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«.back.—New Haven Register.
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Indian Courage.
Katherine Beaulieu, a pupil of the
Chilocco Indian school, Oklahoma, had
her hand caught in the big steam man-
- gle,"and before the machine could be
stopped the arm had been dragged in
above the elbow. The physician was
able to save the arm, but in order to
.- facilitate healing it was necessary to
graft fifty pieces “of skin over the
wound. Volunteers were called for,
and the doctor reported several scrim-
mages among the other pupils for the
honor of being the first to contribute
part of their epidermis. The girl's
arm was saved.—The Indian’s Friend.
A Noisy Operation.
Mrs.- Boorman Wells, one of the
- English suffragettes, was describing
at a dinner in New York a very dis-
orderly suffragetie’ meeting.
“The noise,” she said, “can only be
I once
“Terrified by this infernal turmoil,
my friend and I burst into the nursery
, breathless. The children, in a close
_* group by the window, the baby in the
~¢ middle, looked up clamly,
‘“ ‘What on earth are you doing?’
; the mother demanded.
“ “We've found, said the oldest boy,
. ‘poor grandma's teeth, and we're filing
them down and fitting them on the
Women in the Schools.
President G. Stanley Hall of Clark
..._1niversity, stirred the delegates . of
i the Iowa State Teachers’ convention
; in an address in which he declared
* that there were too many women
‘: teachers in the schools and that the
. American schools are becoming “ef-
. feminized.” There are 1400 teachers
attending the convention and nearly
three-fourths of them are women.
“The time has come,” said Presi-
dent Hall, “for a movement for men’s
" rights. For thirty years we have had
~ rar for women’s rights, and now the
. 'pendulum has swung too far. This is
age of over-feminization, especially
in the schools. Men should be princi-
pals, with men under them, so that
they will be contradicted once in a
while. In the schools now we find
men principals. They have only wom-
. en teachers in their schools, and the
3 9
men are becoming ‘sissies.
Bookbinding a Fine Work.
Of all the fads which the American
girl has taken up within the last few
years that of bookbinding is the most
interesting as well as being for many
besides the most worth while,
If a girl is possessed of any talent
for drawing or designing, bookbinding
‘is a delightful work, as it calls for all
the originality and individuality of
which she is capable. Naturally any
one at all interested in the best in lit-
erature and art will find the worl ‘all
absorbing, for in no other way is it
possible to come into such personal
touch with an author as in the binding |
of his books.
From a financial point of view also
there is much in favor of learning the
art of bookbinding. Many girls, while
possessed of a fairly comfortable in-
come, would still like to feel that
should anything dire occur they would
be capable of earning a livelihood, and
bookbinding is a real and recognized
profession that once learned could at
any time be turned to account. There
is really more to he made in getting
up a class in bookbinding than in the
actual work itself, for a book to be
well bound by hand requires some
weeks of steady and patient labor, but
for a rare old edition a good price will
be paid, and for a handsomely bound
collection of the works of a long fa-
miliar author a most satisfactory sum
can always be obtained.
If it appeals at all, bookbinding is a
fascinating occupation and as a pro-
fession is assuredly ‘far and away
more interesting than the average
means of earning one’s daily bread,
and fer this very reason has it grown
80’ tremendously popular among girls |
who, - although- at present are pos-
sessed of all that money can:buy, nev-
ertheless feel that they would lke to
to fall
Woman's Sphere.
William H. McCastline, second di-
rector of physical education at Colum-
bia University, read a paper entitled
“College and the Woman.”
“Women are the homemakers of
. our country,” he said. “They are re-
. sponsible for the home, and as far as
woman abuses her powers or directs
. them into the wrong channels just so
far will our country drop back into a
lower civilization.
“Can you wonder 2% the many poor
we have
when college girls are being trained
in differential calculus and things like
that? Woman’s greatest function is
motherhood. It has been stated that
65 percent of our college girls marry
and that 40 percent of them have fam-
jlies. If that is true they should be
trained for that life; they should have
a chance to specialize in home build-
ing. A good many educators argue
that courses in domestic science and
the like should come outside college
life. I don’t agree. The ‘last two
years of a girl's college course should
prepare her for life, and if 65 percent
of those girls marry, they need cours-
"8 in h pui han they do |
mathematics. 3s + ‘of this
the next generation.”
Dr. McCastline added that if women
were educated along the proper lines
healthier babies would be born,
homes would be improved, the in-
comes of medigal charlatans would be
reduced and the markets would be rid
of the deleterious “brain building and
nerve building and muscle ‘building
foods” that flood them now. “Why in
my work I have met many mothers
who do not appreciate the need of
care in tuberculosis—mothers whose
children are growing up with serious
physical defects because they have
not learned to know the human body
and do not see that those children re-
quire special care.”—New York Trib-
une.
Taking a Man’s Arm.
An old custom that has
passed into oblivion is that of a man
and girl walking arm and arm in the
street. Formerly it was an essential
to politeness that man should offer his
arm as soon as the two left the house.
Now to do so. is called ‘‘country,”
and only when occasion arises that a
woman needs a man’s protection in
the street during the evening is it
necessary for him to offer his arm or
permissible for a woman to accept it.
He should not feel hurt should it be
refused, for many women find it eas-
ier to walk alone, keeping close to.the
escort.
In any crowd such as may gather be-
fore an entrance to a building of a'
station the woman should step in
front of the man, not try to keep .be-
side him. It is his place then to
guard her from any roughness or pres-
sure from others—in a word to make
her going easy while he acts as guard.
It is the woman’s privilege always
to bow first to a man, and unless she
does so it is the height of rudeness for
him to recognize her, There is no
exception to this custom, for in it lies
the woman’s right to protect herself
from undesirable acquaintances; the
theory being that, though she has met
the man before, and perhaps even
talked with him, she was obliged to do
so because of the situation, and takes
the first opportunity of showing him
she does not wish to continue the ac-
quaintance.
When two women meet in the street
it is for the older to bow first. The
younger must wait for recognition and
keep on her way silently if she does
not get it. This, however, is an elas-
tic rule, for the younger woman may
always feel that the older has not
seen her, and unless thé cut is obvi-
ously meant as a rebuke, may recall
herself to the older woman,
Men do hot as a rule taken off their
hats to each other except when being
introduced by women. The courtesy
then is directed toward the ladies. It
is considered good form for a man to
remove his hat when bowing to a cler-
gyman, the tribute being paid to the
cloth.
Little girls, when greeting an older
person, must make a courtesy. This
is taught in all good schools, and it is
no longer considered enough for chil-
dren to bow.
The courtesy is repeated when leav-
ing.—Buffalo Courier.
Fashion. Notes.
Silver net or tulle is the popular
choice for evening hats. :
Tiny caps of metal threads loosely
woven are seen among the novelties
for decorative hair dressing.
Among the loveliest of the new pins
just shown are those having small
bunches of grapes done in dull gold.
With costumes of silk or wool, with
skirt and waist separate, beltings of
heavy silk and one and three-quarter
inches wide are worn.
A new contrivance for perfuming
milady’s tresses has been discovered
in New York. ‘Some women there are
wearing flower toques sprayed with
their favorite perfume,
Velvet brocade ribbon, fully 18 inches
wide, is used on dressy gowns, both
high and low neck. This ribbon is
sometimes edged with lace and used
as a bertha over a chiffon waist.
Plaited skirts suit the ordinary fig-
ure better than skirts of plain: cut,
so for this reason, if for no other, they
will continue to be worn this summer.
Of course, the clinging circular. skirt
will be the leader.
With tub frocks this season sashes
of pale colored ribbon will be much
seen. These are yvouthful-looking, and
can be worn on almost any figure if
the color of the sash doesn’t form too
marked a contrast to the tone of the
gown.
To keep dainty bows for linen col-
lars stiff and fresh looking is a: prob-
lem confronting many women. One
girl has solved it by wiring her bow at
each end with a very small wire, which
is invisible when the bow is held in
place with a bar pin.
Gilt slippers for evening wear are
the newest things. A tall, striking
brunette at a dance the other evening
wore a yellow dress of messaline sat-
in, with gilt slippers, and in her hair
was a bunch of gilt grapes. The
whole was very attractive.
On June 30, 1906,
track railway mil
States was 24,363.1
miles more than at the end of the
the total single-
re in the United
miles or 6262.12
6
previous year.
entirely.
King and Queen of Sweden.
KING GUSTAVE V. AND QUEEN MAUD.
Appliance For Keeping Cue Steady.
In playing billiards and pool: it ’s
the custom of the player to .grook,
the index finger of one hand to use
as a holder and guide for the- cue,
while the butt is grasped by the
other hand to make the shot. ‘There
is one decided disadvantage in’ this
use of the cue when the hand is‘damp
or moist. from perspiration.” The
moisturé checks or retards the for-
ward motion of the cue. Experts use
lotions to prevent this perspiration,
and other expedients have, : been
adopted for the purpose. The flesh
of the :index finger also prevents the
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Prevents Cue Slipping.
delicate and accurate holding of the
cue. These objections are overcome
in the device shown here, which is
merely a: sleeve or tube through
which the cue passes, and is encircled
by the index finger. The inner end
of the sleeve fits the hollow between
the thumb and finegr, while the for-
ward end rests against the second
finger. The hand which holds the
cue does not come in contact with the
cue, so that any perspiration cannot
in any way retard the movement of
the cue. The exact amount of pressure
necessary to insure correct move-
ment can thus be gauged with ac-
curacy and nicety. — Philadelphia
Record.
Would Help Music.
At a brilliant “At Home” given by
a society woman a pianist of world-
wide reputation was asked to per-
form. When he had finished, the
lady’s young daughter was made to
sit down and play hernew piece. “Now
tell me, Herr ,”’ said the fussy
mother to the great artist, “what do
you think of my daughter’s execu-
tion?” ‘‘Madame,” he replied delib-
erately, ‘I think it would be a capital
idea.’’—Argonaut.
Because They Wouldn't Cut Hair.
Owing to the vice-magistrates of
An Byen, Chung Pyeng and Kap San
not having yet cut their hair, the
Governor of the province has risen in
his wrath and has strongly requested
the Home Departmentto dismiss them
from their positions. — Korea Daily
News.
Trees and Lightning.
The trees most apt to be struck by
lightning are those that conform most
naturally to the law of electrical mo-
tion—that electricity moves along the
path of least resistance. Flammarion,
the great French scientist, published
in 1905 a list of different kinds of
trees, showing the number of times
each species had been struck by light-
ning during a given period. The
figures are: Fifty-four oaks, twenty-
four poplars, fourteen elms, eleven
walnuts, ten firs, seven willows, six
beeches, four chestnuts, but not a
single birch.—The Reader.
Gambiing Part of Religion.
A missionary lay beside a campfire
of birch logs. in the Maine. woods,
smoking a. black cigar and watching
his guide grill trout. '
“Speaking of gambling,” the mis-
sionary said, “I know of a sect that
regards it as a religious duty, like
fasting or prayer.
“This sect is the Hindus. They one
day ,in each year ‘gamble like mad
from sunrise till sunset. The day is
the festival of the lamps, a day sacred
to Lakshun, the goddess of wealth.
A tremendous lot of money changes
hands in Lakshun’s honor.
‘All this gambling is done to test
the financial success that will attend
on each person throughout the year.
If a gambler loses he knows a year
of hard luck is ahead of him. If he
wins he knows he may expect a
twelvemonth of prosperity. ;
“Strange to say, a®good deal of
cheating accompanies this religious
gambling.” — St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
He Didn't Have a Dollar.
He didn’t have a dollar, he didn’t
have a dime; his clothes and shoes
looked as though they had served
their time. He didn’t try to kill him-
self to dodge misfortune’s whacks.
Instead, he got some ashes and he
filled five dozen sacks. Then next
he begged a dollar. In the paper in
the morn he advertised tin polish
that would put the sun to scorn. He
kept on advertising and just now,
suffice to say, he’s out in California
at his cottage on the bay.—Mecca
Herald. : :
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH OF
AUSTRIA.
Doubtless.
“Do you believe in an actual devil
who rules over a burning lake?”
“Sure.”
“Then how do you suppose he tor-
tures his victims?”
“He prebably asks them if it is
hot enough for them.”—Houston
Post.
Constructe
THE PULPIT.
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. L. O. ROTENBACH.
Theme: Dead Eyes Opened.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—At Bethany Pres-
byterian Church the pastor, the Rev.
L. O. Rotenbach, preached the third
sermon in the series on‘ ‘Miracles; the
Wonders of Jesus and Their Lessons
For To-day.” His theme was, ‘Blind
Eyes Opened.” . The texts were in
Mark 7:23: ‘‘He took the blind man
by the hand and led him out of
town,” and Matthew in 9:29 and 20:
34: ‘According to your faith be it
unto you; Jesus had compassion.”
Mr. Rotenbach said:
The texts bring before us three
scenes in the healing mercy of Jesus.
The first is yonder where lies the city
of Bethsaida, near the Sea of Gali-
lee, close by the Jordan. Jesus is in
that city; you can see Him together
with His disciples. Now, notice that
company of people yonder. See, they
are leading a blind man. They bring
him to Jesus and beseech Him to
touch him. Here is faith on the part
of that company and neutrality ap-
parently on the part of the man. What
he needs is faith. Jesus undertakes
to arouse that. He takes the blind
man by the hand, leads him out of
the city, one side by themselves, the
man and Jesus.
Now, notice the process, for such it
is.. The Master moistens his eyes
with spital, places His hands ‘over
them and asks: ‘‘Seest thou aught
at all?” The man looks up. Here
is faith’s beginning:
see men, but I see them like unto
trees walking.” ‘Again those hands
are placed over his eyes, and now
Jesus makes him look up also. He
sees clearly! : $a
Here, now, is the second picture—
two blind men of their own volition
are following Jesus. Let us get the
setting. The Master is teaching with
Jairus, a ruler, comes beseeching
Him. ‘My daughter is dead; come,
lay | Thine hand upon her:and she
shall live.” He goes to grant the
request, when through the throng a
woman makes her way, reaches out
her hand timidly and touches the hem
of His garment and is made well. At
the house of Jairus professional
mourners have. taken possession. Jes-
us puts them out. ‘““The maid is not
dead but sleepeth.”” They laugh at
Him. He goes in, takes her by the
hand, and lo! she rises, and the fame
of it went everywhere.
That is the setting, and now as He
departs from thence, these two blind
men keep following Him. We can
see them go. How pathetic the sight!
We can hear them creeping out after
Him. Listen, ‘Son of David have
mercy, have mercy, have mercy.”” But
He heeds them not. Now, at length
they approach the house where He is
to remain. He goes within. Crowd
remains outside. But these two blind
men, what will they now do? They
are keeping right on eagerly through
the crowd. They are at the door
now. What! they have gone into the
house and right up to Jesus.
He asks, as He looks upon their
sightless eyes: ‘Believe ye that I am
able to do this?” "Do they believe!
Why, He has healed that woman in
the way a little while before when
she had but touched Him. He has
raised from the dead 'the daughter of
Jairus by simply taking her by the
hand, and they had kept following
after Him all along the dusty road,
though utterly ignored by crowd and
by Him. Do they believe now when
at last they stand by His side? ‘“Yea,
Lord,” and as the answer bursts from
their eager lips, He touches them,
saying: ‘‘According to your faith be
it unto you,” and their eyes are
opened. Faith is triumphant.
Now, over there we have the third
picture. Again we need the setting
to bring out the force and the beauty
of it. Jesus is going up to Jerusa-
lem. It is the week before Passover
—a week before the cross. As He
goes He takes His disciples one side
and says: ‘‘Behold we go up to Jer-
usalem, and the Son of Man shall be
betrayed; and they shall condemn
Him to death and deliver Him to the
Gentiles to be mocked, scourged and
crucified, and the third day He shall
rise again.”
Then comes to Him the mother of
Zebedee’s children. Her request is
that her sons might sit one on the
right, the other on the left of Jesus
in His kingdom. The ten, you re-
member, are incensed, but Jesus calls
them unto Him, saying: “Ye know
that the princes of the Gentiles lord
it over them, but it shall not be sa
among you. Whosoever will be great
among you let him become your ser-
vant; even as the Son of Man came
not to be served, but to serve and to
give His life a ransom for many.”
After these two events Jesus, His
disciples and a great multitude de-
part from Jericho. He is in the midst
of one of those great pilgrim bands
on their way to Passover feast. They
have come from Galilee, augumented
in numbers as they have drawn near-
er to the city qf David.
Their people believed on Him—as
a prophet, and in a vague way as
Messiah and the coming king, who
even now, when they arrive at the
city, may be crowned, as once before
they sought to crown Him by force.
On sweeps the procession—a crowd
before Him, another behind, Himself
and disciples with others in the mid-
dle. He perchance engaged in teach-
ing. :
Suddenly a sharp cry breaks in up-
on them. At the roadside ahead sits
blind Bartimaeus and a companion
begging. They hear the advance of
the multitude. ‘“What means this?”
“Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.” At
once all he had felt, hoped and be-
lieved of Jesus burst out in one great
cry: ‘‘Jesus, Son of David, have mer-
cy on us.” The multitude, impatient
at disturbance, rebukes them and
bids them be still. No, no, louder yet
rises their cry: “Jesus, Son of David,
have mercy on us.”
That cry reaches He stops,
commands that they be brougl
Him. Bartima leap :
throws aside 1
C ugh the
Jesus.
“Yes, yes, I
touches their eyes. They receive
gight immediately, follow Him, glorie
fying God, whilst the multitude sings
praises unto God.
These three scenes are given us not
so much to please or interest us, as
to touch our hearts a=d to instruct
our faith, There is a manifest pro-
gress also. In the first the blind man’
is lead of others to Jesus. In the
second they follow after Him of their
own eager volition, and in the third
Jesus has them brought to Him. In’
each is an advance of faith, and faith’
is the medium alone through which
we may receive divine things.
We have in the first scene the great
truth of the guiding presence of Je-
sus. We read: ‘He took the blind
man by the hand and led him.”
Tender and beautiful is this minis-
try, Jesus Himself leading the blind.
Can you catch the significance? Can
you see the leveling force of the Gos-
pel? ‘All ye are brethren.” Yes,
and Jesus proves it by taking the
hand of the blind. ;
Can you also realize the positive
directness of Christian service? “Bear
ye one another's burdens,” is the in-
junction, and we have Jesus taking
the blind man and leading him. He
for the time is eyes for him.
Your Christianity is halting, my
brother, if you have not in your life
that first hand ministry, which feels
the infirmities of another and touches
him where his need is. :
‘There is here also the perfecting
service of Jesus. His dealing with
this man is a process. He leads him
by the hand. He moistens his eyes.
He places His hands over them, asks
then “‘Seest aught?” ‘Yes, but faint-
ly.”” Places hands over eyes again,
their sight comes clearly.
So He deals with you and me. Our
first experience of Him whilst joyous
and hopeful, still is inadequate. But
how patient and forbearing is He
with our weakness and hesitancy.
Renewed and closer contact of fellow-
ship clears the spiritual vision.
Let Him keep in touch with you,
whilst you yield your will, life and
love to Him. He will finally perfect
your vision and you will see Jesus
even as He sees you.
In that second picture we have a
startling manifestation of the all suf-
ficient power of Jesus. His question
is: ‘“‘Believe ye that I am able to do
this?”
A great faith grasps this and holds
it tenaciously. Those two blind men
followed Him along that weary way.
They kept on until they came to Him
inside the house. Can you see them?
Their sightless eyes striving to look
into His eyes? Can you hear their
answer: ‘Yea, Lord, yea, Lord, we
believe that Thou art able.” “Accord- ~
ing to your faith’ is His answer and
they see Him—Jesus.
Do you desire the triumph of a
great faith, a faith that sees Jesus?
Then you, too, must believe that “He
is able.” You do believe it? Yes,
to be sure you do—in-‘a way. But do
you believe it with all your soul by a
faith that grips your- life?’ -Do you
believe it with a faith-that impels
you, as it did those sightless ones
along the roadway, weary roadway.
of your life, through the thronging
crowds whose carelessness and indif-
ference besets you on every hand,
right on into the very presence of
Jesus Himself?
You have been trying to do things
for yourself. ‘Hadn’t You better let
Him do them, for He is able? Some
things He alone can do for you; trust
Him. Commit your way unto Him
—for remember ‘‘According to your
faith will it be done unto you.”
In this third scene we have pre-
eminently the compassionate person-
ality of Jesus. We read: ‘Jesus had
compassion.” In fact all through this
scene it is Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, and
therefore faith, faith, faith. First,
we have Jesus of Nazareth .passeth
by. Remember He is always passing
by, in the great throngs to-day, as
then.
Do you feel your great need of
Him? Cry out to Him. Bartimaeus
did that and his companion. Are
you being oppressed, hindered, dis-
couraged by the very ones from whom!
you have reason to expect? Cry out
yet much the more—those two by the
wayside did that. They received
sight and then followed after Jesus.
Do that, just that, the way will open.
Secondly, we read Jesus stood still.
He always will, provided the right
note is in your cry. Remember He was
in the midst of a multitude going to
Jerusalem — perhaps they will crown
Him King. Yes, palm branches will
they strew in His way and cry: ‘“Ho-
sanna in the highest, blessed is the
King that cometh in the name of the
Lord,” and yet—He hears that cry.
Remember He is on His way to
Jerusalem to accomplish His decease.
As that conference upon the Mount
of Transfiguration revealed the weird
shadow of the cross already is creep-
ing over Him—and yet He hears that
cry! !
What is in that ery? N¢ed? Yes.
Suffering? Yes. But He finds that
everywhere. There is something
more in it. ‘Jesus have mercy,” is
it? No. ‘‘Jesus, Son of David, have
mercy.” This one had faith in Jesus,
not merely as a great rabbi, but he
had faith in Him supremely as the
promised deliverer of Israel, the Mes-
siah. It meant Jesus—Thou Christ—
have mercy. No wonder He heard
and stopped and called them to Him.
Thirdly, Jesus has compassion. He
always has. Let there be the cry of
conscious need, which believes im-
plicitly in Him as redeeming Saviour
—then always has He great compas-
sion. It is always ‘the old, old story
of Jesus and His love.”
My brother man let Him be such a
Saviour to you as we have seen Him
in these three pictures of tender min-
istry. Let Him lead you by the hand
—a living presence. Let Him draw
out your faith till you can say with
joy: ‘He is able.” Let Him hear
your heart's cry of a great faith that
wins His compassion.
Think No Evil.
Remember that charity thinketh no
evil, much less repeats it. These are
two good rules which ought to be
written on every heart—never believ
anything bad about anybody ;
you positively know it is true;
tell even that u you feel
is absolutel
is listening while ¥
Van Dyke.
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