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WOMAN'S ®
® REALM.
NEW OCCUPATION FOR WOMAN.
The Complicated But Remunerative Busi-
ness of Home-Making.
A new occupation has been added to
an already extensive list of what is
politely termed woman's work. It is
the complicated but remunerative busi-
ness of home-making. None of the
sentimental domestic train your chil-
dren and the hired girl as they should
go business, but a combination of the
talents of interior decorator, art col-
lector, and past mistress in the refine-
ments of housekeeping. The idea, like
inventions, began with the mother of
necessity. A woman who was known
among her friends as having ‘such a
knack” in arranging her little home
was forced by ill-fortune to give it up.
She lived, not in a shoe, but in a flat
of minute dimensions, and it was the’
most fascinating spot in the ‘big, over-
powering city which must here be
nameless. Whoever saw the flat was
enraptured with it. But its occupant
had to give it up and store or sell all
the treasures, and dissipate the evi-
dences of taste which made it home in
the best sense of that abused word.
Friends said, “Let the place fur-
nished,” but one day somebody came
along and said, “Sell it out to me. I'll
pay you what you ask and take the
lease. Everything here suits me down
to the ground!’ This transaction gave
birth to the “idea.” Another individual,
who wanted to set up a cosey little
apartment, hearing of this clever labor-
saving scheme, also engaged the
woman to seek out another flat and to
furnish it precisely ‘“to suit herself.”
No suggestions were offered, but a suit-
able sum fixed on, with the request
that the place might be ready for the
few owner’s occupancy on such and
such a date. From this tiny commis-
sion others followed, and now this
home-maker declares she is in her ele-
ment, and only one part of her busi-
ness distresses her. For, as soon as the
home is exactly as she wants it, with
all the dainty touches laid on to her
satisfaction, she must abandon it, and
her client steps in and reaps all the
benefits. Surely an original means of
carning a livelihood.—Boston Herald.
Self-Defense For Women.
‘A Pennsylvania girl of nineteen re-
cently gave a tramp a lesson which is
likely to last him for some time. He
attempted to rob her while she was en-
joying a rest by the roadside ‘after a
ride on her wheel, and she told him
to depart. He treated the proposal
with scorn and started to seize her,
when she caught his hand and gave
it a twist that enlightened him. . She
then delivered a blow on the point of
the chin which landed him om the
grass, and he was only too glad to get
away.
It is an unfortunate fact that most
country places are not as safe .for
lone women as they were a generation
ago, and for many of these it is some-
thing of a problem to know what to do
about it.
This particular girl had taken lessons
in boxing from her brother, and stud-
ied the science of self-defense. Such
knowledge is a fairly good substitute
for strength when one is obliged to
enter into a physical argument with
an antagonist who has only: brute force
and no brains behind it. Of course,
the experience of this girl might have
had a very different termination had
she encountered a rufian with both
science and strength, but as it was
she gave her assailant the surprise of
his life, and undoubtedly saved herself
from an attack which would have been
intensely disagreeable.
it is not likely that any woman will
rashly take such risks, but it might be
a good thing if more of them were pre-
pared to defend themselves. In such
cases the surprise is half the’ battle.
Stray scoundrels do not expect a
woman to understand boxing, though
they are not wholly unprepared to see
her pull out a pistol. One woman en-
gaged in philanthropic work, which
took her into some dangerous places,
carried a paper of red pepper in her
pocket, and on one occasion flung it in
the face of an assailant. Before he
could recover from his surprise she
had escaped.—New York News.
The Average Mother is Unselfish,’
‘While it is a common theory that, no
matter what the .father and: husband
may be, the mother and wife must rise
superior to her environments, the fact
remains that the home is as much the
man’s as the woman's, and he is re-
lieved of none of his responsibilities
because society assigns it to her as
her special province. No man has a
right to shirk his duty to his children
because, perchance, he has a good wife
and they have a good mother. The
wife and mother rules by love, if she
rule at all; the father and husband
may rule by authority as well as love.
The wife and mother who finds that
her love is loging its influence over her
children requires, but is too often de-
nied, the disciplinary authority of the
husband and father. The wrecks of
children may be traced oftener to the
failure of the husband to come to the
assistance of the wife than to any fault
of the latter.
Too much, we believe, is said of the
shortcomings of women in these days.
Those mothers and wives who are neg-
Bectful of their homes constitute the
inority. The average American
is serious, unselfish and loving.
If this were not the case we should not
have, as we have to-day, a higher aver-
age of young manhood than any other
country on earth. The assumption
that wives and mothers are mainly to
blame for the waywardness of children
is neither reasonable nor fair. It is
due usually to a few exceptional cases
which, because of their exceptional
character, deeply impress the observ-
er. In general woman’s devotion and
love do not change as the child grows
old, save for the better.—Chicago In.
ter-Ocean.
Children and Kissing.
Children should be carefully instruct-
ed and have it early impressed upon
their minds to give and receive kisses
only to and from those they love and
who love them. Even then some re-
straint is obligatory upon adults who
are not perfectly well and in the case
of a man who uses tobacco.
Children and adults are alike subject
to contagious and infectious diseases
from kissing, and this possibility
should be a caution against the fashion
of promiscuous kissing. Several cases
of smallpox resulted from this indis-
criminate kissing of a lady who was
thought to be only slightly ailing.
Do not express your sympathy for
the sick by kissing. Parents should
never allow their children to be kissed
by strangers, and children should be
prohibited from kissing each other.
Influenza or the epidemic form of
catarrhal fever is undoubtedly trans-
ferred from one child to another often-
times by the comtact of kissing. Scar-
let fever, measles, chickenpox, whoop-
ing cough, mumps and diphtheria are
often communicated in this way.
Squares and Diamonds,
While discs and medallions will un-
doubtedly hold good, they will find
strong rivals in the newer squares and
diamonds. These will be in cloth,
heavy met and velvet, adorned with
braid, embroidery, appliques or stitch-
ing. They are set on tight together or
in designs in which only the corners
meet.
A lovely new dress of grcen cloth
shows them in white cloth, edged in
black cross stitch scrolls and a dainty
sprinkling of French dots.
One in mode more on suit lines, has a
row of velvet diamonds two shades
deeper. One of these serves to catch
each pleat of the skirt at about the
knees.
They may figure very well on fragile
costumes. As seen in a frame of ap-
plique they are decidedly graceful.
Simulated squares and diamonds will
be seen, too. A collar of velvet is
marked off in these shapes Ly means
of strapping or braids
Chains of Sea Shells,
Far Western women have adopted a
new fashion —the wearing of shell
necklaces and chains. The shells are
tiny and iridescent, and come from the
South Sea Islands. The San Francisco
jewelers, who are directly responsible
for the fad, say that the delicately
formed’ shells suitable for my lady's
neck are extremely rare, and that na-
tives grovel in the sands for days to
obtain a small handful. In California
and the arid States the shell chains
‘have become popular instantly, even
without the approval of New York
fashionables, and they may reach here
by autumn.—New York Press,
A Dainty Stock,
A certain pretty girl has made for
herself one of the prettiest stock col-
lars! And it is one which any girl who
is at all clever with her: needle can,
copy. The material used was white
liberty satin. . Around the top were
two rows of-Krench dots in black, then
a row of baby ribbon, of a dainty pink,
edged with black. Just below these
are two more rows of dots, then an-
other double row of dots, making three
double rows of dots and two of ribbon,
The decoration comes a little below
the middle of the stock. It is both
dressy, becoming and: dainty,
THINGS
TO WEAR /|
Semi-blind embroideries have super-
seded all other kinds in favor.
Filet lace, both black and white, is
the popular fancy of the hour.
Stock collars with a decided down-
ward point in front are very popular.
Veil beads of jet sewed on bias folds
of black satin make very effective gar-
niture.
Henry VII. and Mary Tudor are two
of the coming shapes in cool weather
-headgear.
A line of braid an inch wide at each
seam of the skirt is quite fashionable
at present.
White cotton fringe is the extremely
novel yet chic trimming used on the
side of a beige linen blouse.
Taffeta costumes are favorites for
autumn and are made comfortable by
a cloth or knitted waistcoat.
Hats of soft white felt trimmed in
wings and scarfs in black and white
are to be the popular autumn head-
gear.
Garlands of small artificial flowers
held together with bebe velvet ribbon
effectively trim mousseline evening
gowns,
The double veil effect—that is two
veils in one—one to wear over the face
and one over the hat, has only had very
moderate success.
The effect of slenderness that is
rather counteracted by the universal
basque is given to the autumn jackets
by strapping the seams in the back
with bias bands of the material.
The exceedingly loose coats, a sort of
combination of cloak and coat, that
were considered too extreme in the
spring ‘are now in high favor, since
Milady has become more accustomped
to them.
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED
THE DEVIL.
The Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman Treats
a Forbidden Subject in a Novel Manner
—Why Men Are Disposed to Laugh at
the Prince of Darkness.
New York Crry.—The following reada-
ble and helpful sermon is by the Rev. Dr.
J. Wilbur Chapman. the best known evan-
gelist in the country and one of the most
popular pulpit orators of New York. It
is entitled “The Devil,” and was preached
from the text “And the Lord said unto
Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan
answered the Lord and said, From going to
and fro in the earth, and from walking up
and down in it.” Job 1: 7.
This is a forbidden subject. We gener-
ally speak of him who is the subject of my
sermon with a smile, and yet it is a sub-
ject with which one ought certainly to be
perfectly familiar. We have all had some
experience with him who is the author of
our distress, and who is responsible for
every cloud though it be no larger than a
man’s hand that has cast itself upon the
sky of our life, and yet I doubt not that
.there are very many of us that could. not
give a very accurate explanation of our
views. There are very many who scout
the idea of a personal devil at all, and this
view is much more general than we think.
f can quite understand how it should be
so, for Satan’s master stroke of policy is
to direct our minds from inquiry concern-
ing his true character and the methods by
which he governs his kingdom. Some-
times for the unregenerate he employs the
vehicle of darkness that he may blind the
minds of those who do not believe lest the
light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ
should dawn upon them and they should
believe. ‘In whom the God of this world
hath blinded the minds of them which be-
lieve not, lest the light of the glorious Gos-
pel of Christ, who is the image of God,
should shine unto them.” 2 Corinthians
: 4. And sometimes to those who do be-
lieve he transforms himself into an angel
of light that he may delude them by his
snares. ‘““And no marvel; for Satan him-
self is transformed into an angel of light.”
2 Corinthians 11: 14.
« The late Dr. James H. Brooks, of St.
Louis, one of the greatest Bible teachers
in our country, said that it used to be his
custom in his family worship to read the
New Testament through consecutively un-
til he came to Revelation, and then he
would always turn back to Matthew and
read again to the Revelation, and then
back to Matthew once more, until one day
sitting alone in his study he began to ques-
tion himself as to why this was his habit,
and it occurred to kim as he read the Rev-
elation through that it must be because
this is the only book in the New Testa-
ment which tells of the doom of Satan,
and it is quite easy to understand why he
would turn the mind away from that book
which tells of his defeat.
‘Men don’t believe in a devil now,
As their fathers used to do;
They’ve forced the door of the broadest
creed,
To let his form pass through.
‘There 1sn’t a print of his cloven foot,
Or a fiery dart from his bow,
To be found in earth or air to-day,
For the world has voted so.
“But who is mixing the fatal draught
That palsies heart and brain,
‘And loads the bier of each passing year
With ten hundred thousand slain?
‘Who blights the bloom of the land to-day
‘With the fiery breath of hell?
If the devil isn’t, and never was,
Won’t somebody rise and tell?
“Who clogs the steps of the toiling saint,
And digg the pits for his feet?
‘Who sows the tares in the fields of time,
Wherever God sows His wheat?
The devil is voted not to be,
And, of course, the thing is true;
But who is doing the kind of work
The devil alone should do?
“We are told he does not go around
Like a roaring lion now;
But whom shall we hold responsible
For the everlasting row
To be heard in home, in church and state,
To the earth’s remotest bound,
If the devil, by a unanimous vote,
Is nowhere to be found?
Went ensioly step to the front forth-
with,
And make his bow, and show
How the frauds and crimes, of-a;single=day
Spring up? ‘We want to know.
The devil is fairly voted out,
And of course the devil's gone,
But simple folks would like to know
‘Who carries his business on.’
The other day in Brookiyn a woman
threw herself out of the window of a five-
story building to escape the brutal tor-
tures of her drunken husband. She left
her little boy matherless and “worse than
fatherless. That husband was in the clutch
of the one of whom I speak at this time.
Would you make light of such a fae as
this. © The opening chapters of Genesis
give us a picture of a happy pair in Eden,
peace, purity, perfection and beauty every-
where prevailed. God looked upon it and
said that it was very good, when suddenly
all was changed. here is a marvelous
transformation; sin appears; the curse is
everywhere; trouble begins and rolls high
like the mighty waves of the sea, until the
world is engulfed in the blackness of the
darkness of despair. No wonder that we
feel like crying out again and again in the
words of the text, “And the Lord said
unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then
Satan answered the Lord and said, From
going to and fro in the earth, and from
walking up and down in it.” It is of such
an adversary that I speak, and he is not a
subject for jesting. I have for the past
ten years been laboring in the interests of
men, but somehow during the past three
months they have been upon me as a spe-
cial burden. I have listened to their heart
-breaking cries and their sobs of despair,
and it is with the memory of these tears
that have run like rivers, and the cry of
many a man who feels himself to be lost
as he said, “Is there any hope,” that I
bring to my readers this message.
The devil is certainly not a myth. 1
shall give his names in a little while and
call your attention to the fact that they
are all found in the New Testament, so
this is not an Old Testament delusion car-
ried down to the present time, as some
would have us believe, for almost all the
information concerning him we are de-
pendent upon the New Testament Serip-
tures. The Old Testament is strangely si-
lent. I call your attention to this fact that
if you read in the Old Testament the ac-
count of the temptation and fall in Eden,
then the trouble of Job, then the number-
ing of Israel by David, and finally the vis-
ion of Joshua, the high priest, and Satan
contending with him, you have the four
places where Satan is definitely mentioned
and his work particularly described. The
evidences of his existence are everywhere
to be seen in the Old Testament, but these
are not in direct statements. This does
away with the position of ‘many people
who are disposed to say a good deal about
the Satan myth, which had its rise in the
infancy of our race, when the human mind
was exceedingly childish and ecredulous.
The devil is the author of evil, the fount-
ain of weakness, the adversary of the
truth, the corrupter of the world. He
planteth snares, soweth error, nourisheth
contention, disturbeth peace and scatter-
eth affliction. I am sure there is never
greater glee in hell than when a church
gaara 13 engendered, nor when peace is
riven away from heart and home in the
face of a storm of contention. This is a
word picture of him, but we must have
more.
something;
It is quite plain that Satan had some
connection with the earth before man ap-
peared. He is now supposed to be a fal-
len angel. if this supposition is true then
the New Testament references would
seem to indicate that pride and envy were
the cause of his fall. When God said,
“Let us make man, and let him have do-
minion over everything that we have
made,” the envy began, and as another has
suggested this seems to be the true fact
when we notice the devil's position in the
temptation of ‘Christ. Matthew 4: 89,
“Again the devil taketh Him up-into an
exceedingly hizh mountain, and showeth
Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the
glory of them. and saith unto Him, All
these things will 1 give Thee if Thou wiit
fall down and worship me.” It is as if he
were making one last great effort to over-
throw the Master and rule the world.
Certain direct statements are made con-
cerning him by our Master. No stronger
one can be found than that which is re-
corded in John 8: 44, “Ye are of your
father, the devil, and the lusts of your
father ye will do. He was a murderer
from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his
own; for he is a liar and the father of it.”
He is a terrific foe, and in the interests of
all young men who desire to be*ffue and
like Chaast I lift up my voice against him.
11.
The Rev. W. G. Moorhead, D. D.. has
given us a list of his names as recorded in
the New Testament Scriptures. Thiu list
is as follows:
Abaddon—Revelation 9: 11.
Accuser—Revelation 12: 10.
Adversary—1 Peter 5: 8.
Angel of the Abyss—Revelation 2: 11.
Apoliyon—Revelation 9: il.
Beelzebub—Mark 3: 22.
Belial—2 Corinthians 6: 15.
Devil—Matthew 4: 1.
Dragon—DRevelation 20: 2.
Great Red Dragon—Revelation 12: 3.
Evil One—Matthew 13: 19.
Enemy—Matthew 13: 3
Father of Lics—John 8: 44.
God of This World—2 Corinthians 4: 4.
Tiar—John 8: 44.
Murderer—John 8: 44.
Prince of Devils—~Marl: 3: 22.
Prince of This World—John 3: 21.
Prince of<the Power of the Air-—aphe-
sians 2: 2,
Satan, Serpent—2 Corinthians 11: 3.
Strong One—Lulke 11: 21.
Spirit of Evil Working—Ephesians 2: 2.
Tempter—1 Thessalonians £: 5.
Notorious criminals have » certain nuw-
ber of aliases by which they are known to
their partners in ccime. They rear cer-
tain names because they have committed
certain things, so all the Ames mean
as they ied to the
devil each name is descripiive of his dis:
position, energy and power.
e is Apollvon because he is a destrover.
He is Abaddon recause he is destruction
itself.
The Man Murderer because he is the as-
sassin of the Race.
The Great Red Dragon because of his
bloodthirstiness.
The Serpent because of his craftiness.
The Tempter because he is a deceiver.
Some years ago in the city of I’hiladel-
phia there stood outsid2 of one of the sa-
lcons a woman clad in rags, whe once had
lived in one of the hest homes in that
city. She had a little baby in her arins
and an older child was tugging at her
skirts. She rapped upon the door and
when it was opened she said, ‘IT want my
husband.” The husband was called cut.
He had once been of areat reputation. a
man of real talen%, had provided for his
wife’ and children all that money could
buy, and, now he is shorn of everything
except the merest semblance of manhood.
“What do you want?’ he said, with an
oath, and she answared, “I want you to
come home; the children have had nothing
to eat and they are erying, and I want
vou,” and the man who had sworn to love
and care for her drew back his fist and
struck her. The baby fell from her arms,
the elder child ran shrieking from her side.
Is he not a destroyer with such a picture
as this in your mind, and this is but one
of the multitude. His vames are enough
to terrify us, so that we would, while we
may, escape from sin.
TIT.
His Personality. I know it is true that
very many people scout the idea of a per-
sonal devil, but the following statement
has been made by a most distinguished
Bible scholar, namely, “Every attitude,
quality, action, walk and sign which can in-
icate personality has been predicated of
the devil and cannot be explained away.
The argument that would rob the -devil of
his personality would rob God of His, and
if as men say, these attributes simply
mean the principle of evil then on the
same ground of interpretation the Bible
may mean anything or nothing.”
©
Just 2 word or two about his work. He
begins in a very slow way and his influ-
ence is most insidious.
As a fisherman, when he has a great fish
on his hook, lets out the line, so that the
fish may swallow down the hook, and be
more surely caught, even so the devil,
when he has a poor sinner upon his hook,
does not, at the first, treat him roughly,
but stretches out his rod, line and all, that
he may make the surer of him, and hold
him the faster.
Not long ago in the Tombs a man who
had been a brilliant lawyer awoke from a
stupor of days, and shaking the door de-
manded of those who came to answer his
summons why he was there. They told
him on the charge of murder. “For God’s
sake,” he said, “do not send the word
home; at least, do not let my wife know,
for it will kill her,” and they told him that
it was his wife he had killed. I have
written these few words concerning one
who can take a man with brightest future
and greatest reputation, and make him a
murderer of his own home's joy. This is
his work.
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His Doom. He may be oyercome in the |
New Testament. © We read, “Resist the
devil and he will flee from you.” Jesus
did this and when the devil tempted Him
He said, “It is written,” and then, “It is
written again.” There is but one weapon
that can make him afraid, and that is the
Sod of the Spirit, which is the sword of
od.
There is a legend of Luther that duringa
serious illness the evil one seemed to enter
his sick room, and looking at him with a
triumphant smile unrolled a vast roll which
he carried in his arms. As the fiend
threw one end of it on the floor and it
unwound itself with the impetus he had
given it Luther's eyes were fixed on it,
and to his consternation he read there
the long and fearful record of his own
sins, clearly and distinctly enumerated.
That stout heart quailed before that
ghastly roll. Suddenly it flashed into his
mind that there was something not writ-
ten there. He said aloud, “One thing you
have forgotten; the rest is all true, but
one thing you have forgotten, ‘The blood
of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from
all sin.” ” As he said this the ““Accuser of
the brethren” and his heavy roll of “la-
mentation and mourning and woe” disap-
peared together.
If you would know his final doom you
have but to turn to Revelation the 20th
chapter and read the first three verses.
“And I saw an angel come down from
heaven, having the key of the bottomless
pit and a great chain in his hand. And he
laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent
which is the devil and Satan, and bound
him a thousand years. And cast him into
the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and
set a seal upon him that he should deceive
the nations no more till the thousand years
should be fulfilled, and after that he must
be loosed a little season.”
From such a foe as this may God deliver
us new,
FAIRY STORIES.
Ah, how we used to like the dear
Old fairy tales our mothers told;
Although we knew they ne'er were true,
We used to gladly hear them through:
We loved the gentle Princesses
And Princes brave and bold—
We heard them o’er and o’er, but still
The stories ne'er grew old.
Ah, how we like to hear the dear
Old fairy tales sweet women tell;
Although we know they can’t be true,
Btill, still ‘they thrill us through
through—
A pretty woman's flattery
Still makes man’s bosom swell;
He knows tis but a fairy tale,
But oh, he likes it well.
—Chicago Record-Herald.
and
HUMOROUS.
“Her face is her -fortune.” “Well,
the wouldn't be very rich if she were
two-fuced.”
“She ran into -my arms once in a
darxX hallway.” “The hallway must
kave been dark.”
Little Girl (after seeing many queer
beasts at the Zoo)—“But there aren’t
really such animals, nurse, are there?”
“Do you really believe that all men
are born free and equal?” “Well, yes;
except that some grow up to be equal
to a hundred others.”
“What do you expect to be when
you become of age, my little man?”
asked the visitor. ‘Twenty-one, sir,”
was the bright one's reply.
Tommy—Did you cver hear of a cam-
el going through the eye of a needle?
Bessie—Yes, an’ I bet he got caught
half way an’ that’s what made the
hump.
“Well, why don’t you say some-
thing?” asked the angry woman, after
her long harangue. ‘My dear,” replied
her husband, meekly, “nothing remains
to be said.”
Interviewer—How do you account for
your love cf music? Drum Major—Well,
when me father was young he was a
furniture remover, and wan day a
pianny fell on him.
Kind Lady—And you consider that
you were born lucky? How can you
think that when you can never find
work? Breezy Bean—That is the very
reason why I think so.
“This necktie,” said the salesman,
“speaks for itseli.” “Speaks for it-
self?” repeated the customer as he
took in the loudness of the design:
“I say that it positively yells.”
“He was around trying to collect
his bill again, I hear.” “Yes, and I
tcld him he could take it out in trade.”
“And wouldn't he do that?” “Not ex-
actly; he seemed to prefer taking it
out in tirade.”
Jack—I was cunning enough to liber-
ate a mouse before kissing her. Tom
—A mouse?’ Jack-——Yes, because I
knew she was goinz to scream and
when her father rushed in I pointed |
cut the mouse.
“Bridget,” said the absent-minded
author, “I can’t have that cat in the
room if it continues to yell so. Chase
it out.” “Yes, sof; but ye’ll hov to
help me, sor.” ‘Why, where is it?”
“Ye’re sittin’ on it, sor.” :
“So Jack deliberatcly kissed you last
nignt,” commenizd Miss Antique se-
verely.” “Well, I'd just like to see any
man try to kiss me.” “Why not se-
lect a near-sighted man and wear a
veil,” naively suggested the sweet
young thing.”
Pa—How did you get yourself in this
condition? Fighting again? Willie—
Yes, sir. “Didn’t I tell you not to fight
any more when I caught you fighting
with little Tommy Green?’ “No, sir;
you told me not to fight with a boy
smaller than myself.”
“Do you see that man with the
brown beard?” whispered the girl in
the ping-pong tie. “Well, he fills me
with bitterness.” “Ah, an old flame?”
spoke her dearest friend. ‘No, he is
our family physician, and since we
moved in the suburbs he forces me to
take quinine.”
The Choice of Two Evils.
An omnious silence greeted Bobby’s
entrance. There was a wild look in
his eye; his clothes were disarranged,
and there was just a suggestion of
blood about his mouth. Mamma
frowned severely, and papa hid him-
self behind his paper.
“Ahem!” began mama. Bobby
squared his shoulders, and prepared
for the coming attack.
“Ahem! Don’t you know, Bobby,
that it’s very wrong of little boys to
fight?”
Bobby pretended to find a point of
interest in the pattern of the hearth
Tug.
“Haven't I told you, Bobby, that it’s
very wicked to fight?” demanded his
mamma, in a tone that was meant to
be sorrowful. ;
Thus challenged, Bobby fell back on
argument.
“He hit me first, mama,” he pleaded.
“Ah. but that doesn’t make any dif-
ference. Nobody loves little boys who
fight.”
Bobby pondered for a few moments
and then his face brightened.
“Is that so?” he asked.
“Yes, my dear, nobody will love you
if you are always fighting. And look
at your clothes.”
“Well,” said Bobby, with slow de-
liberation, “then, mamma, I thinks it’s
better to be unloved.”
Something between a shriek and a
laugh escaped from papa as he fled
from the room.—London Judy.
India’s Many Holidays.
Cawnpore has the proud satisfac-
tion (or otherwise) of knowing that it
has more bank holidays than any
other big town in India. Omitting
Sundays, Cawnpore last year had 33,
Bombay 26, Calcutta 24 and Madras
20 official holidays. The amount, as
far as Cawnpore is concerned, is
thought excessive by many, for busi-
ness reasons.—The Bangkok Times.
SOUTH AFRICA UNATTRACTIVE.
Not Many British Workmen Likely to
Go There.
The workingman does not willingly
go to a country where a colored and
depeendent race do the work, unless
he is called to a position to supervise
and direct them. There is thus next
to no scecpe for agricultural laborers in
South Africa, and even mine workers
go there as captains and leaders, and
not as mere laborers.
The progress of Natal is a most strik-
ing illustration of the unattractiveness
of South Africa, since it differs from
the innér table lands in naturally ad-
mitting a more varied agriculture and,
being mainly a British colony, pre-
sents none of the difficulties which
confront a British emigrant on enter-
ing among the Dutch-speaking people,
with Dutch habits and Dutch customs.
Yet Natal draws few immigrants
from the United Kingdom, the total
white population numbering only about
65,000, being less than the immigrants
from British India who have come as
traders as well as farm laborers, and
again less than a twelfth part of the
Zulu population, which has increased
under our rule to an extent provoking
some anxiety respecting the future.
It may be remembered in passing
that the Natal whites themselves are
jealous of the Indian immigrants. They
have taken effective steps to prevent
any further addition to their numbers.
All this goes to show that, except so
far as immigrants are drawn to the
mining centers of the Rand, we must
not expect any movement changing the
character of the white population of
South Africa.—North American Re-
view.
Six Miles of Fish.
Yearly, as the ducks and geese hur-
ry South, leaving freshly frozen rivers
and lakes in their wake, we read of
the farmer who goes early to the
slough on his farm to break the ice
that the cattle may drink. How
that farmer notices the lake dotted
with clumps of feathers, which on
closer ‘investigation turn out to be
mallards and canvasbacks, frozen sol-
id in the ice. And when he has chop-
ped them all free his two-horse wag-
on load is all the team can haul.
But down near New Orleans eman-
ates the following with all the ear-
marks of truth:
The high tides filled the sloughs
with salt water and drove the buifalo
fish into the freshwater canal. _.ad
there been a few of them only things
would have gone well, but as it was,
the canal was literally choked with
them and the breathing room in the
water giving out myriads of them
turned belly up.
+he pilot of the steamboat travers-
ing the canal plaughed his way
through the dead and living fish alike
choking his paddle wheels and finally
running aground upon a solid mass of
dead and alive fish.
The suffocating fish died. Darkies
were hired to pitchfork them out upon
the bank as they would throw hay,
and lime was sprinkled on them. But
this was slow and unsatisfactory, be-
cause they were six solid miles of fish
in that canal. Something had to be
done, and it was proposed to cut
100 feet of levee and let in sufficient
water to sweep the fish into the Gulf.
Another proposition was to station a
number of large tugs in the river near
the locks and flush the canal by pump-
ing. I understand this latter plan was
followed.—Forest and Stream.
New York Manners Surprise Londoner.
The ordinary Londoner who has not
had the good fortune to cross the At-
lantic is wont to picture his American
cousin wearing a goatee and a victim
to the constant chewing of tobacco
and liberal expectoration. On arriv-
ing in New York he is amazed to dis-
cover that the goatee is conspicuous
by its absence, tobacco chewing un-
noticeable and expectoration practical-
ly unknown. In this respect he finds
the New Yorker far more cleanly in
his habits than the Londoner, more
especially on public cars and in pub-
lic places. The unrestrained indul-
gence of spitting on and off the tops
of ’buses and in railway trains, and
the random chewing and smoking of
tobacco in and around London are
simply odious, and make traveling in-
tolerable and ofttimes disgusting even
to a smoker, Here the stringent pro-
hibition against spitting in public
places and the sensible regulation as
to smoking are so thoroughly observed
that traveling becomes a pleasure. If
London would only copy the most ad-
mirable example existing in New York
in this respect the English metropolis
would soon be rid of a most unwarrant-
able and filthy habit.
Paradise for Hunters.
To one who knows what tlie vast
solitudes of northern Canada really
means the dread of game extermina-
tion seems rather unfounded. The
last census of Labrador gives it a
population of one man to every 35
square miles. This can hardly becailed
an inconvenientcrowding. Thereareals
most as many persons in a strange
East Side New York block as there
are in the whole of Labrador. Why
should game become extinct in this
region? I must confess I can see no
reason why the caribou and the bear
and the other animals should not live
out their lives just as they have al-
ways done. The numbers killed by
man must surely be quite insignifi-
cant.
The same conditions obtain in
northern Ontario, the greater part of
the Northwest territories, and a very
large part of British Columbia. The
date is far distant when there will not
be sufficient game and to spare for the
sportsman who is content to take the
vitter with the sweet and to leave be-
hind the luxuriousness of the fashion-
able rescrt.—Grand Rapids Herald.