I propose to offer this little Miss Oliver, say twenty-five dollars a month, if she will go regularly to the Children's Hospital and to the various orphan asylums just before supper and just before bedtime, and sing and tell stories to the children for an hour.
I want to ask her to give two hours a day only, going to each place once or twice a week; but of course she will need a good deal of time for preparation.

If she accepts, I will see the managers of the various institutions, offer her services, and arrange for the hours.

I am confident that they will receive my protegee with delight, and I am sure that I shall bring the good old art of story-telling into fashion again, through this gifted girl.

Now, John, what do you think ?" "I heartily approve, as usual.

It is a novelty, but I cannot see why it 's not perfectly expedient, and I certainly can think of no other way in which a monthly expenditure of twenty-five dollars will carry so much genuine delight and comfort to so many different children.