read Genoah for Guroah; near foot of same page read one hundred for one thousand; page 18, sixteenth, twenty-fourth, and twentyseventh lines, read Tillison for Fillison; page 21, near foot of page, read Jacob Loose was shot for murdering a United States vedette; also the name of the mother of Elder Clapp was Mary not Nancy.

Daughters of Zion

CALLIE B. STEBBINS, Editor.

Truer Parenthood, Better Children, Happier Homes, Purer Society.

"A partnership with God is motherhood:

What strength, what purity, what self-control,
What love, what wisdom, should belong to her,
Who helps God fashion an immortal soul."

ADVISORY BOARD.-Mrs. B. C. Smith, president, 214 South Spring Street, Independence, Missouri; Mrs. H. A. Stebbins, vice-president, Lamoni, Iowa; Mrs. T. A. Hougas, secretary, Henderson, Mills County, Iowa; Mrs. F. M. Smith, 630 South Crysler Avenue, Independence, Missouri; Mrs. S. R. Burgess, 5920 Etzel Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri.

CATHARINE HOPELEIGH'S HOME. NO. 2.

BY HORTENSE SELLON CRAMER.

Country Life Versus Flat Life.

HE NEXT morning Catharine got the children away to school, and then hurried to get ready. As she flew around she thought of the furnace fire. She was sure the boys had forgotten to see to it, and she ran down to take a look at it. She was sure it would not keep and she must put a little coal on. So she threw some in, dextrously handling the big shovel and hitting the opening beautifully.

From the last shovelful a piece of coal dropped on the great toe of her right foot. She screamed with pain, hastily closed the furnace door and limped upstairs. She could not go. She just could not walk. She would have to telephone Jeanette that she could not meet her. But Mrs. John had not another day this week, and she must go. Who would think a piece of furnace coal would be so heavy? But it had dropped like a stone. And, rubbing the injured foot with liniment, and getting ready as quickly as possible, she left the house and limped away, with tears in her eyes from the pain, and vexed with herself for her carelessness.

Mrs. John was at the Crosswood station, and as they walked away, Mrs. Hopeleigh limping painfully and explaining the reason to her sister, Mrs. John gave her some addresses she had already looked up. Getting one or two more from an office they passed, they started out to find something.

The first apartment was oh, so small; five rooms, but in a very

good neighborhood, and on the first floor. There was a school not far away, and the little girls would not have to cross the tracks to get to it.

The next place had just been rented. The third place no one was at home. The lady might be in the laundry, a girl said, but she was not in the laundry, as they found by going to the rear. But the ashes were in the yard-no grass at all. The little girls must be thought of. They couldn't come here, though from the front it looked quite nice, and there were a number of houses with pretty lawns in the next block.

They ran across a little real estate office going back, and went in. Had he any flats to rent? No, he had not, not one left. But he could show them a house. Mrs. Hopeleigh's spirits rose. He had several cottages to sell, and very reasonable indeed. No, they did not want to buy a cottage, and so they thanked him and went on till they found another office.

A pleasant-faced, clean-looking young girl waited upon them, and then offered to go around the corner with them to look at some rooms. There were eight nice, large rooms, light and pleasant, four of them bedrooms, the largest place they had seen. But on one side were the backs of the stores, and horses and wagons were continually driving in and out; and on the other side was an alley. No yard, and those stores, and scarcely half a block from the railroad. Such a neighborhood was not to be thought of with those boys and girls. They must look farther. Then, though the flat was cheap, there was a furnace, and the coal must be bought. The young lady offered to pilot them around, and went back to the office for her wraps. They looked at another flat with a furnace, where lived a pleasant faced lady with a baby, who kindly explained to them everything they wanted to know. They had burned eight tons of coal, but the rooms were warm and comfortable, and very light and pleasant in winter. They meditated upon a flat with "stove-heat," tried to get in one where the lady had gone house-hunting, too, and finally lighted upon a steam-heated apartment at 1177 Pearl Street. The apartment was a jewel, to be sure, light and large and clean; oh, so clean, with steam-heat, hard wood throughout, everything lovely.

By this time it was one o'clock. Mrs. Hopeleigh's progress had been exceedingly slow and painful. Every step had made her set her lips tight and wish she had let the fire go out. She expected to settle on the place they had just seen,-there was one tree in the back yard-but there was one inconvenience; the apartment was on the third floor. There was another place quite near, and they would go to see that. (To be continued.)

Arrange six chairs in the form of a double triangle (or X), three facing the other three; this to represent North and South America. Form into two teams of six players each, the best posted on Book of Mormon to take the single chair of each side, next best to be seated behind him, left and right, as counselors, and the remaining three to stand at the rear of the team ready to occupy chairs as vacated before them.

Appoint a qualified referee and set a time-limit for answers. Referee asks question of the two leaders. The one making best answer opens game by asking a question of opposing leader; if answered, then he is questioned in turn. If one can not answer he may consult with his counselors (one minute limit.) Failure to answer a question forfeits that chair to opposing team, and is to be taken up by the questioner and the team moves up in order. Losing player goes to rear of his team and his first counselor submits to next question of the aggressive leader. Challenge a difficult question by referring it to referee; original questioner must then answer it or forfeit his chair. When a chair is captured it should be turned to face the enemy. When all players of one team are seated the game is theirs.

For larger teams (comprising ten or more a side) use twelve chairs in same formation but using an additional row of three chairs, and four standing players to each team. To make a "game," the winning team must have "gone in and possessed the enemy's land" (chairs) by right of superior knowledge. Questions should

so far as possible be suited to the ability of the opposing player; defer intricate questions till teams have developed in Book of Mormon lore; avoid conundrums; seek out interesting points, incidents, peoples, characters; make your questioning cover a general survey of Book of Mormon information and present day knowledge that conforms or harmonizes with the record.

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EARNEST WEBBE.

HOW TO KILL A GOOD LIVE RELIGIO.

In general, a study should be made of the elements that contribute to the life of the society-what are the causes that produce life and activity-and then seek for the opposite to those things. There are a great many things which contribute to the decline and death of an active society, and we can only notice a few of them in an article of the dimensions that this one should be. Hence the following suggestions are made, which, if followed out faithfully, will bring about a dissolution sooner or later, the length of time depending upon the degree of faithfulness with which they are resorted to.

Keep apart from the Sunday-school and branch, especially the officers, in your work. Avoid having the president of the branch or the superintendent of the Sunday-school take any part in the work of the Religio, if possible, lest the interest might by this means spread more widely among the members of the church. Encourage your members, especially the officers and teachers, that their first duty is to the society, and that if they attend to their obligations there, they probably will not have time to help in the Sunday-school or to attend President of the General Association the prayer-meetings of the branch. If the president of the branch or the Sunday-school superintendent should venture a suggestion in regard to your work, cause them to feel that you are running your part of the work and that you believe they will have enough to do to run their part. This policy will have a tendency to keep the interest in your work entirely within your own ranks and will discourage others from making any effort to join in with you.

Z. R.-L. S,

Do not have any socials. They partake of the world too much to be worthy the attention of the Religians. They must give their minds to strictly religious matters, lest by their mingling together in a social capacity they be led astray. This policy will produce a coldness and indifference of the members one toward

the other, and they will as a result grow lukewarm, and their service become largely a matter of cold form.

Do away with the program part of the work largely, because the only thing that is essential to know is what is in the Bible and the other sacred records, and devote the entire program, or most all of it to the study of the lessons. This will tend to destroy the interest of the younger members, who do not enter into the spirit of the study so fully, and also of that class of members who are not inclined to be naturally religious, or have not learned to be so.

Or, upon the other hand, devote nearly all the time to program work, to the almost exclusion of the study. By this method those who value the study as important will not remain with you long. The effect of this policy and the preceding will be about the same, so far as a continuance of interest is concerned; and when the interest is gone, it does not take long to get rid of the members. In the preparation of programs always put those on duty who have experience and ability, paying no attention to those members who have not previously made development in musical and literary attainment. This will have a tendency to please the public, and educate them to always expect the best, so that when you begin to decline, your downfall will be the more rapid. It will also discourage those who have come in with the idea of being developed along lines of recognized usefulness, and being disappointed in their expectation they will soon absent themselves and in a short time they can be dropped for non-attendance.

Another plan which will work about as effectually as the last above mentioned is to assign the parts of the program without regard to the ability or the consent of the ones to whom they may be assigned. Just make out the program and announce it, and those who can not respond because of inability will get discouraged, and those who do not care to respond will soon get the idea that it doesn't make any particular difference whether they do or not, and those who value their time will get disgusted, and there will soon be a marked falling off in interest and attendance. Endeavor as much as possible to have the same routine of exercises every meeting. This could be facilitated by having printed blanks for the secretary's report so that the items of the number of the song, the number of classes, attendance, collection, who offered prayer (which should always be by the president if possible), lesson study, and a few other items could be readily filled in. This would add to the monotony of the work and tend to kill interest.

Don't study the lessons, except in class. This suggestion could be carried out more perfectly by having the society own the Quarterlies and have them in the custody of the librarian to be collected after each study and distributed at the opening of the next session. The teachers more especially should not take the Quarterly home, so that they may confine themselves more closely to the questions. in the Quarterly in "hearing" the recitation. The strong proba