THE CHANGING WORLD By DOUGLAS MALLOCH LAXITY AND THINKING You msy sometimes look forward to the accomplishment of a long cherished piece of work with expec- taticas of inordinate pleasure, but at the final moment, when your task Is finished, your heart turns sick in dis- may. Everywhere you see glaring defects, lack of harmony, imperfect values, be- ing as a whole a erazy bit of patch- work that humiliates you beyond en- durance and rouses within your throb- bing breast spirit of resentment. Yet you, yourself, are to blame. Where hard thought was required you gave e light heed, and here before you | DHO SAID “Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.” AMES RUSSELL LOWELL, author ] ore public and to a tion of the British public He Is less known as an and yet his work In abolishing glave trade in this country brought him more prominence during his time than did his poetical work, Lowell was born In Cambridge, Mass... February 22, 1819. Nineteen years later he was graduated Harvard college. He early joined the ranks of the abolitionists and “Biglow Papers" did a great to take the subject of slavery ont of the academic class and wnake it a pop- ular matter. In 1855 he was offered post of professor of belles-lettres at Harvard a post filled by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Lowell the of fice on tion that two years to study abroad granted and he returned sumed the dt 8 The North American numbered many famous among its editors, secured the fees of Lowell In 1883. He held that position until 1872 when he resigned from the staff. During the Civil he resumed his attacks on slavery published a second series of low Papers” In the Atl Monthly. Following his resignation from staff of the North American Rev Lowell again visited Europe where he was well On return was appointed minister Spain Great Britain His denth occurred in 1801 McMur ray. great sec as a abolitionist, his deal the gecepted might have This 3 ine condi this country pre Review, to of fessor, which literary names serv war and Angie jew, received. his to and succegsively Wayne D (© by George Matthew Adams) ft) cAmong the OTABLES WILLIAM L ILLIAM FIRST Like them, of over undoing. His influence was peculiar a wonderful of iy to Dutch the Belgian two demoer the worl wportuni and and a but he had not Had he into one gether the tions, after of separation, that was needed the Netherlands tion, the story through Delg very differently. He was horn August 24, 1772, Hague, compelled French England th years of exile wi he allo na the tact combined sir na ance read ong man ads have of the Ger might at The of olution, to live first in Berl rose In bheennae the rey then in and not un revolt, after 18 wed to re loliand lies the material evidence damp with tears of disappointment. Now that you have the unworthy product in hand you realize how flimsy it is, not all comparable with the substantial thing of which you have been so long dreaming. Not being a philosopher you cannot accept defeat with complacency. Oh, critics, why have I falled? The answer Is simple, It applies almost to every fallure set off against inconstant human endeavor where thought was brushed aside to make room for feverish haste, When at last you regain your nor mal mental composure and your eyes are no more blurred with tears, you see that you stubbornly refused to use your own brain. Impulsive emotions controlled your act rather than calm productive which became Irksome, love or in war, the fight cannot intel- In maneuvering. You cannot rush half blind into bat- i Every idle hand in this world com- pels some other hand te do its work The need of the hour Is not more leg- islation It is more relig. Rodger Babson SOMETHING. TO EAT $s NIONS should be served at least once a week In every family, and oftener will be better, Onions With Nuts. Cook the desired amount of onions ws usunl, drain and cut up with a knife, ndd well-buttered crumbs, salt, pepper, and a cupful of rich milk Sprinkle the top of the dish with but tered crumnbs, add a baif cupful of chopped walnuts and bake until the buttered crumbs are brown, Turkish Selight, Soad five tablespionfuls of gelatin in one-half cupful of cold water for ten minutes. Mix one-third of a cup ful of orange julce with three table poonfuls of lemon nice and a ten Bul of grated orange rind, Bring ipfuls of sugar and one-half cup hot water te a boll, add the ed gelatin and allow to boll i i i and If you proper thinking obviate, will look Truth squarely you will discover that many of distressing fallures trace able to the common laxity of thinking. Every bungling act if hunted down its hidden lair will found affiliated with beggarly thought. The man or woman who neglects “think things over” will never get from the starting point. It is the industrious, clear, persist. ent thinker who Is changing the face of the making it better blazing: the way to a more future ® in our are he world by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.) GUESS the world Is movin’ on, But, oh, the things a man ‘ll miss! A lot of good, old things are gone; You don't see that, you can't have this, Famillar things have passed away; The world keeps changin’ every day; Each day they tell you at the store, “No, they don't make 'em any more.” A lot of Joys have taken wings That now you'll loek in vain find: They're lost to sight, a lot of things, And very nearly lost to mind Now, when you ask the clerk for one, He sort of smiles, your neighbor's son, says, date ; Here's something else that's simply great.” to And *Oh, them are out of The livery barn down by the erick Is gone, they've built a brick garage Take even words: a fek’s a trick But now they eall it “camouflage.” The cracker barr’l, the oyster can Why, I could name a hundred, man A hundred things you used to see That now memory. are just a But you whose whiskers gray, (The younger generation shave), Don't sit around and scold and say That all that's old they onght save, I guess the now are io world Is movin' on: A lot of good But why A lot of come ! (63 by Mel old things sad and why new Are gone be be glum? good, things have ure Newspaper Syndicate L DAYS { I 4 \ LI DONT GY TEW® wORRL waged neve Got anil asi TEC pot Sent CAE! es) The UNFORTUNATE He troops at hoth the Holland and battle of Wa to his polit king But the ifair to the Belgians great directed ian : then settled down ical duties terioo ns inws we made and tunity were he 1 his he to take his here igeed] Had inge of oppor gent his son, of Or the In- care terests sqguthern the young the there Flemish and Walloon. But declared for absolute rule a revolt, ium against him, he abdicated to ling and, at last He whom after four died in 1884, fiecrge Matthew Adams ) despair, lelgian he much atta COYntess was ched and quiet, voprs he (® by twenty minutes, Remove from the heat, add fruit juice and rind. Strain in a shallow pan which has been wet with cold water. Then cool, turn out on a board, dredge with powdered sugar and cut into cubes, Roll In powdered sugar, Graham Breakfast Muffins, Take one well-beaten egg, add one cupful of sour milk, one-half teaspoon- ful of soda, the same of salt, two tablekpoonfuls of sugar and one cupful of graham flour. Beat well, then add three tablespoonfuls of melt ed fat and pour into hot, well-greased gem pans. This wakes six large muf- fins. Lemon Wafers. Cream one cupful of fat and add one cupful of sugar. Add three well eaten eggs and three tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Add flour enough to mnke a dough to handle. Roll very thin and cut Into rounds or fancy