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One is accustomed to women’s carry- fug money in queer places, but one who recently has taken to thrusting it just inside her collar, is a joke among her friends. They discovered it the other evening when with her husband she went to the house of a friend for a call. On the way her husband had no change to pay the fare, when the re- sourceful woman slipped her fingers deftly inside of her collar and produced some bills. “It’s the best place,” she said calmly. “I used to carry extra money up my sleeves, but I lost it all the time. I've never lost it from my collar, and it doesn’t take up any room, either.” The Mother's Comforts Some months ago, Richard Harding Davis stated, in an extremely interest- ing magazine article treating of camp outfits in the field, that it was his ppinion that a man should be comforta- ble in order to be useful. He meant that the thoroughly comfortable man is always better fitted and in a better frame of mind to do the work required of him than is the man who is harassed by his own physical discom- forts. This seems a most sensible idea, and the same principle applies, although Mr. Davis does not say so, to all mothers. A mother who is perfect- ly comfortable herself is certainly bet- ter equipped for making others com- fortable than she could possibly be if her mind was constantly on her own ailments. 1f a mother is to take proper care of fier own babies, big and little, she must begin by taking very excellent care of herself. For instance, if she {oses sleep at night (and what mother does not?) she must make it up day- times, even if she has to take a nap during that precious leisure time when the naturally wakeful baby conde- scends to sleep. Almost every young mother is af- fected with toothache, because the task of providing teeth for the baby has left the mother's own teeth in an impoverished condition. Consequently the wise mother goes early and often to the dentist, and thus provides at {east one member of the family circle ith a fairly comfortable mouth. Too Careful of the Hair. The non-collegiate woman who had just returned from a three days’ visit to her sister at a woman's college ‘had not got over marveling at the ways of college girls. “But what impressed and shocked me most,” she said, “was the unusual number of gray- -haired girls. Of course, I don’t mean entir ely gray, but so streaked with it that it was noticeable. It made no differénce whether the tresses were brown’ or yellow, titian or black, there were the gray streaks just the same. Of gourse, there were beautiful heads of hair that looked as young and fresh as they should, but in a group of twenty girls I actually counted thirteen whose hair was turning gray rapidly. Their hair did not look neglect ed. It was well kept and glossy, but there were more gray hairs than a girl of thirty should have. It did not seem as if they could be caused by worry, for college girls are not given to worrying, so I thought maybe the strenuous life of work and play was responsible. “The matron of the dormitory had a different theory. ‘It’s because the girls never leave their hair alone,” she said. “They wash their tresses once a week, and sometimes twice a week. Come with me and I'll show you.’ “She took me around to the back of the building, and there hanging out of a number of windows, in the sunshine, were several heads of hair. The sight was as grewsome as a Bluebeard’s chamber. The matron said it could be seen every day in the week, and was the end of the shampoo—the drying process. «hose girls simply wear their hair out, and that’s all there is to it; she insisted, and it really seems as if it were the only practical solution of the mystery.’—New York Press. A Domestic Science Experiment. An interesting experiment in the teaching of domestic science is being tried in the little town of Crete, Neb., one of the oldest and most prosperous towns in the State. It is generally supposed that only large cities can af- ford to teach domestic science in the public schools, but Crete, with its pop- ulation eof 2500, has proved this idea to be fallacious. The superintendent in- terested ten housekeepers in a plan whereby the girls in the high school became pupils in the kitchens of the housekeepers. each one of whom agreed to teach certain branches. One housekeeper teaches soup making and the disposal of remnants; another teaches bread making, while others in- struct in dish washing, serving, clean- ing and various departments of house- keeping. ‘There are thirty items in the course, which was carefully prepared by the superintendent. The lessons and denionstrations are given to smail classes of ten girls, and the pupils practice in their own homes. About once a month there is a meeting of the instructors at the school, and samples of the girls’ cookery are passed upon. December 2 was the last demonstra- an elaborate collation to their teachers. Many of the girls come from the coun- try to attend school, and their interest in the courses is proved by the cheer- fulness with which they walk some- times several miles to attend the exhi- bitions and test classes. A letter from the town speaks of another benefit de- rived from the home instruction: “The instructors and girls are interested in each other outside of domestic science lines. Each instructor is becoming ac- quainted with all the high school girls and each girl learning to know and re- spect the ladies. This means muck of good for the community in its social relations. The girls are called into the homes of the city to serve at private functions, and to help in the more elab- orate club and public affairs.” Said of Women, It is not easy to be a widow; one must resume all ‘he modesty of girl hood, without being allowed even to feign ignorance.—Mme. de Girardin. A woman's hopes are woven as sun- beams; a shadow annihilates them.— George Eliot. Women cannot see so far as men can, but what they do see they see quicker.—Buckle. The more idle a woman's hand the more occupied her heart.—Dubay. Women speak easily of platonic love, but while they appear to esteem it highly, there is not a single ribbon of their toilet that does not drive platon- ism from our hearts.—Ricard. If woman did turn man out of para- dise, she has done her best ever since to make it up to him.—Sheldon. A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor any- thing that is worse than a bad one.— Simonides. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.—Solomon. How wisely it is constituted that tender and gentle women shall be our earliest guides — instilling their own spirits.—Channing. Let woman stand upon her female character as upon a foundation.— Lamb. The modest virgin, the prudent wife and the careful matron are much more serviceable in life than petticoated phi- losophers, blustering characters or vi- rago queens.—Goldsmith. * A wise man ought often to admon- ish his wife, to reprove her seldom. but never to lay hands on her.—Marcus Aurelius. A woman of honor should never sus- pect another of things she would not do herself.—Marguerite de Valois. We only demand that a woman should be womanly; which is not being exclusive.—Leigh Hunt. For Women of Brains, Making inventories of the contents of wealthy folks’ houses is the work of five clever young women in the city, who earn on an average $100 a month, often more. It isn’t that the work is! altogether new. Only the clev erest’ girls can do the work. Four out of: 100 is the average number selected: from those who apply. ; “When asked what are the qualifica- tions mecessary for a woman to pecome, expert at the business the young man; who directs the work tersely respond- ed, “Brains.” “Nor is this all,” he went on half smilingly, but biting his words off in a manner that indicated that he meant what he said. ‘She must not only be endowed with brains, but she must use them. “It seems to me that nine out of every ten girls go through life with their eyes shut. They might be stone blind for all the knowledge they re- tain. “If one of my assistants is called upon to classify a leather divan she must know whether it is pebble or calf and the reason why. Hardwood may be of any of a dozen or more varieties. She must be able to recog: nize it by the color, the grain and the quality, and so record it, “One woman may think herself to be an expert on rugs. To her notion a rug is either Turkish or Persian or the produce of some other country. “But that won't do. She must have sufficient knowledge of rug lore to tell from what province a rug comes. “In short she must be an expert on no end of things and be as ready to classify a rare old ivory carving as a Tombola lace bedspread. She must know art from A to Z, and have her knowledge at her fingers’ ends when wanted.” Although the requirements are se- vere, the girls who succeed enjoy the work immensely. A day is eight hours, allowing an hour for luncheon, the girls presenting themselves for duty at 9 a. m. and leaving at 5 p. m. At all times they are surrounded with beautiful objects of art, for none but the wealthiest folk can afford to have the work done, as the fee is $30 a day and the work of inventorying one house will take anywhere from one td three weeks and in the case of a mad who owns several hontes the work 3a) extend over several months.—New York Sun. People have been dying in Mexico of the cold, while up in Maine the old: est inhabitant confesses that he never >| weaken" THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT ‘SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. HOWARD MELISH. Subject: ‘“ Repentance.” Brooklyn, N. Y.—In Holy Trinity Church, Sunday morning, the rector, the Rev. Howard Melish, preached from the text, “From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, ‘Repent.’ ” ~—St. Matthew iv:17. He said: I heard one of the ablest men in America, a man who had studied the popular mind carefully and observed it most keenly, say not long ago, that if he were young again the one message he would endeavor to bring home to his countrymen is—spirit, soul, manhood make conditions, not conditions men. Three forces are producing the oppo- site view. The first is materialism. Materialism as a philosophy is discred- ited. Twenty-five years ago it received tremendous importance through the formulation of a doctrine of evolution by natural selection. To-day it is not taught in a single university chair. But materialism, as a popular concep- tion of the world, is more generally heeded than ever before. In it God is identified with His universe. His name is Force. His law is to be found not in the Bible, but in the latest text books on physics. Man is an animal which thinks. He is a creature of his en- vironment. When he dies he is dead as every other beast of the field. The second is the teaching of some socialists. There is socialism and there is Christian socialism. Christian social- ism endeavors to make a place in so- cialism for Christianity’s emphasis on the individual. Socialism is concerned with the economic and industrial reor- ganization of society. As interpreted by some of its expounders it is telling men that they can’t be just or right or pure or honest or humane under the competitive system. To talk about eth- ical standards so long as men must compete to live is child's play. The Sermon on the Mount is impracticable; let a man obey its precepts and he is sure to be thrown by the current of life on io the bank as wreckage. What is needed to make men is a different order of society. Such teachings, such feeling, for it has become more a feel- ing than a clearly articulated system, has weakened the sense of individual responsibility. I can’t be pure living under tenement house conditions. I can’t speak the truth in a modern pul: pit or a modern newspaper, therefore I am not responsible for impurity, dis- honesty, lying. The third force, laying stress on con- ditions instead of will, and so weaken- ing individual conscience, is Christian Science. At first thought this may seem an utterly inconsistent statement. Does not Christian Science lay all the emphasis on the individual—his atti- tude of mind, his thought? Not at all. ‘What "it emphasizes is conditions :of thought. By methods which rival the methods of Hypatia and the Neo-Pla- tonists, they endeavor to work mind into a state where nothing ex- ternal to your mind has any reality. Sin does not exist. The suffering of little children in the Home of St. Giles the Cripple is a mere thought. The dishonesty of business has no reality. The tragedy of much of our tenement house life, vith its starvation, unem- ployment,