room was posted a list
of articles needed to complete the furnishing of that room.

"They certainly aren't greedy!" exclaimed one matron after reading the
notice. "This says that this room is complete except for bed clothing."

She waved her hand around with some scorn. Helen dimpled with
amusement.

"We thought we'd make one room as nearly complete as we could," she
explained. "You see this has a bed, two cribs, a looking-glass, and
shelves as substitutes for a washstand and a closet and a table and a
bureau.

"There are no chairs, child!"

"These two boxes are the chairs. We had a few chairs given us but
they'll be needed down stairs. We think they'll have more exercise
than any chairs ever had before. They'll be used in the dining-room
for breakfast, and then they'll be moved to the veranda to spend the
morning, and in they'll come again for dinner and out they'll go for
the afternoon, and in for supper, and after supper they'll be moved
into the hall which is to serve as the sitting room!"

Helen's hearer pressed her hand to her head.

"You make me positively dizzy!" she exclaimed. "At any rate I'd like
to make this room complete according to your notions, so I'll send you
some sheets and pillow cases and blankets and a spread if you'll allow
me."

"We'll be glad to have them," accepted Helen, beaming. "Roger will
call for them if that will be more convenient for you," and she made a
note of the gift and the time when it should be sent after.

Other women remembered as they examined the door lists that they had a
mattress that could be spared, or a pillow or two or a pair of summer
blankets.

"What are you going to do for ornaments," asked another.

Helen laughed.

"James Hancock has an idea for decorating the walls so that they'll
interest the babies, and we're going to have fresh cheese-cloth
curtains at all the windows, but that's the end of our possibilities."

"I have several bureau scarves that are in good condition but they have
been washed so many times that they're a little faded. If you'd like
those--?" she ended with an upward inflection.

"We would," replied Helen promptly.

"Could you use some prints of pictures--good paintings?" inquired yet
another, a person whose taste Helen knew could be trusted.

"We'd be glad of them. We can frame them in passepartout. We'd be
especially glad of madonnas."

"That's just what I was going to offer you. A club I once belonged to
st