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Show 74 children from well-to-do homes, if they are all like these. This year the beginners were taken out of the main school and put into the day schoo1. 'Silver,' one of our last year's graduates, mide splendidly good as teacher of this little school. The number in daily attendance from the villages around showed a marked increise over last yeir, and all due to 'Silver's' 'way' with them. Even two little Catholics came into our Protestant fold. Our sister Mission of the Church .of the Brethren wanted some one badly as teacher in a school with them, so we reluctantly let 'Silver' go at New Year's, and we have been rewarded by the good reports about her. When she left, another of our former girls took her place, but she has been ill more than half the term, and consequently our day school has been turned into something like a teachers' training class. Our two senior girls are in charge of it and are getting valuable training. " 'Obedience' is having her first year of teaching. She was a thorough student in the Academy and is proving a I thorough teacher in the class-room. Naturally possessing : a superfluous amount of reticence, the year's discipline ! and constant association with the girls has been rather hard, but very good, for her. She will make an effective worker. 'Chrysanthemum' was the second teacher until home duties prevented, then her sister 'Aster' took her place. The Government school for girls in the city has been trying to secure a teacher from us, and it is arranged that 'Chrysanthemum' is to go later on. We shall be glad to see her go, for she will not be a repreach to the church and school "Obedience" that sends her there. "Our girls are a healthy, fascinating bunch. There has been little ill health among them. The school steward had a serious fall in the winter, and the matron is at present laid up with a broken leg, - in both cases grateful 'that it was no worse.' "There has been a Reception Committee in the Christian Endeavor Society, this year, and it has been a joy to stand aside and see the satisfaction these girls have taken in showing their new buildings to the many women who come. At Christmas the girls decided of their own initiative to send the value of their "Chrysanthemum and Aster" 'Turkey' to the orphaned children in Bulgaria. We should like to think this act the barometer of their spiritual lives. "We realized as never before this year that in order to hold our own in line with the advantages, - o r lack of them,-that the Government schools offer, we must be keen to meet the real needs of our patrons. Our curriculum must be more inclusive than theirs. Our teaching must be more efficient. The |