I would earnestly suggest to women who have incomes of their own that they should leave the White Cross a small legacy, so as to place it on a firmer basis.

I hope myself to leave the English branch L2000.] [Footnote 44: From an article in the _Nineteenth Century_ on "Meddling with Hindu Marriages."] [Footnote 45: Ezek.i., 26.] APPENDIX In Mr.Edward Thring's address to the Church Congress at Carlisle in 1841, he said: "Curiosity, ignorance, and lies form a very hot-bed of impurity.

We pay heavily for our civilized habits in false shame and the mystery in which sex is wrapped.
"I confess that for curiosity I have no remedy to propose.

Ignorance and lies are on a different footing.

I suppose everyone is acquainted with some of the current lies about the impossibility of being pure.