IR. TALMAGES SERMON, The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday Sermon. Suahject ; “Power of Testimony" TexT: “We are witnesses "Acts iil, 15. In the days of G Stephenson, the perfector of tho locomotive i the sol. entists pro conclusively that a railway train could never be driven by steam power sucocessiuily and without peril; but the yushing express trains from Liverpool to Edinburgh and from Edinburgh to London, have made all the nations witnesses of the splendid achievement. Machinists and navigators proved conclusively that a steamer could never cross the Atlantic Ocean: but no sooner had they successfully proved the impossibility of such an under. taking than the work was done, and the pas- sangers on the Cunard and the Inman and the National and the White Star lines are ‘witnesses. There went up a guffaw of wise Isughter at Professor Morse's propostiiun to inake the lightning of heaven errand boy, and it was proved conclusively that the thing could never be done; but now all the news of the wide world, by Associated Press ps in your hands every morning and night, as made all nations witnesses, So in the time of Christ it was conclusively that it was impossible for Him to wise from the dead. It was shown logically that when a man was dead he was dead, and the heart and ths liver and the | having roved fhg™ Or the little child came home from school with the hot fever that stoppel not for tha agonized prayer or for the skillful physician, and the little child was taken. Or the babe was lifted out of your arms by some quick epidemic, and you stood wonderin why God ever gave you that child at all, so soon He was to take it way, And yet you are not repining, you are not fretful, you are not fighting against God. What enabled you to stand all the trial? Oh” you say, ‘I took the medicine that God gave my sick soul. In my dis tress I threw m at the feet of a sym- Juthising God; and when 1 was too weak pray, or to look up, He breathed into me a peace that I think must be the foretaste of that heaven where thero is neither a tear, nor a farewell, nor a grave” Come, all ye who have been out to the ve to weep there—coms, all ye comfo souls, get up off your knees. Is there no power in this Gospel to soothe the heart?! Is there no power in this religion to quiet the worst paroxysm of grief? There cones up an an- swer from comforted widowhood, and and ohildlessness, saying: “Ay, Ry. we are witnesses!" { When a man has trouble the world comes fn and says: “Now get your mind off this; out and breathe the fresh air; plunge soper into business.” What poor advice! Get your mind off. it! When everything is upturned with the bereavement and every- thing reminds you of what you have lost. Get yous mind off it! They might as well advise you to stop thinking. You cannot stop thinking, and you cannot stop thinking in that direction. Taks a walk in the fresh alr! Why, slong that very street or that very road she once accompanied you. Out of that grass plat she plucked flowers or into that show window she looked, fas- would be ond all power of friction | or arousal. They showed it to be an absolute | absurdity that the dead Christ should ever wet up alive; but no sooner had the oved | this than the dead Christ arose, bo fy dis- | <iples beheld Him, heard His wvolce and | kod with Him, and they took the witness | stand to prove that to true which the | wiseacres of the day had proved to be im- | possible; the record of the ex fence and of the testimony is in tho text: “Him hath God raised from the dead, whereof we are wit. | messes,” i Now let me play the skeptic for a moment. | *“There is no God,” says the skeptic, ‘for | I have never seen Him with my physical eyesight. Your Bible is a pack of sentra | dictions, There never wasa miracle. Laz | arus was not raised from the dead, and wa- | Ler was never turned into wine. four re- | tigion is an imposition on the credulity of the mages.” Thereis an aged man moving over Jade as though he would like to respond, dere are hundreds of people with faces a tittle flushed at theses announcements, and all through this assembly thers is a sup- pressed fealing which would like to speak | out in behalf of the truth of our glorious i Christianity, as in the days of the text, cry. | tag out, “Weare witnesses ™ he fact is that if this world is ever brought to God it will not be through argu- ment, but through testimony. You might cover the whole earth with apologies for Christianity and learnod treatises in defense of religion—you would not converta soul. Lectures on the harmony between science and religion are beautiful mental discipline, but have never saved a souland never will save a soul. Puta man of the world anda of the church against each other and the man of the world will in all probability get the triumph. There are a thousand things in our religion that seem illogle | . to the world and always wil | seem illogical. Our weapon in this conflict is faith, nos logic; faith, not metaphysics, faith, not profundity; faith, not scholastic sxplorstion. But then in order to have faith we must have testimony, and if five hundred men, or one thousand men, or five handraed thousand men, or five million men get upand tell me that they have feit the religion of Jesus Christ 8 joy, a comfort, a help, an as piration, I am bound as a fair minded man to t their testimony. I want just now to put before you three pre tioxs, the truth of which I think this audience will atest with overwhelming unanimity. The first proposition is: We are witnesses that the religion of Christ is able to con- | vert a soul. The Gospel may have had a | hard time to conquer us, we may have fought it back, but we wers vanquished. You say conversion is only an imaginary | thing. We know better, “We are wit- | messes.” There never was so great a change | fn our heart and life on any other subject | as on this. People laughed at the mission- aries in ar because they preached ten without ons convert; but there are &.000 converts in Madagascar today. P laughed at Dr. Adomram Judson, the Baptist missio . because he kept ou preaching in Bur five years without a single convert: but there are 20,000 Baptists in Burmah today. People laughed at Dr. Morrison, in China, for preaching there @aven years without a single conversion; but there are 25,000 Christians in China to-day. People lau at the missionaries for preaching at Tahiti fifteen years without a single conversion, and at the missionaries for preaching in Bengal seventeen Jeon without = single conversion; yet in all those lands But why go so far to find evidence of the Bospel's power to save a soul? “We are | oritnesses. We were so proud shat no | man could bave humbled us; we were ward that no earthly power could have melted us; angels of God were all around about us; could not overcome us. But sue day, per at a Methodist anxious sent, or at a Presbyterian catechetical lec- Sure, or at a burial or on horseback a power ssizad us, and made us get down, and wnade us Sreutbile and ads wi kneel, and anade us ory for mercy, and we tried to wrench ourselves away trom the , but we could not. It flung os flat, when we | “AIOSe We Were as m changed as Gourgis, ! the heathen, who went intos prayer ng | “with a dagger and a to distarb the meet- | dng and destroy it, the next day was | found er¥ing: “Oh, my great sins! Ob, my i t viour™ grea for eleven preached the Gospel of Christ to his fellow, mountain the last words qn his dying lips being * free ! ceased to rigid boy their offices oe limbs Grace” Oh, it was cinated, saying: “Coms, see the pictures.” Go deeper into business’ Why, she was iated with all your business ambition,’ and since she has gons you have no ambition left, Oh, thisis a clumsy world when ft tries to comfort a broken heart. I can build a Cor lear's engine, I can paint a Raphael's “Ma. donna,” I can play a Beethoven's *“‘Eroica Symphony” as easily as this world can com- fort a broken heart, And yet you have been comforted. How wasit Io Did Christ come to you and say *‘Get your mind off this; go out and breathe fresh air; plunge deeper into business’ No. There was a minute when He cams to you--perhaps in the watch of the night perbaps in your place of business, perhaps along the street —and He breathed something into your soul that gave peace, rest, infinite quiet, so that you could take out the photograph of the departed ons and look into the eyes and face say: “‘Itisall right; she is better off; I would not call her back. Lord, I thank Thee that Thou nass comforted my poor heart.” Again, I remark that we are witnesses of the fact that religion has the power to give composure in the last moment. I never shall was led by my father's hsad, and we came to ouse where the bereavement had carriages but there was one carriage that es- pecially attracted my boyish attention, and it bad black plumes I said: “What's that? What's that? Why those black tassels on the top Christian woman who three days before had lsparted in triumph; the whole scene made an impression I never forgot. : in our sermons and in our lay exhortations arriet Newell. But I want you I want to know if you bave ever seen anything to make you believe that | the religion of Christ can give composure in, | the fi hour. Now in the courts attorney,. Knoxors Ek say. They demand that the witness musy ou now: and I want to know, amination of ow, ave seen or heard anything “Oh, yea" you say, “I saw my father and) mother depart. Thers was a great difference] By the other, there afore the one you In the other cass you was more tenderness.” How very much “Oh, no,” you say, “no, remember as though it were yesterday; she had a kind word for us all, and there wers | a few mementoes distributed among the children, and then she told us how kind wa must be to our father in his lonliness, and | as calmly as a child in a cradle.” : What made her so composed? Natural | ne~vous; when the carriage inclined to the | side of the road she would ery out; she was | always rather weakly.” What, then, gave | Was it because she did not care much for you, and the pang of parting “Oh,” you say, “she we. | ered upon uss wealth of affection; no mother | ever loved her children more © mother | § posure in the | Do not hide it. Be frank and let “Ow,” you say, “it was because | she was so good: she made the Lord her por | last hour? tian brother die and he triumphed.” some one slse, “I saw a Christian sister die and she triumphed” Some one elses will say, “I saw a Christian deughter dis and she trinmphed.” Coma, all who have seen the last moments of a Christian, and give testimony in this causs on trial. Uncover Bible from which Way Jake 30 70nd $s promise presence o heaven that you will the whole truth and nothing but the ie fies i : i { gi* § fi E 2 ih 8 : ef zee SoR1 EE a - 28 od. Do you not see it trembling with all tenderness and beaming with all hope? in the Star of Bethlehem. , Deep horror then my vitals froze, | Death struck, I ceased the tide to stem, © When suddenly a star arose — It was the tar of Bethlehem, Oh, hearer, get your eye on it. It is casler ww for you a becomes a Christiam than it is to stay away from Christ and heaven, When Madame Sontag began her musical bareer she was hissed off the stage at Vienna by the friends of her rival, Amelia Steinin- ker, who had already n to decline through her dissipation. oars passed on, and one day Madame Sontag, in her glory, was riding through the streets of Berlin, when she saw a little child leading a blind woman, and she sald, “Come here, my little child, come bere. Who is that Jou are lead- ing by the hand? And the little child re- piled, “That's my mother; that's Amelia Htelninger. Bhe used to bea t singer, but she lost her voles, and she cried so much about it that she lost her groups. Hidive my love to her,” sald Madame Sontag, “and tall her an old acquaintance will call on her this afternoon.” The next week in Berlin a vast assemblage gathered at a benefit for that poor woman, sud it was said that Madame Sontag sang that night as she had never sung fore, And she took a skilled oculist, who tried in vain to give eyesight to the Bt blind wo- man. Until the day of Amelia Bteininger's jeath Madame Sontag took care of her and her daughter after her. That was what the queen of song did for her enemy. But, oh, near a more thrilling story still. Blind im- mortal, poor and lost. thou who, when the world and Christ were rivals for thy heart, didst hiss thy Lord away-—-Christ comes now to give thee sight, to give thee a home, to give thee heaven. With more than aBon- wh generosity He comes to meet your need. th more than a Sontag’s music He comes to plead for thy deliverance, Some Curlous Criminals. ! In 1386 a judge at Falaise condemned 4 sow to be mutilated and nanged for eating a child. In 1389 a horse was solemnly tried be. fore the magistrate and condemned to death for having killed a man, In 1604, during the witch persecu. tions in New England, a dog exhibited such strange symptoms of affliction that he was believed to have been ridden by a warlock, and he was accordingly hanged. #Criminal™ animals frequently ex- pisted their offenses, like other male- factors, on the gallows, but subsequently they were summarily killed without trial snd their owners maulcted in heavy damages. During the fourteenth century oxen and cows might be legally killed when. ever taken in the act of marauding, and asses for a first offense had one ear cropped; for a second offense the other ear, and if after this they were asses enough to commit a third offense their lives became forfeit to the crown. In the fifteenth century, cocks were somewhat credited with the power of laying accursed eges,from which sprang winged serpents, Ic 1474, at Bale, a cock was publicy accused of having laid ons of those dreadful eggs. He was tried, sentenced to death and, together with his egg, was burned by the executioner in the market place amid a great concourse of people. — Chicago Herald. Yoracity of a Pike. The following story is told by a cor- respondent of Land and Water: “1 and some friends were fishing in a small river 1 Hertfordshire, and, sport being poor, were watching a family of moor-hens just hatched. One of the fledgelings, venturing too far out, was carried down a swift run, but managed to paddle into an eddy. Nosooner, how- snap, and the fledgling disappeared in the jaws of a pike. Later on a second yin, and very soon afterwad, in one rescus on our parts, a third was sacrificed. This was more than we could stand, and a spinning minnow, very poorly adapted for pike fishing, was produced. At the second cast the lure was taken, and fate, being propi- tious, the gut escaped the pike's sharp teeth. Result, a fish of four pounds only. When landed, the last-taken chick fell out of the pike’s mouth with an expiring gasp still in it, and, on the fish being held head downward and shaken, the other two made their ap- pearance. Sicilian Poverty. I visited the vineyards at Bronte, in Sicily, which are 300 acres in extent, and under a surveyor, were trenching the ground in one long line. They were a poor-looking lot, but appeared to use their implements, which are more like stick or whip plays pretty freely about their backs, I believe, and without vigil. ance they will not work at all. They come from their villages on Monday morning and return on Saturday night. They are lodged, receive three meals, and about sixteen cents a day. The first two A Boy's Own Room. One of the firmest and sweetest of home ties to a youth is his room. Make it pleasant and bright. Above all let him feel that it is his, and that you re- spect its privacy and sanctity. It is strange how early this feeling of pride in a room that he ean call his own will develop with the least fostering, A ht tle boy of seven recently had a tiny snuggery fitted up for bim. His airs of ownership were something comical. An inexpensive but pretty set of china gives him more pleasure than any toy he has ever possessed, He never leaves his wash-bowl half full of dirty water, or his soap out of its dish, and is as neat and dainty about his toilet ap- pointments as a girl. A description of this stand of home manufacture will show you how simple is this room, which nevertheless will always be a pleasant, cheerful spot in the boy's memory when he is no longer a boy. A soap box twenty-six inches high was placed on end and another one, thirty inches long and twelve inches pailing. The top was surmounted by a pad covered with old muslin, and over this a pretty cover with embroidered ends was laid. The front and mdes were draped with a rather full eurtain of a pretty striped material called Bom- bay cloth. It cost eight cents a yard and has pink, blue, and ecru stripes on a cream ground. Fifty inches above the top of the stand, and directly in the middle, was a strip of wood twelve inches long, fastened firmly to the wall by means of a cleat; at the end a brass knob from a curtain pole was screwed in. Twenty-soven inches above the top of the stand, on either side and in a di- ect line with the ends of it, two simi- lar lengths of wood were fastened to the wall. These were ends sawn from a curtain pole too long for its window, and were also embellished with brass knobs, A single width of the goods was thrown over the strip of wood at either side, as shown in the illustration. small mirror, whose plain bow at either end. and comb, satin, joined with erazy stitches of yel- low silk, was made a piece eight inches jong sud seven wide. This was edged with & bit of white lace two inches wide on the ends, closed in thé form of a long roll, stuffed with batting thickly sprinkled with sachet powder, tied shut and suspended by the same from a nail at the side of his stand where it same time, on this stood s handkerchief box of a ful and commodious withal. Take an ordinary box, such as letier-paper comes ip, eight inches long, five wide and three deep, or, indeed, a box of any dimensions that you may happen to have. Line the bottom with a thin over the ontside of the box; line the cover in the same way. Haise the cov- er on the outside by wadding it to re. semble the top of a pincushion; cover with plush snd conceal the stitches row of tinsel braad. The body of the box outside is to be covered with plush The It can be ornamented with a bow of ribbon on the top. Any scraps of silk, velvet, plush, and lace can be combined to make this pretty and use ful article. Asa boy grows older, give him a larger room, if posmble, one in which he can have a fire. A boy who is sto diously inclined ean make much bet ter progress if allowed to study in pri- vacy than he can with the family about him. Emerson says the best part of a college education to a young man is his room with fire. Don't keep any room shut up as a “spare room” while your boy sleeps with his younger brother, Marriage Customs In India. Marriage customs and marriage mantras differ in some respects in dif- ferent parts of the country. Thus at the marriage of His Highness the Maharajah of Mysore, the following pretty recitation formed a portion of the ritnal uttered by the bridegroom in musical Sanscrit: “The bridegroom replies ‘Well be it,’ and recites the follo wing “ ‘Who gave her? To whom did he give Aer? Y von gave her To love he gave Aer, LOVE Was Lue aul, Love was the taker. Love! may this be thine, With love may I enjoy Aer! Love has pervaded tne ocean. With love I acoept her! Love! may this be thine.” " Soon after this the bride and the bridegroom proceed one or two steps forward, and the bride is thus by the bridegroom: i 0 SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1890, Taking up the Cross, LESSON TEXT. (Luke 14 : 25.35. Memory verses. 27-30.) LESSON PLAN. Toric or THE (QUARTER: Saviour of Men, Gorpex Texr ron THE He is alle to save to the Heb. 7 : 25. Jesus the (QUARTER : uttermost, — Liessox Toric: Frpounding the Terms of Discipleship. {1 Terms of Discipleship, “ LESSON OUTLINE] | a Kavor of Discipleship, { vs. 3, 85. Gornoex Texr: Whosoever doth not bear his eross, and come after me, cans not be my disciple.—Yuke 14 : 27. Dairy Home READINGS © M.—-Luke 14 : 25.85. of discipleship. T.—2 Tim, 8 hand, —J hn hand. T.—John 15:1 world, F.— Matt. position, Ss. - Exod. evil. 8. —~Dent. 13 work for God. The terms 1-12. Perils at Ww 16 1-16, Perils at "oe Wri, Hated of the 10 ;: 16-39. Braving op- 0 ~ 32 : 7-29, Extirpating 1-18, Thorough LESSON ANALYSIS. I. TERMS OF DISCIPLESHIP, I. Hate the Earthly: If any hateth not wife, life, he cannot be | O ve that love the Lord, hate evil Psa, 97 : 104. Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? (Pea. 133 : 21). ! The fear of the Lord is to {Prov. =~ 13 1f any man love the world, the love of the he Father is not in him (1 John 2:15). | 11, id id iy hate evil Bear the Cross: Whosoever doth not | Cross, cannot be (27). Let him deny himself, snd take up his { cross (Matt, 16 : 24). | Bimon they compelled to go, that might bear his cross (Matt. 2 3d. { Let him bear his own - i fake Lake 9 : 23), He went out, bearing the cross for him- {John 19 ; { 111. Follow the Lord: Whosoever doth not me, cannot be (27). If the Lord be God, follow him IR: 21). | If any man would come after me, let { him follow me (Matt. 16 : 24. | The sheep follow him (John 10 : 4). up i wel! 175. ..come after (Rev. 14 : 4). titudes.” attraction; (2) Mankind a circle of dependence. 2. “If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not,... he cannot be disciple.” (1) The sacred hate; (2) The sure success. (8) “Whosoever doth not bear his own oross, and come after me, can- not be my disciple.” The way to discipleship; (1) Cross-bearing; (2) Christ-following. Ii COST OF DISCIPLESHIP. {. Counted by the Wise : Which. .. .doth not first sit down and count the cost? (28). If it seem evil... .to serve the Lord, choose you this day (Josh, 24 : 15). What profit should we have, if we pray unto him? (Job 21 : 15). Prepare thy work;. .. afterwards build thine house (Prov. 24 : 27). What things were gain to me, these have I counted loss (Phil. 8 : 7). ii. Disregarded by the Foolish : This man began to build, and was not able to finish (30). My people doth not consider (Isa. 1:3). My people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit (Jer. 2 : 11 i They made light of it (Matt. 22 : 5). When I have a convenient season, 1 will call thee (Acts 24 : 25), 111. Defined by the Lord: Whosoever. .. .renounceth not all, .. .cannot be my disciple (33). He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it (Matt, 10: 39), No man... Jooking back, is fit for the kingdom (Luke 9 : 62). Sell all that thou hast. . . .and come fol. low me (Luke 18 : 22), For whom 1 suffered the loss of all things (Phil. 3 : 8), 1. **“Which of you. .. doth not first ....o0ount the cost?” (1) Great undertakings: (2) Commendable foresight ; (I) Careful considera. tion. 2. “This man began to build, and was not able to finish.” Effort without preparation; (2) Progress without completion, 8 “Whosoever. . . .renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my dis ciple.” (1) Discipleship desirable; (2) Renunciation essential, 111 SAVOR OF DISCIPLESHIP, 1. Disciples as Sait: Salt therefore is good (34), Ye Ale the salt of the earth (Matt : 18). Balt is good. Have walt tn yourselves (Mark 9 : 50. Let be... seasoned with Col. 4: 8). fost us Joe stvour of his knowledge (2 Cor. II. Hopeless Without Savor: If oven the malt have lost its savour, Wherewith shall t be sated, (Matt. § : k shall be burned, 111. Useless Without Savor: Men cast it out (35). It is thenceforth good for nothing (Matt, 5:18). Apart from me ye can do nothing (John 15 : B). We are not as the many, corrupting the word of God (2Cor. 2 : 17). Holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power (2 Pim. 8 : 5. 1. “Salt therefore is good.” (1) Salt as a condiment in domestic use; (2) Salt us a symbol of Christian lLiv- ing. 2. “If even the salt have lost its ea- your, wherewith shall it be sea- soned?’ (1) A vital loss; (2) A hopeless case, 8. “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” (1) Capacity to bear; (2) Obligation to hear. LESSON BIBLE READING. BEARING THE CROSS, Demanded (Matt. 10 : 88 ; Luke 14% 27). Its accompaniments (Matt. Mark 8 : 34; 10 : 21; Luke 9 Nlustrated by Simon (Malt. Mark 15 : 21 ; Luke 23 ; 26). Hiustrated by the Lord (John '9 : 17). Preliminary to crucifixion (Phil. 2 : 5 ; Heb. 12 : 2). 16 : . 0 dad le GY . 2D . i "3 de 24 ; TAD MAIN EY LESSON SURROUNDINGS. IntERVENING Evesrs It ally agreed that none are The interval between this the last must have been brief, ferent views of the entire already been given. Prace,—8tiil in Perma, probably on the way to the Jordan. Tiwe.—Accord nz to Robinson, in March, 783 A. U. C.; that is, A. D. 30. According to Andrews, the time was a few months before this, —in December, 782: that is, A. D. 29. Prusoxs. —Our Lord, great multitudes. Incipexrs.—The multitudes follow our Lord; he turns and tells them that his followers must bear the cross, warns them about counting the cost. and in- troduces two illustrations, —from build. ing a tower, and from waging war. The figure of salt losing its savor is again introduced. There 18 no parallel passage, though similar sayings occur elsewhere in the Gospel narratives. There is no objec- tion to supposing they were repeated on this occasion. is geneys recorded. CHRON and The dif- | AskaTe LAYS followed by -——— For the Housewife. Fio Caxn—Wkite part: Two enps of flour, one cup of corn starch, one cup of milk, one cup of butter, one cup of sugar, the whites of six eggs, three teaspoonfuls of baking yowder. Black part: Two cups of flour, one cup of corn s'arch, one cup of cold water, two | cups of sugar, one cup of butter, two | cups of chopped raisins, the yolks of i four eggs, one dozen and a half of | chopped figs, half a teaspoonful of i cloves, and one teaspoonful of cinne- { mon, three teasspoonfuls of baking pow- ider. Use large jelly pans. Put into | each pan a layer of white and dark bat- alternately, with a layer of the chopped (or sliced) figs. Make thelay- { ers thick, and when done put them to. gether with the icing. Dericiovs Sroxae Cake. — Heat a tes- milk warm. Add to | it three-quarters of a pound of sugar. | Beat in the yolks of five eges and half a pound of well-sifted flour, light weight. { Then add the whites of the eggs, beaten 1 stiff. Cor Caxe.—Butter, one onp; milk, | one cup; sugar, two cups; flour, four cups; eggs, four; two dessert spoonfuls of Royal baking powder, How ro Wasa Sumssr Duusses, — Summer washing dresses rank among those that take first place for pretii- ness and grace, and, rightly enough, are much favored, seeing thst besides these attractive qualities, moderation in price may be added. There is just one point to be alleged against them, and that is, that they soil very quickly, and if not care ally washed, lose all their dainty coloring. The safest way, especially with flowered sateens and patterned zephyrs, 18s to have them cleaned by the dry cleaning process. But as that is rather costly, when we consider that these materials require such frequent cleansing, above all mn town, we give here a few recipes, which are best earried out at home by a oare- ful washer. For either of these fabrics prepare a tub of water as follows: Scrape yellow soap into boiling water, in the vroportion of a pound of soap to two gallons of water, and whea it has quite melted put it into a large tub and ll with lokewarm water. Wash the dress (or dresses) in this by rubbing gently and turning it about, so that the water and rubbing are applied to all parts. Squeeze it as tightly 88 possi. ble, and plunge it into a tab of luke. warm water with which a quart of bran has been mixed, rab and turn about in this, and then rinse thoroughly in cold water. Dry quickly, in the open air if convenient, then starch the dress, and dry again, pam it through clear cold water and dry it. Be'ore ironing it should be sprinkled with water and rolled tightly in a cloth. The most de- lieate colors may be treated successfully in this way. Bisck washing dresses require care- ful treatment in order to retain their color; they should be washed in Lran water mixed with a little ox gall Starching will be uane essary, and they should be ironed on the wr side with cool irons. A little ox gal mixed with the water in which any arti- cle made of black cotton or thread is to be washed will set the color, aud sugar of lead answers the same purpose with black or colors. With black washing dresses having patsanne of white, starch. ing will not washed in bran or { ter, | cup of water tall
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