THE variety and number of needles made in these days are wonderful; the surgeon, harness-maker, book-binder, felt-worker, saddler, glover, embroiderer, and housewife, each wanting needles of all shapes and sizes and lengths. And when you think that each needle has to pass through seventy pairs of hands before it is finished and ready for use, you see what pains is taken to reach excellence in a very small thing. Seventy pairs of hands to make a needle, and each pair necessary to make the needle perfect. If only one pair refused to do their part, the whole would be a failure—not a needle would be right. You see it is painstaking in little things and in small parts which leads to excellence and success. We are apt to slight bits of work, thinking it is no matter and of no account. But it is not so. The details of a plan must be faithfully carried out in order to make the plan a success. If the parts of a work are well done, the whole will be complete, and only then. And it is just so in making and moulding character. It must be well done in parts, faithfully finished in bits, in order to make a complete and beautiful whole.