No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 641 



Many a young woman to-day is sacrificing friends, the pleasures 

 of home and society in order to secure an education which will pre- 

 pare her for a noble, useful life. Is she a heroine? The factory girl 

 is arranging the fabrics to be woven into cloth, day after day she 

 stands, her strength almost failing her sometimes, but she remem- 

 bers her aged mother at home or the sister who needs her earnings, 

 and maybe she is desirous for an education, no matter how great 

 her ambition may be, she will sacrifice them all for the sake of 

 home. I ask you is she a heroine? 



And now what of the merry farmer girls? Every day we meet 

 these jolly girls, whose cheerful faces and peals of laughter make 

 you feel as if there were no sadness in the world, and only one side 

 of life, and that the sunny side. But, look closer, do you not sec 

 behind those long lashes a tear? Back of those kind words do you 

 not feed there is, perhaps, a heavy heart or a weary sigh, longing 

 to obtain a higher, but not nobler sphere? ('an you note the sacri- 

 fice it takes for that young life to be happy? There are true hearts 

 and nobler lives all about us, we meet them every day and because 

 we do not see the struggles in that life, because we no not know 

 the many hours of pain and conflict between the right and wrong 

 hidden behind the reflecting light of smiles, does this mean that the 

 life is not worthy of praise? Oh! no. She is a heroine. A true 

 heroine who has made and is even making sacrifice for others, so 

 that other lives may be better and happier. And these are the 

 heroines of which we know little. And only in the last day when 

 He who understands the motives and thoughts of every life shall 

 lift the veil and reveal the mvsteries, only then will we see and 

 know that the lives of many of those about us whom we thought 

 insignificant, shall stand forth in beauty, bearing the banner, "A 

 True Heroine." 



TO BE A CITIZEN. 



By ETTA FRESUKORN. TSWwood, City. Pa. 



Our relation, as individuals, to the country in which we reside is 

 very apparent. At an early date in the world's history this rela- 

 tion was treated in a narrower sense, than it is at the present time, 

 but it had practically the same meaning. Different words were used 

 by many of the ancient nations, to express this intimacy between 

 individuals and state; but the French nation has the honor of sup- 

 plying the universal term "citizenship." 



Citizenship is the word which, today, expresses this relation 

 throughout the civilized world, yet it does not have the same mean- 

 ing in every nation. Since citizenship does not have the same 

 meaning in every nation, we naturally ask: What constitutes the 

 basis of citizenship? Or, what does it mean to be a citizen? 



We cannot better convey the meaning of this ideal, than by 

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