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Spanish Women.
Spanish women are not the person-
tfication of southern passion, as we
have been taught by “Carmen” and
romance to believe; they are physical-
iy and mentally superior to Spanish
men, capable of passion, but far
more difficult to woo than northern
women.—Glasgow News.
# A Coy Young Thing.
The following advertisement re-
cently appeared: “Being aware that
jt is indelicate to advertise for a hus-
pand, I refrain from doing so; but if
any gentleman should be inclined to
.advertise for a wife, I will/answer
the ‘advertisement without delay. I
am young, am domesticated, and con-
sidered ladylike. Apply,” etc.—Phil-
rr —
i Tennessee's Stingiest Man.
Gallatin claims to have the stingi-
est man in Tenmessee, if not in the
world, and a premium is offered for
his superior in closefistedness. He
got married to a home girl to save
expenses. They walked around the
square for a bridal tour. He bougnt
her a nickel’s worth of stick candy
for a wedding present and then sug-
gested that they save the candy for
the children.—Danville American.
\ Children’s Hats.
This year little girls school and
- everyday hats are in bright-colored
straws; those for more formal occa-
sions in manilla, crin or chip; or
lawn embroidery hats in every degree
of elaborate and simple trimming are
usually trimmed with a bunch of gar-
den flowers, or with a full ribbon bow
or scarf wound about them after the
manner of such drapery as arranged
on the hats of their elders.—Harper’s
Bazar.
i Longer Skirts For Little Girls.
This fashion of putting little “girls
jnto frocks that scarcely cover them
came into vogue last year, and lit-
erally deformed thin children who be-
came the victims of it. This year the
loose frocks are all about a full knee
in length, and some still longer. In
addition to the blouses and tunics
there are many apron, or pinafore
frock forms, a supply of which will
keep the healthy romper looking
fresh at all hours of the day, at a
comparatively small outlay of labor
or money.—Harper’s Bazar.
F Explaining the Huge Hat.
The plain, rather dark colored suit
was in vogue this winter, the simple
kilt skirt and severe three-quarter
coat! Obviously, something had to
be introduced to soften the hard lines
Pickled Onions.—Peel small white vii
a 2 with one and one-half cups salt and two quarts of boiling
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= 5 of sugar to one gallon of vinegar.
; ican Home Monthly.
Latitude in Fashions.
‘A fashion note from New York
tells us that a considerable amount
of latitude is to be allowed to women
in the matter of new costumes. They
may wear any kind of sleeves that
they like. They may be long or short,
depending upon whether the arms
are of the kind that one wishes to
show or to conceal. But this apparent
generosity is intended only as a lubri-
cant to an inflexible rigor elsewhere.
The edict against waists and against
hips is to be enforced toc the utter-
most. Here there will be no latitude
and no concession, The devotee who
would fulfill the law to the uttermost
must present the appearance of hav-
ing been liquified and then poured
into the dress. And the dress is en-
tirely without those undulations that
prove the presence of things unseen,
the waist and the hips.
The edict against waist and hips
has been received with mingled emo-
tions. In some instances it meets
with easy and instant acquiescence,
but elsewhere there are protests and
maledictions. It is easy to wunder-
stand a compliance that means no
more than the discarding of those
useful appliances that ars prodigally
displayed at the bargain counter ard
pictorially - advertised in the daily
newspapers. But how about the
ladies whose hips are fixtures and
who have received from mother na-
ture without money and without
price what less favored ones must
purchase from art and mechanical
skill? Their lot is truly a hard one,
for to the mere male mind it seems
a bewildering impossibility thus to
put on and off a “garment of flesh”
that is periodically blessed and
banned by fickle fashion. Training
and diet may do something, but these
things take time, and the changing
styles are always in a hurry. Not
long ago a lady in a New York store
who asked for something in the latest
fashion was asked tc take a seat for
a few minutes as the fashions were
then changing. What then must be
the fate of the fair ones who are in-
vited to get rid of natural encums-
brances between dusk and dawn with
the full assurance that they will have
to repldce them with a similar rapid-
ity?—The Argonaut.
il Crusade Against Plumes.
Whether the particular means he
has adopted will achieve their object
or not, there will be cordial approval
of Lord Avebury’s crusade against
the wearing of the plumes of certain
wild or rare birds. It is indeed
strange that women, who so often
lead the world in humanitarian sen-
timent, seem to have absolutely no
feeling in shir matter; what fashion
re cg eet
and cover them
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Put
Put in jars, inter-
Fill jars to overflow with
Cork while hot.—Amer-
of this costume, and the hat was the
only medium.
gave a perpendicular line, to elim-
inate which a horizontal one was re-
quired, hence the wide hat; and this,
by contrast with the rigidity of the
suit, had to be ornamented with trim-
ming in broken lines, so we had end-
less irregular loops and all kinds of
fantastic feathers. Of course, then,
when the hat trimming was regular
and “set” the purpose of this style of
hat was defeated.—Harper’s Bazar.
ho To Relish Wife's Cooking.
‘A doctor tells me of a note he re-
ceived from a woman saying that her
husband, who was about to make him
a professional call, found constant
fault with the dinner she prepared
for him. She appealed to the physi-
cian for aid.
The doctor examined his patient,
who had a slight attack of! indiges-
tion, and told him to cut out lunches,
to eat nothing but a slice of toast and
a cup of tea.
The scheme worked excellently... Of
course hubby returns home in the
evening, eats everything in sight ard
votes his wife’s cooking even better
than mother used to make.—Boston
Record.
. Mrs. Rose, of Melrose.
Mrs. Geraldine Farrar, the prima
donna, attended a luncheon of debu-
tantes in New. York. Miss Farrar
told the debutantes that there was
happiness in work. She urged work
upon all of them. Work, she said,
would preserve them from degenera-
tion into such a type as Mrs. Rose, of
Melrose. “Mrs. Rose’s type is too
familiar,” she said. “To show you
the sort of type she is: Mr. Rose
came home from business. Mrs. Rose
lay«6n a couch. He sat down bx her
side and said: ‘What did the doctor
say, dear?’ ‘He asked me to put out
my tongue,” murmured Mrs. Rose.
‘Yes?’ ‘And he looked at it and said,
‘Overworked.’’” Mr. Rose heaved a
long sigh of relief. ‘Then, my dear,’
he said, firmly, ‘you'll have fo give it
1 > perfect confidence in
*.—New York Tribune.
The straight-cut suit |
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decrees they obey blindly even
though their adornment involves the
destruction of the parent bird during
the nesting season and the slaughter
of the young krood. At the plume
auctions held in London during the
last six months of 1907 there were
catalogued 15,742 skins of birds of
paradise, some 115,000 nesting
plumes of the heron; during the
whole year 190,000 egrets were sold.
So much for the humanity of fashion;
and there is a regrettable tendency
to push the matter further, and to
wear hatpins of hare’s feet, and such
like horrible ‘“‘ornaments.” The pre-
servation of a beautiful animal is
more important than the decoration
of a hat in a manner which a little
reflection would show to be repulsive;
but we are not sure that legislation
will prove stronger than fashion. Wo-
men generally contrive to make a law
look ridiculous when it suits their
purpose; and acts such as that of
Queen Alexandra, who refuses to
wear ospreys, and has made it known
that she objects to ladies wearing
them who are in her entourage, will
probably be of as much effect as af
dozen bills. Laws are useless against
the uneducated, and until those who
design and, those who weekly follow
the dictates of fashion are educated
to a sense of the cruelty their con-
duct involves there is little hope for
the birds, which are the unfortunate
victims of both.—London Globe.
Triumph of Youth.
‘A certain line of exercises is rec-
ommended to make children stronger
than their parents. This looks like
a blow at the woodshed ceremony.
Hold Stone-Throwing Contests.
In parts of Switzerland stone-
throwing contests are held, handsome
prizes being given to those who throw
a fair-sized rock farthest,
Babylon was probably the first city
to attain a population of a million. }
The area of the city was 225 square |
| miles. |
JOHN D. ROCKEFHELLIR
ON THE GOLF LINKS.
Tilting Bed Spring.
A Chicago man has endeavored io
make woman’s work easy by design-
ing the tilting bed spring shown here.
In this bedstead the spring is pivoted
to one side of the frame and is con-
nected at both ends with spring
clamps. When the bed spring is
raised the clamps hold it in a raised
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position, so that the entire overhaul-
ing of the bedstead becomes an easy
matter. An additional advantage lies
in the fact that the floor beneath the
bedstead can also be easily cleaned
without the necessity of pushing the
bed to all parts of the room to get at
it.
Famous Carved Pulpits.
St. Gudule, the cathedral church of
Brussels, has a carved pulpit, repre-
senting in carved wood the expulsion
from paradise. Among the animals
are the bear, the dog, cat, eagle, vul-
ture, peacock, owl, dove, ape, etc.
There is an equally fine one in Ant
werp cathedral. The decoration is of
lavish and striking character, figures,
birds and beasts being mixed in ar-
tistic profusion. The church of St.
Andrew at Antwerp contains a very
elaborately carved wood pulpit, rep-
resenting the calling of Peter and
Andrew. The figures are of life size,
standing in a boat. Beside them is a
net with fishes. Wilton Church, near
Salisbury, possesses finest pulpit in
England. It is made of choice mar-
ble, most beautifully carved. In
Worcester cathedral is a pulpit of
carved marble, the gift of the late
Earl of Dudley. A pulpit which cer-
tainly ranks among the finest in the
world is that possessed by the church
of St. Mary, Radcliffe, Bristol, Eng-
land. In the church Ozford street,
Manchester, there is a marble pulpit
with panels of beautiful mosaics.
Each panel contains the portrait of
a saint worked in Venetian marble.
—Argus.
To Know an Artist.
The Munich Jugend has discovered
five new signs by which to detect the
school to which a painter belongs.
(1) If he paints the sky gray and the
grass black, he belongs to the good
old classical school; (2) if he paints
the sky blue and the grass green, he
is a realist; (3) if he paints the sky
green and the grass blue, he is an im-
pressionist; (4) if he paints the sky
yellow and the grass purple, he is a
colorist; (5) if he paints the sky
black and the grass red, he shows
possession of great decorative talent.
— Literary Digest.
Light and Food.
Luminara, published in Madrid,
was probably one of themost remark-
able freak newspapers ever printed.
It. was printed with ink containing
phosphorus, so that the paper could
be read in the dark. Another curi-
osity was known as the Legal. This
was printed with non-poisonous ink
on thin sheets of dough, which could
be eaten, thus furnishing nourish-
ment for body as well as mind.—Lit-
| erary Digest.
Jet of Water at Grenoble, France,
Which Cannot Be Cut Through
With a Sword.
—Strand Magazine.
8
FOREIGN
HUMOR.
The Wife—*'‘Fancy, John, they are getting out a woman's dictionary.
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s in it.”—IJ.ondon Telegraph.
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. CURTIS LEE LAWS.
Subject: Christianity and Business.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—The Rev. Dr.
Curtis Lee Laws, in the Greene Ave-
nue Baptist Church, preached on
“Christianity and Business.” The
text was from Deuteronomy 8:18:
“Thou shalt remember, the Lord thy
God, for it is He that giveth thee
power to get wealth.” Dr. Laws said:
When a man becomes a Christian
he does not sever his relations to the
world in which he lives. He is given
to Christ by the Father as a personal
and perpetual possession, but instead
of translating him, Christ sends him
back into the very world from which
he has been saved. Christ said to
the Father: “As Thou hast sent Me
into the world, even so have I also
sent them into the world.” But when
Christ sends the saved man back into
the world, He sends him back as a
new man. “They are not of the world.
even as I am not of the world.” The
Christian is in the world, but in the
world with a new motive, a new pur-
pose and a new power. Our Master
well knew that it would be difficult
for His-disciples to be in the world
without being of the world, and so He
prayed: ‘I pray not that Thou
shouldst take them out of the world,
but that Thou shouldst keep them
from evil.” From the beginning,
therefore, the relation of the Chris-
tian to the affairs of life has been a
problem worthy of the most serious
study. In the early times there were
fanatics’ who felt that it was below
the dignity of a Christian to enter the
secular pursuits in which they had
formerly been engaged. They gave
up their business and brought dis-
credit upon their profession by the
vagaries of their other worldism. The
Apostle Paul tried to correct this
abuse in his second letter to the Thes-
salonians. In his first epistle, in view
of the second coming of Christ, he
had urged the people to separate
themselves from the world. Misinter-
preting his purpose, they had given
up their regular employments, and
had gotten into mischief. In the sec-
ond epistle the apostle says: “For we
hear that there are some which walk
among you disorderly, working not at
all but spending their time as busy-
bodies. Now, them that are such we
command and exhort by our Lord
Jesus Christ, that with quietness they
work and earn their own bread.”
The greatest problem for the Chris-
tian man is to adjust himself to the
callings and pursuits of this life, that
he may best serve God, his fellow men
and the highest interests of his own
soul. Instead of translating us to
glory at our conversion, God leaves
us here that we may perfect personal
holiness, working out our own salva-
tion with fear and trembling, and
that we may win the world to our
new-found King. Theszs are the two
functions of the Christian. It is the
will of God for His people to engage
in the ordinary vocations of this
world, that they may earn an honest
living and at the same time show
forth to the world the saving and
keeping power of Jesus Christ.
Though it is the will of God for His
people to engage in the business of
this world, it can be readily seen that
there are certain limitations which
arise from our relations to God.
But, again, the Christian man can
engage in no business which will
harm his fellow men, whom he has
been sent to win to Christ. If you
are in a business which is honest and
legitimate, others will share with you
the benefit of that business. If your
gain means loss to others, then your
business is not the business in which a
Christian man can engage. If you
cannot conduct this business your-
self, you cannot own stock in it and
share in the profits of it without bar-
tering your soul for gold. If you
can’t conduct the business yourself,
you cannot rent your property for the
conduct of such a business without
adding hypocrisy to your other sins.
May God have mercy on the hypo-
crites who ‘will not soil their hands by
engaging in a wicked business, but
who will stuff their pockets full of the
dirty money received as dividends or
rent from the conduct of this same
wicked business.
Note now some of the incentives to
business activity. “Thou shalt re-
member the Lord thy God, for He has
given thee power to get wealth.” The
money-making gift is from God. The
apostle urges us to be diligent in busi-
ness, fervent in spirit, serving the
Lord. God kas no patience with in-
dolence and sloth. All through the
Bible the stamp of God’s approval is
put upon industry, while His curse
ever rests upon idleness. It is God-
like to work. Our Lord said, “The
Father worketh hitherto and I work.”
There is no place in God’s economy
for the idler. He cumbers the
ground.
Business activity brings wealth,
and this is an incentive which ought
to appeal to the generation in which
we are living. Wealth ought to be
desired by every man, because wealth
is a mighty factor in the world in
which we live.
Think of what wealth can do for
the individual. It can give oppor-
tunity to acquire high and noble
tastes. It cau give leisure for study
and research. These in turn will
cause the mind to grow stronger and
the character to grow nobler. Wealth
can purchase length of days, and it
can secure to us the atmosphere in
which human love can blossom and
bear fruit to perfection.
Think of what wealth can do for
the family. It can surround our
loved ones with books and paintings
and statuary. It can provide the
highest culture for our children. It
can enable us to dispense a generous
hospitality and to make our homes
the centre of a delightful and en-
nobling religious, social and intellec-
tual circle.
Think of what wealth can do for
society. It can lift up those shattered
and maimed victims of vice and pov-
erty. It can cleanse the augean sta-
| bles. It can send the brightness of
{ day into the loathsome, fe
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they may dev i
| ing the beautiful and tt
can set the spindles and wheels of
manufacture in motion. It can give
the poor the chance to earn an hon-
est living, that self-respect may not
be lost by receiving charity. Oh, the
value of wealth to society!
Think of what wealth can do for
the church. The cause of Christ is
languishing all over the world be-
cause there is not money sufficient to
carry on Christ’s work to the glory of
God. Our local churches are suffer-
ing because of poor equipment and
the lack of workers who can devote
their whole time to the cause. Our
Christian colleges, orphanages and
hospitals could double their efficiency
if they had more money. Our mis-
sionary societies are all poverty-
stricken. The missionary force in
the great cities, on the frontiers and
in heathen lands could all be doubled
in twelve months if we had sufficient
means. This is true of all Christian
denominations. May God prosper the
people and then make them willing to
lay their gold at His feet!
Business men, I exhort you in the
name of the King to be diligent and
self-denying and frugal that success
may crown your efforts; for no one
can estimate the good that your
wealth can do to yourself, to your
family, to society, and to the kingdom
of God in the world.
Let us now consider the perils of
business success. :
I have exhorted you to fidelity,
persistency, energy in your business
life. I have told you of the glory
which comes with wealth, but I would
be false to your highest interests if
I did not hold up before you some of
the awful perils which confront the
man who makes a great success in
business.
“What shall it profit a man if he
gain the whole world and lose his own
soul?” No man can gain the whole
world, or a millionth part of the
world, but if he gained the whole of
it at the cost of his soul it would be a
calamitous bargain. The text means
simply that in the effort to gain
wealth many forfeit their own souls.
The temptation is to neglect the high-
er for the lower, to give up the spir-
itual for the temporal, to give up the
unseen for the seen. How pitiful the
thought that men spend a lifetime in
the vain effort to corral the world and
find themselves at last without a soul.
What does it mean by losing one’s
soul? The expression is not equiva-
lent to being condemned, though of
course it leads to perdition. The soul
here spoken of by Jesus means the
faculty in man which apprehends God
and goodness. Jesus says that the
man who pays too much attention to
money getting is apt to lose the fac-
ulty by which he apprehends God and
spiritual things. He lcses the faculty
because he refuses to use it. His ear
is dull to the voice of God. His eye
is clouded so that he cannot see the
beauty of God, and by and by through
a process of deterioration death comes
and the faculty is lost, Oh, men, do
not lose your souls! Keep your ear
open to the voice of God. Keep your
heart attuned to the will of God; but
alas, alas! some before me have al-
most lost their souls. In seeking a
gbod thing they are giving up the
best thing.
Jesus said: “It is easier for a
camel to go through the eye of a
needle than for a rich man to enter
into the kingdom of God,” and, “How
hardly shall a rich man enter the
kingdom of heaven.” There are many
perils about the gaining of wealth
and the using of it. We have all
seen the influence of wealth upon
character. Too often it makes the
humble man proud, the generous man
stingy, the charitable man suspicious,
and the honest man dishonest. Some-
times the man who makes the money
escapes the perils, but succeeding gen-
erations are almost inevitably cursed
by the wealth which they inherited.
The Master knew human nature per-
fectly, and so He said, “How hardly
shall a rich man enter into the king-
dom of heaven.” There is one way
to escape from these perils, and I
commend it to the rich, to those who
would be rich, and to all Christian
business men alike. Write the words
of my text in the front of your ledgers
and on the tablets of your hearts:
“Thou shalt remember the Lord thy
God, for it is He that giveth thee
power to get wealth.”
Unanswered Prayer.
An unanswered prayer is no proof
of an unhearing God. There may be
reasons in the great purposes of our
heavenly Father why a petition may
fail of a direct answer. The creature
may err, not understanding the will
of God; but the Creator cannot err.
As many a child of God has looked
back over his life he has seen where
the goodness and benign wisdom of
God has been manifested in with-
holding the things asked for.
But if the direct answer to the pe-
tition has been withheld we believe
that in some way there will come a
blessing because of it, and that no
earnest, faithful prayer is ever lost to
the suppliant. “It may not be my
way; it may not be thy way; but yet
in His own way the answer will
come. It may be years in coming; it
may be in some wholly unexpected
way, through some channel we never
dreamed of, and which at the time
of the prayer we knew nothing of;
but it will come to us with blessing.
Indeed, we in our obtuseness may
be living in the very atmosphere of
answered prayer and not be aware of
it. If the answer does not come in
the way we look for it, let us look
around and see if the flower we
longed for is not blooming elsewhere,
or if our life at some angle does not
touch God more intimately than be-
fore. We may look for the answer in
a tally-ho, but it may come in the
form of some poor beggar on the
street.— United Presbyterian.
Profitable Things.
The sooner we are impressed that
this present life is uncertain and very
short, and that the future life is sure
and endless, the better it will be for
us. Also to learn that material
things cannot satisfy the soul, but
that a man must be rich toward God
before that aching void can ever be
filled, and that godliness is profitable
unto all things and we may add unto
: he Rev. W. F. Bryan,
Dallas, Texas.
Soul Winner,
a