suffer in consequence, She is a hard-working and capable woman,
and makes a fair living. I would not advise you to give her money,
for her husband would find it out, and take it from her. It is
sympathy that she wants. If you could visit her occasionally, and
show that you are interested in her, by talking or reading to her
poor foolish boy or showing him a picture-book, you have no idea
how grateful she would be to you, and how it would cheer her on
her dreary way."

"I will go to see her to-morrow," said Mrs. Montague. "Can you
think of any one else I could visit?"

"A great many," said Mrs. Morris; "but I don't think you had better
undertake too much at once. I will give you the addresses of three
or four poor families, where an occasional visit would do untold
good. That is, it will do them good if you treat them as you do your
richer friends. Don't give them too much money, or too many
presents, till you find out what they need. Try to feel interested in
them. Find out their ways of living, and what they are going to do
with their children, and help them to get situations for them if you
can. And be sure to remember that poverty does not always take
away one's self-respect."

"I will, I will," said Mrs. Montague, eagerly. "When can you give
me these addresses?"

Mrs. Morris smiled again, and, taking a piece of paper and a pencil
from her work basket wrote a few lines and handed them to Mrs.
Montague.