OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN 



very nice place. I hope you will tell me when you are going 

 to call that I may be in. God bless you. 



" Yours trewly r 



"ALFRED." 



In yet another family, the head of which was in the habit 

 of spending ten or twelve shillings a week regularly on 

 cigarettes and tipple, until Nemesis overtook him in the 

 shape of consumption, the pretty, hard-working, fiery- 

 haired Irish wife declares without a thought of unkindness, 

 that if she could only get him " out of the way for good" 

 she could "do all right" for herself and her three small 

 children. 



If ever woman has a voice in social reform, though 

 with a few glaring exceptions legal interference with the 

 liberty of the subject is abhorrent to Loki's Grandmother, 

 and she has little wish herself for suffrage or any other 

 rage, she vows that she will vote and vote and vote for 

 any measure that may tend to eliminate the Public House 

 from the countrysidecurse of the small home that it is ! 

 In every one of these cases there would be comfort and 

 happiness in the family were it not for the perpetual 

 temptation to the breadwinner. 



The blacker the sheep, sad to say, the larger as a rule the 

 family of doubtfully hued lambs. Mrs. Mutton the letter 

 writeris "not so well just now." She is pathetically 

 anxious that the new babe may be born alive, having lost 

 the last one. Loki's Ma-Ma went to see her the other 

 day, and found her with a knowledgeable neighbour who 

 has promised to " see her through," and in a state of pro- 

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