lso all questions of public policy of sufficient
importance to make the President feel he would like advice about them.
Of course the importance of the questions thus discussed may vary much,
ranging between the adoption of a course of policy which may force Great
Britain into war with us on the one hand, and on the other the abolition
of the annual football games between Annapolis and West Point. The
average Cabinet officer has a great responsibility, and can exert a most
powerful influence for good or for evil throughout the entire republic.

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This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young
Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on
the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address
Editor.

You can tell me nothing about it, girls, nothing that I do not perfectly
understand when you confide to me that you find vacation days rather
slow of pace. Jenny Lucille spent last year in college, studying hard,
and under high pressure from her entrance as a Freshman till the day she
passed her examinations triumphantly, and was ready to begin her work as
a Sophomore. It was due to her parents, who were making a great
sacrifice in sending her from home, that she should do her best, and be
an honor and credit to them, and being a girl of acute sensitiveness and
much devotion to duty, Jenny would have been incapable of wasting her
time. Then it is, after the first feeling of homesickness wears off, a
gay and exciting world, this college world where so many young women are
gathered, where there are sports and games and pleasant social evenings,
and the feeling that something worth while is happening every day. The
time flies, especially the last half of the last term, and at last, when
there is a breaking-up, and the girls separate and take their different
ways for home, notwithstanding their gladness that they are going to
meet their dear home people, tears fill many eyes, and overflow
furtively, and wet dainty handkerchiefs, and not till the train or the
boat is fairly off are the faces quite bright again.

Well, home is reached, and home is sweet. How kind and hearty the
father's greeting, how loving the mother's word and look, how much the
children have grown, how nice it is to be in one's own room again, and
to sit in one's own old seat at the dear home table! But after a little,
if the household be a quiet one, and