This is the only way in which any good is done." "I wish my mother could only learn that," said Helen, mentally, as Mrs.Milnor ceased speaking.

When she returned home, it was with a deeply formed resolution never again to speak reprovingly to any of her mother's domestics--never to order them to do any thing for her,--and never to require them to wait upon her when she could just as well help herself.

In this she proved firm.

The consequence was, an entire change in Hannah's deportment towards her, and a cheerful performance by her of every thing she asked her to do.

This could not but be observed by her mother, and it induced her to modify, to some extent, her way of treating her servants.