REV. DR. TALMAGE. {HE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject: “Mothers In Israel.” Text: “The mother of Sisera looked oul | WH a window," —Judges v,, 28, Spiked to the ground of Jael's tent lay the | dead commander in chief of the Canaanitish | host, General Bisera, not far from the river | Kishon, which was only a dry bed of pebbles | svhen in 1889, in Palestine, we crossed it, but | the gullies and ravines which ran into it in- | dicated the possibility of great freshets like the oneat the time of the text, General Sisera had gone out with 900 fron chariots, but he | was defeated, and, his chariot wheels inter. looked with the wheels of other chariots, he | could not retreat fast enough, and so he leaped to the ground an ran till, exhaust. od, he went into Jasl's tent for safety. She | had just been churning, and when he asked | for water she gave him buttermilk, which in the eest is considered a most refreshing drink. Very tired, and supposing he was | safe, he went to sleep upon the floor, but | Jasl, who had resolved upon his death, took | a tent pin, long and round and sharp, in one | hand and a hammer in her other hand, and, putting the sharp end of the tent pin to the forehead of Sisera, with her other hand she | lifted the hammer and brought it down on | the head of the pin with a stout stroke, | when Sisera struggled to rise, and she | struck him again, and he struggled to rise, | and the third time she struck him, and the | commander in chief of the Canaanitish host | lay dead. Meanwhile in the distance Sisera’s mother | sits amid surroundings of wealth and pomp | and scenes palatial waiting for his return. | Every mother expects her son to be victori- ous, and this mother looked out at the win- dow expecting to see him drive up in his | chariot followed by wagons loaded with em- | broideries and also by regiments of men van- | quished and enslaved. Iseo her now sitting at the window, in high expectation. She watches the farthest turn of the road. She looks for the flying dust of the swift hoofs. The first flash of the bit of the horse's bridle | she will cath. The ladies of her court stand round, and ghe tells them of what they shall have when | her son comes up-—chains of gold and carca- nets of beauty and dresses of such wondrous fabric and splendor as the Bible only hints at, but leaves us to imagine. ““He ought to be here by this time,” says his mether, ‘That battle is surely over, I hope that freshet of the river Kishon has not impeded him. I hope those strange appearances we saw last night in the sky were not ominous, when the stars seamed to fight in their courses, Xo! No! He i380 brave in battle I know he has won the day. He will soon be here.” But alas for the disappointed mother! Nhe will not sea the glittering headgear of the Horses at full gallop bringing her son home from victorious battle, As a solitary messenger arriving in hot haste rides up to the windows at which the mother of Sisera sits, he cries, *‘*Your armies are defeated, and your son is | dead.” There is a scenes of horror and anguish from which we turn away. Now you see the full meaning of my short text, “The mother of Sisera looked ontat a | window.” Well, my friends, we are all out in the battle of lite; it is raging now, and the most of us have a mother watching and walling for news of our victory or defeat. It she be not sitting at the window of earth, she is sitting at a window ol Beaven, and she is going to hear all about it. | By all the rules of war Sisera ought to dave been triumphant. He had 900 fron ghariots and a Bost of many thousands Yaster than the armies of Israel Bod was on the other side, and the angry freshets of Kishon, and the hall, the lightasing and the unmanageable | chariots | discom- | osephus in his history | Bat | Marhorses, and the and the steliar fe In the sky Bted Sisera. i describes the scene in the following words : | “When they were come to a close fight there came down from heaven a great storm with a vast quantity of rain axl hail, and tha wind blew the rain in the face of the Canaanites and so darkened their eyes their arrows and slings were of no advantage to them, nor wonld the coldness of the air permit the sol- diers to make use of their swords, while this storm did not so much Incoiamode the lsra- elites because it came on their backs, They also took such courage upon the apprehen- sion that God was assisting them that they fell upon the very midst of their enemies acd slew a great number of them, so that some of them fell by the Israelites, some fell by their own horses which were put into disorder, and not a few were killed by thelr own char- fota.” Hence, my hearers, the bad news brought to tha mother of Sisera looking out at the window. And our mother, whether sitting at a window of earth or awindow of heaven, will hear the news of our victory or defeat not according to our talents of eduealionnl equipment or our opportunities, but accri- ing as to whether God is for us or agalist us. “Where's mothe?" is the question mest frequently asked in many households, It is asked by the husband as well as the cCild coming in at nightfall, “Where's mother?’ *. is asked by the little ones when they get hat and come in erying with the pain, “Wheres mother” It fs asked by those whe have seen some grand sight or heard son» | od news or received some beautiful gift, “Fhere's mother?” She sometimes {ecls wearied by the question, for they all ask aa keep asking it ail the time, She Is not oc! the first to hear every case of perplexity, but she is the judge in every court of domestic appeal. That is what puts the premator) | nkles on so many maternal [ices and pow- ders white so many maternal foreheads, You | poe, it is a question that keeps on for all th» years of childhood, It comes from the rurs- ery, and from the evening stand where the boys and girls are learning their school les | sons, and from the starting out in the mors fog, when the tippet or hat or siate | or book or overshos Is lost, untl| at night, all out of breath, the young- gters come in and shout until you ean hear them from cellar to garret and from front door to the back fence of the back yard, | “Where's mother?” Indeed, a child's itle is | 80 full of that question that if he be taken | away one of the things that the mother most | misses and tho silencs that most ~spresses ber is the absence of that question, which | she will never hear on earth again, except she hears ft in a dream which sometimes re. stores the nursery just as it was, and then | the voles comes back so natural, and so | sweet, and so innocent, and so Inquiring | that the dream breaks at the words, “Where's | mother?” It that question were put to most of vs this morning. we would have to say, if ws spoke truthtully, like Sisera's mother, aan is at the palace window. She has becone a queen unto God forever, and she is pulling back the rich folds of the king's upholsiery to 10k down at us, Wa are not told the pac tiouinrs about the residence of Bisera's mother, but there Is in that scenas in the book of Judges so much about embroideries and sendlework and Indies in waiting that we | know her recid ence must have been oely | and palatial, So we have no minute and par. tieular description of the mo at whose window our glorified mother sits, but thers | f= so much in tha closing chapters of | the good oid hook about erowns, and pearls big enough to make a gate out of ons of them, new songs and marriage sup. , and harps, and white horses with k ngs i the stirrups, and golden candlesticks that wa know the heavenly residence of our mother is superb, is unique, is colonnaded, is domed, is Mabie y i" iunttic ed, is glorified beyond the power o or pen or tongue to prosent, und in the window of that palace the mother #is watohing for news trom the battle, What a contrast be. er a family, in the old time way, with tie or no hired help, | camomile | and | heard | rocking chair, | mornings and nights, | perstitions, | mother is » fool,” and | words of his mother when she in the | of 1512 put » musket {no his hand and said | which, after tellin perhaps a There was then no reading of elaborate treatises on the best modes <f rearing chil- dren, and then leaving it all to hired help, with ons or two visits a day to the nursery to seo if the principles announced are being car- ried out, sewing, the washing, the mending, ths darn- ing, the patohing, the millinery, tho mantua making, the housekeeping, and in hurried harvest time heiped spread the hay or tread down the load in the mow, the same time caterers, tailors, chaplains and nurses for a whole househeld all together down with measles fever, or round the house with whooping coughs and eroups and runround fin gers and earaches and all the infantile | distempers which at some time swoop upon every large household, Some of those mothers never got rested in this world, Instead of | the self rocking cradles of our day, which, | wound up, will go hour after hour for the | solace of the young slumberer, it was weary | foot on the rocker sometimes hall the day or | rook rook. In- filled with ail the half the night rock —rock stead of our drug stores wonders of materia pennyroyal and catnip and mustard and flowers, which to do everything. Just think of it! years of preparing breakfast, supper, The chief music was that Fagged out, headachy and with ankles swollen, Those old fashioned dinner they mothers—i{f any persons ever fitted appropri- | | ately into a good, easy, comfortable heaven, they were the folks, and they got there, and they are rasted, for they have their third sight—as they lived long enough on earth to get their second sight--and they do not have to pant for | breath after going up the the emerald stairs | of the Eternal palace, at whose window they now sit waiting for news from the battle, But if anyone keeps on asking the ques- tions “Where's mother?” [I answer, ‘She's in your present character.” The probability | is that your physical features suggest her. { If there be seven children in a household at least six of them look like their mother, and the older you get the more you will look like | jut I speak now especially of your | This is | her, character and not of your looks. easily explained, During the first ten years of your life you were almost all the time with her, and your in any life so important for impression as the first ten. Then and thers isthe impression made for virtue or vice, for truth or false- hood, for bravery or cowardice, for religion or skepticism. Suddenly start out frocs be- hind a door and frighten the child, and you may shatter bis nervous system for a life. time. During the first ten years you ean tell him enough spook stories to make him a | coward till he dies, Act though Friday werean unlucky day, and ft were baleful to have thirteen at the table, or | sea the moon over the left shoulder, and he will never recover from the idiotic su- she is ten vears old a foudness for dross that will make her a mere “dummy frame,’ or fashion plate, for forty years, Ezekiel | xvi., #4, “As Is the mother so is her daugh- ter.” Before one decade has passed you oan decide whether that boy will be a Shylock or a George Peabody. Boys and giris are gen- erally echoes of fathers and mothers, What an incoherent thing for a mother out of temper to punish a child for geting mad, or for a father who smokes to shut his boy up in a dark closet because he has found him with an old stump of a | cigar in his mouth, or for that mother to | rebuke her daughter for staring at harself too much in the looking glass when | her own mirrors so ar- | | ranged as to repeat her form from all sides! | the mother has { The great English post's looss moral char | acter was decided before he left the nursery, and his schoolmaster in the Jehioaioon overheard this conversation : “‘Gyron, your be Wins in] | i know i." You can hear all through the herolo lifes of Senator Sam Houston the War “There, my son, take this and never disgrace it, my sons should fill one honorable grave than that one of them should turn his back on an enemy. Go and remember, too, that while the door of my cettage is open to all brave men it is always shut aguinst cow- ards.” Agrippina, the mother of Nero, mur- leress, you are not surprised that her son was oa murderer. Give that ohild an over dose of eatechism, and make him recite varses of the Bible as a punishment, and make Sunday a bore, and he will become a stout antagonist of Christianity. Impress him with the kindness and the geniality and the loveliness of religion, and he will be its advocate and exemplar for all time and eter- nity A few days ago right before our express | train on the Louisville and Nashville rall- road the preceding train had gone down through a oroken bridge, twelve cars falling 100 feet and thea consumed, 3 one span of the bridge was down and all the ther spans were standing. Plan a good bridge of morals for your sons and laughters, but have the first span of ten yoars defective, and through that they will | keep | crash down, though =il the rest siending. O man, O woman, if you have preserved your integrity and are really Christian, you have first of all to thank God, and think next you have to thank your mother, The most impressive thing at the inauguration of James A Garfield as President of the United States was that af. ter he had taken the oath of office ho {Zraned round and in the presence of the Bupreme | Court and the Senate of the United States kissed his old mother. If I had time to | take statistics out of this audience, and I | could ask what proportion of you who | are Christians owe your salvation under God to maternal fidelity, I think about three-fourths of you would spring to your feet, “Ha!ha!" sald the soldiers of the | raziment to Charlie, one of their comrades, “What has made the change in you? You used to like sin as well as any of us.” Puli. ing froia his pocket his mother's letter, in of some comforts she had sent hin, she concluded, “We ara all ing for you, Charlie, that you may be a Chris. tain,” he sald, ‘Boys, that's the sentence.’ The trouble with Slsesn's mother was that, while sitting at the window of my text | | watching for news of her son from the bat. tinflsld, she had the two bad qualities of be. ing dissolute and being too fond of personal adornment, The Bible socount says: ‘Her wise ladies answered her yea. She returned answer to herself: ‘Have they not spad? Have they not divided the prey-to every man a damsel or two, to Bisera a prey of divers slors, a of divers colors of needlework, of divers colors of needlework on both sides?” She makes no anxious utterance about the wounded In tle, about the bloodshed, about the dying, about the dead, about the princi | ples involysd in the battles going on, a battle | 80 important that the stars and the freshets took part, and the clash of swords was an- swered by the thunder of the skies, What she thinks most of is the bright eolors of the wardrobes to be captured and the needles. work. “To Siséra A prey of diver colors, a | prey of divers color of needlework, of divers colors of nesdlework on both sides,” Now neither Sisera's mother nc: any one alwe can say too much ln enlogy of the noodle, It foun than the sword, wiih an ivory, as Pliny's time ; or of steel, whether laboriously fash atone wine the throned it. Thank God for The most of those old folks did the | They were at | dootors, i or scarlet | medica and ealled up | through a telephone, with them the only | | apothecary short of four miles’ rida was the | garret, with its bunches of peppermint and were expected | Fifty | of spinning wheel and | They wear no spectacles, | father you saw oniy | There are no years | before him aa | You may give that girl before | I saw that oly | ray. | bat. | ade mote use ul conquests the heavens ordered in regard to the em- broldered door of the anclent tabernacle, “Thou shalt make a hanging for the door of { the tent of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen wrought with needlework," | down to the womanly hands which this winter in this tabernacle are presenting for benevolent purposes their needles work. But there was nothing ex. capt vanity and worldliness and social splash in what Bisera's mother said about the nee- dlework she expected her son would bring home from the battle, And I am not sur- prised to find that Sisers fought on the wrong side when his mother at the window of my text in that awful exigency had her chief thought on dry goods achievement and social display. God only kncws how many homes have made shipwreck on the ward. | robe. And that mother who sits at the wine | dow watching for vainglorious triumph of | millinery and fine colors and domestic pa- geantry will, after a while, hear as bad news from ber children out in the battle of life as Sisern’'s mother heard from the struggle at Esdracion, But if youn still press the question, “Where's mother?” 1 will tell yon where she is not, though pnoe she was there, Bome of you started with her likeness in your face and her principles in your soul, But you have onst her out, That was an awful thing for you to, but you have done it. That hard, grinding dissipated lool: you never got from her. If you had seen any one strike her you would have struck him down without much | care whether the blow was just sufficient or fatal ; but, my boy, you have struck her down-—struck her innocenoes from your face | and struck her principles from your soul, You struck her down! The tent pin that { Jael drove three times into theskull of Sisera | was not 80 eruel as the stab you have made more than three times through your mother's | heart, But she Is waiting yet, for mothers | are slow to give up their boys—walting at | some window, it may be a window on earth | or at some window in heaven. And others may cast you off. Your wife may seek divorcee and have no patience with you. Your father may disinherit you and say, | “Let him never again darken the door of our | house,” But there are two persons who do not give you up--God and mother, How many Simppolisted mothers waiting at the window ! *erhaps the panes of the | window are not great glass plate, bevel | brequin, but the window is made of small panes, I would say about six or eight of them, in summer wreathed vine and in winter pictured by the Raphaels of the forest, areal country window. | mother sits there knitting, or busy with her | neadle on homely repairs, when she looks up | and seen coming across the bridge of the meadow brook a stranger, who dismounts in | front of the window, | heavy knocker of the farmhouse door. “Come in I" ia the response. He gives his name and says, ‘I have come on asad errand.” “There is nothing the mattar with my son in the olty, is there?” she asked, “Yes! he says. “Your son got into an unfortunate ancounter {with a young man in a liquor saloon last night and is badly hurt, The fact is he can not got well. I hate to tell you all, I am sorry to say he is dead.” “Dead! she cries as she totters bank. Y'Oh, my son! my son! i my son! | That is the ending of all her cares and anxcie- ties and good counsels for that boy. That is her pay for her self sacrifices in his behalf, That is the bad news from the battle, So the tidings of derelict or Christian sons travel to { the heaven at which mothers sit, “But.” says some one, “are you not mis- taken about my glorified mother hearing of my evildoings since she went away?" Says some ons else, “Are you not mistaken about my giorifled mother hearing of my self sacri- { floe and moral bravery and struggle to do right?" No! Heaven and earth are in con. | stant communication. There are trains run- ning every five minutes trains of immortals pei | 3 | dmoending from heaven to earth to mine ister and help. They hour Juuny times every day Do | good news or bad news from the battle, itz, in which every one of us is fighting on the right side or the wrong side, 0 God, whose I am, and whom I am trying to serve, as a result of this sermon, roll over | on sll mothers a new sense of their responsi- bility, and upon all children, whether still {in the nursery or out on the tremendous Esdrasion of middie life or old age, the fact that their victories or defeats sound clear out, clear up to the windows of sympathetic maternity. Ob, is not this the minute when the cloud of biessing filled with the exhaled tears of anxious mothers shall burst in showers of mercy on this audience? There is one thought that is almost too tender for utterance. | almost fear to start | It leat I have not enough control of my amo | As when we were ohil- | tion to conclude it, dren we so often came in from play or from a hurt or from some childish injustios prac- | ticed upon us, and as soon as the door was opened we cried, “Where's mother?” and she sald, “Here | am,” and we buried our weeping faces in her lap, so after awhile, when we get through with the pleasures and | hurts of this life, we will, by the pardoning among the first goestions, not the first, but | among the first, will be the old question that we used to aff, the question that is being | asked in thousands of places at this very moment the question, “Where's mother?" And it will not take long for us to find her or for her to find ua, for she will have been watching at the wintow for our soming, and with the ciher children of our household of earth we will again gather round ber, ati she will say : “Wall, how did you get through the battle of life? I have often heard from others about you, but now [I wast to hear | it from your own scnls, Tell me all about | And then we will tell | or | it, my children! {her of all our earthly experiences, | the holidays, the marriages, the birth hours, the burials, the heartbieaks, the losses, the gale, the victories, the defeats, and she will | | say : ‘Never mind, it is all over now. [soe | each ome of you has a etown, which was | given you at the gate as you came through. | Now cast it at the feet of the Christ who saved you and saved me and saved us all, | Thank God, we are never to part, and for all {the ages o. eternity you will never again have to ask, ‘Where's mother 7" I A Coin Recovered After Thirty Years, It is not often that a marked coin once put into circulation is returned to the person who marked ic. George | Troup, Superintendent of Forest Lawn | Cemetery, before he left Scotland, had his nanie stamped upon a coin of the | ‘sgue of George II. It was done in fun, and at that time he never dreamed | that the coin would ever be returned | to him, The coin was put into oir | elation, and a short time afterward | Mr. Troup came to this country. | More than thirty years passed by, and he thought nothing wore about the circumstance, One day recently a friend of his at lodge said to him: “1 have a coin with your name upon it." “I asked him to let me see the coin,” from the time when the Lord Almighty from adged and hoverad over hy exquisite lame | with trailing | The | He lifts and drops the | Would God I had diad for thee!" | windows of earth or the windows of | from us | they hear | for remember I had rather all | this Sedan, this Thermopyls, this Auster. | mercy of Christ, enter the heavenly home, and | INTERNATIONAL LESSON Kaw JANUARY 28. Lesson Text: “God's Covenant With Noah,” Genesis ix., 8-17 Golden Text: Genesis, Ix., 13 -Commentary. sons with him, saying. Wo have passed over probably 1500 years since the last jes son, during which time the views of Cain and Abel had full time to develop and bear fruit. In the line of Seth, who took the the seventh from Adam (Jude 14), who then translated without tasting death, The foventing musical instruments, working in brass and fron and trying to make this world a happy place without God, The re. sult of Cain's way is seen in chapter vi, 5, eame after Jong warning, destroying sll ex. eept Noah and those with him in the ark. nant with you and | you." This is the first covenant, so called, in the Beriptures and is first mentioned in Then we have 400 years later the covenant with Abraham, sane and Jacob concerning the whole earth. tional, conditional covenant at Horeb, Deut, v., 2, 8, and Gal. iil, 17, Compare Then some | tional covenant with David concerning the throne and the kingdom. Happy are all who ean make the last words of David their own and rest quietly ia the faith fulness of God “Although my houses be not so with God, yor He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure” (11. Bam. xxill., 8). 10. “And with every living creature that Is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle and of | every beast of the earth with you; from all { that go out of the ark to every beast of the earth.” The Lord is good to all, and His | tender mercies are over all His works (Ps | exly,, 9). Even the sparrows of which five | are sold fortwo farthiaes are eared for by | Him (Luke xii., 6). And the whole creation | which still groaneth and travaileth in pain | because of min shall yet delivered from the bondage of corruntion into the glorious { liberty of the children of (Rom. will, 21.1) 11, “And 1 will establish my with you, Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood | neither | shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.” The next {| sarth shall be fire, after which there shall be a new earth filled with righteousness Lo abide forever (II Pet. £10. 6, 7, 10, 13). The earth will not be destroyed ~that is, annihi- ated but purified from all defllement, | Joosad (as the word ““dissclved” signifies) | from its bondage of sin And as it was In | the days of Noah so shall it be in the days Jitoeding that purification (Luke xvii, 20 hes rovenant [ 12. “And God sald, This is the token of the | sovenant which I make between Me and you, | and every lying creature that is with you, { for pe generations.” In great mercy | and loving kindness Go rondescends to give { 10 man outward and visible signs of His faith. | fulness. The token to Abraham was ciroum- { sision ; in the passover it was the blood upon | the door ; to Rahab it was the scarlet cord | to Gideon the fire from the rock ; to Ahar it jas the virgin's son (Gen, xvii, 1; Ex. xt, | 18; Joshua ff, 12, 18; Jude. vi. 17, 91; Ie L, 14), The last, even Jesus Himself, isto the sign that He will do all that He has sald 13. “I do set My bow In the eloud, and it shall be for a token of a covepant between | Mo and the earth.” This fu the first time | that we rad of the rainbow, and it is only | spoken of in four places, here and in Ezek, iL. 38; Rev, iv.. 3; x., 1. Four in Beripture is the porfect number concerning the earth, and in each of these four places the bow speaks of a earth, In the other threo places as well as in this it is seen in connection with Him whois the only Re dewmer 14, “And it shall pass, when 1 bring a cloud over thie earth, that the bow shall be scen in the louds would be mors interesting to us i we re membered that He brings them and that they are the dust of His foet (Nah, 1. 8 He ! Joi Yarael by a pillar which was a cloud by | day and a fire by night, and which He siso spread over the wholes encampment as acov. { ering (Ex. xiii, 21, 22; Ps. ov, 30) At the transfiguration a cloud overshadowed Him, whet He ascended a cloud received Him, and whea He shall come again in His glory bringing His saints with Hiu it will be inthe | clouds of heaven (Math, xvi, 5; xyvi, W; | Aots §., 9). Clouds sometimes teach that, | though His way be not clear to us, yet we are to trust Him implicitly 15. “And I will remember my coverant, | which is between Me and you, and every liv. | ing eresture of all flesh, and the waters shall redeemed come fo viouda I'he | no more become a food to destroy all flesh.” also what He will remember in Lev xxvi.. 42. 45, and Esek, xvi, 680, Consider | what we are to remember in Deut, vii, 18 vill, 2: I Chron, xvi, 12; Eeel, il, 1: 1 | Cor. xi., 24, 25. Take comfort also in what He will not remembe; Isa. xUil,, 25; Heb, | vill, 12; x., 17) Notice that fn the margin of Isa. Ixii.. 8, 7. we are called “the Lord's | rememOrances © and observe carefully what wo are to remind them of, The IL V. says we are to take no rest and give Him no rest till He does this, II» dos not need to be | remindad, but He condesconds to 1st us do | this, and loves to have us plead His prom. inom, 18, “And the how shall be in the cloud, 1 M | and I will Jook upon it, that I may remember | the everlasting covenant between God and | overy living croature of all Jesh that is upon { the earth.” How many of us ever think | when we sos a minbow in the slonds that | (God #a looking specially upon it and is inter ested in it. that the cloud is His, and the Raver | bow #8 His, and the covenant js His, and | | when we are intorosted in that which inter { ests Him then we have fellowship with Him? | When the clouds coma jn our lives, may we | by faith soo also the bow and rejoice that | however things may seam 10 go we are in the | bonds >f an evariasting covenant ordered in | all things and sure, | 17. “And God said unto Noah, This is the | token of the covenant which [I have estab. lished between Me and all flesh that is i the earth.” The word for ‘estabiiah * is often ! transinted “raise up,” “confirm” “per. | form.” “accomplish,” and is the very word used when speaking to Moses of Chris, *'] will raise them up a prophet like unto thee,’ All things that God says or does ard estab. lished in Christ. When we are in Christ by simple faith, and just taking Him at His word, we, too, become established, but not otherwise (II Chron. xx., 20; Isa. vil, 9), ~ Lesson Helper, FRR — Irrigation’s Limits, #. “Anda God spoke unto Noah anttevs als | place of Abel, his brother, the most notable | of those recorded in chapter v. was Enoch, | walked with God at least 300 years and was | descendants of Cain, who turned away from | God, gave their attention to building cities, | and the only remedy was the deluge, which | 9. “And I, behold, I establish my cove. | with your seed nfter | chapter vi., 18. It concerns the whole earth, | the land of Canaan and the peopls who | should inherit it as a center of blessing to Thess two are uncondi. | About 400 years later we have the | 400 years after that we have the uncondl | purifieation of the | California has many women farmers. The Empress of Austria has a woman physician in her suite. Manuela Palido, of Madrid, is the only woman lawyer in Spain, The Chicago Athletic Club has de- cided tu open its doors to Indies once as month. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell is writ- ing » biography of her famous mother, “Lucey Stone.” There is not a female Arab in Algiers who ean read, it is said. is spoken to them. eats and kittens in Paris, Dental inspection has been intro- duced into the public schools of De- troit, Mich., by a woman. Queen Margherita of Italy and the Empress of Russia aro probably the | best dressed royal women in Europe. The veil used by Turkish ladies is no longer what it was. Its transparency admits of a pretty face being outlined. In some of the countries of Bouthern Europe a girl is regarded as of mar- risgenble age when she is twelve years old. A Boston lady has invented & spoon for measuring medicine, by which a dose can be administered without spilling. A Mrs. Bush, who died in England recently, was a direct descendant, in the eighth generation, of Oliver Cromwell. There are fifteen thousand working- women in Albany, N. Y.,, out of u total population of cue hundred thou- sand souls, Mre Amelia E. Barr has taken the place formerly by Mrs, Barnett as the best paid female author in Americas. Mrs. Lease, the Kansas politician, has been made a member of the Inter- national Peace Society of Berne, Switzerland occupied Mrs. MarthaJ. Coston, the inventor of the signals for the use of ships by night at sea, is living at an advanced age in Washington. A woman's corsets, worn with only the average degree of tightness, exert s pressure of forty pounds on the or gens they compress. Mrs. Harriet Strong, of Califoanis, raised no less than 2,000,000 plumes of pampas grass last year, and sold them all for decorations. Dr. Mary Glenton, who is a gradu. | ate of the Woman's Medical College of Chicago, has been sppointed mis- | sionary st Anvik, Alaska, Mrs 8. V. White, wife of the bank- | er, is President of the Brooklyn Home for Consumptives, a noble phiianthro- py, absolutely unsectarian, When Mrs. Edward Cooper, of New York, gives a dinner party for the regulation finger bows are substituted cut glass globes containing rosewater, Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, the New York heiress, was to ““come ont” this year, but on account of the death of ber brother her debut has been post. poned. Queen Victoria pas already reached and passed the biblical limit of man’s age ; she is in the seventy-fourth year year of her age and the fifty-sixth vear of her reigu. Mrs. Henry E. Abbey, wife of the great manager, possesses the largest collection of photographsof celebrities with autograph inscription to be found in this country. I'he handsomest thing said recently of the American woman is by Mrs Or. miston Chant: “‘Her good hamor un der ffienltios is surpassed by nothing I have ever seen.” Mra. Mary Cowden-Clarke, compiler of the “‘Shakesperean Concordance,” is living in Italy, She 1s eighty-five years old, and was lately described as s ‘prosperous, gentle woman. A tool for killing noxious weeds in a garden has been invented by Mrs Grafton Ross, an English woman. The implement is a hollow piercer, through whieh poison is conveyed to the root of the weed, Miss Charlotte don, who bears the title of Decorator to the Queen, designed and applied the decorations of the ceilings and panels in the cabins of the steamships Lueania and Campania It is said that Cooper first went to housekeeping every piece of her furniture was made by her husband with his own hands Even the bedroom and parlor ‘‘sets” were the handiwork of her ingenious husband. Nellie Dean, organist, Charlestown, Mass., has been awarded a goid medal for the most finished rendering of three cinssioal compositions selected by the director of the New England Conservatory, Boston. There were threo competitors. Miss Dean played from memory. An interesting fact in connection with the life of Maria Mitchell, the Vassar astronomer of beloved memory, is that she was never able to overcome her fear and dread of lightning, The heavens were to her as an open book, yet this of their marvels was always swiul and m ysterious to her. British lady artists are fairly no merous in Paris, now that so many over to study in tists,” and opened their first exhibi. tion with t success. The exhibi hog Lady Da%rin’s patron. age, and musters over seventy works | kles, | wipe off colors, as paint stains form The Gospel | up, making it become thick, tough | and useless. Mme. Henriette Ronner has become | famous as the most natural painter of | | after which Robinson, of Ton. | when Mra Peter | HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, HOW TO TREAT CHAMOIS SKINS, Considering ‘hat a useful thing a chamois skin is, it is astonishing that there is so much ignorance as to the proper way of keeping it in order ard lengthening its term of service. Cham- ois skin should never be left in water after being used, but should be wrung ont and hang up to dry, being spread out carefully, so as to leave no wrin- They should not be used to hard spots, and it makes the skin wear out sooner. Chamois was never intended to wipe { the face and hands with, which makes | the skin become greasy. chamois skin Never put a into warm water; any- thing above lukewarm water will curl To bring back chamois that has been ruined by grease or paint, or nsed as a towel until it re- | sembles a dirty old rag, the following | is recommended : Take a bucket of clean water which has been made faire | ly but not too strong with ammonia ; and next pure water, use pure white castile soap and water freely. The whole op- eration, aside from the sosking, need take no longer than a quarter of sn hour, and it makes the skin in reality better than it was before, having freed it from impurities, —New York Mer- cury. sonk the skin init over night morning rinse it out iu KEROSENE 18 A USEFUL CLEANER. Headlight oil is double refined petrolenm, or refined kerosene. It is purer snd cleaner than the cruder and cheaper oils, and has not so strong an odor. It is for this reason better for household purposes, although kero- pene is a8 good in other respects. For laundry work the oil is becoming well known. The clothes are put to soak over night in warm sospsuds. In the morning clean water is put inthe boiler and to it is added a bar of any good soap, shred fine, and two and one-half tablespoons of headlight or kerosene oil. The clothes being wrung from the suds, the finest and whitest go into the scalding water in the boiler and sre boiled twenty minutes. When taken from the boiler for the next lot, they are sudsed in warm water, collars, cuffs and seams being rubbed if neces- sary. Rinsed and blued as usual, they will come forth beautifully soft snd white. Knit woolen nnderwesr, woolen socks, ete, may safely be washed in this way. The secret of washing successfully by this method is the use of plenty of soup and warm water to suds the clothes. If too little soap be used the dirt will *“‘curdle” snd settle on the clothes in “freckles.” A teaspoonful of headlight oil added to a quart of made starch, stirred in while it is hot, or added to the starch before the hot water is poured upon it, | will materially lessen the labor of ixog- ing and will give to elvthes, either white or colored, especially musling and other thin wash goods, a look of freshness and newness not to be other. wise attained. For ecld starch acd a teaspoonful of oil for each shirt be starched. Rab the starch well into the article, roll up tightly, and leave it for three- fourths of an hour, then iron. To clean windows snd mirrors add a tabliespoonful of headlight or kerosene oil to a gallon of tepid water. A polish will remain on the glass that no mere friction ean give. If windows must be cleaned in freez- ing weather use no water at all ub them with a cloth dampened with kerosene ; dry with a clean cloth and polish with soft paper. A few drops of kerosene added lo the water in which lamp chimneys are wil make them easer to to washed polisk . To breac a gaass bottle or jar evenly put a narrow strap of cioth, saturated with kerosene, around the article where it is to be oroken Set to the cloth, and the glass will crack off above it. Tarnished lamp burners may be rendered almost as bright as new by boiling them in water to which a tea- spoonful of soda and a Little kerosene has been added. Then scour with kerosene and scouring brick and polish with chamois or soft leather. To remove paint from any kind of cloth, saturste the spot with kerosene and rub well ; repeat if necessary. To remove fruit stains, saturate the stain with kerosene, rub thoroughly with baking soda and leave in the sun. To renew woodwork and furniture, rab with kerosene and then with lin. seed oil, To clean a sewing or other machine, oil all the bearings plentifully with kerosene, operate the machine rapidly for a moment, rub the oil off and apply machine oil. 0 remove dandruff, rub kerosene well into the roots of the hair; the dandruff can then be combed or washed out easy. — New York Press, fire RECIPES, Indien Padding Scald one quart of milk, thicken with one cap of meal, two one spoonful of flour, one cup x malasses, salt and ginger to taste. When ecol add one pint cf cold milk ; do not stir it. Bake slowly for two or three hours Noodlew for Soup--To one weil beaten egg add a pinch of salt and flour enough to make a stiff dough. Roll viffn, Irokas wiih flour and let stand for an hour. Make it in+ to a roll and out into thin slices. Mig
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