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English y Virginia perintend- » property ations by y tenants. to go to- ne college company. pland was he capaci- ity,” that . principal school of t Legisla- erica, in 1 a law r borough > required ose of the 1e college. ndians rat- lered most solute and ~ that the the college -day that where the and unin- RS Coffee, cussion as 7, SO much coffee im- taken to > of their > the rapid stum Food s’ book a as a Medi- se as such. the truth, erested. and every know, that ine” of the coffee or ritation of ulated and the great sted in. It e many or- e great ma- ctly tracpd akable hy irritant— tum Food 0 days. II rvous trou- complaint, r any other 1ed nervous nswer with istration in Postum. aly lt pu ee rea es A Bas oe oe 2 New York City.—Such an attrac- tive blouse waist as this has almost innumerable uses. It can be made with skirt to match or as a separate waist, and is adapted to all fashion- able soft silks and wool fabrics. In this case dove gray crepe de Chine Is combined with lace and with vel- vet a shade darker than the crepe, but while crepe de Chine is a favor- ite, there are a great many other lovely silks of equal vogue, and voile Very Light Colors. White biscuit, pale gray, a grayish light blue, soft strawberry and green, the shade of the under side of the leaf of an apple tree, are all modish and make daintily becoming wraps suitable for carriage and evening wear. Misses’ Fancy Pony Coat. Unquestionably the pony coat or the short jaunty jacket is to be a pronounced favorite of the season and is suited to young girls particu- larly well. novel sort that is trimmed to.give the effect of elaboration, while in reality it is quite simple and which is as chic as well can be. In the illustra- tion the new Russian green broad- cloth is trimmed with black braid and stitched with belding silk, but there are a number of fashionable shades this season and Jacqueminot red is to be recommended for young girls, ac well as the many beautiful browns and tans. The jacket has the great advantage of suiting both the cos- tume and the separate wrap and can consequently be made both from suit- ing materials and from those used for odd coats. The jacket is made with fronts, side-fronts, backs and side-backs, and with applied bands that are arranged over the seams above the trimming and between which the trimming is arranged. The Tuxedo collar finishes CLT 77 [77 SRY] AL DX Le hh Lh Wf obi. I 2 4 = = = [a v 2 2 HEE 2 | and other light weight wools are much to be desired. Again the trim- ming band and the belt can be of taffeta, while the waist is of wool or of thinner silk and various other combinations can be made. A chem- isette of lace is always pretty, but there are a number of lingerie ma- terials that are essentially dainty and make variety. The waist is made over a fitted {ining and consists of front and backs that are gathered at both upper and lower edges. The lining is faced to form the chemisette, and the trim- ming finishes the lower edge. The sleeves are arranged in tuck shir- rings at their lower edges and are finished with shaped cuffs that match the belt. This belt is fitted with per- fect smoothness and both it and the waist are closed invisibly at the back. The quantity -of material required for the medium size is four yards twenty-one, three and one-fourth yards twenty-seven, or two and one- half yards. forty-four inches wide, with one-half yard of all-over lace, four yards of lace edging and eight yards of banding. A Novel Scheme. An ingenious way of marking cloth has just come in. The tissue paper pattern is pasted upon the cloth, which is then placed in the sewing machine. There is no thread in the needle. But the paper pattern ts stitched along the line of the de- sign. And when the pattern or de- sign is lifted there is a handsome pat- tern all outlined underneath. little fine needle has marked it out in the prettiest manner possible. The | the neck and the comfortably full sleeves are finished with prettily shaped roll-over cuffs. The quantity of material required for a girl of sixteen years of age is four yards twenty-seven, two and one-fourth yards forty-four, or two yards fifty-two inches wide, with twelve yards of braid and three and three-fourth yards of silk for lining. Pastel Shaded Veils. Automobile or other vells with a border of graduated chenille dots are unusually pretty in a fine grade of chiffon, and come in many charming pastel shades, Here is one of a quite |] <1 has ever harbored have been the Seaman UD) | Subject: “Profit and Loss.” Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church on the theme, “Profit and Loss,” the Rev. I. W. Henderson, pastor, took] as his text Mark 8:36. ‘For what doth it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life.”” He said: Jesus draws the picture with strength and in a startling manner. ‘What doth it profit a man if, in the end, he shall have gained control over the sum total of the material things in the universe and have for- feited his soul life with God? ‘‘The question is between that life which consists mainly in having and that which consists in being.”” The ques- tion is whether or no our efforts shall tend to self-aggrandizement or to soul culture. Shall we devote our larger and finer energies to the at- 'tainment of possessions which are of use in this world alone or to the en- largement of our spiritual powers? The difference is between getting and growing. The man whose ca- reer is given over to getting things is measured as a success according to the material wealth he has acquired. But the man who is a ‘growing man” is marked by his richness in grace, goodness and godliness. There is in our time a most com- mendable spirit abroad in the hearts of our people leading them to seek the amelioration and upliftment of the conditions of life about us. There is an earnest desire among men of purpose everywhere to make the most out of life. - We have small pa- tience with the shirk and are getting -to have less with the business slave. We read of the possibilities of cheap power in its relation to economic af- fairs and millions of money trans- form Niagara into electricity and rapid transit. Our hearts are ap- palled at the ignorance of thousands of men here in America and we build schools. We are told that in order to a successful social system the worker must have fair hours and a good wage. The luxuries of yester- day are the necessities, and inexpen- sive, too, of to-day. Our millionaires have gold galore for charities and clubs, and men in all grades of so- ciety put more money into amuse- ments than ever before. All this is well in its way and place. Social conditions should be bettered and the standard of life raised. No man should waste any of his talents, nor should he give undue attention to any one to the detriment of the rest. The latent wealthof the world should be made productive. No man should be sent out into the battle of life mentally unprepared. Each member of this State deserves and should be enabled to acquire sufficient physical endurance to fit him for the fight. The man who sells his labor must re- ceive a fair wage and decent oppor- tunity for enjoyment and for the cul- ture of other than his “business na- ture.” We cannot have too many charitable institutions to meet real need, nor can we do other than re- joice over the wealth that lies at our hands. All of these things are good, all are necessary, each when used properly will be found to be a means to the betterment of this world and life. But in our endeavor to utilize the possibilities of the present and mate- rial life there lies the danger to for- get the immortal and spiritual exist- ence of the soul. Education at the State’s expense is a cure for many social ills and a salve for many an economic sore. Money may and does bring happiness to the hearts of all who, righteously, may possess it. No man can deny the value of physical culture in the cure of many bodily ailments and in strengthening the constitution. Fair pay for a fair day’s work is only just. None of us begrudges the man of millions except we are aware he has robbed us. But brain muscle and morality are not necessarily synonymous. Some of the most dissolute men the world mightiest in intellect. The antles and excesses of not a few college men but prove that book knowledge and purity of life are not one. Money is not an unrighteous thing of itself, but, oh, what slaves it does make of men; how soon the greed for it will stifle all that is noble in its lovers. The size and development of your up- per right arm is in no way an indica- tion of the strength of soul you pos- sess nor is it a substitute for it. Bulk of purse, brawn of muscle, depth of learning and a fine mental- ity are both commendable and desir- able if so be they are righteously ac- quired, but the acquisition of all these things is as nothing if so be a man has forfeited his soul life for them. To-day we train our youth for business or profession—that is to say, for careers of economic useful- ness. Our main aim in education is to fit men to achieve material suec- cess. We demand that our schools shall turn out men who are able to take care of themselves. We pay but scant attention to individuality and to the leanings and peculiarities of personality. Any one here can state, as well as I, how much moral training the schools give our youth. In our fear that the Bible in the school may savor of denominational- ism we leave, often, a free field for the devil. From earliest youth till the child is a man dependent upon his own resources the continual cry is for him to achieve success. Fortun- ate, indeed. is the man who, by wise direction and personal preference, is enabled to choose the way that leads to real and lasting success. But the pity is that too many of us spell suc- cess in the terms of material achieve- ment. Tod few are they who know that success is a matter not so much of getting as of being; that it is more a matter of soul culture than of ma- terial gain. Success is measured not by the amount you have, but by what you amount to. Far be it from me to belittle a "IRA WW. HENDERSON, THE FAMOUS DIVINE: 2d. 7. Pon 728 Z . 2 il ag Syahid & Y proper material success. The world owes a debt it never can repay to the men of money, the masterful mechan- ics, the learned lawyers, the erudite doctors, the brainy business men, the tireless teachers and toilers and lead- ers who have made possible .and ap- parent the civilization we now enjoy. I am the last man to deny the value and advantage, aye, the necessity, of all manner of human development. But what shall it profit us, individu- ally or socially, if, surpassing Greece for wisdom, the Romans for wealth, the arts of France, the metaphysical acumen of Germany, the landed pos- sessions of Russia, the commercial power of our English cousins, we shall attain material success at the expense of our soul's life? “For what doth it profit a man to gain the whole sum total of material things and have forfeited his soul life with- in God?” The highest measure of success is the permanency of achieved results, The test of service is in the worthi- ness of the labors to which our efforts have been applied. If sound money is more important than sound morals then the teacher of political economy is of more value to the world than the teacher of ethics, that is to say, of the science of right living. If fleets are of more consequence than spiritually minded and Christ-moved men, then Morgan with his mer- chant marine is mightier than Moody with his Bible. If cash counterbal- ances character then let us relegate the Christ life to its proper, that is to say, tke second, place in our scheme of living. If policy is better than principle and gain at any cost superior to righteousness, then let us hoist the Jolly Roger to the fore- peak of the ship of State and de- clare ourselves the moral pirates that we are. But I am persuaded that we do.not value the material more than manhood. I am sure that funda- mentally we do believe that princi- ple, purity and godliness are more of account than all eise jn life. We are all conscious of the beauty, the no- bility, the transcendent importance of the culture of the soul. There is not a man, or but few, men anywhere but who will admit at once and with- out discussion that to trade the soul’s life for material success is to strike a poor bargain. I have yet to meet the thinking man, whose opinions are worth a snap of my finger, who sus- tains any other proposition save that a godly life is the only sure founda- tion of scciety and the only guarantee of the permanency and efficiency of success. Believing these latter truths to be divine why, then, do we hesitate ta connote logic with action? Why do we refrain to parallel our academic conclusions with definite effort. Why do we refuse consistency a hearing and continue to serve the god of ma- terial success? My friends, the whole question of service and success is a matter of getting or being, of self-aggrandize- ment or of self-realization and soul culture. Getting is as natural as breathing. But we breathe not for the sake of breathing, but in order to live. Getting, the acquirement of temporal wealth, may be a means ta the culture of our souls. When sec used riches are a blessing. That man is wisest who makes all things in this life tend toward his soul's develop- ment. Let us teach our youth that growth in godliness is the prime function, the principal task of hu- man endeavor. Let us tell our young men and our maidens that it is best to serve God:and to grow constantly into the graces and beauties of Christlikeness. Let us send home tao the young and impressionable hearts of our boys and our girls the change- less and eternal truth that it can never profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own life within God. Then shall we have inculcated ened the coming of the kingdom of the God of Christ our Lord. Worry and Fear Removed. It is not religion, but the lack of it that makes people unhappy. Yet how strangely and how widely the opposites view prevails. There are many who think of religion not only as a galling drudgery, but as the surest source of moroseness, melan- choly and unhappiness of life. Their idea is that religion is a system of suffering to which many people are willing to submit here in order that they may not suffer hereafter—that religion’s only happiness ~is in the future, its rewards after death. In- stead, the real fact is that religion is a thing of present joy and ever con- tinuing blessedness. It is the glad- dest, happiest thing in all this world. “Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.” It is religion that gives us the bright things in life and sin the dark things, and not vice versa. Religion goes down to the deepest springs of our mental and spiritual well-being. It- brings untold measures of peace and joy. It takes the sting out of the past and it takes the worry out of the present. It takes the fear out of the future.—The Rev. G. B. F. Hallock, D. D. How to Learn Love. It is true that love cannot be forced, that it cannot be made to or- der, that we cannot love because we ought or even because we want. But we can bring ourselves into the pres- ence of the lovable. We can enter into friendship through the door of discipleship. We can learn love through service.—Hugh Black. What Could Hinder? If man’s device can produce pure white paper from filthy rags, what should’ hinder God to raise from the dead this vile body and fashion it like the glorious body of Christ?— Gotthold. A man’s knowledge of doctrine counts for nothing if he neglects duty. the true philosophy of life and hast- CHILDREN OF FLORENCE. The Hospital of the Innocenti, the Most Famous Foundling Institution. From the Nineteenth Century. RS 0079975777995 599779799979 The piazza outside the Church of the Santissima Annunziata, where for four and a half centuries childhood depicted in its most beautiful and at the same time its most pathetic as- pect has looked down upon the busy life forever hurrying by, is perhaps the place of all others in Florence where the inveterate loafer unwilling to leave the sunshine and satiated for the moment with the treasures of church and picture gallery may feel justified in lingering. It may be added that the -steps under the graceful arcade which faces the Inno- centi Hospital offer an obvious and desirable resting place. An incessant stream of life flows daily through the piazza, trams laden with country people returning from market bound for the heights of Fiesole, and with city folk also, perhaps only going a couple of hundred yards, for nobody in Florence walks if he can drive; while long carts of the country rattle after them, carrying twice as much of humanity as they are intended to hold. And yet this square, one cf the busiest in the city, retains a curious atmosphere of wepose. Possibly it is because the traffic never passes or di- verges from its course to disturb the harmony about it, but is rather like a stream flowing through a quiet mead- ow. At least this is how I have found it on weekdays. On Sundays and on festas, when the fashionable world flocks to the Church of the Annunziata and to the Chapel of the Innocenti, it is another matter. A few children are generaly play- ing, but in a quiet and orderly fash- ion, about the bronze and marble sea monsters of Tacca, which serve as fountains. Upon the right the great bronze statue of Duke Ferdinand the First seated on his horse gazes for- ever at a blank window in the pal- ace, where once the hust of his lady smiled back at him. Theirs was surely a meritorious dilatoriness, for had the wooing been conducted with the heat and fervor extolled by youth another bloody crime would have been added to the domestic history of Florence. So there he stands, a mighty monument to the negative virtue of delay! But it is the lovely facade of the Foundling Hospital, the Spedale degl’ Innocenti, which gives its chief beauty and character to the piazza. To all those who know Flor- ence it is sufficiently familiar. The long harmonious lines of Brunelles- chi’s design, suggesting a rare com- bination of strength and simplicity, the wide shallow steps, the rounded columns, and, above the arches, the della Robbia medallions of the swad- dled babies, the blue of the porcelain contrasting very graciously with the sad gray of the stone. Each exquis- ite representation of helpless infancy differs from the other, each instinct with life and grace and pathos. For more than 400 years the coloring of these medallions has withstood wind and weather, for did not Luca find out the secret—which he transmitted to his nephew Andreo, among whose early work the medallions have been classed—of beauty in external deco- ration which could safely be used dove sono acque? In the courtyard of the hospital, over the round arches of the cloisters, the design of the swaddled babies is repeated; but here, though the delicate blue and gray coloring is the same, the babies are only painted upon plaster. Above them, on the upper story, painted in the same manner, are the instru- ments of the passion, the cock of the Bigallo, and repeated at intervals the porta, the gate, which is the badge of the Guild of Silk Workers. The building of the Spedale degl’ Innocenti, which may well, both for age and beauty as well as for scien- tific development, stand before all the foundling hospitals of the world, is not so old as the actual society, for manuscripts containing lists of reg- ulations for such a society for the protection of foundling children dated in the twelfth century exist among the archives of Florence. But in the fifteenth century, in 1421, owing to the eloquent appeal of Leonardo Bruni, the famous scholar and secretary of the republic, who, as his monument in Santa Croce tells us, “enjoyed the sunshine of favor in"the palace of Cosimo de’ Medici,” the hospital as we see it to-day was actually founded. There is perhaps no stronger testimony to the Floren- tine love of little children than is to be found in the names of the great masters of that magnificent period who gave their work to adorn with exquisite and tender sentiment the refuge of destitute and nameless in- fancy. In the gloom of the cloister, over the entrance to the Church of the In- nocenti, gleams a beautiful della Robbia relief of the Annunciation, surounded with its lovely garland of cherub heads. In the church itself, behind the altar, Ghirlandajo’s “Adoration of the Magi,” with the two little murdered innocents who, kneeling in their white robes beford the Saviour, have entered into glory, conveys the same feeling of gentle compassion for the young and help- less which is the dominating note in all the decoration of the hospital. We find it again in the pictures in the board room, in the work of Piero di Cosimo, Ghirlandajo’s predella, and in that most tender picture of Filippo Lippi’s, in which a boy angel brings the Christ Child to the Ma- donna. It repeats itself in the min- utest detail of decoration in the in- terior, in the winged heads of the putti over the doorways; and there is always the same sense of harmony with Brunelleschi’s bold and simple design, as in the medallions over the arcade without. The hospital was for a time generously assisted by the Medicean Grand Dukes, whose busts stand under the arcades, pa- trons of the artists who were em- ployed upon the building, but it was placed at the outset especially under the management of the Guild of Silk Weavers, who endowed it with a tax on every pound of silk spun or woven in Florence. Very soon a Papal bull raised it to the dignity of an ‘‘ecclesi- astical place,” a dignity which It en- joys to the present day. For a time after its foundation very few babies were brought to the hospital; perhaps the mothers were a little shy of the sumptuous building and the Grand Ducal patronage. Their anonymity was, however, com- pletely secured, for the babies were, as they still are, of so tender an age that they could be passed through the bars of a window which has only re- cently been walled up. The first in- fant to be received was baptized on February 5, 1445, and was named Agata Smeralda. Gradually in those early days the society increased its funds by the absorption of smaller analogous institutions, such as the Hospital of La Scala, and in time it became possessed of considerable property in the city. Everybody who knows the streets of Florence must have noticed over the doors of cer- tain houses the sign of the swaddled babies, painted on plaster, which marks them as the property of the Innocenti. In spite of so prosperous a beginning the Hospital of the In- nocents has passed through more than one severe financial crisis. More especially was this the case during the occupation of the French, when Napoleon, with his particular genius for using up waste material, decreed that all foundlings of the male sex over the age of fourteen should be enrolled in a boy regiment, while those between eleven and four- teen should be utilized as middies. Four centuries and a half have passed since Agata Smeralda was received, with how much interest and ill sup- pressed agitation we may imagine by the initiators of this princely scheme. Much water has flowed under the bridge since then, and at the present day between 7000 and 8000 found- lings are annually supported by the society, although comparatively few of them are housed in the actual building. The history of the Innocenti Hos. pital is a curious and instructive study in evolution. Here the babies are still swaddled in the approved Tuscan fashion, which has never changed with the ages and which ig immortalized in the della Robbia me-« dallions. And not so long ago an ad- ministrative council was formed whose object is to see that every new- est and most sanitary invention and practice is employed for the benefit of these nameless waifs, who are lodged and fed and nursed upon the best and most scientific principles in Europe. No heir to a kingdom coulda be reared upon more hygienic meth- ods. Spanish Politeness. It nas been said that the French are the most polite people in the world, writes our lady correspondent in San Sebastian, but I do not think any one who really knows them will agree. However, they have some charming little ways, and when they are rude it is because they are, deep down, thoroughly selfish. My per- sonal opinion is that the Spaniard is about the most delightfully polite person one can possibly encounter. If you ask your way in the street, of some ordinary woman, she will almost certainly go out of her way to accompany you down the street and to carefully put you on the right road. They are very cheerful and gay, but they are never vulgar—as we understand the word in England. Even the men in the streets who stand and frankly stare at a pretty girl do it in a light hearted, pleasant way which does not give offense. As to the manners of Spanish men be- longing to the best society, they are almost perfect. Watch a Spaniard of distinction address his mother or any elderly lady and you will see a manner which is tender and caressing, and at the same time exquisitely protective.— London Tribune. Race Won by Three Inches. How an American machinery agent sccured an order in Japan is related by the commercial agent of New South Wales in the Far East, as fol- lows: Jt was a question of some lathes for a large factory which was being started. They were required of a cer- tain size. The agent for the British firm said: “‘That is three inches longer than they are made, and we can make no alteration.”” The Amer- ican sald: “I will make them to any size you like.”” The American secured the order.—U. S. Consular Report.
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