MARY CARPENTER. 



ONE day, at the beginning of this century, a clever 

 and good man took his two little daughters, Mary 

 and Anna, for a walk in the country, and led them 

 into a field of new-mown hay. Anna rolled in the 

 sunshine, and was happy, but this was not enough 

 for four-year-old Mary, who saw the haymakers 

 busily at work. 



" I want to be ooseful ; I want to be ooscful ! " she 

 cried, and she would not be content until her father 

 cut a stick from the hedge, so that she might rake 

 together the hay her sister scattered. 



This little girl who " wanted to be ooseful " was 

 Mary Carpenter, the woman who did more perhaps 

 than any one else to lift destitute and criminal 

 children out of their misery and sin. This pretty 

 anecdote of her early childhood is told by her nephew 

 Professor J. Estlin Carpenter, in the memoir he 

 has written called "The Life and Work of Mary 

 Carpenter." 



Mary Carpenter was one of the World's Workers. 

 Her field of work was very different from that of 

 Mary Somcrville, for Mary Somcrvillc gave her mind 



