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"SALVATION ARMY" arose in bold inviting letters fron on the neat screen door Ruth was a bit excited

"I' in!" she declared and stepped within the door, Mrs Ca half fearfully

The roo and clean and pleasant Si rocking chairs were scattered about, a long desk or table ran along one side of the roo materials, a piano stood open with azines filled the front wall

Beyond the piano were half a dozen little tables, white topped and ready for a hungry guest At the back a counter ran the width of the rooht coffee urn steah an open door was a view of the kitchen, neat, handy, crude, but all quite clean, and through this door stepped a sweet-faced wo toward theuests It was all so prinity of refineirl from her sheltered home She was almost embarrassed to make her enquiry, but the hearty response put her quite at her ease, as if she had asked a great favor of another lady in a time of stress: "I'm so sorry, but our rooms are all taken," the wo side of the room and Ruth noticed for the first tith of the rooht of theray-painted doors Could these be roo! She had a wild desire to see inside them Rooms! They were more like little stalls, for the partitions did not reach all the way to the ceiling A vision of her own spacious apartue contrast Then one of the doors opposite her opened as its occupant, a quiet little elderly wolimpse of the white curtained , the white draped co bed, a row of calico curtained hooks on the wall, and a speck of a wash stand with tin pitcher and basin in the corner, all as clean and new as the rest of the place She swiftly decided to stay here if there was any chance Another look at the sweet face of the presiding wo towas, and how ht or the next, and anted to be near the there was just a chance in case a certain mother from Boston who had written her did not arrive at five o'clock: "But we ought not to take a chance," said Cairl with a cautious wistfulness "What could we do if night came and we had no place to stay?"