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A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED
THE SECRET OF HIS PRESENCE.”
The Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman Deliv-
ars an Instructive Message Suggested
by One of the Most Beautiful Expres-
sions in the Bible.
I" NEw York City.—The distinguished
fevangelist, the Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chap-
man has never delivered a more eloquent
and convincing message than is contained
in the following sermon, entitled, “The
Secret of His Presence.” It was preached
drom the text: “He that dwelleth in the
secret place of the Most High shall abide
ander the shadow of the Almighty.”
salm’ xi: 1.
! T'o me this is one of the most beautiful
expressions in all the Bible; beautiful be-
‘cause it is poetic, but more than that for
tthe reason that it holds up before us one
of the greatest privileges that can come
&o the children of .
There is a difference of opinion as to
who the author of the Psalms may be.
iWe get into the way of thinking that
David wrote everything in the Psalter,
but Moses is the author here. The Tal-
mud ascribes not only this one to him but
the nine preceding as well. The rule is
that all the Psalms without a name in
the title are to be ascribed to the poet
avhose name is given in the nearest preced-
ing title. but this rule will not always hold
good. This is the Psalm quoted by the
idevil when he was tempting Christ upon
ithe mountain, and it has ever been throb-
‘bing with comfort for every troubled
soul. Whoever wrote it, it is beautiful,
and all will agree that the lesson taught
is one touching our communion with God
and our fellowship with Jesus Christ.
+ It is very true thav all Christians do
not occupy the same position
world. = All are saved, and it is by the
same “precious blood of Christ.” But
there is so much more to the Christian
life than simply being saved; that is
only the beginning. The blessings here
offered are given in a very general way.
God is no respecter of persons, and so it is
as if He had said, any one who will fulfill
fthe conditions. may have the blessing; and
as there is only the one condition, namely,
that we shall dwell in the “secret place
of the Most High,” you would think that
ull would accept, for the promise is that
ave “shall abide under the shadow of the
Almighty.” The blessings here promised
are not for =all believers, but only for
‘those who live in close fellowship, with
God. Every child of God looks toward
the inner sanctuary and the mercy seat,
but all do not dwell there. They Tun to
it at times and enjoy occasional glimpses
of the face of Him who is there to be
seen: but they do not continually abide
in the mysterious presence, and this is
possible for every one. \ .
It is with the desire that I might learn
the lesson myself as well as bring it to
you, and with the almost unutterable
longing that we might know how to abide
in the “secret of His presence” that I
have brought you the subject. May the
Tord help us every one! I have been on
the mountair tops of Christian experi-
ence. when I have. seemed to see the face
of Him who loved me and gave Himself
for me, and I am sure that you can say
the same; but the text says that we may
abide there in our thoughts while we may
be all the time in the very thickest of the
fight for Ged. - :
1 like the verse. Every word is sweeter
than honey in the honeycomb. It is so
restful to know that there is any place
in the world where we may abide.” There
is also something very winning to me in
the fact that it is a secret place, for that
surely means that God has something that
is just intended for me, and for me alone.
When I am there, I am away from the
It is the place Mrs. Brown dis-
covered when she wrote the beautiful
hymn, ’
“I Jove in solitude to shed
“The penitential tear;
° "And all His promises to plead :
‘When none but God can hear.”
, There is something about the word
shadow’ that always interests, for there
never has been a shadow without the
light; thus the “secret place” must be a
place of brightness. It is a place where
God is, for the nearest of all things to me
as I journey in the sunlight is my shadow,
and he who walks in my shadow or rests
in it must be very near to me; so that
svhen I am in the shadow of God, I can
reach forth my hand and touch Him; I
can lift up mine eyes and see Him face
to face. I know there is a sense in which
God is always near us. He is in all things,
and He is everywhere. But there is some-
thing about the “secret of His presence”
to which every one is a stranger until
he has dwelt there.
In the 119th Psalm the psalmist seems
in the first part to be writing of the
presence of God in a general sort of way.
As another has said. “He had been beat-
ing out the golden ore of thought through
successive paragraphs of marvelous power
and beauty, when suddenly in the fifty-
first verse he seems to have become con-
scious that He of whom he had been
speak:ng had drawn near andi was bending
over him. ‘the sense of the presence of
God was borne in upon his inner con-
sciousness, and lifting up a face on which
reverence and ecstacy met and mingled,
ne cried: ‘Thou art near, O Lord!” If
we could only attain unto this how strong,
how happy, how useful we should be. It is
possible as well for those of us who are
in the very midst of perplexing cares as
for the priest or the saint; for since the
Master bids us all to abide in Him, and
does not limit either His meaning or the
number of people who may obey, I am
absolutely certain that it rests with me
and with you to determine whether we
shall take advantage of our high privil-
ege.
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in this
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The typical reference must he to the
holy place of the tabernacle, which the
priests were privileged to enter; but Peter
assures as that we have become in this
new dispensation ‘a -holy priesthood,”
£0 that 1t is possible for us to enter on
that ground. If this interpretation is al-
lowed, then it is something, too won-
derful almost to describe, to which we
are bidden, for in the tabernacle just be-
yond the veil was the glory cloud, and
ail the magnificence that could be wrought
in gold and silver, purple and fine linen.
ut I am persuaded that even that was
as nothing when compared to that which
awaits us when we enter the secret place
of God. The writer to the Hebrews tells
us just how we may enter. ‘Having,
therefcre, brethren, boldness to enter into
the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a
new and living way, which He hath conse-
crated for us, through the veil, that is
to say, His flesh,” how easy it all seems
when we look at it in this way!
Christian is all wrong according to the
text if he thinks that all the life here be-
low must be turmoil and strife, for there
is an abiding even here, and a sweet,
, undisturbed communion even in the midst
of the tempest. A dwelling place is a
home, not a temporary shelter to which
run for momentary relief, as the
birds to the boughs of the trees
in the midst of the storm and then leave
again when the storm has passed. It is
the idea of a home. What can be more
restful and comfortable? The Hebrew for
the expression ‘shall abide” is “shall
pass the night” Js it not a won-
derful thing that the experiences that
have seemed to us to be Heaven, be-
gun below, but have been as fleatitke as
the shadows sweeping the hillside, may be
with us all the time? What place is so
restful as your home? I know there is a
rest that comes to one the moment he
accepts the pardon that is offered by the
Redeemer and the burden of sin is gone.
“Come unto Me, and I will give you rest.”
biz is His promise, and He neyer has
failed; but immediately following that ex-
pression is this: “Take My yoke. upon
vou, and learn of Me, for I am meek and
lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto
your souls.”
I suppose one might secure the former
and never come to the latter. Is not that
the rest that comes to us when we are
near enough to learn of. Him, which is
only another way of speaking of the “se-
cret place?”
What place is so comfortable as the
home? There we are free from the an-
noyances of the world; there we have
that which seems to soothe and to quiet.
Could there be anything more expressive
than the words we find in the fourth
verse of the 91st Psalm: “He shall cover
thee with His feathers.” It would be al-
most a sacrilege for one to use the words
if they were not in the Bible; but it is
the picture of the mother bird shielding
the little ones. What so warm, so com-
fortable, as the mother’s wings, or the
nest that love has made? But listen to
place,” you shall abide under the shadow
of the Almighty: and as if that would not
be tender enough to woo us, we are told
again, “He shall cover thee with His
feathers, and under His wings thou shalt
trust.”
Home is the place for explanations.
There we tell our secrets. If the people
of the world do not understand us, our
loved ones in our homes do. ,
nt pm seme
It would be impossible for one fo read
the verses immediately following the text
without being impressed with the fact
that the most remarkable results will
follow our abiding and dwelling in the
“secret place.”
In order that the subject may be the
more practical and helpful I desire to sug-
gest some things which will surely be ours
when we fulfill the conditions.
. In the “secret place” there is peace.
“In the world ve shall have tribulation,”
our Master said. “but in Me ye shall
have peace.” I have read that a certain
insect has the power to surround itself
with a film of air, encompassed in which
it drops into the midst of muddy, stag-
nant pools, and remains unhurt. And the
believer may be thus surrounded by the
atmosphere of God. and while he is in the
midst of the turmoils of the world he may
be filled to overflowing with the peace
of God, because God is with him.
This is true whatever your occupation,
if it is ever so menial. The Rev. F. B.
Meyer tells us of Tawrence. the simple-
minded cook, who said that “for more than
sixty years he never lost the sense of the
presence of God, but was as conscious
of it while performing the duties of his
humble office as when partaking of the
Lord’s Supper.” What peace he must
have had!
* If you are constantly engaged so that
you have said it was impossible for you
to enjoy your religion very much because
you were so busy, still you may have this
peace, because you are in the “‘secret
place.” I know that it is impossible for
one to keep two thoughts in the mind at
the same time and do them both. justice;
but there is the heart as well as the
mind, and while the mind is busy the
heart may be rejoicing in all the fullness
of God. The orator is conscious of the
presence of his audience, and his heart
is touched by their appreciation while
his mind is busy in presenting the
thoughts that move them. You may have
all your mind taken up_ with the book
vou are reading or studying, but your
heart is conscious of the presence of the
one you love and who sits by your side.
The mother may be very busy in one part
of the house; her mind may be greatly
engaged, but her heart is conscious of the
fact that her little babe is in another part
of the house, and the least cry will draw
ker to the child. So the mind may be
occupied to the very fullest extent, and
even be disturbed by the things about us.
while the heart may be abiding in sweet
communion and fellowship with Him be-
cause we are dwelling in the “secret
place.”
Those were comforting words of the
Master’s when He said, “Peace I leave
with you, My peace I give unto vou, not
as the world giveth. give I unto you.
Let not your hearts be troubled, neither
let them be afraid.” So that I may have
eace even when trial comes. David found
this to be true, for in that beautiful
Psalm, the 27th. he says: “In the time
of trouble He will hide me in His pavilion;
in the secret of His tabernacle will He
hide me.” The pavilion was a great tent
in the very centre of the camp. and when
he was there nothing could harm him:
he could be at peace even if he should
hear the sounds of his cnemies. But the
expression is even stronger than that, for
David says that if it were necessary God
would even put him in the “secret of
His tabernacle; that is the same as the
Holy of Holies; and who would not have
been safe there? Here is our ‘secret
place” again, and this is just where God
has given us the privilege of going. Why
should we be disturbed if troubles are
about us and our enemies rise up to do
us harm? -
2. In the “secret place” there is purity.
If our surroundings were only better in
this world, our lives would be purer. It
is very easy to be good in the company of
some people we know; they seem to draw
out all the good in us. To be surrounded
by certain kinds of scenery is to be lifted
near Heaven; to touch a little child pure
as the angels of God is to receive a bene-
diction. What could not the presence of
od do for us if only we were all the
time conscious of it? This is just what I
may have, did I but dwell in the ‘secret
place.” One of the reasons which David
gives for desiring to dwell in the house of
the Lord was that “he might behold the
beauty of the Lord.”
I wish that it might be possible for me
to make plain to you as I might
derstand it nfyself all the beauty that
waits us in the ‘‘secret, place.” . Think of
the gorgeousness of the Holy of Holics
in the ancient tabernacle, which is a
type of this! The wonderful curtains and
hangings of the place, its blue and purple.
its fine twined linen and threads of
gold. Think of the beautiful veil with the
cherubim, with the embroidery so fine
that angel fingers must have wrought
them. the: table of pure gold holding the
bread, and the seven-branched candle-
stick? Who from the outside looking upon
how ‘glorious it was within? So I do not
think it would be: possible to make plain
to you all that awaits you in the ‘secret
place.” He who has dwelt there with God
could not tell his joy if he had an angel's
speech; but this I know, that if you will
but enter in and dwell. there, the very
beauty of the place will make you pure,
and you ‘remember that it is only unto
“the pure in heart” that the ‘vision of
God is promised.
I suppose we might have been with
Jacob when in his dream he saw the
heavens opened and beheld the angels
going up and coming down and heard the
voice of God, and we only should have
seen the dreary mountains round about.
I doubt mot by’ that we might have
been with Paul when he was caught up to
the third heaven, and we should have
seen nothing but the humble surroundings
of his tent. And I doubt not but that
if Paul were here to-day he would see
God here this morning, and he would
have walked on the street with Him
yesterday. Is not the trouble with
ourselves instead of our surroundings or
our times? Every permitted sin encrusts
,the windows of the soul and blinds our
vision; and every victory over evil clears
the vision of the soul, and we can see
Him a little plainer. 5
The unholy man could not see God if
he were set down in the midst of Heaven;
but men and women whose hearts are
pure see Him in the very commonest walks
of life. And there is not a place in the
world if it is right that we should have
been there. but after we_ have passed by
we may =ay, “Behold, God was in this
this: if you will only dwell in the “secret |
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place, and I knew it not.” And if we can
not. say it, it is wrong for us to go.
3. In the “secret place” there is power.,
Oh! that we might all of us possess real
power! This is our- ery -by div and by
night, and ‘yet there ‘is nothing Femay
have easier. There is no promise with
which I am familiar that tells us that
we” may have power of intellect or of
human might... But there is a promise that.
we shall have power after that the Holy
Ghost shall come upon us, and in the
olden times He literally filled to overflow-
ing the Holy of Holies, so that at one
time it was almost impossible for one to
enter. This will. come to us likewise when
we dwell in the *‘secret place.” In I.
Chronicles we read, in the fourth chapter
and twenty-third verse, of certain men
who “dwelt. with the king for his work.”
There can be no effective service that is
not the outcome of communion. Our
Lord’s day [recedes the week of work,
and this'is always the plan of God. - That
wonderful fifteenth chapter of John is
founded on that idea. We must abide
first, and after that we can not help
but bear fruit. Oh! that we might be so
near to Him that .we should be magnet-
ized and charged with a spiritual force
that the ar could neither gainsay nor
resist!
3 IIT.
I have left to the very last the most
ractical question of all, and that is:
ow may I enter into this “secret place?”
Cannot something be said that will make
the way plain? ft may all be summed up
in this answer. None can
Father but the Son. and he to thom
the Son will reveal Him.” It is impos-
sible for any one to enter into the. “secret
lace” of the Most High except through
esus Christ. He said. “I am the way, I
am _the door, by Me, if any man will, he
shall enter in.”
It is just what Paul meant when he said,
“But now in Christ Jesus ye who some-
times were afar off are made nigh by the
blood of Christ.”
There are some places in the Bible
where the way seems plain. “He that
eateti My flesh and drinketh My blood
dwelleth in Me, and I in him.” And
whatever else is meant by this feeding
on Christ, this certainly is true— we are
to set apart daily periods of time when
we may have communion with the Sa-
viour. Is it not because we are too
hurried that our vision of Christ is blurred
and indistinct? It is only when the water
is still that you can see the pebbly beach
below. ou could not go alone with
Christ half an hour each day, or even »
less time, and sitting still, look up into
His face, by faith talk to Him and let Him
talk to you, without feeling that for a
little part of the day you had been in
heaven, when in fact it was only the
‘“sgeret place” of the Most High. Christ
would be in you and you would be in
Christ, even as in the southern sea the
sponges may be seen beneath the waves,
the sponge in the sea and the sea in the
sponge. Then we could say with Paul:
“I live. and vet not I, but Christ liveth
in me.” Again I have read in the Bible
these words: “He that keepth His com-
mandments dwelleth in Him. and He in
him.” I have found that I have
only to go the way I think Christ wants
me to go and to do the things I think
He wants me to do to be able to stand on
the very mountain top of Christian ex-
perience; and that is only another way
of speaking of the “secret place.” You
could not go where Christ has bidden you
without’ meeting Him, and you could
not meet Him without a blessing coming
with the meeting. .
After all this has been known, I have
been told that the vision still tarries.
Sometimes that is to try our faith; but
e will come if you wait, for He has
promised. If, however, after long waiting
still He should tarry, take up this old
Book, turn its pages with a prayer that
God might open vour eves so that you
might see Him. This is the garden where
He walks; press on. yon will meet Him
face to face. This is the temple where
He dwells; stand: knocking at ‘the door,
“know the
lessly on its hinges, and He will lead you
Himself into the “secret place.”
How a’ Business Man Was Saved.
‘An incident is relate® which occurred
during Mr. Finnev's meetings in New
York City and which well illustrates the
value of a little tact in the great strucgle
for ‘souls. The big cutlerv firm of Shef-
field. Encland, had a branch house in New
York. The manager was a partner of the
firm, and very worldly. One of his clerks,
who had been converted in the meetings,
invited his employer to attend. One eve-
ning Le was there, and sat just. across the
aisle from Mr. Arthur Tappan. He av-
neared affected during the sermon. and Mr.
Tappan kept his eve on him. After the
ismissal, Mr. Tappan .stepned quickly
ross the aisle, introduced himself, and
invited him to stav to the after-service.
The gentleman tried to excuse himself and
get away, but Mr. Tappan caucht hold of
the button on his coat and said, “Now, do
stay; I know vou will enjoy it;’”” and he
was so kind and gentlemanly that the cut-
lerv man could not well refuse. He stayed,
and was converted. Afterwards he said,
“An ounce of weight upon my coat-button
saved my soul.”
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Two Pictures. >
It is related that two painters eac
painted a picture to illustrate his concep-
tion of rest. The first chose for his scene
a still, lone lake among the far-off moun-
tains. The second threw on his canvas a
thundering waterfall, with a fragile birch
tree bending over the foam. At the fork
of the branch almost wet with the catar-
act’s sprav, a robin sat on its nest.
Henry Drummond, referring to the two
paintings, so unlike in their make-up,
id:
“The first was only ‘stagnation;’ the last
was ‘rest.’ Christ’s life was outwardly
one of the most troubled lives that was
ever lived; tempest and tumult, tumult .
and tempest, the waves breaking over it
all the time, till the worn body was laid
in the grave.
“But the inner life was a sea
The great calm was always there.
moment you might have gone to Him
and found rest. And even whén His ene-
mies. were dogging Him: in the streets of
Jerusalem He turned to His disciples and
offered.them. as a last legacy, ‘My peace.’
of glass.
At any |
Work, Our Highest Privilege.
Whoever attempts to escape work
avoids his best friend. We read the story
of man’s fall in the light’ of subsequent
revelation, only to find that work is not a
curse, but our highest privilege. The fact
‘that. the. seasons end urges-us on to do
our best. An endless probation is simply.
none at all. There is no more pathetic
lamentation in all literature than this.
The summer is ended and we are not
saved. Probation is over. The Judge en-
ters the field and counts the sheaves. The
summer cver reproduces itself. They come
in their annual succession, but each holds
its own place. This summer will be this
but once. Another will come, but it won’t
be this. Nothing is ever repeated. The
second resembles the first, but is not to
be identified with it. The sun never greets
the earth twice the same. Probation is
Briton everywhere. — Presbyterian Jour-
nal.
Man’s Influence;
The ouly responsibility that a man can-
not évade in this life is the one he thinks
of least—his personal influence. Man's
conscious influence, when he is on dress
parade, when he is posing to impress those
around him—is wofully small. But his un-
conscious influence, the silent, subtle ra-
diation of his personality, the effect of his
words and acts, the trifles he never con-
siders—is tremendous. Every moment of
life he is changing to a degree the life of
the whole world. Every man has an at-
mosphere which is affecting every other.
So silently and uncensciously is this in-
fluence working that man may forget that
-
it exists.—\W. G. Jordan.
¥uttons Are in Vogue,
Every bit of raiment that milady
- puts on nowadays buttons. Hooks and
eyes seem to be a thing of yesterday.
Fur coats button up snugly for frosty
days, while dainty frocks are but-
toned down the back like the wee
schoolgirl’s. The fashion began in
the summer when skirts appeared but-
toned all the way down the back. Now
more intricate effects are indulged in,
and only in a very few cases do the
buttons really button.
Very small gilt buttons, or buttons
of crochet, enamel or of shaded velvet
or silk serve admirably, catching to-
gether in the most approved fashion
tabs of cloth, braid or any suitable
material or trimming. There’s no
limit to what one may do, providing
the lines show an acquaintance with
the rules of fashion and the effect is
good. ' )
A Strapped Costume.
Some of the most effective tailor-
made gowns exhibit elaborate strap-
pings as the sole trimming, usually of
cloth of slightly different tint. and
texture from that of which the gown
is fashioned. For instance, tweed or
zibline costumes are strapped with
plain cloth matching the prevailing
powder blue fine tweed flecked with a
lighter shade and strapped with plain
powder blue face cloth. The vertical
strapping on the skirt is particularly
becoming to a short figure, as it in-
creases the apparent height, and the
smart little coat has quite short
fronts and small semi-circular basques
at sides and back, produced by clev-
erly arranged strapping. The sleeves
are strapped in corresponding fashion
and are short enough to display the
full puffed sleeves. of the silk blouse
slip worn under the coat.
When Baby Learns to Walk.
Babies must not be encouraged to
stand upon their feet until nature
prompts them to do so, for if trained
to walk at too early a stage the weight
of the fat little bodies upon legs
whose bones are yet comparatively
plastic and inefficient in endurance,
will have a very ugly and unhealthy
result.
{While the bones are tender and im-
pressionable, it is highly important
that no bad habits should be allowed
which’ are likely to affect the figure
afterward. A cot that is too short will
induce. a. child to draw up its legs
and maintain its knees in a bent atti-
tude that is afterward hard to over-
come. One of.the most important glm-
nastics taught by. all teachers of calis-
‘theniecs is that. which has for its ob-
ject the straightening of the knees. It
is a well known gymnastic, the body
being bent forward from the waist
while the finger tips endeavor to touch
the ground; the knees remaining rigid.
Straight knees help to an erect car-
riage and to affording the figure the
full value of its inches.
In the matter of education, the phy-
sical as well as the intellectual pur-
suits should be considered essential,
and they should receive special care;
but no gymnastics should be taught
until the child is five years old. Ba-
bies, however, should be allowed to
perform any gymnastics that inspire
them while lying in their cots, for the
more they exercise their little limbs
the better, and their beauty in after
life is due in a measure to the care
they receive during the days of in-
fancy.—American Queen.
: Winter Hats.
Picturesque in the extreme are the
advance styles of * winter hats. The
only danger is that too much of the
picturesque in any fashion may do
away with what is really suitable and
becoming. Among the new hats it is
noticeable that while the favorite
style is the shape that is worn down
over the face, the hat that shows the
hair is becoming more and more in
demand all the time, and even the
perfectly flat-crowned hats or the hats .
with very small crowns, which in the
hand look quite shapeless, have -in-
side bands that lift them up a little
from the head so that the front and
side hair ‘is shown. Large hats are
still! much more fashionable than
small onts, so that it is really a diffi-
cult niatter ‘to get a pretty small hat
any more, ‘while the . smart little
French bonnet, which some women
wear almost invariably, now, has to
be made to order.
Every season the fashions show
more and more that individual tastes
and individual looks are to be con-
sulted in head-gear. One shape may
be becoming to the majority of faces,
and is consequently dubbed the leading
style, and is of course copied in va-
rious modified designs, all built on the
same principles; but each hat is al-
tered to suit each wearer. Those wom-
en to whom the large flat hat is becom-
ing have a wide choice this year in
felt, velvet, and shaggy beavers,
trimmed with rosettes of velvet or sat-
in and ostrich feathers, for ostrich:
feathers are just as much in favor as
ever. The different shades of brown
trimmed with dark brown velvet or
satin, and brown feathers, are more
fashionable than the gray, but the gray
is worn also; while for extreme style
at the present moment may be no-
ticed the white felt or beaver hats
trimmed all in white, thus repeating
the craze for white that has prevailed
all summer.—Harper's Bazar.
Women Succeed as Farmers.
It is an axiom that in America noth-
lug is sacred to man, and especially is
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this true in the industrial world. The
restless energy of the women hag in-
vaded every field of labor; even that
monarch of independence, the Ameri-
can farmer, wiil no more hold undis-
puted sway :in his dominions. The
woman as a farmer began, says the
secretary of the national convention
of farmers, which has just been held
in Georgia, with the athletic girl. And
while it is not just the thing any more
to be big and husky and brown, to be
strong and strenuous is ‘still au fait,
and if the lady who runs a farm be-
comes the fashion, men may look for-
ward to a race of modern Atalantas.
Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, professor
of home economics of the Minnesota
School of Agriculture, who has been an
active farmer for 20 years, regards the
future of the American woman farmer
as a brilliant one, and says that a
glance at the census statistics al-
ready shows hundreds of women listed
as farmers. ;
“The work is ideal, and contrary to
the opinion of the uninitiated majority,
eminently feminine,” says Mrs. Mere-
dith. “Why feminine? Because farm-
ing means infinite detail, and every
woman, however unintelligent other-
wise, possesses a genius for detail.
Then it gives her a home, a thing al-
most impossible to secure in the very
start, at least, in most fields of femin-
ine labor, and most important of all,
she meets not with opposition, but
with chivalrous co-operation from the
men in, the business. Sir Charles Dud-
ley, an eminent Englishman, writing
of the American, says that the dis-
tinguishing thing about the farmers is
their respect for women. We women
who have made farming our business
can gladly vouch for that.
“Another idea, now nearly exploded,
however, is that a woman would find
it difficult, if not impossible, to get
men to work for her. For my part, I
who am both housekeeper and farm-
er, could sooner and more easily hire
20 farm hands than one servant girl. I
think this due partly to the fact that
men who work on farms know that
they receive better treatment as a rule
when in the employ of women.
“As regards the profits in the busi-
ness, both my friends and myself, can
testify that farming pays. Other wom-
en I know are doing just as well
Some of them are married women,
who, having inherited farms, are run-
ning them successfully, and without
any aid from their husbands, either.
Miss Gertrude Norrish, of Hastings,
Minn., a cultivated and highly edu-
cated woman whom I know, is making
a brilliant success as a farmer. Other
young women are running farms in
partnership with their fathers; and do
their advertising under the heading of
Mr. and Mrs. Blank.
“The girls here while they are not
taking full courses in the agricul-
tural department, are many of them
taking courses in dairying and the
feeding of cattle, enough to illumine
the business of farming at least.
“Of the hundreds of women now
working in cities from whom I receive
letters asking for information on farm-
ing and the kind of farming that pays
best, I invariably advise stock farm-
ing. Tt is the most profitable, as well
as the highest kind of farming, and
women, most of whom possess a germ
of the maternal instinct, are especially
fitted for it.”—Minneapolis Journal.
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Long drop earrings are in vogue
again.
. Picot-edged ribbon is once again the
vogue.
Ribbon flowers decorate Both hair
and bodice this ‘season.
Perpendicular strappings full over
the tucked circular fiounce of one
pretty chameleon taffeta petticoat.
Fur-lined garments of all kinds are
{ smart, and the light cloth coats lined
with fur
year.
Brocaded silk mixed with gold
threads is used for incrustations on
velvet gowns and finished around with
the silk cord, which is very often
pure white.
are to be fashionable this
Dark chiffons are being used for eve-
ning dresses made up over light or
brocaded silks. The effect is unusual,
but pretty, where harmonious colors
are chosen.
A jeweled girdle is now part of ev-
ery well-appointed tea gown, and this
is fastened well below the waist, so as
to given a most exaggerated long-
waisted appearance. :
The velvet tailor gown, fashioned
from plain or dotted material in black,
Czarina blue, moss green or brown, is
hy far the most attractive street cos-
tume of the season.
White broadcloth and white home-
spun are both made up into the most
attractive gowns for theatre wear,
and much or little colored embroidery
is one of the modes of decoration.
French knots are quite as popular
as ever and they appear in a variety
of sizes, one of which is a loose, long
knot which is made by putting the
thread around the needle more times
than is usual, and taking the second
stitch a little way from the first one
so the shape of the knot when finished,
is very much like the loop made for
heoks.
The triple skirt shows itself more
frequently as the season advances. An-
other skirt considered very smart is
made in six sections, each one cut cir-
cular and widening to a generous flare
in the lower portion, which, with the
top one, is richest of all, the four re-
maining ones being graduated in
width. The edges are finished with a
stitched band.
A Beautiful fecreen.
A beautiful and not especially ex-
pensive screen is one of the attractions
in a woman's studio. The frame is
plain, dark wood, with a dull finish.
The filling is made of India print cur-
tains, stretched plainly, with almost
no fullness. The curtains are cut out
to fit the spaces, no attention being
raid to the patterns, which adds to
the quaintness of the effect.
An Attractive Jdea. °
An attractive and utilitarian idea
that is a decided addition, besides a
saving to any chamber where there
isn’t a stationary washstand, is a wide
banner splasher mounted behind tha
washstand. These are of sheer white
muslin or madras that may be laun-
dered often and easily, shirred on a
brass rod, the rod suspended by a rib-
bon to match the color scheme of the
room. It should be sufliciently wide
to cover the wall behind both stand
and jar and extend fully 18 inches
above the stand, falling to the top of
the baseboard. The effect of this
ample, voluminous drapery is airy and
graceful.
Arrangement of the Parlor.
The arrangement of a parlor has al-
ways seemed to me to involve ques-
tions having a certain ethical value
since, if a parlor means anything, it
means a place in which man’s rela-
tions with his fellows may he carried
on—those relations in which all sug-
gestions of business or of a profes-
sional character are for the time be-
ing dropped.
Thus you not only want to provide a
seat for your neighbor who drops in
to see you, but you want tc make that
seat comfortable. You also want to
refresh his eye with agreeable objects
as he sits there, shielding it from the
glaring lights and So arranging your
other belongings that his vision,
tempted to roam while he waits, does
not come plump upon some ugly ob-
ject in another room.
You must never, by the way, forget
the end of the visual line, as it were.
Landscape artists and architects study
it, and the misteress of the household
never loses sight of it. Chairs and
sofas and tables should be pulled
about, tried in one place and another
until an effect is reached.
As your possessions increase, too,
you must be ready to move things
again, even those which until that mo-
ment have always. seemed to you “ex-
actly right.” .
The coming of a new picture into
an apartment sometimes means the
entire arrangment of all the rooms,
since everything else may be thrown
out of key. But if your picture be
worth anything it is certainly worth
the trouble you may take in brineing
the rest of your belongings into right
relations with it. No one, however, who
loves good pictures is unwilling to do
this.—Inew York News.
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Ba RETPES
Pumpkin Pudding—Stew ‘the pump-
kin till tender and quite dry. Rub it
perfectly smocth. To cone quart of
pumpkin add one pound of sugar, a
lump of butter, one quart of milk, the
beaten yolk of three eggs and cinna-
mon to flavor. Beat all together thor-
oughly; line a pudding dish with a
rich crust, pour in the pumpkin and
bake in a moderately hot oven.
Scones—Mix and sift together two
cupfuls of sifted flour; level teaspoon-
fuls of baking powder, half a teaspoon
of salt, rub in the flour with the tips of :
the fingers four level tablespoonfuls of
butter, then add two beaten eggs and
one-third cup of cream; toss on a
floured board; roll three-fourths of an
inch thick, cut in squares, brush with
white of egg; sprinkle with sugar and
bake in a hot oven. 15 minutes.
Chocolate Cookies—One cup of su-
gar, one-half cup of melted butter,
three-fourths cup of sweei miik, two
two cups flour, one cup raisins, one
cup chopped nuts, one egg and one
yolk. Put one-half teaspoon of cream
of tartar in the flour, and -ene-quarter
teaspoon of scda in the milk. Melt
two squares of unsweetened chocolate
and put in last. Flavor with vaniila.
Drop on pan and bake in moderate
oven.
Rice Fritters—Wash one cup of rice
in several waters and boil 15 minutes
in plenty cf water; pour off the water,
add one pint of milk and one table-
spoon of salt, cook until the rice is
tender, turn it into a bowl and when
ccld add three tablespoonfuls of su-
gar, yolks of three ggs, five table-
spoonfuls of flour, one teaspoon of
baking powder, then the whites of the
eggs well beaien; drop by the spoon-
ful into hot fat and fry a gocd brown,
pile on a platter and serve with vanil-
la sauce.
Apple and Nut Salad— Chop sepa-
rately and mix together one cupful
each of tart, rich-flavored apples and
English walnut meats. Serve with a
dressing made as follows: Rub twa
slightly rounded tablespoonfuls of nut
butter smooth with two-thirds of a
cupful of cold water, and add half a
teaspoonful of salt. Let all beil to-
gether for a moment; then remove
from the fire, and add two tablespoon-
fuls of lemon juice. Set on ice to got
very cold, then pour over the salad.
Garnish with celery.
egos