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can not tell you how worried and harassed he felt when his wife came 

 to him for money to spend on nonessentials, and which he could ill 

 afford? If he attempted to remonstrate with her he probably re- 

 ceived a rude or angry reply ! The wife, perhaps, had been used to 

 an indulgent father, who gratified her every whim. She overlooks 

 the fact that a father and husband are two vastly different beings, 

 and require different treatment. To some women a husband's value 

 decreases when he can no longer supply them with finery. Their 

 alleged love soon wanes, and a divorce is sought on any pretext. 



It is easy to see that by a knowledge of business affairs a woman 

 can dispense with the services of an agent or trust company, whose 

 salary thus being saved is added to her income. In case a woman 

 is fitted by a proper education for so doing, who could attend to 

 her own interests better than herself, as she is the party interested? 

 The phrase, " If you wish anything well done, do it yourself," is 

 never better exemplified than in this case. Lastly, but not least, in 

 saving our money it need not be from a miserly spirit; but the 

 more we have, the more we can profitably give away. "What pleasure 

 equals that of relieving real distress, and of helping others? Did not 

 our Saviour himself set the example of saving when, after performing 

 the miracle where he fed the multitude with the loaves and fishes, 

 he said: "Gather up the fragments that remain. Let nothing be 

 lost." 



SKETCH OF CLEMENCE EOYEK. 



By M. JACQUES BOYER. 



MADAME CLEMENCE AUGUSTINE KOYER was born at 

 Nantes, France, April 21, 1830, of an old Catholic family. 

 When she reached a suitable age she was sent to school at the Sacre 

 Cceur, where she received the most of her education. Very shortly 

 after coming out of the convent she abandoned the religious doc- 

 trines they had tried to inculcate in her there, and, like so many young 

 persons, was attracted to poetry. But her literary efforts as a whole 

 received very little attention, and she would never have been success- 

 ful if she had only teased the Muse. Happily, she applied herself, 

 about 1850, to more serious studies, and went to England, where she 

 spent several years and acquired a thorough knowledge of the lan- 

 guage of Shakespeare. She removed thence to Switzerland, and there 

 found her definite vocation. The natural sciences, philosophy, and 

 political economy from that time engaged her attention. 



The opening of Madame Royer's course of lectures to women on 

 logic at Lausanne in the winter of 1859 and 1860 attracted much 



