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Mrs. Logan does much plain sewing and takes great pleasure in fancy crochet work of all kinds. Aside from this, her qualifications as an entertainer are brilliant. At the time of her graduation from the institution she was considered by the musical instructor and criticising public, by far the finest performer on the pianoforte in the school; and in this is she well known over much of Kansas, and many parts of Missouri and Nebraska. Her high musical ability wins her many cultured friends and the fact that they come to her with a sense of extreme pleasure rather than curiosity is an appreciated compliment to Mrs. Logan. In many lines of Literature this energetic mind is well versed and she is fully competent to converse intelligently on any subject from science or poetry to the humor of a Dickens character, and from the broad musical conceptions of a Chopin or a Wagner, down to the latest rag time. Her manner is that of perfect ease; and Prof. Logan has said that he has ever been proud to introduce her to people in any station in life, no matter how lofty that station may be because of her great womanly selfpossession. In all business matters Prof. Logan consults with his wife, and finds in her a worthy confident, a wise councilor, and a willing helper.

(Domestic Arrangements.)

My interested readers you may wish to ask why does not this charming little lady hire a house maid, but she herself would frankly reply that she needed none. She has her grandmother with her always, and they are very happy laboring for a mutual good.

Not long ago the demand of a sad circumstance brought Mrs. Logan to become a first class hospital nurse, and the skill with which she, while attending a six months old child, gave electrical treatments of two hours each to a partially paralyzed father, and admistered (sic) to the wants of a mother who had recently fractured her right arm was wonderful indeed. For months this tension strained every nerve, and though her affliction was inconvenient in many ways, yet she never found anything which she knew to be her duty to be impossible.

As a practical house-keeper Mrs. Logan is undoubtedly a success, since she can do any line of domestic work whatever, -- such as cooking, sweeping, dusting, sewing, mending and washing and ironing. Of the latter, she does little however, because like many sighted women she hires all laundry work done and it is a wonder to many that she is capable of doing these things, things that the public deems impossible.

If others so afflicted had but the desire and encouragement to (. . .?) forward with a purpose to make life useful, how much brighter the world would seem, and how much less beggary would confront them.

The tidal wave of progress is reaching far out at present. The public is beginning to see that being blind no longer means being an imbecile or idiot, and eventually we hope our worthy instructors will come to know that all our (. . .?) sightless boys and girls ask is for an equal chance with the sighted (. . .?) this being given, ability and (. . .?) will every speak for itself.

Lillian M. Hil(?)