a special room, part sitting, part standing, for eight or ten hours a day, without any deleterious influence on their health. Their master praises their industry, and their work is remarkable for its neatness and accuracy, as the examples before us show.

Of far other importance is the Office of Employment on the third floor, under the management of Frau Betty Lehmann, a much esteemed lady, who every day except Sundays and holidays, gives the desired information and attends to the necessary correspondence. Of the extent of its activity some idea can be formed, when one learns that in the last year three thousand five hundred and nine letters have been received, and two thousand eight hundred and eighty have been written. Besides that, the carefully kept lists record two thousand four hundred and three visits, of which one thousand six hundred and fifty were asking for situations, and nine hundred and fifty offering them. By gratuitous means, four hundred and sixteen persons obtained permanent situations, others temporary employment. Amongst these are to be found one hundred and ninety teachers of foreign languages, music and drawing, and school teachers, eighty nine bonnes and managers of Kindergartens, eight companions, ninety eight mechanics, three managers of washing businesses, nine book-keepers, six shop girls, eleven house-keepers, and two stereographers.

Latterly this most useful bureau of employment has made another valuable addition; needlework is allowed to be taken in there on order and after a given pattern. For this purpose twice a week two ladies belonging to the Society are present to examine the patterns brought in, to take the orders, and to decide on the price. By this means the women are given the opportunity of employment, and are protected from any unfairness. The Victoria Stift on the third and fourth floors, originally the creation of the Crown Princess, and a few years ago united to the Society, offers to governesses staying in Berlin, and to other ladies also who remain here for their education, a safe home and good maintenance, besides medical treatment and other advantages, for the low price of twenty thalers a month. In twelve large and comfortably furnished rooms, thirty-eight boarders can find a lodging

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at once pleasant and inexpensive, a large and elegant drawingroom, a small, select library, and an excellent piano, &c., for common The young ladies, who belong without exception to the educated classes, amongst whom are artists attending the High School of Music, or the studio of some great painter, enjoy here all the benefits of a pleasant family life. Besides four free presentations, the royal patroness gave a considerable sum of money as a Christmas present, which with a contribution from the Stifts casse was spent in providing a Christmas tree and suitable festivities. The Emperor was graciously pleased to grant five hundred thalers more towards defraying the expenses of the annual winter subscription balls. Not less beneficial and flourishing has proved the Lette Stiftung, founded with the legacy of the deceased president, and the sewing machine fund united to it. Both institutions have the object of enabling girls and women, by means of a loan, going as far as three hundred thalers, with proper security and periodical repayments, to lay the foundation of an independent business. On an average, two or three thousand thalers are advanced during the year; and are punctually repaid. From March 1st, 1873, to February 18th, 1874, fifty-seven sewing machines were granted to poor women, and one thousand four hundred and thirty thalers fifteen silbergroschen received from them by payment on account. Many families, especially those of destitute widows, owe to this arrange. ment not only their existence, but in numerous cases an increasing prosperity.

Thus the Lette-society works on all sides and in all ways for the female sex, but must in no manner be confounded with the so-called emancipation of women. Within the limits imposed by nature and society, by opening to girls and women, through judicious culture, a sphere of remunerative activity hitherto inaccessible to them, giving them by means of their own work an independent self-supporting position, without separating them from their families and from their true destinies, it offers a home to the destitute, help to the poor, protection to the widow and the orphan, and to unprotected women em

ployment which keeps them from the want of daily bread, and often from dangerous temptations besides. Its exertions are inspired by the purest love of humanity, its aim is the only true and noble emancipation of women-by education, morality, and work.

Miscellanea.

LOVE AND POWER.-There is a pretty French proverb, not known half widely enough, which says, "Aimer c'est vaincre." To love is indeed to conquer, and the only divine thing which is left upon earth is the fruit of the heart. People who live for themselves and who are systematically and calculatingly selfish, enter upon a very bad speculation. For what do we all ask of life? what do we all seek? We want happiness; perhaps some of us have not much regard to the happiness of others, but they desire very sincerely to be happy themselves. Now, the most delicate sort of happiness-the joy which has the finest flavour-consists in making others glad. This is not at all a romantic view of happiness; for no one could feel comfortable with the world shouting "Yah!" after him or her. The esteem and good will of our companions and acquaintance is as necessary to our satisfaction as our daily bread; and no one could feel friendly towards a person who would not walk out on a rainy day to save him from being hanged. All the good things of the world are articles of exchange and barter; we get as good as we give, neither better nor worse, and if we give nothing we can expect nothing in return. Therefore a wisely-selfish person should act unselfishly, that others may act unselfishly towards him; and thus the shrewdest maxims of worldly wisdom exactly coincide with the most sublime tenets of Christianity. A thousand and yet a thousand generations have laughed kindly or mockingly over the petticoat government which rules every household in the world. It is not a ridiculous thing either; for the secret of a woman's power over her husband is merely love. The man knows

that his interests can be so dear to no one as to his wife, who has a common share in them; and therefore he willingly submits to her decision, and is generally in the wrong when he resists it. Let any of us only be convinced of the friendship of a fellow creature, and immediately his counsel commands respect. Love is power everywhere;

for Love is Heaven, and Heaven is Love. We should cultivate our hearts, however stubborn may be the soil, till they bring forth flowers. There is no harvest so rich and bountiful as that of the affections. It would seem as though a human being whose heart is hard and sterile should pray with tears and wrestling in an agony of supplication, that his heart might be softened, and weary the most Highest with his beseeching, never rising from his knees till his prayer was granted. We are so dependent upon each other that it is a dire misfortune to be unloved; and who can love us unless we give our love in return for theirs? All things are possible to love. Nothing good is probable without it. We are told in the Great Book to lift up our hearts to the Eternal. We must not lift up our legs or our noses. We must not glory in our strength, and think we have such strong sinews that we need no help. We must not go sniffing about to discover whether all is sweet in this world or the next. Better far to hope all things, to believe all things, and to live in a dream of charity, rather than to wake and find out evil. It may be safely said that neither man nor woman ever voluntarily injured one who loved them; or if in the desperate wickedness of the heart the bad thing has been done, the wrong-doer has never rested till he has made atonement. Neither time nor distance can hush the echo of the lightest word ever spoken by anyone who loved us. He or she can turn us as they will, and all our desire is to be guided by them.

Love, too, is Reason as well as

sense. Perhaps no man who

Power. It is the very spirit of good was ever born of woman deliberately intended to be bad; and all crime is a form of disease, for which it is most doubtful how far the apparent criminal is responsible. We know in part, and only in part, what some erring mortal seems to have done; but we do not know what he has resisted, nor how much of good intention laid the founda