THROUGH LIBRARY &VINDOWS 5 



tried to make a dead body stand upright, but 

 finished his task saying, "Deest aliquid intus" 

 — "there is something wanting inside." If we 

 are rightly equipped we can go through the 

 world owning very little of it, and yet saying 

 in a royal spirit, "It is all mine." We can have 

 nothing and yet possess all things. It is this 

 mutual possession that carries with it increased 

 possibilities; for nothing ever goes quite 

 straight to its mark and hits it in our home 

 without going through the hands of both of us. 

 Ruth has her desk and I mine, but oft we get 

 mixed and she finds me in her place absorbed 

 with some book or writing. It matters not, 

 for we are so one that all is hers and all is 

 mine, and so out of it come harmony and 

 delight. 



Some one, I know not who, has written on 

 the "aristocratic library," and the thoughts are 

 so generous I shall use some of them with 

 modifications. I have been in many such and 

 can speak from experience. It is too often a 

 place of ornament and dignity of repose. Ele- 

 gant book-cases, inclosed with glass doors, bric- 

 a-brac and statuary surmounting for ornamen- 

 tation, pictures at measured distances, easy 

 chairs, Turkish carpets velvety to the tread, 

 heavy curtains of blue or red or green and 



