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An Original Subject.
Oneofthe subjects taken up the other
day by the Progressive Health Club,
a feminine organization of Chicago,
was how to make husbands cat what
they dislike.
The Modish Nightgown. .
The modish nightgown is of th
chemise order. It is made with low
meck and short flowing sleeves and
slips over the head. The neck is drawn
ap with ribbon threaded through hand-
made buttonholes,
Sr ——
Woman’s Trump Card,
I” ‘A woman’s winning card is cheerful-
ness. She may be capable of countless
self-sacrifices, infinite tenderness and
endless resources of wisdom, but if
she cloaks these very exceilent posses-
sions under a garb of melancholy she
may almost as well not-have them, so
far as the ordinary world is concerned.
i ‘Where Woman is Heroic,
" The determination to do her duty at
all costs inspires the society woman of
to-day as much as it did the defenders
of the British flag at Trafalgar.
goes into action with a grim resolve to
dance and dire as all her friends ex-
pect. Though her back is aching, her
head splitting, and she knows she is
grewsomely bored, she will heroically
go through her day’s program, fortified
by the consciousness of having done
her duty.—Ladies’ Field.
Gorgeous Piliow Top.
Given a square of art canvas and
some green, ‘yellow, black and red
braid one may have a gorgeous piliow
top. The canvas should bear a design
of some kind in the centre, which can
be embroidered in outline or cable
stitch, and strips of the braid, which
should be about half an inch wide,
make a gay border. They may be ap-
plied with machine stitching. Where
the strips cross at the corners they
should be interlaced, basket-work
fashion, ends three or four inches long
being left to form a fringe effect.
Lingerie Hats.
The lingerie hats of exquisite hatiste
or mull or fine Swiss embroideries and
Valenciennes lace are lovelier than
ever his season, and innumerable
changes are rung upon comdinations
of lace and flowers. Nets plain or
dotted with large chenille wafers are
shirred and pleated into airy, broad-
rimmed shapes and trimmed with flow-
ers and soft silk scarfs.
Shaded straws and straws of count-
less new weaves are shown. Linen
hats inset with lace and picturesque in
shape are among the new offerings as
well as more severe linen models for
outing and mourning wear.
Garden bunches and flower wreaths
divide the honors, and there are many
flowers and bud fringes which are
used profusely. Cockades, choux, ro-
settes, mercury wings, cupid wings
and quills are cailed into service for
the sailor hats.
S——
t The Modern Trousseau.
" No one thinks of getting a trousseau
nowadays to last fcr years, and if they
contemplated such a thing it would be
a dead failure. A modern bride gets
an outfit for immediate wear. In
dress we live from hand to mouth, and
the gowns of three months ago are like
the “snows of yester year.” Women
of to-day reset their jewels almost as
often as they order fresh garments.
There is no saving in anything. They
spend the money in quality. and not
quantity. No bride nowadays has an
immense number of dresses; she is
content with her wedding gown, the
more gossamer the more fashionable;
a traveling costume for going away,
with a stoic and muff to match; four
evening frocks, one black, one satin,
one lace and one a tulle or thin ball
gown; three smarter day gowns and a
tailor-made or so would suffice a dozen
of each article of underwear, and half
a dozen petticoats of various sorts will
pretty well complete the outiit,
Is Woman the Equal of Man?
Dr. Lyman Abbott, in the World's
Work, says that doubtless the enlarge.
ment cf woman’s educationai and in-
dustrial opportunities has been accom-
panied by some intellectual errors and
sone practical evils. The most serious
of these errors is the opinion that
eguality of character involves identity
of function; that because woman is
the equal of man, therefore she is to
do the same things which he does.
Those of us who have been interested
in claiming and pressing for woman
this larger life do not deny there are
distinctive feminine and masculine
spheres of activity, and that each sex
renders the best service to society
within its appropriate sphere. What
we object to is the endeavor of the
male philosopher to evolve woman's
sphere out of his own consciousness,
and shut her up within it; what we
insist on is that both sexes shall have
equal liberty and equal largeness of
life, and that each shall find its appro-
priate sphere for itself.
Tbe Engiish Wife.
“If you are thinking of marrying an
Englishman and making his country
your country,” says an American girl
who has done this, “do begin imme-
diaieiy to take an interest in polities.
All the upper-class people being in pol-
ftics in England, the woman who is
not posted shows herself a horrible ig-
poramus, and it is difficult to cultivate
She !
a taste for public affairs when you
have never before given them a
thought.”
Miss Rose Kingsley, daughter of
Charles Kingsley, when she was in
this country a few years ago lecturing
upon art, said that the least educated
of the English girls would be ashamed
to show the ignorance of politics of
which an American girl boasts. All
English girls of to-day are expected to
be well informed in many lines, and
politics is one of them. A bright Eng:
lish girl, Miss Lyon, who recently mar.
ried Lord Acton, was noted for her ac-
complishments—among them a knowl:
edge of art, music, languages and poli
tics.—New York Press.
——
Paris Evening Gowns,
There are several different models
for waists, some of which call for long
flowing sleeves, and others that have
only the band over the shoulders, and
then the short sleeve drooping below.
The long sleeves must be of the finest
materials, unlined, and their length is
only regulated by what is becoming.
The simplest of all evening gowns for
summer, and which can be made up
with very little cost, are the pretty
flowered muslins and batistes that this
year can be bought for very little
money, comparatively speaking. While
a silk foundation is of course always
satisfactory, it is not absolutely essen:
tial with these muslins, and many of
the smartest are made up on thin un.
derskirts, either of the same color or
of some contrasting color. A charming
little model for a flowered muslin has
three flounces with rows of shirring at
thé top of each flounce, and bands of
entre-deux and narrow lace on the edge
of each flounce. The waist is in baby
style with a deep bertha, the upper
part of the bertha made of six rows of
shirring, below which falls a square
bertha of the finest batiste and lace in.
sertion, and the whole gown is exceed:
ingly dainty and effective. Such a
gown can be made at home easily—
Harper's Bazar.
——
A Bachelor’s Tea Dish,
A bachelor maid with a small purse
and a large spirit of hospitality has
conjured up an afternoon tea dish
which may be useful to others who
have to entertain under difficulties. A
delicious charlotte russe which would
cost fifty cents if bought from a ca-
terer this young woman makes in her
own sitting room for less than twenty
cents. The materials are a pint bottle
of cream, at ten cents, and six lady-
fingers at six cents, and a deep pint
bowl with a good egg-beater are abso-
lutely necessary. If the hostess un-
derstands her work, the cream may be
beaten in one minute, while the tea is
brewing, but care must be taken not tc
knock the bottom of the bowl, as so
many do. This is why a shaliow bowl
means failure. Don’t omit a small
pinch of salt. Slant the beater a little;
don’t divide the cream, and beat stead.
ily and briskly for the time mentioned.
At the last few turns sweeten and fla:
vor. The lady-fingers should have
been previously split and placed up-
right in a round glass dish. If stale
they may be dipped quickly in orange
juice. If the charlotte russe is made
some hours before it is to be used, melt
a teaspoonful of granulated gelatine
in a tablespoonful of orange juice or
water; add a small after-dinner coffee
cup of boiling water. and when cool
beat through the cream at the last.
This keeps the cream “up” and gives
also a pleasant smoothness.—New York
Tribune.
Have a few good flowers on your hat
instead of a mass of tawdry ones.
No matter how fine your gown and
hat, you will look badly dressed if.
your gloves are ripped at the finger
tips. .
If you spend all your money on a
showy gown then you have to buy
poor shoes or wear your shabby old
ones.
If it is neatly made and well put on
a gown that cost twenty-five cents a
yard can look quite as stylish as one
that cost ten times the sum.
Simplicity is the keynote of good
dress. Eccentricity is always bad
taste; do not strive for unusual ei-
fects: be content with simpie giriish
styles.
In buying a shirt waist, for instance
it is far better to choose one of fine
material without any lace than one
that is of coarser material and cov:
ered with coarse lace. \
If you do your hair neatly and never
wear a hair ribbon unless it is fresh
and uncreased; if your collars afe
clean and your shoes neat and your
dress conspicuous only for its modest
harmony, you can be a very pleasant
object to gaze upon.
It is better to wear no ribbons at all
than to wear crushed and soiled ones.
Just at present so many girls wear
their hair turned up in a braid and tied
with a black ribbon. In many cases
the ribbon is dusty and shabby. The
style is pretty and becoming, but if
you can’t afford a fresh ribbon don’t
wear one at all,
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
rms, .
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY BISHOP
E. C. ANDREWS,
Subject: “Christianity and Love’’—Church
Ministrations Should Be Directed
Toward Freeing the Human Soul of
That Selfishness Which is FJnherent.
BRrookLYN; N. Y.—Bishop E. G. An-
drews, of the Methodist Episcopal “Church,
preached Sunday Inorning in the Central
Congregational Church. His subject was:
“Christianity and Love.” The text was
from I Timothy i:5: “Now the end of the
commandment is charity out of a pure
heart, and of a good conscience, and of
faith unfeigned.” Bishop Andrews said:
Every careful ‘reader of the English
Bible takes knowledge of the fact that the
English language, like every other living
language, is in process of change. He
knows the significance of words, as well
as their form, and occasionally their order
changes. He reads, for instance, in the
Psalms: “My heart is fixed, oh God, my
heart is fixed,” and he remembers that
that word “fixed” at the time our version
was made had the meaning, which we still
ret@in in our colloquial speech, ‘‘to be
fixed up,” and so he reads: {My heart is
prepared, oh God, my heart is prepared.”
e reads in the Epistle to the Thessalon-
ians that they which are alive at the sec-
ond coming of Christ shall not prevent
them that are asleep, and he remembers
that the word “prevent” erignaly meant
to precede simply, and came to have its
present meaning because he that precedes
another is likely to get in the way of that
one and obstruct another who follows, and
so-he reads that at the second coming of
Christ they that are alive shall not precede,
or shall not have the advantage over them
that sleep in Christ, for both alike shall be
called to meet their Lord in the air.
So in this text we have the word “char-
ity,” a word which to-day signifies either
almsgiving or kindly judgment of others,
but in the time of our version it had the
meaning to which the new revisers have
returned, viz., “love,” or ‘benevolence,”
and in this passage we read this statement:
The aim of the commandment is benevo-
lence, good will, effective love, even as we
speak of the love of man to God, then also
to his fellow nden.
Another Bible criticism is worth our
while. The word “commandment,” like
the word “law,” may have either a narrow
or a broad significance. The marrow sig-
nificance of that is “particular precept” at-
tended by ‘particular sanction.” A broad-
er meaning is that of a “holy ordained in-
stitution and system,” and that broader
meaning evidently should be here used be-
cause of'the context. We come then to
the entire statement: “The end, or aim, of
the whole Christian institution is love out
of a pure heart, and of a good conscience,
and of faith unfeigned.”
It originated in a heart of boundless love
toward man in an act of love unparalleled,
we may suppose in all the ages of eternity
—even the gift of God’s only Son. All its
precepts turn in this direction. Church or-
ganizations and ministrations of every
kind, if they be rightly directed, have sim-
ply this purpose to discharge the human
soul of that selfishness that belongs to it
by nature, and to enter into it all the love
of God.
Now all familiar with the New Testa-
ment know that this is no solitary utter-
ance—it is but one of many broad and
comprehensive statements. One came to
the Master saying: “Which is the first and
great commandment?’ And He answered:
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind, and with- all thy
strength; this is the first commandment,
and the second is like unto it: Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two
commandments hang all the law and the
prophets.” In another passage St. Paul
tells us that “Love is the fulfilling of the
law.” If there be any other commafid-
ment, it is briefly comprehended in this
sayig: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself.” St. James calls this the ‘royal
law.” St. Paul tells us: “Above all things,
have fervent charity one toward another.”
And. St. John, in a memorable passage, in
one of his epistles, tells us that “God is
loverand he that dwelleth in love dwelleth
in God and God in him.
Christ told the story of a man who went
down {rom Jerusalem to Jericho and fell
among robbers, as one may nowadays do
on that road. They robbed him, stripped
him of his raiment, wounded him, and left
him half dead. Then came one of the chief
representatives of the current religion, a
riest, and passed by on the other side.
Then there came down a subordinate rep-
resentative of the current religion, a Le-
vite, and he came and looked and passed
by on the other side. Then came a heretic
in. religion, an alien in race, and, looking
upon the wounded man, he was moved
with compassion and dismounted and
bound up his wounds, set the wounded
man on his own beast, brought him to an
inn and took care of him for the night and
paid the charges, leaving money for addi-
tional charges, saying to the inn keeper:
“If it cosls more 1 will repay when I come
again.” And that alien in race, that here-’
tic in religion, the Lord Jesus presents be-
fore us as the one great example of our
practical religion. ;
Now be pleased to notice two facts in
this natural love. In the first place, much
of it is simply instinctive, a divine im-
plantation for high purposes, but because
not founded in moral reason, divine reason,
therefore. without morai worth. It is but
art of that endowment of human nature
by which the propagation and the educa-
tion of the race is made possible, but it
does not imply of necessity any high moral
quality. The bear will rush on the point of
the spear in the defense of its cubs. The
wildcat: will die for its young. The eagle,
with. unwearied patience, will teach the
young eaglet to fly. Will you, therefore,
say: ‘‘Behold, what paragons of moral ex-
cellence?’ Would you not say of them if
they lacked parental and filial love: “Be-
hold what monsters?”
In the second place, this natural love is
marked by great limitations in its extent.
It is laid upon one’s family and one’s
friends, ppon one’s neighbors and country,
upon those who are of the same race, or it
may be of the same religious faith, or of
the same political persuasion, and it is
hemmed in by these limitations. How
many a man goes to the market place and
to the exchange with perfect indifference
to the prosperity and happiness of his fel-
low man and wrestles with them in busi-
ness to return to his home to lavish gladly
upon his family all his ill-gotten gains.
There are many generous men in all our
communities, but they may be also men de-
sirous of having their generosity duly aec-
knowledged and trumpeted abroad through-
out the world, ard if they fail of that ac-
knowledgment somehow their charity
seems to sour upon them, and they feel
that they are not recognized as they ex-
pected to be. Benedict Arnold was an em-
inently brave and skillful soldier, and so
far as we know a true patriot, but he was
a spendthrift, and when Congress censured
‘him in various ways he at length became
Benedict Arnold the traitor. The truth is
that it is very easy to overload all the
joists and timbers of our soul with these
defects, and we may notice in passing that
a great deal that passes for charity is of-
tentimes a thin veneer over unmeasured
masses of selfishness, and we may further
Foti that sometimes we haye credited
purselves with very great tenderness and
good will toward men, because, for in-
stance, we wept over the griefs and wces
f the heroes and heroines of fiction, and
Pr find ourselves (such is the inertia of
jour nature) never so much as lifting un
‘our hands to relieve the unutterable woes
that crowd in human souls all arouad us,
i Another defect of the natural love is that
it is simply an unrightcous love; I mean it
lacks the quality of righteousness in that it
is a mera kindly affection and desire to do
kind things to those who are objects of our
love, while at the same time there is no
recognition of that foundation which up-
holds the whole process of human life, that
fundamental truth which only can confer
any large and permanent well being.
Finally, this natural love is oftentimes
ungod}y. That is to say, it is the recogni-
tion in man (the children of God) of this
or that scintillation of the infinite good-
ness, while it withholds from Him who
gathers ubto Himself all conceivable ex-
cellenrces, «all truth, patience, generosity,
tendesness, temperance, long suffering, all
purity—while it withholds from Him the
heart’s true loyalty. So that this native
or natural love of which we speak is indeed
oftentimes a very faint reflection and im-
age of that perfect love toward which
Christianity calls us. And so we turn back
to- the text, and hear the words that St.
Paul said: “The aim of the command-
ment, the whole aim of the Christian in-
stitution, is love out of a pure heart, and
out of a good conscience and out of faith
unfeigned.” . Hao
First—In this matter of Christianity we
have to do with such divine forces in their
operation upon human nature as yield
hopes of even this great result. It is not
that we expect ourselves to attain any
such goodness, but is it not possible that
He who made this thing we call the human
soul with all its varied powers of observa-
tion, reason, imagination, fancy and mem-
ory, conscience and will, He who made
this strange, subtle, intangible thing we
call the human soul, may not He remake
the soul, enter into its profoundest depths,
so reconstruct, reorder and inspire it that
it may shine in all the likeness of God? Is
it not said, ‘He will do for us far more ex-
ceedingly than we can ask or think?”
And that is the warrant in this Christian
church, and in ‘all these Christian churches
for the high aspiration toward which
Christianity ‘points us. a
And the other thing to be said is this,
that however true it is that most of us
who profess and call ourselves Christians
come far very far, short of this high ideal
of character; however true it is that with
many of us our Christianity is simply, as
it were, an attempt to secure self-well-be-
ing in the long reaching future—alas! that
it 1s such a narrow form of Christianity as
that—however true that may be, neverthe-
less I take it for granted that perhaps
every one present has during some time in
his experience come in contact with some
soul, has become intimate perhaps with
some life, upon whom the divine truth, the
divine providence and the divine inspira-
tion has so operated in transforming power
that the soul seems to have entered into
tne very fellowship of God, cven has be-
come radiant with divine life, the features
have been chiseled by the soul within, -the
eye has looked tenderly out toward all
men whom it has met, and now and then
the very habitation. and habit of such a
person becomes unspeakably endearing, be-
cause of this dwelling of the Lord Christ
within. ey
Second—The aim of Christianity is love
not only out of a pure heart, but also out
of a good conscience. That is to say, its
aim is not a mere-sentimental overflow of
tears and pity; it shall be a living and
mighty engine within, under the guidance
of God, as to method, and as to measures,
of a widely instructed moral sense. Chris-
tianity is something beside mere happiness.
It aims at the great soul of life under the
guidance and shaping of an instructed
moral nature. .
And finally the love at which Christian-
ity aims is a love out of faith unfeigned.
Let faith return. Bring back your Bible.
Behold one living and eternal God. He is
love, and He has loved this poor world so
that He has effected redemption for man-
kind and lifted them across the heavens.
Has thrown His arms around man, in _or-
der that He might lift him up by His Holy
Spirit. Prayer, so that the broken-hearted
and the sufferer and desolate may go apart
from the eyes of man and pour out their
hearts to God, whose ear can catch their
faintest sigh, and whose eye beholds the
falling tear. Providence. No sparrow falls
to the ground without His knowledge, and
the very hairs of your head are numbered.
Death; transformation. Life here; intro-
duction to the life eternal. Let these
truths enter and live within human souls,
and somehow the human race has become
transformed by these facts. I cannot meet
a man, woman or child, but at once I know
there is one whom God loves. Why should
I not love that one? And so it comes to
pass that wherever Christianity is there is
still love where it was not.
Two inferences are interesting. There
may seem to you to be various defects in
the historical parts of the Bible, but if you
will only tell me where there is a system
whose breath is love, whose inspiration is
love, which makes this earth a paradise
and a very heaven of love. If you tell me
where that comes from I am sure I shall
know how God comes down to our world
in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Second. How much Christianity have
you? Not how much religion. The Brah-
min, the Mahommedan have religion; that
is common to all nations, but how much
Christianity have vu? There is one an-
swer. So much Christianity as- we have
self-forgetfulness, self-sacrifice, charity; so
uch and: no more. May ‘God help us.
There is infinite resources for us. Let us
look to heaven, and let us look to earth,
and do the little things at hand in order
that when the opportunity may come we
may nourish within ourselves the victor-
jous forces of helpfulness until at length,
if it please God, we shall be like our Lord
Jesus Christ, who was the very fulness of
love toward man.
Life Without Any Waste.
In the Rocky Mountain gold fields is a
mine without a dump, writes Rev. R.
Scott Stevenson; in the New York Obser-
ver. . Father and son opened a vein of ore,
and with some reward for their labors fol-
lowed it back into the mountain until at
the end of sixty feet the ore failed. One
day when they were looking over the deso-
late place that once promised to produce a
fortune the son said to his father:
“We'll try again. It looks like fire had
burned off a great pillar of gold, and when
it fell it broke in two, and what we've
dug out was the upper end shoved down
the mountain side.”
They climbed up 200 feet further, dug
down and found the original vein, which
proved so rich and pure that no dump was
needed, for there was no waste. A life of
consecration is a life without waste. God
can use tll such a lif? brings to Him.
Every word spoken in His fear, every act
performed in the consciousness of His cye
npon you, every service rendered -villing-
ly. He tre and rcwards. A life of
real consecr 3
tion is so near to God it ‘inds
and briags tg Him only such gifts and scr-
vices as Me 1s willing to receive and bless.
YWhat to Preach,
odore Cuyler tclls us that he
n ia delense cf the
He pr cd the Secriptures
themselves: and ithcy proved to be ‘“‘the
power of God unto salvation.” We have
forty new books upon “The Changing
Viewpoint,” where we recd a hundred
unon “Jesus Christ, the Same Yesterday,
To-day, and Forever.” The apostle tod
us, many centuries azo, that there would be
things to ‘‘be shaken;” but he also assured
us that therc would be “things that re-
main.” ‘Whoever devotes his attention to
the shaken instead of to the firma has nis-
taken his call if he remains in the min-
istry. ‘“What the world nceds,” said Dr.
Van Dyke, “is not a new Gospel, but more
Gospel.” “hat hits the nail on the head.
The Duty of To-Day.
Let it be our happiness this dar to add
to the happiness of the roun-’ us, to
comfort some sorrow, to relieve some want,
to add somc strength to our neighbors’
virtue.~—Channing.
* the
SCIENCE NOTES. ,
Neuralgia is said to be successfully
treated in Italy by the use of blue
fight. -
The longevity of the engine is se-
riously affected by the character of
the water used in the boilers.
Experts at Newport, RB. 1., say that
the submarine boat -can go 200 miles
to sea with perfect safety to the crew.
Out in Arizona they are experiment-
ing with a branding fluid to take the
place of the hot branding iron com-
monly used for marking purposes.
The latest advices are that it is not
an uncualified success.
In accordance with the secommend-
ations of the committee appointed by
the Society of Arts in England, 60 in-
stitutions have undertaken to try the
new leathers prepared under their di-
rections, which it is hoped will over-
come the rapid deterioration of book-
binding leathers.
A German scientist. who has lived
for many years in Japan, declares that
in the next generation the Japanese
people will cease to be small in size,
and that already in girth and height
they are approaching the size of Eu-
ropeans. He attributes this to the
adoption of European habits.
Nature, of London. savs that at a
sale recently held by Mr. Stevens in
Covent Garden a great auk’s egg in
fine condition was sold for 200 guin-
eas. This is a considerable falling
off from the 300 guineas obtained for
the last specimen sold by Mr. Stevens,
the reason being attributed to tho
fact that several other fine examples
are in the market.
A new theory is that the age of
fishes of the cod family can be deter-
mined from the periodic growths of
scales. Such growths are known to
-be annual in the carp, and it is there-
fore prcbable that the same is true
for salt-water fishes. The view is con-
firmed by observations on varicus
cods by Mr. J. S. Tomson, a British
biologist. Annual rings seem to be
traceable, giving the ages, and it is
proposed to test the truth of the the-
ory by returning labeled fishes to the
sea for future observation after first
recording the present condition of
their scales.
In his studies of the effect of com-
pression on finely divided metals,
Professor Hof of Witten, Westphalia,
has taken turnings of steel, copper
and bronzes, and placed half a pound
of each in turn in a steel cylinder of
two inches bore, gradually increasing
the pressure to fifty tons. With a
pressure of ten tons the structure of
the turnings could still be seen. The
final pressure of 50 tons, however,
gave a perfectly homogeneous block,
and this corld be moulded so nicely
as to be ready for nickeling without
further finishing. Not least important
of the results is the suggestion that
turnings may be compressed into many
objects more dense and satisfactory
than ordinary castings.
Cheap Lemonade the Best.
“Lemonade is like soun,” said a
chef. “It must stand for some time if
the best results are to be obtained
from it.
“Tomorrow, for an exveriment, buy
on the street a glass of ready mixed
lemonade for two or three cents, and
then in a cafe. buy for 15 or 20 cents
a glass of lemonade prepared to your
crder. I'll wager that the cafe lem-
onade, for all its slice of pineapple and
its Maraschino cherry, will have noth-
ing like so. pleasant a taste as the
three cent drink of the streets.
“Why is this so? Well, it is be-
cause the street lemonade, which has
been standing a long time, the lemon
juice and the sugar have mixed thor-
oughly with the water. In the cafe
lemonade this mixture has not had
time to take place.
“You know how much better a vege-
table soup is if the various vegetables
are given plenty of time to mix them-
selves thoroughly with the liquor?
Well, it is the same with lemonade.”—
New York Evening Telegram,
The Wink Test.
“It is easy,” said an occulist, ‘to tell
what kind of light most thoroughly
suits your eyes. The light that is best
for you is the ore wherein you wink
least. The wink, you see, is the eye's
sign of weariness.
“I have experimented on myself,
and I find that an electric light is
even better for my eyes than daylight.
In daylight I wink .two and eight-
tenths times a minute, whereas in an
electric light I only wink one and
eight-tenths times. Candle light is
oad for me; in it I give six and a half
winks a minute. Gaslight is better,
for in it I only give two and a third
winks.
“This wink test of lights is rot my
wn invention. A German ophthalmo-
~ist originated it, and it is regarded
~n all sides as accurate and good.”—
New York Evening Telegram,
Made a Mistake.
A senior of one of our large manu-
facturing concerns came through the
store recently and noticed a boy sit-
ting on a counter. swinging his legs
and whistling merrily. he senior
eved him severely as he confron
tim and inquired:
“Is that all you have to do?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Very well; report to the cashier
and tell hind to pay you off. We don't
aeed boys like you around here.”
“But, sir,” said the astonished boy,
#] don’t work for you. I
bought some goods and am waiti
i ”—Louisville Courier Jour
nal. | wears out.”
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ONE DEAD SEA VESSEL.
Sailing Craft the Only Thing on the
Sait Expanse.
Since the earthquake in Palestine
Jast April some one circulated the
story that the mouth of the river Jor-
dan had been so affected by the shock
that the level of the river had been al-
tered to such an extent that at the
place where the hisgoric river goes
into Dead Sea there was now a water.
fall of considerable denth and
strength. This is altogether false,
and no change whatever has taken
place at or near the mouth of the Jor
dan.
The writer has just spent some days
there and made it his special business
to investigate this matter. Much has
also appeared in periodicals about
steamboats navigating the Dead Sea.
Phis, too, is a fabrication. The only
boat on the Dead Sea is a small sail-
Ing boat, about twenty feet long. This
vessel makes trips as the wind allows,
from the north end of the sea to the
ay, on the eastern side of the tongue
that divides the water near the mid-
dle.
Hers at this terminus some Jews
are located. The whole concern is, in
fact, in the hands of the Jews, who, at
a low rate, buy wheat and barley from
the Arabs, to be delivered on the sea-
shore. From there it is shipped to
the Jericho side and carried on don-
keys to Jerusalem, where it finds a
ready sale at a good price.
When adverse winds blow the little
craft is in danger of being swamped,
for the so-called Dead Sea becomes a
living mass of waves. The writer
recently spent four nights such as
never will be forgotten on these wat-
ers, and the smartness of the old man
at the helm and his boy with the three
sails saved us from being wrecked
again and again. A charge of one me-
jedie (threes shillings and four-pence)
a trip is made for each passenger, and
for such a unique coyage it is not ex
orbitant. There is some talk about
a small steamtug being put on the sea,
but the authorities are loath to grant
permission. It will be a great boon
when, if ever, it does arrive as it
will bring the east and west sides of
Jordan nearer to one another for
communication and trading purposes.
—Union Graphic. \
A Few Big Facts About This Country.
Americans never write fairy tales.
Why? Because the facts are more
wonderfu] than any fiction.
It is only 317 years since the first
American child was born in this coun-
try. (Her name was Virginia Dare,
and she was kidnapped by the Indians
when she was a few years old.)
It is only 128 years since thig re-
public was started. Yet it has today
four times the area, nearly four times
the number of states, and 25 times the
population that it had in 1776.
Three hundred years ago there were
only 143 Americans at Jamestown, and
now we have nearly 80,000,000. The
centre of population is now in the mid-
dl eo fIndiana.
Our business has jumped from hun-
dreds to billions. Our farmers sold
four billions worth of stuff last year.
Our manufacturers sold twice as much
as the farmers.
We did $2,000,000,000 worth of busi-
ness with the rest of the world, and
our trade at home amounted to over
$20,000,000,000. This is a record that
no ancient nation nor modern nation
has equalled. .
We also hold the record for produ-
cing grain, cotton, iron, coal, oil and
manufactured goods. No country has
50 few soldiers or so many well paid
workers. And we have still nearly. a
billion acres of land to give away. ei
new settlers. SRE,
England is smaller. than Kansas. *
France is about the’ size of Arizona
and New Mexico. The whole German
ampire could be contained in the state
of Texas.
These are a few of the big facts
about this big country. Is: it any
wonder that we brag? Is it any won-
der that we are surprised to sée any
poverty in a country so rich and pros-
perous?—Steps in the Expansion of
Dur Territory.
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The Ghost Doesn’t Walk.
Cumnor Hall in Warwickshire, the
sountry seat of the Earl of Leicester,
Queen Elizabeth's favorite courtier,
where Amy Robsart, the earl’s wife,
was murdered by Leicester’s varlets in’
srder that the queen and he might
marry, recently became the subject of
L queer suit. The earl of Abingdon
told the estate to Scott Hall, who now
wants to get rid of the bargain on the
tstonishing ground that the ghost of
Amy Robsart doesn’t walk, whereas
that was one of the principal expecta-
jions he had in buying Cumnor. But
the judge decided in effect that there
vas no possible way of coercing a
rhost, and that Scott Hall would have
0 keep Cumnor hall. If he will stay
ong enough he may grow a spook or
‘wo of his own. They belong to any
’lace in the course of time—to tene-
nents, slums, farmsteads and palaces
ulike. Longfellow tells truth—
‘All homes wherein men have lived
and died
Are haunted houses.”
Translation of Some Native Idioms.
In New Britain, says the Pittsburg
Dispatch, a missionary, in translating,
was seeking some native idiom to
convey the idea of a binding oath,
when a chief suggested that the de-
sired phrase was, “I would rather
speak to my wife’s mother than do
such and such a thing.* In British
Columbia a missionary wanted his
catechists to translate “A crown of
glory that fadeth not away.” This
was done to the satisfaction of alt
concerned, but ultimately the mission-
ary found to His horror that it had
been rendered, “A hat that never