"I always did love that dress, Aunt Sarah, 'Twas so becoming, and he--he--admired it so!" "And HE, can do so still," replied Aunt Sarah, with a merry twinkle in her kind, clear, gray eyes, "for that pale-green suesine skirt, slightly faded, will make an excellent lining, with cotton for an interlining, and pale green Germantown yarn with which to tie the comfortable.

At small cost you'll have a dainty, warm spread which will be extremely pretty in the home you are planning with HIM.

I have several very pretty-old-style patchwork quilts in a box in the attic which I shall give you when you start housekeeping.

That pretty dotted, ungored Swiss skirt will make dainty, ruffled sash curtains for bedroom windows.

Mary, sometimes small beginnings make great endings; if you make the best of your small belongings, some day your homely surroundings will be metamorphosed into what, in your present circumstances, would seem like extravagant luxuries.