New York City.——Happily for the pising generation, the full importance of systematic exercise has come to be realized and every school girl in- Pole an exercise suit in her outfit. one shows several novel and Scarfs Should Harmonize. Scarfs which are worn with after noon as well as with evening gowns, should match or harmonize with the frock. For afternoon wear silks and crepes which have borders in oriental designs or stripes are used. Evening scarfs of chiffon erepe or thin silk have deep borders of silver or gold spangles. Smart scarfs are extremely long, usually reaching nearly to. the hem of the skirt. Box Pleated Walking Skirt. Box pleated skirts are always grace- ful and at the moment are in great favor. This one is designed for the fashionable walking length and is ap- propriate for almost every skirting material and is adapted both to the coat suits and the odd skirts. In the illustration it is ‘made of white Sicil- ian mohair stitched with belding silk, but it suits the linens and piques of the present, and also the wool ma- terials that will be in demand before many weeks. Again, it can be util- ized for pongee and for silk, so that it becomes a very generally useful and serviceable model. The stitched hem is an all sufficient finish, but if liked banding, either of the same or contrasting material can be ap- plied above it. The skirt is cut in nine gores and is laid in box pleats, the edges of which meet at the upper portion, and which effectually conceal the seams. The pleats are stitched flat over the hips. NN ES Am NS 2 NAAN SS SSSA A A NN OR yy, 7, 7 Me NN “Ls (72400077 ANY 222 v Hr BD) RN Z ee 77 DRX Ts together desirable features and ows a choice of long or elbow sleeves. It is made with the com- fortable round collar finishing the neck and is finished at the front with @ regulation shirt waist box pleat. In the illustration it is made of a light weight serge stitched with belding silk and that is, perhaps, the best material for the purpose, but bril- llantine is quite correct and light weight flannel is in use. The suit is made with the blouse and bloomers. The blouse combines a plain back with tucked fronts and is finished with a band at the waist line. The long sleeves are gathered into straight cuffs, but when elbow sleeves are used they are finished with those of the roll-over sort. The comfortably full bloomers are laid in pleats at their upper edges and also are joined to a band, and this band is buttoned onto the one attached to the blouse, so that there is absolutely no danger of parting at the waist line. The quantity of material required for the medium size (twelve years) is six yards twenty-seven, three and one-half yards forty-four or three yards fifty-two inches wide. Hats in Glace Silk. Glace silks hats are very much in vogue. They are a little heavy, it is true, but they have many merits to put against their weight. Then there i8 a roughened felt that is becoming and effective for hats, especially in smoke gray. The quantity of material required for the medium size is eleven and one-quarter yards twenty-seven, six and one-quarter yards forty-four or fifty-two inches wide. Opals Again Popular. Opals are gaining in favor. new designs in jewelry have opals for the principal stone, and being sur- rounded with diamonds are sufficient- ly beautiful to cause women to cast aside their old superstition. Many A Petticoa: Hint. When you buy your next black petticoat buy it about two inches longer, taking the extra length up in a tuck. THE PULPIT. A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. W. L. WATKINSON. Subject: Christ and Common Things. Melbourne.—The following helpful sermon, entitled, “Christ and Com- mon Things,” was contributed recent- ly to the West Australian Baptist by the Rev. W. L. Watkinson: The first remarkable point in the records of our Lord’s earthly career is the extent of His relation to com- mon things. The supernatural and the marvelous are, of course, in evi- dence in the successive stages of His mission, yet the prevailing aspect is that of human commonplace. * This key was struck at the begin- ning. “Shepherds abiding in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock,” received the tidings of His coming; and “gloriiying and praising God,” the humble men re- turned from the splendors of His ad- vent once more to resume their lowly duties. Born in a stable and cradled in a manger reduces His infancy to stark commonplace. The rustic home and village life of Nazareth linked Him with the cottages of all time. His occupation, again, brings Him close to the overwhelming host of workers. Carlyle writes: “Not ‘Arms and the Man;’ ‘Tools and the Man;’ that were now our Epic.” Did not our Lord for thirty years give visible ex- pression to this epic? And if ever a great singer should worthily render that theme, must not the central Figure of his large poetry be the Carpenter of Nazareth? His work was not daintily wrought in fairy workshop of artist, goldsmith or au- thor; but rough hammer, saw and plummet were consecrated by His hands, and the rugged calling of the toiling million was hallowed by His example. In the days of “His showing unto Israel” He remained faithful to sim- ple people and scenes. Our Lord was content that the companions of His sublime career should be obscure and simple. He identified Himself with the common lot. The great artists of the past who represent the Saviour seem anxious to invest Him with mystic and kingly signs and symbols—He is haloed with splendor, adorned with jewels, angels are His bodyguard, Heaven opens above His. head, magi, priests and kings lay treasures at His feet. But we know that all this is very remote from fact. The modern realist who pictures our Lord as one of the peo- ple, without a shred of heavenly, sacerdotal,.-or imperial insignia, is much nearer to New Testament truth. How truly human was pur Lord! How completely He identified Himself" with us and the common lot! He seemed ever watchful lest any rag of purple or gold, any likeness of kingly diadem or mitre, any obtrusion of majestic and privileged greatness, either earthly or unearthly, should seem to separate Him from the teem- ing hosts who by hard labor in many spheres earn their daily bread. Yet whilst our Lord stands in con- stant relation to common things of every kind, He manifests no impa- tience, never once refers to His lowli- ness as if it were a matter of in- justice and monstrousness. Genera- tions have regarded with wonder the spectacle of Alfred the Great lodging in the neatherd’s hut; it is felt as an act of almost incredible condescension and patriotism tfat Peter the Great was willing to wprk in our dockyard as a common shipwright, and when- ever royalty visits a cottage, or chats with a piowman or shopkeeper, the fact must be proclaimed as something in the very nature of the case as- tounding. Yet Christ seems never to have been conscious of this amazing disparity between one rank and an- other, On no occasion does He ex- press surprise or regret that He is peasant rather than a prince, a car- penter rather than a captain, that He is engaged with minor matters of humble life rather than with the mar- velous and magnificent. Whenever the New Testament re- fers to the humiliation of our Lord, the emphasis is placed on the moral side, not on the circumstantial. The marvel is that He descended from the realms of glory to dwell with a world of sinners, not that He passed by princes and palaces to act with shep- herds and fishermen. He humbled Himself to the death cf the cross, not to the cottage of the peasant, the bench of the craftsman, or the boat of the fisher—this is never reckoned any part of His humiliation. We do not find our Lord condoling with Himself on account of His un- distinguished associations. For suf- ficent purpose He may incidentally refer to His mean estate, vet never ‘by way of apology or complaint. He does not attack the rich and powerful on the grounds of their official status; whenever He judges or rebukes them, it is strictly ‘on moral and religious grounds, He is no acrid, vitupera- tive, truculent scorner of the great, as-if in some way they did Him in- justice by being such. He does not envy the opulent, brilliant, or power- ful. He betrays no jealousy, because He knew none. He does not imitate the great, the wealthy, or the famous. We often see the democracy in pathetic and ridiculous ways imitate the nobility whom they defame, adorning them- selves with false finery, cheap jew- elry, and in sundry ways aping the magnificent they deride; they show that in their secret hearts they covet the pomps of greatness, and would fully share them if opportunity served— with one feather the ple- beian seeks to become a peacock. There is nothing of this in Christ, no attempt to escape the common lot as if it were something to be ashamed of, something to escape from. Whilst recognizing social gradations, our Lord Knew no servility or soreness. He was rich, great, satisfied in His clear sense of self-respect and in the consciousness of His Father's smile. His serene eyes was undazzled by splendor; His great mind appreciated .the moral significance, not the magni- tude of circumstance; He was content 40 work out His career, sublime be- yond that of all mortals, in the worn ruts which must be followed by the vast multitude of His brethren. Great souls recognize the worth of common things. The greater the man, the more vividly does he recog- nige the essential charm and worth of common things. Newton beheld the secret of the rainbow in a soap-bub- ble; Linnaeus found the magic of Paradise in a gorse-bush; Tyndall was bewitched by a snowflake; and our geologists exult in the knowledge that the common highway is not dust and dirt, as the ignorant contemptu- ously suppose, but jasper, sapphire and gold. And this is equally true in regard to the relations and environ- ments of human life. The rich, the titled and the fashionable, if only suf- ficiently little of soul, will sneer at the common herd; but all seers, all great souls, discern the grandeur of the honest man, however colorless his lot, the sufficiency of the most meager circumstances for the attainment of the higher ends; and our Lord pre- eminently enforeed these great les- sons. He who revealed so much, revealed the essential glory of the unheroic. By His example, not less than by His word, He taught that life does not consist in the abundance, the unique- ness, or the splendor of what we possess. “Few things” are enough for a many sided discipline of charac- ter. A superior mind, a pure heart, discovers rich and infinite entertain- ment in ordinary duties and joys, from which coarse souls turn with loathing as being insipid and worthless. A philosopher tells us to study “small variations of the commonplace; ” and no doubt if we do this intelligently and sympathetically, we shall need no other dramas or romances. The dreariest lot has openings for magnificent charity and sacrifice. The most prosaic calling, duly inter- preted, is replete with glory, honor and permanence, and is crowded with eternal recompense. There ought not to be in any hu- man life servility and dependence; no painful need or vulgar wretchedness should embitter and degrade; drudg- ery proper; beggarliness, meanness and pauperism form no part of God's ordination for any man, and there is much seriously wrong when such a state of things is possible. Our Lord’s life was just as far from vule gar poverty as from vulgar greatness, sordid wealth, or selfish gaiety. None need be ashamed of the com- mon lot; its honorableness, its effi- cacy, its boundless pogsibilities have been demonstrated by Him who is at once our supreme Teacher and Ex- ample. A special silver medal was recently given by the Botanic Society to an exhibitor who showed how to convert an ordinary and ugly wall into a delightful rock garden. Our great Master can teach us how to con- vert the poorest, dreariest life into a thing of bsauty which shall also be a joy forever. Overcome Evil With Good. “Be not overcome of evil, but over- come evil with good. Aim at that which is good, cica to that which is good; occupy your time with that which is good, fill your thoughts with that which is good, and the assaults of evil will have lost half their power. An earnest employment, a steady purpose. in life, a diligent use of time—these are an irresistible pan- oply against vice, these strike out of the Devil’s hands his worst imple- ments of temptation. You will remember that terrible truth in one of the Lord’s sternest parables, about the evil spirit return- ing to the house whence he came out, and finding Tit “empty, swept, and garnished; ” then goeth he and taketh to himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. What does that “empty, swept, and garnished” mean? It means that if your heart is not pre-occupied with good, it will be invaded by evil. Oh, beware of idleness in its every form, idle procrastinations, idle talk, idle habits, idle thoughts, these are the certain ruin of the soul. ' The laborer who stands idle in the mar- ket-place is ever ready to be hired in the Devil's service. The worm of sin gnaws deepest into the idle heart, Pre-occupy your heart with good; pre-occupy your time with honest in- dustry, and you are safe. Whatever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, of good report, if there be any virtue, any praise, think on these things. Evil can as little encroach on the domain of good as darkness can force its way into the circle of radi- ance which a lamp flings into the night. remember that since all sin begins in thought, if your thoughts are safe then you are safe.—F. W, Farrar, D. D. ve Joint Heirs With Christ. A dying judge, the day before his departure to be with Christ, said to his pastor, “Do you know enough about law to understand what is mean by joint-tenancy?” “xo,” was the reply. “I know nothing about law, I know little about grace, and that satisfies me.” “Well,” he sald, "if you and I were joint tenants on a farm, I could not say to you, That is your hill of corn, and this is mine; but we would share and share alike in everything on the place. I have just been lying here and thinking with unspeakable joy, that Jesus Christ has nothing apart from me, that everything He has is mine, and we will share and share alike through all eternity.”— Christian Life. The Weaver's Design. Life is a flying shuttle. But the pattern grows, the web is wrought. It takes both dark threads and golden to work out God’s design. You can- not judge the purpose of the Weaver by the thrust of one shuttle or the weave of one thread, whether it be dark or bright. “All things work together for good to them that love God.” We are yet on the loom. The shuttles are not yet empty. Give God time to put this and that, dark threads and bright, together, and complete the purpose of His provi- dence. With every new day let us think less of our present desire and more concerning the divine Weaver's design.—G. B. F. Hallock, D. D. The Divine Life. He who realizes the presence of the Creator as to feel himself filled with a peace that no discord can mar, and a filial confidence which rests in the trust of its own immortality— that man has attained the divine life min all its earthly fulness.—William Alger, IN OUT-OF-THE-WAY PERSIA, Mrs. Van Hook the First Foreign Woman to Visit These Mos- lem Villages. The first woman from the outside world to penetrate into the small vil= lages nestling in the fastnesses of the mountains of the extreme north- western corner of Persia, in the re- gion of Khoi, is Mrs. C. L.. Van Hook, who has spent many years in Persia working under the auspices of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs.. Van Hook recently completed a tour of eighty-one days through a comparatively unknown country, vis- iting eighteen different towns, hold- ing Sunday-school and visiting the women of the villages, while the male missionaries of the party preached and gave talks illustrated by a stere- opticon. “In some places spies were sta- tioned at the gates,” says Mrs. Van Hook, “but when we used the stere- opticon neither threats nor per- suasion could keep the people away. So many came that we were obliged to show the pictures twice, for the room would not hold all at one time. So we took a recess and served tea while the audience was changing. “Once we rode all day in the rain,” she continued, “spending the night in a miserable hole off a stable, but we were able to make a fire of weeds, by which to dry our clothing partial- ly and cook a soup tablet, which I for- tunately had with me. Some broken pieces of very dry bread, which the doctor had ridiculed me for keeping, not only helped out our supper, but furnished the only food that could be obtained for some Armenian refugees that were with us; one of these, a woman, had ridden a load all day in the rain with a baby in her arms. “One precipitous road over the mountains led by a pile of mediaeval monastic buildings, the cloister of Surp Tatoe associated with legends of St. Thaddeus, who is said to have been martyred on the spot where this monastery now stands. “In one corner cf the cathedral a little chapel is portioned off and there his sarcophagus is shown, bearing the date of fifteen hundred years ago. His right hand and forearm is sup- posed to be inclesed in a gilded silver case which is kept in the same chapel. This is believed to have the power of working miracles and is carried about in time of pestilence or other calam- ity with great parade and ceremony. A hand embroidered velvet curtain in front of the dais before the altar, sent from India in the sixteenth cen- tury, is a choice possession. We had been told we need expect nothing but a stone cell, black bread and water here, but nowhere else on the trip did we meet such warmhearted hospi- tality.” Mahlazan was the which visits to four villages were made. “No foreign woman nad ever vis- ited these places and cnly two of them had been entered by male mis- sionaries,” says Mrs. Van Hook. “In one of these out of the way places it was interesting to find a telephone. The owner of the village, living in the town of Khoi, had run a line out so as to be in communication with his rayats. Mahlazan is a mixed Armen- ian and Moslem village, the Armen- ians being in the minority. The Mos- lems here are becoming interested in Christianity. “I never have found women more eager to hear, more receptive or more intelligent than in some of these vil- lJages. One morning a woman came in early. No one else was there, and sitting down close to me, she said: ‘My husband says you are a learned woman, and there are some questions I want to ask you.” I bade her go on, and this was her first inquiry: ‘After we die, in the other world will we know our friends?’ I told ‘her I thought we would, and gave her my reasons. She sat thinking a few min- utes, and then putting her face close up to mine, said with great earnest- ness: ‘There is another thing I want to know. I have had seven children, and all but one died when they were little dogs. How about them? What are they worth to a mother?’ 1 teld her of the beautiful place where her children were, of their joy and sin- lessness and how they were waiting for her. Her old pock-marked face brightened as a new world, even the eternal, opened to her vision, and she went away content. Men and women begged me daily to remain, promising to keep warm fires and make me comfortable. They called me ‘Mireg’ (Little Mother), and said many times: ‘If we had such a “Mireg” as you to teach us about these things we would not be so ig- norant and bad.” "—New York Trib- une. centre from other Moslem New to Tim. The leading lady of a road com- pany playing in one of the smaller cities in Ohio concluded that she would press some of her lace collars one morning. She accordingly rang the bell, and when the hallboy ap- peared said: “Bring me up a aot iron.” In course of time he returned, empty handed, and when the lady answered his knock he said: “I couldn’t get it for you, lady.” “And why not?” she asked, mys- tified. “The bartender said he didn't know iow to mix it.”—Lippincott’s. Thief Plays. Whence the craze for thief plays? Is it a morbid kind of curiosity, or the result of our eccentric civiliza- tion, with its stranze and violent con- trasts?-—Lady Violet Greville, in the London Graphic : Earliest Known Trousers Tho 1 1 of tae snoient Babylonian was carefully protected fiom the sun by various wrappings: it was suffl- cient for the rest of the body to we a thin woolen or linen garment boun at the hips with a girdle or shawl, over which sometimes another gar ment was picturesquely draped. In Babylonia, and Assyria, also, head and foot coverings were subject to fashion, but the long, close-fitting garment fortunately never went out of style. Trousers—the unesthetical invention of the Medes—are first found on the Parthian stele of about the first century B. C., which was ex- cavated in Assyria.—Harper’s Magar zine. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat ot the disease. (atarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and 1n order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure 1s taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous sure face. Hall's Catarriy Cure is not a quack medicine. It wus prescribed by one of the best physicians ju this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It'is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful resalts in curing catarrh. Send tor testimonials, tree. F J. Cugxey & Co. Props. Toledo, O. Bold by druggists, price; Tse. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Some New Microbes. The list of microbes continueg to grow . steadily. of whooping cough must now he added to the list. Dr. H. Albrecht of the Wilhelm Hos- pital, recently spoke on the subject before the Vieuna Medical Society, declaring that he had discovered the specific agent that caused-the coms plaint. There had for some time been a suspicion that a kind of bacil- lus was at the bottom. but Dr. Al- brecht felt himuself able to assert that whooping cough bacillus was identjcal with that of influenza. That BABY ITCHED TERRIBLY. Face and Neck Covered With Ine flamed Skin—-—Uloctors No Avail— Cured by Cuticnra Ilemedies. “My baby’s ‘f: with itching she sufferel took her to : to different ¢ Remedie e and neck were covered i to eczema, and over a vear. I loctors, and. also avail. Then Cuticura nended to me by Mis : it at first, as I had tried so rieny other remedies without any five rl At last 1 tried Cutie and Cu i surprise ra Ointment, . and to my ent. After Cuticura Oint- p and Pills, 1 ether a dife health. incoln” St., using ment, togetii am pleased t ferent child Mrd, AC. I1.. Books Chicago, No More. pre dicted and microphones the » ‘0. of newspapers Dr. Marago 2 the human erful magnify- read the rec- I's talking. It is the iin scientists that these ually. will ng and alpha- Stenography, too, Instead of writ- sender would talk phone, pull out the when through and For v would he out of the for it absolutely impos- deceive fhe electrie needle, every shade newspapers the idea i: \ conventional imitation of zizzhe the various vowels and constants in the form of type, which will } lines like ordinary vrints conversation Vil Presses and printiisz are to be in the na are to take and written of Paris voice, and w a ing glass he ords « L OTSO? belief of c¢ voice photographs ev take the place bets altogether would be abolished. ing ‘a letter the into the micr strip. of :. zi post. it. question, sible to which faithfully of tone. is to able J 18 of wi ras For oks and in . Telephone W » as binding as a written cont The film would record | wid. all argument just what ic who said it, and conld be une crward and read off words were spoken. If » fitnre calls for it. a noiars nll put in his little statement to ii ficet. that “at his end i vand-So had appeared him and was known The possi- bility of se the ocean bv of the microphone 1 also is contemplated : advantageous possibility—Chicazo Tribune. wa of the 3 d€ross ald BOTH GAINED Man and Wife Faiten on Grape-Nuts, The notion that meat is necessary for real strength and {he foundation of solid is now ny longer as prevalent as formerly. Excessive meat eaters are usually sluggish a part of the time because they are not abie to fully digest thele food, and the undizested portion is changed into what is practically a kind of poi:cn (bit. acts upon the blood and ier thus getting all through the sy:t “I was a hea an Ils. man, i ago, was in very poor health, I suf fered with indig sition so that 1 only weighed 95 pounds. “Then I heard about Grape-Nuts and decided to try it. My wife laughed at me at first-but when I gained to 125 pounds and felt so fino, she thought would eat Grape- Nuts too. “Now she i3 fat and well and has gained 40 pounds. ‘we never have in- digestion any more and seldom feel the desire ior meat. - A neighbor of ours, 68 years old, was troubled with indigestion for years; was a heavy meat eater, and now since he has been eating Grape-Nuts regularly, he says he is well and never has indi- gestion. I could name a lot of pes- sons who have really been cured of indigestion by changing from a heavy meat diet to Grape-Nuts.” “There's 8 Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, “The Road @ Wellville,” in pkgs. loach tesh writes to two years cater 3 eater, Gj she
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