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A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON
THE REV. G. H. EGGLESTON.
Subject: The Measure of Duty.
Jersey City, N. J.—Preaching at
the Greenville Reformed Church, Jer-
gey City, on the above theme, the
Rev. G. H. Eggleston, pastor, took
Luke 17:10: “We are unprofitable
servants, we have doné that which it
our duty to do,” as his text. He
was
said
In the vocabulary of Christianity
love is the supreme word. Operating
in life it becomes the supreme law.
It is so because it was supreme in the
life of Jesus. But outside the religion
of Jesus, duty is perhaps the con-
spicuous word. Upon duty the non-
Christian heart lays extreme em-
phasis. Duty, interpretated in terms
of the best each age could produce,
has been the ideal of life.
To-day the very atmosphere is sur-
charged, as: by an electric current,
with the importance of faithfulness
to duty. That which is in the air of
the age is made tangible continuous-
ly from pulpit and from press, in
school and club and home. Ministers
and teachers, leaders in business and
in civic life, are pleading for the en-
thronement of duty in human hearts.
Public sentiment, finding expression
in courts and investigations and laws,
is being aroused in the interest of
Jur Traitors to duty are. being
randed at their true worth.
We admire the devotion to duty
in that rising nation of the East
which characteristically found ex-
pression in the speech of the captain
of the Japanese battleship Asama,
who said Zo his men as they drank
in turn from a cup of cold water,
bidding each other a last good-bye:
“In sending you on the duty of block-
ing the harbor entrance of Port Ar-
thur—a duty which affords you only
one chance out of a thousand to re-
turn alive—I feel as if I were sending
my beloved sons. And if I had a hun-
dred sons I would send them all on
such a bold adventure as this; and
had I only one son I should wish to
do the same with him. In perform-
{ng vour duty, if you happen to lose
your left hand, work with your right;
§f you lose both hands, work with
both feet; if you lose both feet, work
with your head, and faithfully carry
out the orders of your commander.
What I ask of vou all is to do your
duty regardless of your life. The cup
of water I now offer you is not meant
to give you courage. It would be
shameful if our men needed courage
to go to the place of death. It is only
to make you representatives of the
bonor of the Asama. Submit your
life to the will of Heaven, and calmly
perform your duty.” That is the
utterance of the spirit of the age,
crystallized in- those nations that
stand in the vanguard of progress.
It is the emphasis upon duty.
Jo we realize what that spint
would mean if we had it beating in
the life blood of the Christian
chureh? It would mean the purifica-
tion of our ideals. It would mean
the strengthening of the Church of
Jesus in work and worship. It would
mean the broadening of our vision
go we could see the brotherl.ood of
man. If that loyalty to the duty of
patriotism which is characteristic of
the best citizens could be translated
into terms of the moral and religious,
it would mean that the message of
the Cross, love, service and sacrifice,
would find expression in every life.
“What a result if Christians and the
Christian church would do its bare
duty! Jut is ‘it ‘being done? Nom-
inally. this is. ‘a Christian country.
And yet the deadly child labor in all
its horror ists in this country. It
could not exist if the united Christian
church should say it shall not. Nom-
finally a Christian country, and yet
the sale of the stuff that kills men
and women physically, mentally and
morally, that destroys domestic hap-
piness and undermines the stability
of our nation, goes on. It could not
be so, were it not sanctioned and pro-
tected by the sentiment and power of
Christian people. But why the need
of citing illustrations of that which
we all know? The conclusion is
clear. There are those who, theugh
faithful to duty in home and in pri-
vate life, when it comes to moral
issues affecting the welfare of hu-
manity at large, are afllicted with
myopia or indifference. Can it be
that the cup of cold water tasted by
men of a pagan religion contains a
greater inspiration to the perform-
ance of duty in the face of danger,
than does the sacred brotherhood
of the Christian church? They touch
their lips to the cold water; then
face duty unflinchingly, though it
cost hand, or foot, or life. So the
true Christian from time to ‘time
. touches his lips to the wine of the
Communion-.in. pledge of his loyalty
to the Master-and in memory of the
love of that Master. So the majority
gain therein the inspiration that sets
their face unflinchingly toward duty
without thought of what it may cost.
There are many who flinch. These
break the solid phalanx of the Chris-
tian army, and so put off the day of
victory over evil. Many to whom a
dollar is of more worth than a moral
principle... Many to whom their own
personal well-being counts for more
than a needy brother or sister. Many
to whom gold is of greater value than
the welfare of their fellowmen.
In view of the fact that so many
fall short of doing their bare duty,
dare we state the ideal of the Chris-
tian religion, or will it be so lofty as
to discourage us in our humble ef-
forts? No! We will set before us
the ideal which Jesus gave to life,
and it will be the m#ans of inspiring
us to greater effort. Jesus aske?
of His followers more than mere
duty, noble as that is. If there had
been no Jesus, no Gospel, if Confu-
cius and Socrates and Buddha were
the greatest, then duty would have
been the supreme word. But be-
cause Jesus Himself in His life took
that final step beyond the point of
bare duty, it has become forever obli-
gatory upon-the followers of the man
of Nazareth to take that final step in
service. Jesus did it. He over=
stepped _the bounds of naked duty.
He made a new standard. The story
of that precious life of love and ser-
Ch FRR
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TT Tov,
vi re martyrs death n the
cruel’ , for twenty centuries
touched the hidden depths of human | *
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hearts. Why? Because love tdok
step beyond duty. Wo
Jesus put His new standard of ser-
vice in Christian life in the words of
which our text is a part. Jesus
causes the servants who had been
faithful to every detail of their duty,
to say: ‘‘We are unprofitable ser-
vants, we have done that which was
our duty to do.” Listen! Not profit-
able servants because they had done
their whole duty, but unprofitable be-
cause they had done only their duty.
What a transformation of values was
that! No one ever heard such teach-
ing before. The wise men of all ages
and all races never said anything like
that. They all taught that duty was
the supreme thing. Nothing greater.
A man was to be commended when
he did his duty. But Jesus takes the
final step into the realm beyond the
point of duty, and bids us follow. We
are unprofitable servants, for we
have done only our duty. What does
it mean? It means that a man is not
a man unless he does his duty. It
means that the very least a man can
do and maintain his respect in the
sight of God and his own conscience
is to do his duty. That is, the least
a person can do according to the
teaching and life of Jesus: not -the
most, as the worldly pagan philoso-
phers would have us believe—and
some of the Christians also. For the
fulfillment of the obligations of home
and of life, of morality, of brother-
hood, of religion and the church, no
praise is deserved. These cre duties.
We are unprofitable servants if we
have done only what we are com-
pelled to co.
Christian duty is not measured by
demand, or opportumity, or even by
ability. This is partially realized in
the world of business. The young
man who does only what is absolute-
ly required of him, is not the one
who succeeds and wins the employ-
er's commendation. He who does
more than his duty is the one who
forges ahead. He never gets very
far or becomes of great value to life
who does only what passing oppor-
tunity permits him to do. = But he
who hustles to find opportunities,
and if they are not forthcoming
makes them, is the one who gives
worth to life. It is even thus in re-
ligious life and work. We are un-
profitable servants in the sight of
God, if we have done only that which
it was our duty to do, and have never
tasted the depths of sacrifice. Some-
times we do not realize it; neverthe-
less it is true that not even ability
limits duty. That seems strange. Is
a man ever asked to do more than
apparently he jis able to do? Yes.
Jesus did not limit duty by a poor
mortal’s ability. The power of the
omnipotent God was the limit, and
that power is. illimitable. Does it
seem impossible to break that habit,
that sin, which has been undermining
your moral constitution and throt-
tling your spiritual life? You say
you are not able to do it. The obli-
gation to do it still exists. Does it
seem impossible for the Christian
church to conquer the evil in the
world and bring the message of the
Master to all mankind? Often we
hear Christians say, ‘It cannot be
done.” But the obligation is still
there.
Christian duty is measured by
human need. Wherever there is need
of .help; wherever there is need of
reform; wherever in this harsh world
there is need of sympathy and love;
wherever strong hands are needed to
lift. sinning: humanity from the
depths, and brave hearts to carry the
message of the Cross into darkness.
There is the duty of the Christian
church—at home or abroad, in pub-
‘lic or in private life, it matters not.
Fidelity to the Master means the
taking of the step one point beyond
the limit of the ordinary conception
of duty—even to the point of sacri-
fice. William Carey took that step
when he left his homeland and faced
the terrors of India into which no
white man had ever penetrated with
the Gospel. According to no stand-
ard of conduct the world then recog-
nized was it his duty thus to throw
his life into jeopardy. Clara Barton
took it, as she staunched the flowing
blood upon the battle fields. John
Paton took it, when he faced the
cannibals of the South Sea Islands.
According to what standard of con-
duct was it that hero's duty to re-
main among that beastly people after
he had seen five of his fellow mis-
sionaries butchered and eaten; after
he had, with his own hands, close by
the corner of the house in the coral
beds, dug the grave for his dear wife
and little one, victims of the terrible
fever, according to what standard of
conduct was it his duty to stand
alone among those heathen peoples?
None that the world knew. Ah, but
the noble man, so lately gone to his
reward, was living by the standard of
that ene who bore the world’s sin and
sorrow, and whose loving heart was
broken one gloomy night in Geth-
semane—Jesus of Nazareth, who
gave to life the new standard of con-
duct, the new conception of duty,
rooted in love. Paton tells us in his
wonderful auto-biography that it was
God’s strength alone made him suf-
ficient for these things. In his own*
words, “But for Jesus and the fel-
lowship He vouchsafed me there, I
must have gone mad and died beside
that lonely grave.”
Christian duty is made potent by
the will of man, and by the power of
God. + The human will plus the Di-
vine power makes it possible to take
that step... Not, What I can, I will;
but, What I will, I can. You remem-
ber when James and John were mak-
ing their requests of the Master,
Jesus inquired of themif they thought
they could be baptized with the bap-
tism of His life. They said, Wea can.
Jesus said, Ye shall.
Thus it is for Christians to sa¥
when sin threatens in the personal
life, when the work of the Master for
His church and for humanity, needs
their help: Yea, Master, you ca
count on me. I will; I can.
Face to face with the vision of the
ideal of what we ought to be and
do, it is a noble person who says, I
will, I can. To such a one shall be
added the words of the Master, Ye
shall. When we perceive what we
ought to do, and make up our minds
we will do it, the power for its ae-
‘complishment will come, even as’ it
came to Israel by the Red Sea, and
to the 5000 on Galilee's shore.
‘COM-
MENTS FOR AUG. 4 BY THE
REV. I. W. HENDERSON.
Subject: The Tabernacle, Ex. 40:1-
13, 34-38—Golden Text, Ex.
40: 34—Memory. Verses, 34-35—
Commentary.
The tabernacle that Moses set up
in the midst of the journeying peo-
ple of Israel after the commands of
Jehovah concretely and vividly ex-
presses and exemplifies the concep-
tion of the relation between God and
Israel that was dominant at the
time. It may perhaps be difficult for
many to become very acutely inter-
ested in the study of the fashion of
the tent and its furnishings. But
that will be largely because we fail
to grasp the underlying and uni-
versal religious needs and expe-
riences of whick the structure in all
Its parts is an objective representa-
tion. The tabernacle represents in
outward fashion the central and con-
troliing religious fact of all the ages
that God is in the midst of His peo-
ble. It represents the outworking of
subjective religious experiences into
outward and material expressions.
It symbolizes in its furnishings
many lasting and precious spiritual
truths. We shail be foolish if we
do not learn spiritual le nc and per-
ceive spiritual meanings and secure
spiritual instruction and comfort as
we study this Scripture. The ark, the
vail, the incense, the burnt offering,
the oil, the consecration of the priest,
surely the mention of each should
supply us with suggestive thought.
In verse 2 in the authorized ver-
sion the Scripture is translated ‘‘tent
of the congregation.”” The revised
version properly translates these
words “‘tent of the meeting.” And
the change is as suggestive as it is
corrective. Here indeed in a word
is given the reason for the taber-
nacle; here in a word is described
the use to which it was to be put
and was put by the chosen people
of God. ‘‘Meeting.” Here they met
Jehovah in that peculiarly sacred
manner that was a distinguishing
feature of their religious expression.
Here they met Jehovah in the holiest
and most satisfying manner. Here
they met God. It was indeed a place
of meeting. A tent dedicated to
meeting from time to time with God
Himself. It was also the place where
they gathered in the expression of
their common religious longings and
for the exercise in an especial manner
of their spiritual inclinations.
Everything within and about the
tabernacle was to be holy. All that
went into the serviceof God was holy.
And it waswisethat such an emphasis
should be laid. The Israelites had
long been living in the midst of a
people whose religion was not what
it might have been. There was every
danger as we have seen in previous
lessons that they would get to have
a shallow conception of religious
truth and that they would place a
light valuation upon those things
that are religiously most essential to
humanity. The tabernacle simply
exemplified to them what should be
the hallowedness of their own lives.
It kept constantly before them the
value and the beauty of holiness. It
emphasized in no uncertain fashion
that ‘only that which was pure
and undefiled was of highest use to
God. It stood as a. constant rebuke
to personal or national uncleanness
and unworthiness of mind or heart
or soul. They met the hallowed al-
tar of sacrifice as they approached
the sacred precincts of the taber-
nacle. The sacrifice enforced the les-
son of personal responsibility before
God and the need for personal con-
fession of sin as the primal requisite
for entrance intc the presence of
God. As with the altar of sacrifice
so with every other bit of material
in and about the tabernacle. By a
process of association all was exem-
plary.
We note also that the priest who
was to ofiiciate in the services of the
temple was to be washed and
anointed and sanctified. And that
was - a valuable: regulation. Tha
priesthood of the surrounding mna-
tions were not always men of the
deepest spiritual experience or the
most consecrated. Judging from the
previous lessons Aaron needed the
washing and the anointing and the
sanctifying to make him properly ap-
preciative of the high office to which
In God’s providence he had_ been
called. A clean priesthood is as
necessary to God as a clean people
ind a clean and holy temple.
It is also noticeable that as soon
1s God's commands “were complied
with Israel entered into a new ex-
perience of God. Verse 33 tells us
that “Moses finished the work.”
Verse 34 relates that ‘“‘then the cloud
covered the tent of meeting and the
glory of the Lord filled the taber-
nacle.” Further comment is unnec-
2ssary.
All that the tabernacle was we
ought to be ourselves. All that it
symbolized we as living temples
pught to exemplify.. God should find
In us the sacrifice of a clean heart
and of a contrite spirit and should
be able out of us to construct a tem-
ple holy to Himself. All that the tab-
ernacle was Christ is to us. May
God give us all the vision to see
many precious and helpful truths in
the lesson for the day. For in that
which is usually considered pretty
dry reading we may discover much
that is helpful and instructive and
suggestive. ‘Under the guidance of
the Spirit of God we may have un-
thought of beauties revealed to us.
The Livery of Christ.
If you wear the livery of Christ
vou will find Him so meek and lowly
of heart that you will find rest unto
your souls. He is the most magnan-
imous of Captains. There never was
His like among the choicest of
princes. He is always to be found
in the thickest part of the battle.
When the wind blows cold He al-
ways takes the bleak side of the hill.
The heaviest end of the cross lies
over on His shoulders. If He bids
us carry a burden, He carries it also.
His service is life, peace, joy. Oh,
that- you would .enter on it at once.
God help you to e t under the
banner of Jesus Christ.—TLast Words
of the Rev. C. H. Sp
CHRSTINENDENURNOTE
AUGUST FOURTH.
The consecration of our bodies. i Cor.
6: 19, 20; Rom. 12: 1, 2.
Do
26-28.
The body for God.
Temples of the Spirit.
16, 47.
To he kept clean.
To be glorified.
To bear God’s image.
1-3.
How precious is the home in which
our dear ones dwell, or anything made
bv their hands! And our Father in
heaven made our hodies and would
dwell in them (1 Cor. 6: 19).
Think of Christ's body tortured on
the cross. and then the very thought
of annulling in your own body that
great sacrifice for you will. fill. you
with shame (1 Cor. 6:
In return: for: Christ's sacrificed
body, oursacrificed body! Reasonable,
certainly, though infinitely less!
(Rom. 12:
All sins
of the n and body
kept pure only by transforming
mind to purity: (Rom 12: 2).
Allipossible hoalth ds on A
dary
not mar the body. Lev. 19:
1 Cor. 6:12, 13.
1 : Cor. 3:
2 Cor. 6: 16-18.
1 Cor. 15: 25-44.
1. John 3:
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A consecrated face is the only beau
tiful face: all else is but blood anil
fissue. :
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Illustrations.
The soul is the painting and the
body is the frame; but we use tre
best frames for the best pictures.
A beautiful body is like a globe of
Tavrile glass, which needs within it
the electric light of a lovely soul, to
disclose its beauties. ?
The more nearly perfect the statue,
the more it is spoiled by any imper-
fection. So with God's highest work
in nature, the human body.
Vacation times are meaningless un-
less they look forward to times of
teil. The fallow field is a mere deso:
Jation unless it is in preparatioa for
a harvest.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, AUGUST 4.
Desiring Righteousness—Matt. 5: 6.
Pgn. 421
Passages for reference:
AY {
2: 84: 2.idsa.. 55:1:
6:36: Rev, 21- 6: 29:
Every heart has the deep hunger
to do right. The normal man hangs
his head after wrongdoing, as does a
flower after the blighting touch of the
frost. No man is proud of meanness
of spirit, ugliness of aetien;.or immor-
ality of life. Many a man rushes to
drink or to deener sin to forget his
shame or to deaden his desire for
goodness. It is even more difficult to
grow a beautiful character than it is
to bring a rose to rarest bloom We
must eagerly desire it. The promise
then, is plain. We will be so filled
with God that the outcoming words
and deeds will be approved by the
word as rightecus.
Cultivate the desire for : righteous-
ness. Listen to its voice. Answer its
needs. Juild on its roek foundations.
It is capable of growth. As it in:
creases bad impulses, lacking food.
die. Iovil hungers if allowed root and
air will thrive like worthless weeds.
Their life is short and - useless.
Free powers, full growth, finest man
hood, are the products of righlecus
ness. Happiness. hearty living, help
ful words and 3 grow. on. its
branches as naturally as the luscious
Jonathan apple on Colorado trees
when watered and sunned by = God
“Godliness is profitable - for all
things.” He will stumble in darkness
who does not store up God's truths
He indeed is wealthy who is rich In
good works. Convince yourself of the
value, the indispensabieness, the joy
bringing power cf righteousness. Then
desire it as the money-seaker does ma
terial riches, the miner does gold, or
the politician office. Folk driven by
these ambitions seek for the means
of attaining their ends. Do the same
with righteousness. Leng for it; let
the heart pant ity make - the
brain to search for it: train the wil
to demand it. Then ways and mean:
for attaining it will open. If the de
sire for righteousness dominates, Goc
will see to it that you will not go far
wrong in doctrine. Such a d
can and will fill; until the heart anc
life are “blessed.”
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Sharing Christ’s Burden.
In the New Testament much is
said about suffering with Christ.
Some people are called to suffer for
Christ, but it is still better to suf-
fer with Him. This is the way we
are to take part in His great work.
Nearly every great work involves
much suffering. Jesus suffered een
unto death to accomplish the re-
demption of the world. His follow-
ers are called in a sense to repro-
duce His life, passion and death.
This is no doubt what was in the
mind of Paul, when he said: “If we
suffer with Him, we shall also reign
with Him.” Willingness to suffer
with Jesus is one of the best evi-
dences -that we are the children of
God.—Reformed Church Record.
There is a Vital Difference—
Between being sorry for sin and
being sorry you are ‘‘caught.”
Between confessing your sins and
confessing some other fellow’s.
Between seeing your own faults
and seeing some other person’s.
Between conversion of the head
and conversion of the heart.
Between being led by the Holy
Spirit and led by your imagination.
Between being persecuted for
“righteousness’ sake” and being per-
secuted for foolishness’ sake.—Pres-
byterian.
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COUNTRY NEWSPAPER WORK.
Why It is the Representative Jour-
~ nalism of America.
A pleasant feature of country
newspaper work which is unknown to
city men, says the Journalist, -is the
favorable recognition one receives
from his friends and acquaintances,
and the readers of his paper in gen-
eral,. when hea aparticularly clev-
er piece of rk, such as a news
scoop, a readable report of a public
function, or a bright article of any
kind. In the country the people, as
a rule, know pretty well who writes
the stuff for the paper, and soon be-
come ‘acquainted with a man’s style.
This causes the editor or reporter to
be constantly on his mettle, ever
striving after the best results in his
writings and endeavoring to be im-
partial and accurate. Accuracy is
absolutely necessary in a country
newspaper. In a metropolis accuracy
is not a prime refuisite, especially in
these later degenerate, days, even if
all the editors are supposed to insist
upon it-—which they don’t. To be
accurate one must spend time and be
painstaking. The disciples of the
new journalism never have the time
to be accurate. No matter if names
are misspelled and facts distorted
11 faked. They must get the story,
sel cit cqhiek, and if it. is not spicy
ke it so.
If the city reporter was to be
called account the next day by his
feliow citizens for what he had writ-
would find time to be accurate
thereafter. The country reporter is
constantly meeting and coming in
contact with, for the most part, the
people he writes about. This is a
standing injunction for him to re-
strain his pen when he finds it get-
ting on dangerous ground, or make
an extra effort to ferret out the truth
when he is tempted to slur over the
facts. In fact, the country reporter
writes not only for his weekly salary,
bat for his own standing in the com-
munity as . well. 1f he is. to be
thought well of, if he is to be kindly
received in society, and if he expects
advancement, he must prove himself
worthy of trust and confidence. He
must not let his pen and imagination
run riot: for the sake of a story or a
sensation. Sn
It has been said that the country
press is the representative journalism
of America, and when one knows the
inner doings of metropolitan journal-
ism he is inclined to this view.
Only a Window-Pane.
A pathetic figure in Richard
Whiteing's new purposé novel, which
deals with London's working woman,
of a young girl who, asked
1aine her vocation, says that she
is only .*a window-pane!” Which
curious Cockneyism translated into
English means that she earns her
living by exhibiting herself and in-
cidentally some new hair-restorer or
quack medicine in the centre of a
show-window,
“I've known what: it
window-pane before now.
genteel life, I assure
doesn’t lead to much. Once a win-
dow-pane, always a window-pane
till you are turned thirty, and then
you're done. Yes; I've gone
through that — figuratively, of
course,” she added with a certain
meditative stress on the polysyllables
that hardly bespoke a mind at ease.
“You mightn’t:- think it, buat I've
been in the window with the other
goods: eight hours a day, at the
fancy shop nearly opposite your
street.”
The other still looked puzzled.
“You sit there, see! and work soma
new invention—Palace of Truth,
the Lady in the Glass House; that's
the idea. But there's no hiding any-
thing, from top to toe—fine points
and patent leather, and do your hair
three times a day.”
Prue gave a little shudder; recov-
ered herself, reflected; seemed to
hear as from some pit of doom the
cry for the ‘‘a-pence;’’ shuddered
again.
“The young person that took my
berth is leaving Saturday to get mar-
ried. She saw him for the first time
through the plate glass, and felt it
was her fate.”
Then Prue stole out stealthily to
the fancy shop, got the'place, and
with a lighter heart, hurried to the
shorthand school, and did her tale
of work for the day.—From Life.
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California Olive Oil.
The sale of olive oil constitutes
one of the largest items of revenue
to California. Although olives have
‘been grown there for more than half
a century, the quantity of fruit sold
outside of the State before 1900 was
insignificant. «
Forming themselves into an asso-
ciation a number of the large grow-
ers have taken steps since then tc
compete with Italy and France in
selling their product, and have suc-
ceeded to such an extent that they
manufacture a large proportion of
the 250,000 gallons of olive oil af
present produced in this country.
One ton of olives usually yields
thirty to thirty-five gallons of oil
For the Eastern trade the Califor-
nia association has established an ex:
tensive bottling plant in New Eng-
land to which the oil is actually
shipped by the carload in tanks, like
so much petroleum. One of the large
olive orchards alone contains no less
than 120,000 trees, which will give
an idea of the magnitude of olive
growing.—Moody's Magazine.
The Japanese Government an-
nounces an appropriation of $5,000,
000 gold for the international expo-
sition to be held at Tokio in 1912
The monéy is to be paid in instal
ments from 1908 to 1914,
£3 , EN
% jo’!
Steel Knives Cleaned.
Steel bladed knives rubbed with
mutton suet before laying them away
will not rust. Mutton suet hardens,
but beef does not, so be careful about
this. :
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Shirt Waist Holder.
Fasten two tapes on the corset at
the waist line, one on each side.
Have a good sized eyelet made on the
shirt waist at.the waist line in the
middle of the back. After the waist
is on pull the tape through the eyelet,
separate, and tie around the waist
under the large hook on the corset.
Newspapers as Fuel.
In the spring and fall when you
want just a little heat, or in an
emergency when you must make a
cup of coffee and cook an egg—get
Your newspapers together, and make
“knots” by folding them lengthwise,
and twisting them and tying them.
You will be surprised at the amount
of heat generated.
Old Skirts Rencwed.
II you have an old last season's
skirt which has lost its freshness buy
some contrasting material and put
two bias folds on the skirt. Make
a jumper waist and belt of ‘he same
goods as folds and. you will have a
pretty suit to wear with white waists
on cool days. When real warm leave
off jumper and wear skirt and belt
with a white waist,
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Washing Soda.
The kitchen should never be with-
out concentrated lye and washing
soda. The lye ought to be used once
a week to clear away the grease col-
lected on the inside of the waste pipe
of the sink. Dissolve the lye in boil-
ing water and pour down the pipe
while it is very hot. Washing soda
may also be used for the same pur-
pose, as well as for cleaning pots and
kettles. Fill your utensils with hot
water, and set over the fire, with a
tablespoonful of soda. It is well to
boil out the coffee pot occasionally
with this same solution.
Luncheon Lore.
Women have still a great deal to
learn in the matter of economy in
food. They crowd the tearooms and
“quick lunch’’ restaurants, and spend
in the aggregate an enormous amount
of money, in the majorit; of cases
for food that neither nourishes nor
satisfies them.
Business women in particular and
brain workers especially among them
ought to know food values and plan
their meals accordingly. They have
not yet discovered that lettuce is
twice as cooling as ice cream, and
that mince-pie is not a dish for early
sunnier, :
It is not necessary to emulate the
steak, fried potatoes and coffee of
the average man. In fact, such 2a
diet would disagree with most per: =
sons if partaken of to any great ex-
tent.
A thin soup is usually twice as pal
atable as a thick one, and is nearly
in some cases quite nourishing
This, with a sandwich of some cold
meat, lettuce or water cress, and,
perhaps, a simple sweet—not pas
try—makes a satisfactory midday
meal.
Where this is the principal meal ol
the day, more may be partaken of
but, especially in summer, all rick
and heavy ‘‘made dishes’ should be
avoided, and plenty of fresh vege:
tables should be eaten,
as
Swiss Eggs.— Four eggs well beat
en, one-half cup cheese, one pint
milk, salt and pepper. Bake until!
set and well browned.
Cress and Cucumber Salad.—Wash
and chill watereress and add one cu
cumber pared, -ehilled and cut in
dice; serve with French dressing.
Sweet Apple Custard Pie.—Tw¢
well beaten eggs, one cup grated
sweet apple, one pint sweet milk, twc
large spoonfuls of sugar, a little sall
and flavor.
Oyster Toast.—Chop a dozen fat
oysters, season with pepper and salt,
add a trace of nutmeg, melt a lump
of butter in the chafing dish, add the
oyster meat. Beat up the yolks of
two eggs with a gill of sweet cream,
stir it in the dish until the egg is firm
and serve on buttered toast.
Cheap Fruit Cake.—Two eggs,
three-fourths cup of sugar, one-half
cup of butter, one-half cup of mo-
lasses mixed with a good one-half
teaspoonful of soda, two cups flour,
one cup of chopped raisins, a little
clove and cinnamon. Will keep a
long time and improves with age.
Egg Cookies.—One cup of sugar,
two eggs, one-half cup of butter, one-
half cup of sour cream (sour milk
can be used) with half a teaspoonful
of soda dissolved in it; stir these to-
gether, not beating the eggs. Add
enough flour to rol out as soft as
they can be cut. Half a cup of co-
coanut can be added with the flour if
desired.