure
to be worth a hundred, or more, very soon, because of the war. It seems
almost impossible! I told him that I had only about a hundred dollars in
the world, but that, if he really felt that he wanted to do me a favor,
I _might_ 'invest' it (that word sounds quite impressive, doesn't it?)
but that I should have to think it over, first. I remembered what Donald
had told me about asking a man's advice--especially Philip's--in money
matters. Perhaps it would have been wiser if I had done so before.

"I asked him this afternoon if he knew anything about the King Kopper
Kompany, and he said that it was a 'get rich proposition' and that he
had sunk a good deal of his own money into some just like it. I wanted
to ask him more, but we were interru