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For Looks Besides Use.
By-and-by belt pins will be taking
the place of chatelaine watches in the
“Lost” advertisement columns of the
newspapers. A new kind of belt pin
has “come in” and will be displayed
gonspicuously to the gaze of the en-
vious throng. It is a three-bar safe-
ty pin, set with pearls. Imitation
pearls will be barred as long as the
fashion is young, but it won’t be long
before jewelers will be making up
ins with imitation gems to supply
hat promises to be an extensive de-
mand. The safety pin as an article
af adornment rather than utility has
been creeping in slowly—one might
say apologetically. Now it makes no
ones about it, and demands a prom-
[nent place in the show window.—
New York Press.
When a Woman Travels.
A crumpled, grimy gown is becom-
ing to no one at any time.
Of all the fabrics used for travel-
ing get-ups, serge, mohair, and light-
weight cheviots are the most useful.
Linen, the heavy pongees, and taf-
feta are still popular, but for long
journeys they are not for women of
short pocketbooks.
Tartans will be used for the fall
in blouses and the trimmings of suits.
The girls always like them at the
season of the ‘“‘turning leaf and rust-
ing vine.” /
For the traveling coat pongee and
taffeta are desirable, but not if wet
weather is to be encountered in them.
Now that the tide of travel is
turned toward the mountains, where
already there are frosty nips in the
morning air, tweed and the worsteds
will soon be comfortable.
Girls Are Independents.
“To my mind there's nothing that
s0 demonstrates that women are be-
coming more independent and men
more dependent than that,”’ said the
man on the park bench, pointing to
the children who were wandering by
in charge of nurses or fond mamas.
“Now, if you're observant you’ll no-
tice that almost evety boy has hold
of a grown-up’s hand, while the girls
strut and trip along, unguided by
any adult hand. It looks as if all the
little boys needed to be led, while the
girls seem to know where they're
going. I notice it everywhere; on
the streets, in the cars, on the fer-
ries, in the stores. The little boys
are always clinging to grown-up pet-
ticoats, while the little girls go it
alone.
“I don’t know whether it’s the
grown-ups who are responsible for
it, or the little boys themselves. I
know when I was a boy that I would
have resented the idea that I must
take hold of some one’s hand. I
wanted to walk by myself and I did
it. But to-day it seems to be only
the little girls who are possessed
with that spirit of independence.”’—
New York Press.
Of Interest to Girls.
A use has been found for'the little
odds and ends of ribbon useless here-
tofore, yet too preity to throw away.
They are now used for tom-thumb
sachets which are just the thing for
birthday tokens, luncheons, favors
and for pinning into on&’s gown to
impart a delicate fragrance. The
tiny pocket which contains the sa-
chet powder (about an inch square)
Is sewed to the ribbon, the ends of
which are brought forward to cover
the bag and are shaped to form a
dainty flower. Of course upon the
morsel of ribbon in hand depends the
kind of flower to be made. Thus
pale pink makes a charming little
wild rose, purple a pansy, yellow a
buttercup, white a dogwood and so
on. The shaping of the petals is
most important as upon this as well
as the coloring depends much of the
naturalness of the flower. The cen-
tre of the blossom is added by means
of a few stitches in floss of the ap-
propriate color, yellow being used for
the wild rose, etc. When employed
as luncheon favors the little sachets
may be sewed on to the place cards,
or furnished with temporary stems of
wire so as to hang up on the edge of
the water tumblers.
The Outdoor Air Habit.
Girls are so splendidly sensible
nowadays that few of them will in-
dulge in such vagaries as not eating
because they are afraid of getting
fat or starving themselves in sulky
silence because they cannot have
their own way, but not all of them
have learnad that outdoor air is the
watchword of beauty.
It is pitiful to think of the people
to whom the country is a dull place
without charm, attraction or pleas-
ure; who have only one thought:
“How can I get away from this dull
place? How soon can I return to
town?” :
The country is so full of delicious
scent and sounds, with its peaceful
fields, and mild-eyed, ruminating cat-
tle, its hedges sweet with honey-
suckle, and its vines thick with the
promise of fruit that it seems almost
incredible that when people have a
chance of leaving a great city for a
little holiday they fly off to another
town where there are brass bands,
and dress parades.
It is when we spend our holiday
out of doors that we take back with
us the memory of sweet-smelling
glover, and of singing birds.
It is then that our little holiday is
for us a time of refreshment, a sea-
son of calm shining to cheer us.
It is a holiday that we are the bet-
ter and stronger for. Fresh air, sim-
ple fare, plenty of exercise, will
keep a woman young in looks, in
figure and in temper.—New York
Press.
Hours For Sleep.
Mothers know that the new-born
infant must sleep about twenty-two
hours, and that this amount is so
slowly lessened that the child still
demands twelve hours sleep when it
is about twelve years old. It is quite
likely that the normal amount is not
reduced to ten hours until about eigh-
teen years of age or perhaps until
twenty-one years. Nine hours may
be required until well along in years.
To let boys of fourteen sit up until
ten o'clock and then rout them at
six is nothing short of criminal, but
it is a long-established custom. Low-
er animals can be quickly killed by
depriving them of sleep—the boy is
not killed, but perhaps he is so ex-
hausted that he loses resistance to
disease. Medical students not in-
frequently make the same mistake,
forgetting that a tired brain never
absorbs anything. The midnight oil
frequently represents wasted time
and money and the student sleeps
during the next day's lectures when
he should be wide awake. A good
test of exhaustion is the tendency to
sleep during a dry lecture—and this
is no joke. Experience has proved
that those who retire in time to sleep
at least nine hours, and occasionally
t-n, get far more out of their course
than the “grinds.” Some of the best
men habitually take ten hours. The-
oretically a student should be as
fresh at the end of the term as at
the beginning-—the vacation is for
another purpose than sleep. The
whole subject, though very old, is
s0 new to the laymen who do the
damage to school boys, particularly
in boarding schools, that there is ur-
gent need of wider publicity and
muci discussicrn for enlightenment.
Not only will proper sleep permit
more to be gained for less effort, but
it will r—-2vent the exhaustions which
so frequently follow courses. Phy-
sicilans might teach mothers that it is
harmful to waken children of any
age—they should waken in the
morning naturally. If they are not
in time for school they do not retire
early enough. If they are sleepy
heads it is either the fault of the
parent or the result of ocular de-
fects. There is much comment upon
the larg ---mber of midshipmen who
fail at the naval academy in a course
not worse than in many colleges. It
is suspected that they would do bet-
ter if they had ten hours’ sleep daily.
—American Medicine.
"A fresh, crisp veil is all some hats
need to carry them through the sea-
son. ;
Metal-rimmed cloth buttons will
trim many handsome tailored cos-
tumes this winter.
The right place for the handker-
chief plaided with color is with the
morning and street frocks.
Soft leather collar, cuffs and pocket
laps finish the new shower-proof
coats of checked material.
The fancy bolero coat of one new
suit closes on the shoulder and under
the arm, leaving the braid ornamen-
tation on the front undisturbed.
You already known that brown and
gray are to be fashionable, but you
may not know that they are going
to be combined in a single suit.
Walking skirts are of a length
most becoming to the wearer, any-
where from three inches above the
pavement to a hair's breadth from
touching it.
The beauty of many a charming
hat is intensified by placing velvet
folds in either harmonizing or con-
trasting tones upon the under face
of the brim.
A touch of light blue upon .the
black costume appears in one layer of
the rosette at the left side of the
toque and as paillettes upon the tiny
vestee and flat collar of the bolero.
The newest belts are made of pin
seal and have silver gilt buckles stud-
ded delicately with jewels. These
belts are slightly shaped and come
in all the new tones, including
grays.
A tasteful costume consists of
black silk skirt and net waist with
bandings of the silk. Cream net or
allover lace is combined with strap-
pings of Persian silk for evening bod-
ices.
The lovers’ knot is a design that
one never tires of, and it is particu-
larly pretty carried out in velvet or
satin ribbon with a medallion cen-
tre. Sleeves, bodice front, and skirt
panel may be fittingly embellished
with this design.
Light weight ruches and stoles are
a charming neck dressing that ap-
pear with the cool days and evenings.
They are dainty affairs of maline and
its damp-proof successor, malinette,
chiffon, lace and ribbon, as well as
the more expensive feathers.
THE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. JAMES W. LEE.
Subject: How We Know God.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—For a month the
Rev. Dr. James W. Lee, pastor of
Trinity M. E. Church, South Atlanta,
Ga., acted as pastor of three Brook-
lyn churches, Bethany Dutch Re-
formed, Simpson M. E. and Central
Baptist. These churches united their
congregations into one, and invited
Dr. Lee to serve them. The sermon
last Sunday was at Simpson Church.
The subject was “How to Know
God,” and the text Hosea vi:3: “Then
shall we know, if we follow on to
know the Lord.” Dr. Lee said:
For all our knowledge we are in-
debted to three forms of mental ac-
tivity which are known as intuition
reflection and recollection, or to use
different forms for the same things,
we can call them perception, by
means of which we recognize single
things; conception, by which we de-
duce general terms from single
things; and recollection, by which
we recall previous perceptions and
recollections. That is, the human
mind can know the natural world,
the human world ang the spiritual
world, by the activity of the intuitive,
conceptive and recollective powers.
From intuitions man generalizes con-
ceptions or ideas of greater compre-
hensiveness, and he can call back
past perceptions and conceptions
through his powers of recollection.
Man has three great intellectual en-
dowments: he can perceive, he can
conceive, he can remember.
Our intuitions, our perceptions,
may be divided into three classes.
We have intuitions of the world;
these are sense perceptions; we have
intuitions of ourselves; these are
self-perceptions; and we have intui-
tions of the spiritual world; these
are religious perceptions.
It must be understood, however,
that we can have no cognitions or
perceptions of either nature, man or
God, unless nature, man and God
come before the mind. In every per-
ception there must be a perceiver,
something perceived, and an act of
perception. No world can be seen,
unless there is a world before the
mind; no man can be seen unless
there is a man before the mind. No
man can create perceptions either of
nature, man or God, out of nothing.
For all his perceptions of nature,
man or God, he is shut up to the ob-
jects which produce them. He could
no more have religious perceptions
without God than he could have self-
perceptions without man, or sense-
perceptions without a world. Spirit-
ual intuitions are as indubitable evi-
dences of the presence of God, as
sense intuitions are of the presence
of the material world, or as self-in-
tuitions are of the presence of man.
If religious intuitions do not imply
God, as sense-perceptions imply na-
ture, and self-cognitions imply man,
then civilization is an unsubstantial
dream. When a person objectifies
himself into some one else and comes
at length to believe himself a ruler
of a nation when every one of his
friends knows he is only John Smith,
8 jury is called to pass on his sanity.
If a man continues to talk into one
end of a telephone and to get an-
swers back when there is no one at
the other end of it, a jury is called to
Inquire into the state of his mind.
Now, if for thousands of years the
human race has been perceiving God
In nature, in conscience, in history,
and answering back through prayer
and reverence and song and liturgy
and doctrine and temple, when in
fact no God has been perceived, then
It is evident that human nature is
constitutionally deranged. It is re-
markable, however, that man should
find himself led astray at none of the
gateways through which he holds
commerce with outside reality except
the religious. The gateway of vision
opens out directly into the kingdom
of light. The gateway of sound ex-
actly adjoins the kingdom of melody.
The intellect borders on the realm
of truth. The universe fits closely
about and meets and matches every
human sense except the religious. If
man would breathe, there is the air;
If he would satisfy his hunger, there
Is food; if he would slake his thirst,
there is water; if he would talk there
are vibrations to carry his words.
Every door of the soul and body is
an open port through which there is
constant exchange of inside and out-
side merchandise, except the . one
opening into the religious regions.
When through the spiritual sense he
apprehends what he takes to be di-
vine reality, he finds only the phan-
tasmal forms of his own soul filling
the horizon in front of tim.
If we can know God by exactly the
same methods we use to know the
world and man, what becomes of
faith? In reply, it may be answered
that we have no knowledge of any
grade of reality whatsoever without
faith. For knowledge of things ma-
terial we need sense-faith; for knowl-
edge of things human we need self-
faith; for knowledge of God we need
religious faith. Faith does not come
at the end of intellectual processes
by means of which perceptions are
worked up into conceptions and laws
and general ideas. Faith stands at
the outer door of the mind and all
intuitions, whether of nature, man or
God, must receive its approval before
they can be initiated into the differ-
ent degrees of knowledge.
Before we can reason about gravi-
tation, force, atoms, and ether we
must accept their existence by faith.
Faith goes before proof. We cannot
store up an item of knowledge of the
tangible world even without making
assumptions that no one can possibly
prove. Those scientists who deride
faith and take unction to themselves
upon believing nothing without evi-
dence, should remember that before
there can be any experience of any-
thing or any demonstration of any-
thing whatsoever, they are under the
necessity of making assumptions,
every one of which must be accepted
by faith. All confusion of thought
on the subject of faith has.grown out
of the fact that it has been put at the
end of mental processes, when it be-
longs at the beginning of them. Its
function is to initiate knowledge. Its
place is at the cradle of learning. It
work is to certify to the validity of
our intuitions. The same argument
that is brought by Haeckel against
the existence ot God was brought by
Hume against the existence, of man,
and by Fichte against the existence
of the world. The one thing that
every man knows with the conviction
of absolute certainty is the fact of
his own existence. If the self is not
known, nothing can be. Yet no one
ever with the eye of sense saw him-
self thinking or willing or feeling.
But he has as much confidence in
his self-perceptions as in his sense-
perceptions. Faith in our intuitions
of nature, of man and of God, is the
condition of physical science, psycho- |
logical science and the science of
religion.
Without faith in sense-impressions
we become idealists. Without faith
in self-impressions we become ag-
nostics. Without faith in religious
impressions we become materialists.
Faith i$ impossible without evidence,
and as sound and valid evidence is
needed for our faith in God as for
our faith in the world. But the evi-
dence faith demands is not such as
the reason presents, but such as the
intuitions present.
Nature, man and God, the three
terms which represent the entire sum
of reality, must each be taken at the
outset on faith based on the evidence
of sense-intuition, self-intuition and
religious intuition. Physical science
is the knowledge of nature; but be-
fore the intelligence can make use of
the cognitions of sense out of which
to form it, nature itself must be ac-
cepted by faith. We must believe
that God is before we can ever use
the intuitions of Him to make theo-
logical science.
“Faith is an affirmation and an act,
Wien bids eternal truth be present
fact.”
In denying the existence of God to
begin with, we close the door of the
spirit through which God manifests
Himself. If we start out with the
understanding that there is no God,
religious perceptions are strangled in
their very birth. Of course, we can
have no perceptions of God if we mu-
tilate the noblest part of our nature
by putting out the eyes of the relig-
ious sense. We have it within our
power to destroy our physical senses.
We can plug up our ears and shut
the windows of vision and close all
the doors through which the outside
world impresses us. But one foolish
enough to destroy his physical senses
would be doubly stupid if he imag-
ined afterward that he had more
commerce with reality than those
who kept open all the gateways of
the body and soul.
Haeckel says that “human nature
which exalts itself into an image of
God * * has no more value
for the universe at large than an ant
or the fly of a summer’s day.”
Unless the knowledge man gets of
himself and the world and God by
the reaction of intelligence on per-
ceptions is valid and {rustworthy,
Haeckel is right; man is not of more
value than the ant, or the fly of a
summer’s day. He is not of as much
value as the bee, or the beaver, or
the tailor bird; for they are all art-
ists without the trouble of learning
how to be, while he is left to accumu-
late knowledge as best he can by the
use of his faculties. They know at
the beginning what it has taken him
thousands of years to find out, and
even now the bee surpasses him in
the application of the principles of
mathematics.
If what man knows, or thinks he
knows, of the world and himself and
God is illusion, then the lower ani-
mals have the advantage of him. The
knowledge built into their bodies
does correspond with the facts with
which they have to deal. They are
not disappointed and deceived. The
flock of wild geese from the Northern
lakes have always found the South
they felt in their blood was there.
The beaver has always found the
mud responsive to his tail, and the
wood of the tree no:harder than his
teeth could cut. But, if the cogni-
tions of man do not correspond to
things, but are hallucinations, phan-
tasmal forms of his own conscious-
ness, then the bears and tigers and
beavers and bees and ants and gnats
have the advantage of him. Human
beings who have exalted themselves,
as Haeckel says, into images of God,
are the greatest fools, and the only
fools, on earth. The universe puts
a higher value on genuine flat-footed
tigers, who find as they roam on all
fours the jungles matching their
every want and anticipating their
every item of constitutional knowl-
edge, than upon the so-called lords of
creation,who have only climbed to
the top of animated existence in their
conceit. They are like a company of
plain laborers, imagining themselves
to be King Georges, and, instead of
occupying thrones, as they think they
do, they are perched upon stools in
the different rooms of an insane asy-
lum. It were better to be a good,
healthy tiger in the tall cane of the
swamp any time than to be a crazy,
self-inflated, self-conceited descend-
ant of Adam, running at large in the
high places of existence. It were bet-
ter to be a real cow, grazing in the
meadow, than an unreal human
biped, walking with his head full of
delusions in a paradise of fools.
A Rich Brother.
Mr. Dwight L. Moody used to tell
of a young man he knew of who
went into business in one of our
Western towns. The people thought
he was sure to fail; but he did not.
After he had been going along for
some years, showing no signs of fail-
ing, it was discovered that he had a
brother in the East who was very
rieh, and who helped him along from
time to time.’
Just so is it with us in the Chris-
tian life; we have an Elder Brother
who is very rich, and, joined in part-
nership with Him, He will help us
to hold out. Joined to Christ we are
in alliance with One who is not only
able but willing to give us all needed
grace and strength. ‘They that trust
in the Lord shall not want any good
thing.” “God is our refuge and
strength, a very present help in
trouble.”” Christian, young or old,
or in whatever circumstance of need,
take courage, take heart, look up!
The promises of God can never fail.
He is the same ‘‘yesterday, to-day
and forever.” ‘‘As thy days so shall
thy strength be.””—Rev. G. B. F. Hal-
lock, D.D.
The lean Christian is sure to be
stands at the dawn of thought, Its |DEFVOUS.
New York City.—The jumper waist
£5 one of the attractive novelties
whose simplicity commends it at a
glance and which is suited to all the
lighter weight materials. This one
is made of pale blue louisine- silk,
trimmed with a simple banding and
is worn over a guimpe of Persian
lawn combined with lace. The ma-
terials are exceedingly dainty and
charming and the soft silk lends it-
self to the design of the waist with
perfect success. The rodel can, how-
ever, be utilized both for the separate
waist and for the gown, and will be
Separate Waist Liked.
Scarcely anything but members of
the linen family, or, at least, wash
materials, are being worn for street
and morning gowns and the heavy
skirt and lingerie waist seems to
have fallen beneath the hammer of
the artist-writer, whose sensitive soul
was jarred by its unfitness. In for-
eign watering places, however, this
separate waist is still extremely well-
liked, although the skirt with which
it is worn usually shows some very
strong note of harmony even if it is
not of its own color.
House Gown.
The house gown that is made with
the slightly open neck and elbow
sleeves is the favorite one of fashion,
and is so ideally comfortable that it
appeals to the woman of practical
mind as well as to the one who seeks
for novelty and smartness. This one
is eminently simple at the same time
that it is absolutely graceful and can
be made from a variety of materials.
For the cool weather challie, cash-
mere, albatross and soft silks are all
appropriate,while for immediate wear
muslins can be utilized. In the illus-
tration ring dotted batiste is trimmed
with banding of embroidery, but
there are as many trimmings as there
are materials, so that every oppor-
tunity is offered for the exercise of
individual preference.
The gown is made with the fronts,
backs and under-arm gores. Both
fronts and backs are gathered, and
the backs are pleated to give a Wat«
teau effect, after which they ara
joined to a narrow yoke. The sleeved
found charming In every material
that 1s soft enough to drape with
success, which means very nearly all
of the fashionable ones, if we except
the suitings designed exclusively for
street woar.
The guimpe is of the regulation
sort with fro:t and backs, that are
faced to form the chemisetie of lace,
and with full elbow sleeves, The
walst ig made with front and back,
which are laid in tucks at the shoul-
ders and is without an opening, being
drawn over the head and confined at
the walst line by means of a tape in-
gerted in the caging or in any way
that may be liked. The sleever are
pretty and oddly shaped and make a
singularly good effect over tho white
ones of the guimpe.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size i, for the waist
two and three-fourth yards twenty-
one,two and one-fourth yards twenty-
geven, o- one and five-eighth yards
forty-four inches wide, with tw.lve
yards of braid; for the guimpe, two
yards thirty-six inches wide, with one
yard of all-over lace,
Smart Little Topcoats,
fmartest of all are the little top-
roats, very short over the hips, a trifle
longer in the back and a trifle longer
still in the front. They have double
revers, the under one of velvet or
silk, short sleeves with thres-inch
turned-back euffs and either brass
or smoked pearl buttons of quite
magnifiesnt size,
Realioped Edge Handkerchiefs,
The sheer linen handkerchiefs with
sealiopsd edges fingly buttonholed by
hand have retained their vegue ever
| eines their introduetion,
are the favorite ones of moderate
fulness, gathered into straight bands.
Wien still shorter length is desired
the gown can be cut off on indicated
lines and any trimming that may be
preferred can be used at the lower
edge.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is eleven yards
twenty-seven, ten and three-eighth
yards thirty-six, or seven yards forty-
four inches wide, with six and one:
fourth yards of banding to make at
{llustrated,