A package of letters -- Uncle Sam's "how d'y' do" -- The immigrant chapter -- With a nurse deaconess -- Everyday service -- A deaconessin the mining regions -- "It don't matter nothin'" -- "Such stuff as dreams" -- A personal investment -- Headlines -- Their adopted member -- Girls and girls -- Decoration day by proxy -- What was the use? -- Mrs. Winn's way -- Strategic points -- The problem of Robert -- The rummage barrel -- A bundle of fagots -- The burden of Mendon -- From Christmas to Easter -- Christmas gifts for the Christ-child.