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i Women Scientific Hunters.
. It may surprise some readers to
earn what a very large share women
#6W have in the purely scientific work
United
tes naval observatory, says the
merican Home Monthly, women as-
sist in making the astronomical cal-
- culations for the Nautical almaarc—
the sea bible of the mariners—and at
eo Smithsonian institufion and the
operons of agriculture women are
ectly responsible for much of the
intricate technical work.
it lllinois Woman Decorated.
Gne of the few American women
who have been awarded the Palmes
Academiques, a decoration given by
e French government for distin-
ished service in the field of letters,
Miss Arcadie Villere of Lake Forest,
. She is of French descent and was
or many years a teacher in Chicago.
he decoration, a small gold wreath of
palms worn on, a violet ribbon, was
given for the work she has done in
creating an interest in French in this
country.—New Orleans Picayune.
A Contrast in Brilliants,
The New York Sun tells how the
color of the earring effects the color
and brilliancy of the eyes; how a prin-
cess discovered that the diamonds in
her ears outshone the brilliancy of her
eyes and she discarded them for ear-
rings of turquoise that brought out
the blue of her eyes. There is a Hun-
garian beauty of Budapest who is
noted for the wonderful glow of her
deep black eyes. Always in her ears
smooth and
beautiful, or balls of jet that bring
out the black of the eyes.
The Limelight on Divorce.
To Wellesley college girls recently
- the Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, head
master of Groton School for Boys, said:
“The shame of cur land today is the
frequency of divorces. Why is it? Be-
. ¢ause men and women are immoral,
Because they have not the self-control
and the patience and the courage to
endure unhappiness and disappoint-
ments which may come in married
1ife; because there is a spirit abroad
of feeling ‘I have a right to be happy.’
This is the fallacy at the back of what
is called ‘new thought,’ the determina- |
tion to have happiness, the cry that
the person has a right to be happy,
and, if there is anything to produce
unhappiness, to get rid of it. Character
- growth comes often in no more uncer-
tain way than through the patient,
brave endurance of disappointments
and sorrows.”
* Oppose Women’s Rights.
The New York State association op-
posed to Woman Suffrage is the rath-
er unwieldly name of an organization
that is doing all it set out to do. The
president is Mrs. Francis Scott, and
among the vice-presidents are Mrs.
Elihu Root and Mrs. Richard Watson
Gilder. In the report recently issued:
it is stated that women have in no
instance got what they sought in the
way of equal voting rights. Massachu-
setts defeated the bill by a vote of 163
to 14; Indiana killed its bill, 24 to 22;
the Maine committee reported “ought
not to pass” on a similar bill; West
Virginia defeated the bill, 40 to 38;
Rhode Island did not report it; Ne-
braska and Oklahoma defeated bills,
and so on, but still the report says the
women in favor of equal suffrage de-
clare that their cause is gaining. —New
Driers Picayune.
Queen Who Objects to Corsets.
Queen Amalia has the most wonder-
ful taste in dress, and Paris costumers
are never tired of sounding her praises.
At the same time her majesty believes
it quite an easy matter for a woman
to have a perfect fitting gown without
the aid of corsets.
When the Roentgen rays were dis-
covered she had a tight laced lady
photographed in order-to demonstrate
scientifically to the ladies of her court
the evils of the practice.
i Her majesty has very practical ideas
of the advancement of her sex, and
considers that nursing is one of the
best professions for women. She her-
self is famed thoughout Portugal as a
nurse, and is well known in the hospi-
tals of Lisbon. -
+ Above all Queen Amalia is never
“tired of preaching the value of outdoor
and athletic exercises for women. She
isa magnificent ! swimmer, a wonderful
rider, an untiring cyclist and a good
shot. And to such pursuits she attri-
butes thé beautiful figure which she
possesses, —From Tit-Bits, ' =
rx] :
1 A Notable Woman,
Mrs. Virginia Campbell FHopeOn,
a daughter of the Rev. Alexander
Campbell, who founded the Christian
or Campbellite church, died in Wash-
ington at the age of 74. For 13 years
Mrs. Thompson was postmaster at
Louisville, Ky. Her successive cam-
vaigns for re-appointment to that office
are still remembered by those who
rere conversant with public life dur-
ing the presidential terms of Hayes,
‘Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland and Harri-
gon. Mrs. Thompson was born in Beth-
any, W. Va. She was married to Wil-
liam R. Thompson of Kentucky, a bril-
iiant lawyer. After he died in 1877 she
journeyed to Washington with her
young children and asked President
Hay es for the appointment of postmas-
i
ter at Louisville. Although her seles-
tion was bitterly fought by Kentucky
politicians, she received the appoint=
ment. President Arthur re-appointed
her, as did President Cleveland when
he took office in 1885. There were over
80,000 letters on file requesting the re-
appointment of Mrs. Thompson when
President Harrison entered the White
House. The determined opposition of
Postmaster-Geperal Wanamaker, how-
ever, kept her from serving a fourth
term, Mrs. Thompson of late years
had been employed in the congression-
al library. She leaves two sons and an
invalid daughter.—New York Sun.
Writers’ Views of Women.
Consideration for woman is the
measure of a nation’s progress in so-
cial life.— Gregoire.
No man has-yet discovered the means
of giving successfully friendly advice
to women.—Balzac.
Woman is an overgrown chilu that
one amuses with toys, intoxicates with
flattery and seduces with promises.—
Sophie Arnould.
I have seen more than one woman
drown her honor in the clear water of
diamonds.—Comtesse d’Houdetot.
Women are never stronger than
when they arm themselves with their
weakness.—Mme. du Defand.
~~ Women know by nature how to dis-
guise their emotions far better than
the most consummate male courtier
can do. —Thackeray.
Women see’ through -and throieh
each other; and often we most admire
her whom they most scorn.—Buxton.
A man should choose for a wife only
such. a woman as he would choose for
a friend, where she a man.—Joubert.
A coquette is more occupied with
the homage we refuse her than - with
that we bestow upon her.—Dupuy.
The one who has read the book that
is called woman knows more than the
one who has grown pale in libraries.—
Houssaye.
When a woman pronounces the
name of a man but twice a day, there
may be some doubt as to the nature
of her sentiments, but three times!—
Balzac.
Would you hurt a woman most, aim
at her affections.—Wallace.
Tears are the strength of women.
—Saint Evremond.
The heart of a loving woman is a
golden sanctuary, where often there
reigns an idol of clay.—Limayrae.
As asp would render its sting more
venomous by dipping it into the heart
of a coquette.—Poincelot.
The breaking of a heart leaves no
traces.—Sand.
Women are twice as religious as
men; all the world knows fthat.—
Holmes.
A light wife doth make a heavy
husband.—Shakespeare.
A preity woman’s worth some pains
to see.—Browning. :
Friend, beware of fair maidens!
When their tenderness begins, our ser-
vitude is near.—Victor Hugo.
etween a woman’s “yes’ and “no”
I would not venture to stick a pin.—
Cervantes.
There is nothing - more beautiful
than a frigate under sail, a horse gal-
loping, or a woman dancing.—Balzac.
It is only the men who have the
strength net to forgive.—Dumas fils.—
New York Evening Post.
Fashion Notes.
Even the jumper suits are made of !
wools, and with good effect.
Only the slender woman should at-
tempt the high-waisted coat.
White shoes and stockings prevail
with all white gowns worn now.
The very best tailors®are using a
great many mohairs this season.
Many of the newest coats show
waist coats of various contrasting ma-
terials.
Smartly tailored in their inimitable
way, there is no suit equal to a mo-
hair suit.
To make such a velvet bow dressier
a small aigrette of white or the color
of the frock white can be added. y
There are to be many different wash
materials listed as fashionable and the
plain and fancy piques stand near the
top.
Cafe au lait (coffee with milk) is one
of the season’s new shades that’ is ex-
ceedingly soft and pretty in the,silken
materials.
An idea that is novel as well as
pretty is a neat little bow tied in
the front, with a jeweled pendant hung
from the center.
A rather clever scheme is the cut-
ting of a velvet in narrow lengths to
be used as a ribbon in running
through lace or in piping a gown.
‘The wide, straight brim or the small
close shapes are the best models to
choose from for hats. These are most
ly trimmed with flowers and feathers.
The embroidered collar curved high
just under the ears is finished at its
lower edece with a narrow black vel-
vet ribbon tied in a tiny bow at the
front.
A most effective little neck orna-
ment may be made in this way, using
a tiny hook and eye under the bow to
fasten the ribbon end that goes round
the throat.
* Among the new ornaments that are
becoming to older women are small
upstanding bows of black velvet or
tulle spangled either in jet or in col-
ored sequins to match the gown worn.
- THE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. LEWIS T. REED.
1
Theme: Suggestive Therapeutics.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—In the Flatbush
Congregational Church the pastor,
the Rev. Lewis T. Reed, preached. a
sermon on “The Theory ‘and Practice
of Suggestive Therapeutics.” The
text was. from Matthew 8:13: “And
Jesus said to the centurion, Go thy
way; and as thou hast believed,'so be
it done unto thee. “And his servant
was healed in the selfsame hour.”
Mr. Reed said:
. In this theme of “The Theory and
Practice of Suggestive Therapeutics,”
it is not my purpose to expound nov-
elties or to satisfy curiosity, but to
assist all of you who worship here to
lay hold of some of the great princi-
ples within this movement by which
it will be possible for you to live con-
fidently and joyfully. I should be
glad to make all of you practitioners
of the art of suggestive therapeutics.
There are a few great principles
which it is essential you should honor
and obey. First—the power of sug-
gestion. We have been wont to.be
optimistic about everythingthat takes
place in our lives, provided nothing
evil appears at once on the surface.
We have proceeded on the faith that
the psychical system: could take up
and dispose successfully of every sug-
gestion made to it. Evil thoughts,
envy, anger, greed, concupiscence,
gluttony—all the vices abhorred: by
St. Paul might present their vile pic-
tures to the mind, and as long as we
did not act on their suggestion, we
still preserved our character. We de-
luded ourselves with a hope that we
were what we appeared:to be. And
now we have had to learn afresh :the
truth of that Scripture: “As a man
thinketh in his heart, so is he.” ' I
know. of no process in man’s life more
calculated to give him
thought than this function of ithe
subconsciousness of storing up the
suggestions that the outer life. brings.
Day by day. as we touch the world,
and get our own reactions of courage
or cowardice, of self-control or self-
defeat, of purity or selfishness, of
love or hate, we are continually drop-
ping, dropping these suggestions into
| the reservoir of this subconscious self,
to come forth some day to bless or
curse. Abraham Lincoln lives day by
day the sacrificial life of the burden-
bearer of this people. Day by day,
hour by hour, he gives himself the
suggestion of devotion, sacrifice and
faith; and then, when the hour for
utterance has come, takes up his pen
and writes on a few scattered sheets
the supreme English masterpiece of
half a century. Benedict Arnold was
always passionate and revengeful.
Day after day, year after year, the re-
action of life on him resulted in sug-
gesting to his deeper self hate, envy,
pride, and self-will. When his hour
for expression came, he took up his
pen to sign his name to the betrayal
of his trust. There is nothing in the
process of the soul that needs to
cause us more of joy and more of
fear than this amenability of the soul
to suggestion.
Secondly, you must come to a new
realization of the supreme place of
the will. Heredity must have some
place in the formation of character,
although that place is not yet very
clearly determined—but the most
weighty discovery of the present day
seems to me this rediscovery of the
regal power of the will to do right;
These psychologists, and hypnotists,
in their investigations into the unex-
plored tracts of personality have come
across not only a God-like aspiration
after virtue in every soul, but also
an unlimited power for the attain-
ment of that aspiration. Just as’ the
Master of Life stooped over the crip-
ple, saying, “Arise and walk;” and
knew that within that stricken form
there was the ability to rise and
walk; so modern psychology stoops
over every sinful soul and repeats the
Scripture command, “Be ye there-
fore perfect,” for ye are in the image
of your Father in Heaven, who is
perfect. This is a tremendous doc-
trine of individual responsibility. It
is an old Scriptural doctrine, but it
gains a new force when, by the mod-
ern hypnotists’ appeal to the soul of
goodness in a man, you see the drunk-
ard go forth a néw man, thé spend-
thrift reformed and the invalid made
well. If there are in us those pos-
sibilities of virtue, there is no escape
for us from the responsibility of at-
taining that for which we were cre-
ated. There has come to us the con-
viction that inspired Jeremiah: “In
those days they shall say no more.
The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on
edge. But every one shall die for his
own iniquity; every man that eateth
the sour grapes his teeth shall be set
on edge.” There is no more proper
incentive to earnest living than the
realization of the fact that God has
intended life to be perfect for every
creature; and that if it is otherwise,
the fault is in ourselves.
“Dark is the world to thee; thyself
art the reason why.” Whoever would
possess the reality of the Christian
life must achieve the victory over his
moods; and the most heartening mes-
sage of this or any age is that by our
God-given endowment of the will it is
possible for us to give to the deeper
life of the soul the suggestions of
courage and faith and patience and
strength, which altogether means
eternal life.
In the third place, you will have to
form for yourself very likely a new,
and very stern, doctrine of sin and
virtue. The old doctrine of a forensic
justification before God was an ad-
mirable thing to look at, but it did
not work very well either for the
justified or for his family. Those who
deemed themselves “saved” very
often failed to possess the homely vir-
tues of cheerfulness, kindness, cour-
age and forgiveness; while many who
were obviously “good” were not con-
scious of salvation. The religion of
to-day: gives the genuinely “good”
man his due, and placards in their
proper place these hateful sins of un-
kindness, intolerance, moodiness,
worry and hardness of heart. It is a
great service that any sect bestows
when that body of people stands forth
to proclaim that the ills of the flesh
have an origin in the ills of the mind,
and that the thoughts that issue in
{ these bodily ills are sins against the
serious’
| High and Holy One. From whatever
source derived, the conviction of the
necessity of controlling the outbreaks
of our evil moods would be the great-
est conceivable blessing in so-called
Christian homes. This is surely no
new gospel. All this teaching is from
both Christ and the apostles; but it
is undeniable that the recent presen-
tation of it has amounted almost to
a discovery.
The fourth principle which must
govern your thought is that of the
very great influence that we exercise
over one another. If you believe in
the telepathic communication of one
subconscious mind with another, you
will believe that the condition of your
subliminal "consciousness—of irrita-
tion, or quiet, ;of hope or fear—even
though you speak no word, will af-
fect those associated with you. In
no hazy way, but very definitely, then,
we are our.brother’s keepers, respon-
sible for the world’s stock of cheer
and faith. The home is the peculiar
field for the operation of this sub-
conscious power. There the quickest
of sympathy exists, there influence is
felt most readily and most deeply.
The atmosphere of a home, although
a hackneyed term, expresses a clearly
defined reality. The atmosphere is
the spirit of the house, emanating
from the deep well of the subcon-
scious mind of the homekeeper. God
has created no more gracious figure
in His great world than that of the
wife and mother, who gives. to the
very place of her abode her own
quiet, buoyant, soothing spirit. What
she is in the unsounded deeps of her
being will appear in time in the house
where she dwells and in the faces of
the little children that look up to
her. On the other hand, the home of
the card-club woman and the home
of the gad-about! Who does not
Know them and shudder at the
thought? Their atmosphere is that
of restlessness and spiritual poverty.
Woe betide her children and her hus-
band; for she cannot give them, after
‘their day of temptations and vexa-
tion, that by which they are renewed,
the ‘spirit of peace and quiet _confl-
dence in good.
II. Now, it will sometimes happen
that, despite our best endeavors, we
shall be overborne in the press. Ill-
ness comes. on, whatever the cause,
and the causes are often complex.
What are we to do? Every physician
would join with me, I believe, in say-
ing: make the spiritual attitude cor-
rect. To use the terminology of the
books, give yourself the auto-sugges-
tions of courage, confidence in God,
faith in His willingness and power to
care for and restore you. Make it
the genuine conviction of your spirit
that God does provide for all His
creatures. Rest in the promises of
divine health with which the Scrip-
tures abound. If there is any cause
of irritation, remove it, if it be pos-
sible, by the right action on your
part. Nothing is more irritating
than harboring a vigorous grudge. I
need not remind you how, strictly
scriptural is all this method ‘of creat-
ing a correct mental attitude; and I
believe that your own careful obser-
vation would come to my support in
the statement that the great majority
of the diseases from which our hoise-
holds suffer can be finally traced to
the fret and ambition of our present
life. As the pastor, then, of your
souls and the minister of the Lord
Jesus Christ, who, through faith, re-
stored the body, I would exhort you
to cultivate to the utmost the virtues
that Christ always insisted upon—
trust in God, humility, self-forgetful-
ness, forgiveness, sincerity. -
Still, in many cases, the conditions
of ill health will continue. What is
to be done then? Manifestly, if the
trouble be serious, it is the time ta
employ the physician, who can diag-
nose the case and prescribe the regu-
lations under which recovery can be
most rapid. I earnestly hope that in
the excitement of this new discovery
of the therapeutic power that is in
the mind no one here will believe that
he is privileged to sin against either
himself or his brother. All laws of
action are laws of God. The best re-
sults ensue when we learh how to
use all of God’s laws in harmony with
each other. Quinine is just as much
a creation of the divine spirit as is
the mind of man, and we may as well
acknowledge that infection is a
process likely to take place under pre-
vailing conditions, unless guarded
against.
The employment of mental healing
in cases of physical disorder is the
employment of a therapeutic agency.
You may use medicines if you see fit
and they produce the results, al-
though as a matter of fact medical
practice of the present day makes
less and less of the treatment by
drugs and more and more of the
rest, air and water. On the other
hand, you may employ the mental
healer, provided your own spirit is so
attuned to the spiritual life that you
are able to receive its benefits. My
own belief is that those who are
wonted to the spiritual life—Dby which
I mean the life of communion with
God through prayer, the life of faith
in a controlling power, and of inter-
est in the life of the spirit in its
higher manifestations—are best pre-
pared for the reception of these ben-
efits. - No one can be benefited who
sets himself even secretly against his
healer, who prefers his own will and
way to the will and way of God, or
who cherishes a false self pride in his
own condition. The only way of
restoration is the sincere and humble
committal of oneself into the hands
of God that He may work His restor-
ing will. Ons must learn the very
heart of the meaning of the sixth
chapter of Matthew, the core of which
is the insistence upon the necessity of
the genuine union of the life of man
with God. If there is one place in
which no deception is possible it is
in this relation of life with God.
hoever the healer may be, the pre-
requisite to success is the sincere de-
sire of the patient to be helped.
Greater than the desire of having
one’s own way, and of cherishing
one’s own foible, must be the desire
to receive that more abundant life
that Christ came to bring.
Therefore, while, on the one hand,
this is only a system of therapeutics,
on the other, it is a system the suc-
cess of which is so intimately related
to the attitude of a man’s spirit to-
ward the infinite that it becomes a
matter of religion.
An Epigram by Dr. Frank Crane.
Life is a rpetual choosing;
road to rui if
treatment by the natural agencies of |.
Standard Oil’s Champion.
JAMES ROSCOE DAY, D. D, LL. D,
Chancellor of Syracuse University.
A New Capboard.
.No better receptacle for old china
has ever been found than a corner
cupboard, but unfortunately the sup-
ply is not equal to the demand. There
are more collectors than cupboards.
If one were clever enough to copy
a Colinial cupboard, as did P. D. Clif-
ton, of Pittsburg, it would hardly be
worth while hunting for an old one.
As a faithful reproduction: of a
famous eighteenth century design, it
would be hard to find anything better
A Copy of a Colonial Cupboard.
than his work. It has all the feeling
of the genuine and might easily be
taken for an old piece.
Mr. Clifton is an amateur who
made the cupboard for pleasure, hav-
ing for a model merely a magazine
illustration of the original. The lat-
ter is owned by Dr. Coburn, of South
Norwalk, Conn. It was made in 1740,
.and has the scroll top, urn finials,
pilasters, rosettes, and other details
which marked the best cabinet-work
of that day. We publish Mr. Clifton’s
cupboard as an incentive to other
amateurs, particularly those with a
china hobby.—The House Beautiful.
Don’t Fold Your Arms.
By folding your arms you pull the
shoulders forward, flatten the chest
and impair deep breathing. Folding
the arms across the chest so flattens
it down that it requires a conscious
effort to keep the chest in what
should be its natural position. As
soon as you forget yourself down
drops the chest.
‘We cannot see ourselves as others
see us. If we could many of us
would be ashamed of our shapes. The
position you hold your body in most
of the time soon becomes its natural
position. Continuously folding your
arms across the chest will develop a
flat chest and ‘a rounded back.
Here are four other hints which
should be made habits: Keep the
back of the neck close to the back of
the collar at all possible times. Al-
ways: carry the chest farther to the
front than any other part of the an-
terior body. Draw the abdomen in
and up a hundred times each day.
Take a dozen deep, slow breaths a
dozen times each day.—Family Doc-
tor.
Lincoln's Sarcasm.
Probably the most cutting thing
Lincoln ever said was the remark he
made about a very loquacious man,
“This person can compress the most
words into the smallest ideas of any
man I ever met.”
No fewer than fifty-two memorial
stones were laid at the foundation of
a new primitive Methodist church at
Scunthrope, England.
Tibeion Priests With Their Telescopic Trumpets Which
Emit a Note Like Thunder.
stic ritual. he s
festivals of the lame
Chatsa monaste g
length.—The
the trum pets they are hol
These huge brass trumpets are sounded at intervals during solemn
standing figures are two lamas of the
are sixteen feet in