re four in her family and
only three in mine and her son Leo has so many shirts. She tells me you
have been her laundress for three years and that she pays you a dollar
and a half a week. Now that's too cheap. You give up her washing and
take mine. I will pay you three dollars a week and send it round in the
car by Charles."

"I have been doing Mrs. Rothchilds' wash for more than three years. When
prices went up so much she offered to pay me more, saying high prices
had cut the heart out of the dollar. I said: 'No, you furnish the soap
and starch and what you pay is enough. I want to do what I can to help
these times, and the way to put the heart back in the dollar is to put
prices down; we can all help do that. All I want is to make an honest
living and bring up my three boys to be good men.' I sometimes think
happiness consists in having few wants. I am glad to see you are doing
so well. I believe I know you. You are Rachael Reubenstein, the daughter
of Herman Reubenstein, who used to have the old-clothes store at Ninth
and Market. You and I used to play dolls together. Father went on your
father's bond when he bought all those clothes and jewelry from two
coons for twenty dollars."

"Charles, start the car; let us leave this low neighborhood, and wash
the car when you get back to the garage."

* * * * *

The National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. and kindred
organizations, having started their work and particularly that most
important portion of soliciting funds from the general public, Mrs.
Breckenridge Crittenden Clay, of 4897 Third Avenue, was elected as head
of the women's committee.

Fair, young girls in fluffy dresses and of just that age supposed to be
most appealing and irresistible to men, were placed in the office and
bank buildings and were directed to shower their smiles upon the
strangers in the hotel lobbies, while certain fat and willing dames past
forty were given the residence sections of the great common people and
told to make a house-to-house canvass. They were instructed, however, to
omit the factories and business houses intermittently located in such
sections, as they were to be looked after by a selected coterie who
called in state and were supposed to be specially fitted for just such
solicitations.

Mrs. Weissinger Robinson, who was not on the best of terms with Mrs.
Clay, but who always helped in such campaigns for contributions, was
assigned to