LIZZY GLENN--MRS.

GASTON AND HER SICK CHILD.
NEEDLE-WORK, at best, yields but a small return.

Yet how many thousands have no other resource in life, no other barrier thrown up between them and starvation! The manly stay upon which a woman has leaned suddenly fails, and she finds self-support an imperative necessity; yet she has no skill, no strength, no developed resources.

In all probability she is a mother.

In this case she must not only stand alone, but sustain her helpless children.