The Bulletin. 51 



There is another noble trait of character we must at all times try to impress 

 deeply while we are moulding — that of doing something for the happiness of 

 others. Selfishness is a most unlovable trait, and there is always unhappiness. 



If I can live 



To make some pale face brighter, and to give 



A second luster to some tear-dimmed eye, 

 Or even impart 

 One throb of comfort to an aching heart, 



Or cheer some wayworn soul in passing by ; 

 If I can lend 

 A strong hand to the fallen, or defend 



The right against a single envious strain, 

 My life, though bare, 

 Perhaps, of much that seemeth dear and fair 



To us of earth, will not have been in vain. 

 The purest joy 

 Most near to Heaven, far from earth's alloy, 



Is bidding cloud give way to sun and shine. 

 And 'twill be well 

 If on that day of days the angels tell 



Of me, "She did her best for one of Thine." 



WORK WHICH THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTES MAY DO. 



By Miss Edla Dixon, Alamance County. 



The day of castle and moat and draw-bridge is over. The moat is filled up 

 and the castle torn down. Humanity is beginning to realize that "no man 

 liveth to himself" ; that "we are members one of another." Being "members 

 one of another" implies service one for. another — sometimes mutual, sometimes 

 missionary. In either case we have learned just one way of working together — 

 organization — and this is the order of the day, because it is the key to the 

 quickest and best results. 



An organization has only one excuse for existing, and that is the need of it. 

 The fact that it is able to reach any individual or class which cannot be reached 

 by any other agency proves the need. When the work of an organization is 

 done, it dies as we die when our work is done. 



The Farmers' Institute was introduced into our State only a few years ago. 

 Its counterpart, the Woman's Institute, is practically new to us. Thousands of 

 our women, probably, have never heard of it. To thousands of others, perhaps, 

 it is scarcely more than a name — their knowledge of it so slight as to preclude 

 any possibility of practical benefit therefrom without further acquaintance. 

 To others, no doubt, it appears but another of numerous organizations which in 

 some cases are proving a "weariness to the flesh." A few persons have been 

 introduced to this institute work and are beginning to realize its value. 



I am here to-day to present, as best I can, its claims for existence, as I see 

 them. 



The Woman's Institute is, as far as I know, the only organization on earth 

 for the benefit of the women of the country particularly — a class that includes 

 more individuals who need more help and get less than any other class in the 

 world. In defining the Woman's Institute we might first specify what it is 

 not — an organization intended to advance any particular interest-^physical, 

 mental, moral or material — yet embracing all. If I were asked to give its aim 

 in a single phrase, I think I would say "a more abundant life." Because of the 

 neglected class for which it exists, and the number and variety of interests it 

 may foster and vitally affect, this definition cannot be far wrong. 



