The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-04

the employment agency. of the home would find her a place before the three weeks were up. She could be a gover- ness or a gardener; she could leach German and music. and, besides, Tn the last resort, she could now cook, and she had learned enough ot America to know that there was place always open So she prowled happily around museums and libraries and art gaHer- ies, Chinatown and Little Italy, seeing New York for three dollars week
 Sure enough. before the three weeks were up Elizabeth had place. A Wo- man in the country wanted gardener She paid Elizabeth's fare to her place, which was some hundreds of miles from New York, There Elizabeth found a large and handsome house. Wlth seV- eral acres of ground about II.
 But when came there, sald Ellz- abeth, solemnly, q saw what 1t was to live dirt among"
 The first sight her eyes beheld when ushered into the house was live or six weeks accumulation of soHed clothing piled on the dining room taDie' with breakfast spread upon one end or this. table. The whole house was uh- washed, unswept. full of cobwebs, With heaps of clothing and broken dishes on
 the floor. The garbage was never car- 11ed away, the children were never bathed and their faces, bodies and clothes were caked with dirt. The lady l of the house was a mental sclenust, | She had made arrangements to turn 1 her big home into mental science
 school where she would do the teach i ing, she and her family meanwhile re-
 tiring to q little toulouse of three rooms in the grounds to live. This
 Hitting was accomplished soon after | Elizabeth's arrival and the house i'm
 nediately filled up with the pupils who
 had engaged the various rooms. The
 business of the colony was to gather
 in the big drawing room and listen to
 nadame's lectures on her science Madames husband was as rapt a fol- lower as any of the rest, and he did the cooking and cared for the children while she was featuring. This woman
 was a study to Elizabeth Educated
 well bred, an affectionate wife and
 mother, she never combed her hair in
 the eight days Elizabeth knew her, and
 remained oblivous to filth which made
 Elizabeth seasick. In the interests of
 her school she felt that the large ant , handsome grounds about her place
 should be cared for, and she had en. gagged Elizabeth to do 1t. Eltzabetl
 stood the dirt eight days and then sait
 she would have to go. Madame smiled indulgently when she learned tho
 cause
 My dear child, she said, these ar' only outer conditions I was afflicted
 just so by outer conditions once. but have risen far above all such weak nesses. Outer conditions are nothing The mind is the only reality
 But cannot any clean thought ge r when everything around me uncleai is," said poor Elizabeth
 Madame was perfectly honest an kind. She paid Elizabeth's fare bac' to the city, and invited her to com
 back whenever she felt her mentalit { strong enough to rise above such . trlviality as dirt.
 , Elizabeth's next adventure was Wit : an alleged cooperative colony. Any { body could come there and work; no
 body was ever refused, and whateve < was made bys the various industries c i, the place was divided equally anon
 all the workers. But, although ther 9 were sixteen persons in the colony an i they seemed to work busily, there nev
 CT seemed to be anything to divide ul , The labor of sixteen persons with tn management under which they worked
 produced only their ard and lodginl < and sometimes a fifty-cent piece at th \ end of the week.
 ' Tt is wonderful,' said Elizabetl
 "how many chances there are Z America to work for nothing" n Elizabeth was painfully mercenar o 1t stilI seemed to her, after all her e, i. perlences, that she was worth wage 2 One day she heard, to her surpris d that there were several hundred farm .r right on Manhattan Island conductt
 by several hundred small farmers, ul ,r der the charge of a woman. She wis z ted this woman, told her tale, shove o her diploma, and in a few days four Ii herself experimenting eighty-eigl .v small farmers in the De Witt Clintc ,e Farm school, paid at American rat ,,, in good American money. So, until u l. crops are all in on the upper We Is Side, the adventures of Elizabeth a = oyer-New York Tribune.