CHAPTER VI.
CHINK-FILLERS.
At a recent conference of practical housewives and mothers held in a western city, one of the leaders told, as illustrative of the topic under discussion, an incident of her childhood.

When a little girl of seven years, she stood by her father, looking at a new log-cabin.
"Papa," she observed, "it is all finished, isn't it ?" "No, my daughter, look again!" The child studied the structure before her.

The neatly hewed logs were in their proper places.

The roof, and the rough chimney, were complete, but, on close scrutiny, one could see the daylight filtering through the interstices of the logs.

It had yet to be "chinked." When this anecdote was ended, a bright little woman arose and returned her thanks for the story, for, she said, she had come to the conclusion that she was one of the persons who had been put in the world to "fill up the chinks." The chink-fillers are among the most useful members of society.