"don't Bother Me."

"Don't bother me." That is the too trequent reprintand of the mothev who has committee meetings, eharity organizations, interviews and many otber matters foroign to domestic comfort on her mind. A student of social tendencies, who has no darings of her own raid who perhaps on this account appreciates their worth all the more, tells of a little incident which aff ected her deeply. She was at the house of a friend, rwho was exceedingly preoccupied with some social scheme. Her little son, full of pride in some drawing he had made, ran up to nis mother to show it, only to be repulsed with "Don't bother me." He went to auntie, who took him up and talked with delight of hLs sketch. As he went away hewrfs heard to mutter: "Auntie, she likesit. Mamma, she don't care." As the auntie said, "I always pity a child whose mother doesn't care."