mL — ~ REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday Sermon. Subject: “The Surprisc: Preached in Vienna, o Religion” anrstrin Text: “Behold, the half wos not told mes =] Kings x. 7. Appearing before vou to-day, my mind ye agitated with the scenery of the Holy Land, from which we have just arrived, you will expect me to revert to some of the scenes once enacted there. Mark a circle around Lake Galilee, and another circle around Jer usalem, and you describe the two regions in which cluster memories of more eveits thao in any other two direles, Jerusalem was a spell of fascination that will hold me the rest of my life. Solomon had resolved that that city should be the center of all sacred, regal and commercial magnificence. He set him self to work, and monopolized the surround. ing desert ax a highway for his caravans, He built the city of Palmyra around one of the Jrincipal walls of the east, so that all the ong trains of merchandise from the east wera obliged to stop there, psy toll and leave part of their wealth in the hands of Solomon's merchants, He manned the for tress Thapsacus at the chief ford of the Eu. phrates, and put under guard everything that passed thera, The three great products of Palest wine pressed from the richest clusters and celebrated all the world over; oil, which in that hot country is the entire substitute for butter and lard, and was pressed from the olive branches until every tree in the country became an oil well; and honey, which was the entire substitute for SUZAT these three great products of the country Solomon exported, and received in return fruits and precious woods and the animals of every clime, He went down to Eziou-geber and ordersa a fleet of ships to be constructed, oversaw the workmen, and watched the launching of the flotilla which was to go out on more than a year's voyage, to bring home the wealth of the then known world, He heard that the Egyptian horses wers large and swift, and long maned and round Faied od he resolved to purchase them, giving eighty. five doliars apiece for them, putting the best of these horses in his own stall and selling the surplus to foreign potentates at great profit, He heard that there was the best of timber on Mount Lebanon, and he sent out one hun- dred and eighty thousand men to hew down the forest and drag the timber through the mountain gorges, to construct it futo rafts to be floated to Joppa, and from thenecs to be drawn by ox teams twenty-five miles across the land to Jerusalem. He heard that there were beautiful # other lands. He sant for theo planted them in his own gar jens, and to are flowers foundin the 1 iat city such as are t be found tn no part of Palestine, the ineal $ of very flowers that Solomon planted. He heard that in foreign groves there were birds of richest voices and most jluxuriant win ¢ sent t poople to satch them waned ng aem ere ’ and put them into his ywers in Are FF 4 1 pier by iesfeond the here this long tr to the King's gate, om Egypt, gold and silver stones, and beasts of every and birds of every wing, and fish o svery scale! See the peacocks strut under the cedars, and the horsemen run. and the *hariots wheel! Hark to the orchestra #aze upon the dance! Not stopping to look nto the wonders of the temple, step right on to the causeway, and pass up to palace. Here we find ourselves amid a collection of vuildings on which the King had lavished the wealth of many empires. The genius of Hiram, the archtect, and of the other artists # here seen in the long line of corridors and ‘he suspended gallery and the approach to he thrond, Traceriad window opposite tra wried window. Bronzed ornaments burst ng into lotus and lily and pomegranate. napiterssurrounded by network of leaves n which imitation fruit seemed suspended is io banging baskets. Three branches—so Josephus tells us—thres branches sculptured mn the marble, so thin and subtle that even ihe leaves seemed to quiver, A laver capable holding five huandred barrels of water nm six hundred Brasen ox heads, which gushed with water and filled the whole place with coolness and crystalline brightness and musical plash, Tea tables chased with shariot wheel and lion and cherubim. Solo non sat on a throne of ivory. At the seating place of the throne, on each end of the steps, t, brizen lon. Why, my friends in that place they trimmed their candles with snuffers of gold, and they cut their fruits with knives if gold, and they washed their hands in basins if goid, and they scooped out the ashes with 4 0 gold, and they stirred the altar ires with tongs of gold. Gold reflected in he water! Gold flashing from the apparel ! ¢ erowni Gold! gold, in o and And precious WOK of Solomon's mor shovels of sold blazin roiled! god OF ars 3 i Hr ff tha a wf tha wut everywhers by every caravan ind by wing of every ship, until soon the idreats of Jerusalem are crowded with curd Wity seckers. What is that long procession spproaching Jerusalem? 1 think from the pomp of it thers must be rovalty in the train. I smell breath of the spices wh are brought as presents, and I hear the shout of the drivers, and I see the dust covered caravan showing that they come {rom far away. Cry the news up tothe palace. The Queen of Sheba advances, Let ul the people come out to see. Let the mighty mefi of the Jand come ont on the palace corridors. Let Solomon eome down the stairs of the palace before the Queen has alighted Shakes oat the cinnamon, and the saffron, and the calamus, and the frank nmcense and puss it ioto the treasure Bouse, Take up the diginonds until they glitter in the sun Tie Queen of Sheba alights. She enters the palace, She washes at the bath, She sits down at the banquet. The cup bearers bow, I'he meat smokes, The music trembles in the dash of the waters from the molteh sea. Then she rises from the banquet, and walks through the conservatories, and gazes on the architec. sare, and she asks Solomon many strange juestions, and she learns about the religion of the Hebrews, and she then and there be- somes a servant of the Lord God. She isoverwhelmed. Bhe begins to think that all the spices she brought, and all the precious woods which are intended to be burned into harps and teries and into rail. ings for the causeway between the temple and the palace, and the one hundred and eighty thousand dollars in money—she begins to think that all these presents amount to noth- ing in such a place, and she is almost that she bas brought news Maenca place went the for tha alleviation of tha mesa: Ques Clotildn, leading her husband and tores thousand of his armed warrior: to Christinn baptism; Elisabeth, of Burgundy, giving her joweled glove to a beggar and scattering groat fortunes among tae distressed; Princ Albers singing “Rock of Ages” in Windsos Castle, and Queen Victoria, incognita, reads ing the Scriptures to a dying pauper. I bless God that the day 1s coming when royalty will bring all its thrones, and musie sli ite harmonies, and painting all its plet- ares, and sculpture all its statuary, aud | architecture all its pillars, and conquest all | ity scepters, mand the Queens of the earth, in ong line of advance, frankincense filling the air and the camels laden with gold, shall approach Jerusalem, and the gates shall be hoisted, and the great burden of splendor shall be lifted into the palace of this greater than Solomon. Again my subject teaches me what is earn sstness in the search of truth. Do you know | where Bheba was? It was in Abyssinia, or { ome say in the southern part of Arabia | Felix, In cither case it was a great way off | from Jerusalem. To get from there to Jeru. | salem she had to cross a country infested t with bandits, and go across blistering i deserts, Why did not the Queen of Sheba lstay at home and send a committes to ine | quire about this new religion, and have the ologates report in regard to that religion and wealth of King Solomon? She wanted | to see for herself, and hear for herself, She fcould not do this by work of commits | tee. She felt she bad a soul worth ten thou- | sand kingdoms like Sheba, and she wanted a i robe richer than any woven by Oriental shuttles, and she wanted a crown set with | the jewels of eternity. Bring out the camels, Put on the spices. Gather up the jewels of the throne and put them on the caravan, Start now; no time to be lost. Goad on the camels, When I see that caravan, dust cov ered, weary and exhausted, trudging on across the desert and among the bandits until it reaches Jerusalem, I say. “There is an earnest seeker after the truth.” But there are a great many who do not act in that way. They all want to get truth, but they want the truth to come them; they do not want to go to it. There | am ready to become a Christian at any time if I am to besaved | shall be saved, and if 1 am to bn lost I shall be lost.” But Jerusalem will never come to you; you must go to Jeru- { salem, The religion of the Lord {| will not come to you; you must go and get | religion. Bring out the camels; put on { the sweet spices, all the treasures of the { heart's affection. Start for the throne, | in and hear the waters of salvation dashing in fountains all around about the throne | Bit down at the banquet—the wine pressed | from the grapes of the heavenly Eshool, the angels of God the cup bearers. Goad on the { camels, The }ibla “The i Queen of ths thi very woman [I am speaking of Queen of the south shall rise uj tin judgment against this generation and oo | demn it: for she came from the uttermost i parts of the earth to hear the Solomon, amd. hold! a greater than pmon is here hat infatuatis be down in idleness expecting to Strive to Fm the Ask, and it a} w given you shall find: knock, and it shall Take the fom of Heaven (Go declares it: south” —that is, Hol be saved at King at n the camels! Again, ms 3 fact that religion is a | that gets it. This story n Jerusalern, and of the mon, who was a ty rolled on and on, am 1 ser ¢ old by every trav- ning back from Jerusalem. The news goes on the wing of every ship and with very Caravan, and ye u know a story en arges as it is retold, and by the time that story gets down into the southern part of Arabia Felix and the Quosn of Bheba hears And yet this Queen declares in regard to it, altho, she had heard »o much and had ber anti pations raised so high the half —the hall was not told her, So religion is always a surprise to any one that gots it, The story of grace—an old story. Aposties preached it with rattle of chain, martyrs declared it wit arm of fire: death ods have affirmed it with visions of glory and ministers of religion have sounded it through the lanes, and the highways and the chapels, and the cathedrals. It has been ut into stone with chisel and spread on the anvas with pencil; and it hat been recited in the doxology of great congregations. And vet when a man first comes to Jook on the palace of God's mercy, and to ses the rovalty f Christ, and the wealth of this banquet, and the luxuriancs of His attendants, and the loveliness of His face and the joy of His ser- vice, he exclaims with prayers, with tears with sighs, with OD “The half-the half was not told me ™ I appeal to thoss who are Christians, Com- pare the idea you had of the jov of the Christian life before you became a Christian with the appreciation of that joy you have 10W since you have become a Christian, and that you never, in the davs of your spiritoal bondage, had any appreciation of what was to come. You are ready today to answer sel say in regard to the discoveries you goodness of God: 2 not told ow ™ Well, we hear a great deal about the good time that is coming to this world whea it is to be girded with salvation. Holiness on the bells of the horses. Tho lion's mane patted i by the hand of a babe. bringing cargoes for Jesus, and the hard, bright water, | sarnation roses and silver tipped lilies, It is the old story. Everybody tells it | {salah told it, John told it, Paul told it Eazekial told it, Luther told it, Calvin told it, Joha Milton told it—everybody tells it: and | hills and Christ shall marshal His great arny, { and China dashing her idols into the dust, | shall hear the voices of God and wheel into | ine; and India, destroying her Juggernaut { and snatehing up her little children from i the Ganges, shall hear the voice of God iand wheel into line: and vine covered | italy, and wheat crowned Russia, and all the nations of the earth shall hear the voice of god jad fall judo ia; het _ Chiufoh which has been toiling strug h the centuries, robed and garlaned ikon bride adorned for her husband, shall put aside her veil and look up into the face of ber Lord the King and say: “The half--the kal! was not told me!” : Well, thers is coming a greatér surprise to every Christian—a grea surprise than anything 1 have depicted. Heaven is an old , Everybody talks about it. There hardly a hyma in the hymn book that does not refer to it. Chi read about it in their Babbath-school books. Aged men t on their des to study it, ° ny it is a harbor from the storm, eo call it home. We say it is the house of many apslona We weave together all sweet, beautiful, delicate, exbilarant words; we waave them into let ters, and then wae spell it out in rose and lily and amaranth, And yet that piace is golng tobe a to the most In ent Chris i= Fl § when heaven buists upon us it will be a greater surprises than that Jesus the throne, and we made like Him! Al our Christian friends surrounding us mn glory! Ail our sorrows and tears and sink gone by forever! The thousands of thousands the one hundred and forty and four thousand, the great multitudes that no man can nun ber, will ery, world without end: ‘The hall =the hall was not told me!” 1 Tea-Chests, Teas and Tea Making. In a letter from Ching a correspond ent says. **The manufacture of tea-chests being peculiarly Chinese, is of curiosity. In the course of construction, each chest passes through muny hands, Each person employed has a specific part to perform, such as sawing the ough boards, dressing them, nailing the box together, lining it with paper and then with lead. When it comes to the paint iteell employed as there are shades in the color ing; one applying his color or particular part of the ornamentation, and then puss bly short tine. the Tes Hong is an interesting place visit, Here we saw a thousand ‘‘must ers” of tea, A muster, by the about a pound a tea. The taster weighs pa equal quantity of tea from eight om ten different musters, and puts each by itself in a china mug. Boiling water is poured on and the tea steeped for five minutes by the glass. It is then poured off into cups, and the leaves placed or wooden trays. By the taste, y color, ity is determined. An expert taster com. { ment hangs the fortune of the Chinese { tea inerchant, | the finest, Itis a high-priced tea, which we never see in America. { B16 a pound. of afternoon want th I when mg, No, 1. are the time " was the Fouchs | This is 83 a pound. There China which sels for $100 a pound they product of very old celebrated nurseries, and find their was { only to the tables of the Emperor and i the Lord High ten, best, tens , but are the and i Wa i RiW making, and when r Pye YOrngm Lt has heen b 2 walter touches it AI 3 si Protecting the Plate Glass, Passinz al day, says a writer iu the Chicago Jou ng Dearborn street, yveste I saw a crowd watching closely t! ing in position of some enorno a handsome pew The glass was the best French plate, the workmen handled it as carefully as it worth than s week's wages. The task of putting it in place was no sooner completed than one of the workmen grabbed a pot of whiting snd with a big brush meaningless marks on of glass in were something more daubed it. 1 about as silly s thing as a man « and with t usual wked the foreman The answer was a crusher. “Why,” said ae, ‘‘we have to mark them that way or they'd be smashed in notime.” My look of amazement doubtless prompted him to further cxplanation, forhe said: “You see, the building lumber, before he reportorial curiosity workmen around & new get in the custom of y through the open glass is put in. They would continue io it even after the glass isin if we di do something to attract their That's the reason you always see new win. | dows daubed with glaring white marks, Even if a carcless workman does start to shove a stick of timber through a costly shoving sash the tention, i eye catches the danger sign. mark is just a signal which says: ‘Look out; you'll break me if youare not care. iCal." ” : Vanderbill's New Palace. George W. Vanderbilt, the youngest of the sons of the late William H. Vander. bilt, is determined, in addition to his | well-known palace in New York, to have | the most magnificent private park ead | the lordliest country estate in America. | To that end he has recently bought ata | acres lying just outside of Asheville, N. { C. His landscape gardener is already at work laying out and beautifying these 000 more. His architect is busy prepar. ing the plans for a lordly pleasure house, like an old style French chateau, which will cost an additional $400,000. His model stables, which will be scattered over the 5000 acres, for the purpose of housing thousands of horses and cattle of the very bluest of blue bovine blood, will cost, it is said, at least $200 000 more. Ho that the estimated cost al- ready foots up the magnificent sum of $1,200,000. The shortest distance from the stately entrance gates to the still statelier man. sion of the lord of this vast estate will be four miles by a magnificent rocdway sixty feet wide, and it is said that there will be more than fifty miles of macadam- ized roads within the grounds. — Philadel. phia Times. a The milk supply of New York city af- fords an income to the farmers furnish. ing it of $10,000,000 at 24 certs per jquart. Over 200,000 cows are milked {to obtain this supply, and $60,000,000 wf capital is invested, exclusive of the wailronds and of dealers. Milk is irawn from five States, and some of it is uled 300 miles by the railroads. The British and Foreign Bible Beoiety has, du the « -one years of its ring he ghey London house alone 29,000,000 complete Bibles, nearly 82,000,000 New Testaments and 11, Glimpses of Cloudland. EY MABLE SMITHSON, There is scarcely any one who has not passed many a happy hour, looking up nt the skies, and wondering at the changes in the What colors are lovely Been besides the hundred shades } What other book is there in which the pictures move on by themselves, each scene giving place to another, ve have had time tire of it, and without our having trouble of turning the leaves. B: sides that, every looker can make stories to suit himself about the great and towers; the ladies, flying awry from polar-bears gud DEeilore we on horseback galloping off to thé wars; the burning houses; the great forests; the snow capped ice-bergs; the terrible sea monsters and waving flags a kangaroos; the camels; the and silver: there is and phiscen red orever and ever, all and so no end te pair of has patience and a ever were written, “Oh, how niece it would be to put on wings and go up and sit on that soft fluffy hill and see the pictures closer!” Not so nice as it seems, perhaps, for ns wet as h sea fog. seen a steam engine knows that the fire 18 there to heat the water, and that that makes steam, to set the machinery go img. Now when the steam tha cooler air, it forms white puffs and is then make believe cloud, for a formed in the same way. sun warms the earth, making wot vapor rise from lakes and and when much crowded together escapes into into great f a sort ol real one 1s much 50 of this va i%0 tia 1 i8 BO mail that 10t make them out, and so m could not were up among the clouds msel ves, Fhe warm vyapor rising from the earth keeps the clouds up in the sky, where they go driiting sbont and mak- ing themselves into pictures, but the nore the tiny balls or particles squeege up together, the wetter and heavier the cious become, until at last they fall in millions and millions of little drops, When they reach earth, umbrellas are opened, windows are closed, and every “What a Cirand | and terrible storms take place when two | rain-clouds strike against each other, | and thunder and lightning are caused | by the electricity which is 16 them. Any one who asks what electricity is will be told that even the wisest men | cannot explain exactly what but that every one knows what it does itis that wonderful power that sends | messages all round the world on wires, that highta our streets so much than gas does, that rings us when robbers are breaking in, and that is going to move ships and trains all kinds of things us when we get to know it better The bright sparks that ly out of an | cloctric machine, with a clicking sound | are produced in the same way as the : lightning, that is by the sudden meet ing of the two opposite kinds of elec- When two different kinds of clouds meet, the electric fluid from one to the other with the loud re- we count them ey 114 i ¥ one says, shower!” it is, bells to warn We do not hear the clap until ¥ we have seen the flash althe the sound takes longer to the air than light does bests dark and angry-looking, crowding to- single ones are seen scudding sbout Boon, low rumblings heard sounds grow louder and louder as the foe comes nearer until with a fearful follow deafening roars and blinding flashes as if from rain and hail come rattling and pouring down, the wind blows furiously amd for a time all is darkness and confusion, the. thunder-claps grow fainter fainter, until the sound dies away in the distance, the lightning ceases, the dark clouds separate avd float slowly off, and in their place we see the bright blue sunlit sky, and we know that tho “battle of the elonds” is over. ———— A Tree's Record of its Lite. its not known 10 everyone that a tree keeps a record within its stem of the character of each successive season since it began its growth, If a peach tree, for instance, be examined after it has been cut down, the ring of wood formed in each year will show by its amount whether the Summer of that year was warm or dry, or otherwise favorable or adverse; and by the condi tion of the wood, the character of the Winter will be denoted, >e frost will leave a layer ing wood; and later frosts dicated by a change of color, if more, a Summer has been so dry to cause total rest between grow of June and September, the annual Hig Jo that Yeut wit be a double one, sometimes Larely distinguishable ar one, but liable to be taken, by a not very close ; SUNDAY sCHOOL LESSON, Buspay JASUARY 19,1500, The Song of Zachariana LESSON TEXT, { Luke 1 : 67-80, Memory verses, 76 LESSON PLAN. Toric oy THE QUARTER; Saviour of Men. JORULR Text (fod Gonos ie FOR THE the highest, will toward ii and on rood TCI. 9 Luke 2 : 14, 1 fis Lisson Tori ies Farctold, s Wrought out by the ather, i Experienced by {edees rg By AK Het Herald, J wa 607. the odd i ’ Forth by His vs. 75-80 va Gornex Texr afl the Luke 1 Lord his : 46. lo prepare woe. Dairy Home BeaninGs : M,-Tmke 1 Zuchurias 1. isn, B33: 1-5 AM foretold. ala wy + (57-8), «10. ies foretold T,~1sa. 40 : 1-11. foretold. Messiah's glor- ies foretold LESSON ANALYSIS, BY THE FATHER. I. AS WROUGHT OUT He hath wrought redemption for wth sent redempti Psa. 111 : 9). redeemed us from (Gal. 3 : 13). That he might redeein quity (Titus 2 : 14). And didst purchase unto God with thy blood i. Salvation Secured: Hi tion (68, Mine b ' He ple Christ ym unto his peo the the law ns from all $ cin 5 + men (Rev. a) 5 hath raised up a 11 will 1 make ud {Psa . Promises Fulfil As he the 1% 3 Fa s failed not saght: pass (Josh, 21: 45), There hath not failed one word of all his good promise (1 Kings 8: 56.) God, who cannot lie (Titus 1: 2). 1. “Zacharias was filled with Holy Ghost.” 1) The devout priest; (2) The divine spirit; (3 The prophetic endowment. 2. "He hath visited and wrought re- demption for his people.” (1) tions; (3) Jehovah's deeds: (4) Je- hovah's redemption. 3. “And hath raised salvation for us.” i work; (2 Humanity blessed. , AS EXPERIENCED BY THE REDEEMED, I.Saved From Enemies: Salvation from our enemies (71). a horn of Jehovah secured ; up at Salvation TY 3). their unto thee (Deut, 33 They shall rule over (Isa. 14: 2). The last enemy that shall be 1 Cor. 15: 26). af vil, and he (Jas. 4:7 Encircied with Mercy: To shew mercy (72 oppressors abolish« d is death Resist the You ii. will “ cy shall compass him about (Psa membered {Psa iis mercy ill sarely have upon 1} Jer. 31; 20 God, being rich in mercy. .. 3. 4 us (Eph. 2: 4, 5). mercy iim quickened {. Serving without Fear: That we. should serve hum without {« nr 4 . {Luke 12 Ye received not the spirit of again unto fear { Bom. 8: 15). God gave usnot a spirit of fearfulness (2Tim. 1: $ Sak bondage out fear (1 John 4: 18). 1. “Salvation from our enemies.” Man's many enemies; Man's complete salvation.—— (1) Antago- nism; (2) Suffering; (3) Salvation, “That we... should serve him without fear.” (1) Service trom man: (2) Service to God; (3) Service without fear, 3. “In holiness. . . .before him all our days.” (1) Berving before God; (2 (1) (2) the end. 111. AS SET PORTH BY HIS HERALD, i. He is the Most High: Thou, the prophet of the most high (76). His name shall be, Mighty God, Everlasting Father (Ira. 9: 6), They shall call his navne Immanuel: God with us (Maid. 1: 28). eame flesh John 1: 1, 14). My Lord and my God (John 20: 28), 11. He is the Dayspring: The dayspring from on high shall visit us (78). There shall come forth a star out of Jacob (Num, 24: 17). The people... .in darkness have seen a groat Light (Isa. 9: 2). Unto you... shall the sun of righteous. ness arise (Mal, 4: 2). 1 on the light of the world (John 8: Je iil. He is the Guide: To finide our feet (79). He will be our guide even unto death (Pan. 48: 14). Thau shalt vi mo with thy counsel (Pra. a Te In guide thee continually : hs guide of my youth, (Jer. L “To make ready his ways" (1) The coming king; (2) The unpre. pared ways; (8) The appointed pio- near, “Po give knowledge of salvation.” (1) A benighted world; (2) An en- hghtening messenger, “The davspring from on high shall us.” (1) Bpiritual darkness; Sp ritual dewn, — Prevailing ent; (2) Coming day. {1 1d ity Lae LESSON BIBLE READING, i IN PROPHECY. CHIT of the woman (Gen. 3 ; i) f Abraham (Gen 17 . 1: 16). d of David (Psa. 132 : Psa. 2 :7 nmarn:l (Isa, 7 y “ii. Preceded s:1, 3) A zealous 17). | A lowly one 16, 19 by a herald (Isa. 40 :3 ; Matt. worker (Psa. 69 : 9 ; John 2 ¢ Isa, 42 : 2 ; Matt. 12 : 15, (Isa. 53 ; Hig dominion (Ps Phil. 2 : 9, 113. yor i : Matt, «i A}, 8B: Yan 7:14; LESSON SURROUNDINGS, NTERVEN] to Nazareth, beth, John EVENTS, from her apparently bef Probably the { Wo 4 18-24 NG Mary returns visit to Elisa- the birth of dream of Jos } occurred shortly after When John the B there was great joy in It was CUSLOINArY among children at their ind female children when On the eighth d child be proposed to name Liaeh 3 yu ore Hine th ¥ were 3 therefore, circumcised, him, after hus his mother said, John.” Zacharias ing, and in 3 stored. All this occasioned grest won ! der in that region. Prace.—The same as { home of Zacharias. Tue, - was 1o Beech was re- before, at the birth months belo traditiona day y y would be July 1 or B,C. 5 ably Zacharias, El ) Company 10 nage priest to whom, God has again like the ' of Mary, is so called from which the song of ome’s Latin ver- benedictus, 3 of the Seriptures. i so MOTHER'S CORNER, Mothers have a right I think, if they can possibly command it, to an occas al vacation says & writer in The Cottage He arth Many a woman const: ar wesrs herself out in it, unwearying devotion to her family, who would not only live longer, if she would take regular and stated times of rest, but who would be able to be of even more service to them than she can ever hope to be when there is no stopping-place, no relaxation from morning till night, from years end to end. If the one ob of a woman's life is to get just as much out of herself as she possibly can, the best way to do it, is to husband her forees, and to reserve st least some small portion of her strength for those rgencies which are sure to mer or later to all of us, And if a woman wishes to be amiable and companionable as well as useful, what more helpful tonic to tried nerves that jar and fret, than the daily nap, the vearly vacation? ““0) bed, bed, delicions bed! Thou heaven on earth to the weary head.” Hood,—and it is a heaven which many a weary woman the better for repairing frequently. A half hour's nap after dinner may make all the difference between a shrew and an angel, for the women who scold are oftentimes simply tired women who would be as gentle as eooing doves if their overtaxed nerves could have the | rest and refreshment which they need. If at first thought it seems impossible | to command the leisure necessary for rest and study, let us only realize the economy, the necessity for it, and then we shall make a constant effort to ob- { tain a right which instead of being a { selfish indulgence, is simply a part of that wise self-devotion which makes every true woman long to make her life not only useful and belpful, but a con- | stant inspiration to those about her. - - €1mie COInEe BOK wrote to would be much more THE CLOTHING OF BARIRS, i Althongh 1 own that children are now | more sensibly clothed than was the case | thirty years ago, it is still common to | see an infant, who can take no exercise | to warm himself, wearing alow necked, | short sleeved, short coated dress in the | coldest weather. The two parts of the body--viz., the upper portion of the | chest and the lower portion of the abdo- { men-—which it is most im t to | keep from variations of temperature | are exposed, snd the child is rendered {liable to colds, coughs and lung dis. eases on the one hand and com- plaint on the other. What little there is of the dress in chiefly composed of gps work and embroidery. so that ere is about as much warmth in it as in a wire sieve, e socks accom panying such a dress are of cold white cotton, exposing a cruel of blue and red log. 1 can not see of a livid blue legs, and much rather behold them Somfafiahly
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