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EROM A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
Co-education in Michigan.
Bince the University of Michigan
became co-educational in 1871, 2832
women have received degrees. Or
these 2168 were from the literary de-
partment, 442 from the medical school
and 47 from the law department.—Un-
fversity of Michigan News-Letter.
Washington Shuns Jewelry.
In Washington, D. C., it is rare noW®-
adays to see a woman wear more
than 2 brooch os a stick pin, except
on formal occasions. The rage for
necklaces and bracelets, earrings and
chains seems to have vanished. Bar-
oness Moncheur invariably wears
either all white or all black for the
promenade or calling, and not one or-
nament is visible except small dia-
mond pins to hold het high collar in
place.—New York Press:
Tolstoy's Good Wife.
eo Tolstoy’s domestic life is singular-
1y happy, in spite of the fact that his
wife does not share his views concern-
img religion and sociology. The count-
@8s is 16 years younger than her hus-
band, and, although the mother of 13
children, is still beautiful and charm-
ing. She is highly gifted, too—has her-
self written three novels. At one time
she had great difficulty in preventing
the count from giving away all his
property. “He wished tp distribute all
his worldly goods to the poor,” she
says, “It was I, alone, who prevented
it. Heavens, what a struggle I had!
But, God be praised, I- triumphed.
From that day to this, I, and I alone,
manage the count’s affairs; every-
thing is done by me—is in my own
hands.”—New Orleans States.
Close to Mother Earth.
The Empress Eugenie, who has had
80 many years of heartache, finds her
comfort in getting close to “Mother
Barth.” At her Riviera villa she leads
a very quiet life and in her garden
often weeds the beds with her own
hands, still so delicate and pretty,
though so old. No half-withered bud
or blossom is left on a rose bush or a
plant, and she knows how to wage war
against slugs and snails. At Sir Thom-
as Lipton’s estate in Colombo, where
she was a recent guest, one wonders
if she assisted in the gathering of the
tea leaves. When it rains she plays
patience, laying the cards before her
on the table in a solitary game. To
play patience and to poke around the
flowers! Even an empress must thus
~ find her comfort in a lonely old age.—
Brooklyn Life.
To. Look Well Woman’s Duty.
The woman of taste keeps abreast
of the fashions in a way, that is, she
drops wornout stvles and adopts what-
ever new ones she can adant to her
use. If she can afford it she patron-
izes first class dressmakers and gets
her money's worth by wearing her
clothes two or three seasons without
losing her prestige as a well dressed
woman. There is an advantage in this
method, as you can see, and I have
been told by women who use it that
there is economy as well.
It is no economy to save at the ex-
pense of good looks. It is a woman's
duty to look her best, a duty she owes
to her family. If she can secure it by
& small expenditure so much the bet-
ter, but to save by accepting shabbi-
mess is not creditable save in dire
stress of circumstances. Poverty is
an excuse for shabbiness and nothing
else is accepted by the world, save in
the rare cases of shabby millionaires.
~—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Society Woman a Decorator.
Lady Mary Graham Montgomery,
one of eight sisters renowned for
their striking beauty, is the latest re-
cruit to the ranks of artistocratic trad-
ers.
She has elected to start her busi-
mess career as an artistic house dec-
orator, and only quite recently opened
premises in Duke street. Manchester
square, London. The distinguished
ownership of the new shopsis con-
cealed under the following laconic
commercial announcement: ‘“Ropley,
House Decoration, Alterations, Uphol-
stery, Sanitation.”
Lady Montgomery is the wife of Sir
Thomas Montgomery, seventh baron-
et of Stanhope, in Peebleshire, and the
youngest daughter of the late Sir
Thomas and Lady Louisa Moncrieffe.
- Her eldest sister married the present
Duke of Athol, who helds more titles
than any other neer in the British
Isles. Lady Montgomery follows the
eaxmple of many other distinguished
shopkeepers.—London Tit-Bits.
Society Ballet Dancer.
‘To her many accomplishments Lady
Constance Stewart-Richardson has
now added that of ballet dancing.
Lady Constance has been attending
the classes of Mme. Cavalazzi-Maple-
son, the famous mistress of the ballet
in Covent Garden, and donning the
usual costume has been initiated in-
to the mysteries of the professien.
Lady Constance is said to have a per-
fect genius for the art, and if she
cared to devote the time to it she
might become one of the most exqui-
site exponents of ballet dancing ever
seen.
Unconventional to a
Coiistance is a noted
degree Lady
sportswoman.
“tribe had helped ‘to hang her.
fisherwomen who has landed many &
salmon, and an unerring shot, and
when in Scotland it amuses her to
go out shooting clad in Mackenzie
tartan kilt and wearing a tam o’shan-
ter.
Before her marriage in 1904 Lady
Constance spent many months shoot-
ing in the Rockies, where, absolutely
alone except for her guides, she
camped out. Dressed in breeches and
coat with a cap on her short dark
hair, she looked exactly like a slim,
boyish man.—Tit-Bits.
Devoted indian Mother.
The Seminole woman is a devoted
mother and wife, and her position
in the life of the tribe is of consider-
able importance. She is the boss of
her wigwam, and on many questions
of tribal import she is consulted. If
she finds it necessary to her happi-
ness and peace of mind to obtain a di-
vorce from her brave, she is permitted
to do so without disgrace, and her
children are invariably awarded to
her. In return for these privileges
the Seminole woman is unusually -pa-
triotic. Ske_not only maintains the
highest possible moral standard for
her people, but she excludes outsiders
entirely. Any young sauaw who allows
her heart to stray to a white man,
anid to allow that straying to be
known, is subject to death. There is
a legend to the effect that one such
case occurred and that the guilty
squaw was found one day hanging
to a tree, where all the women in the
The
cherishipg of the women is said to
come from a desire to preserve the
race, and as mdrriages outside of the
tribes are not allowed and marriages
in the tribe are governed by a strict
law of gens, the women, young and
old, are cherished as carefully as are
white women, and the behavior of the
Seminale brave differs considerably in
this regard from that of the braves in
other tribes where women are more
‘numerous.—Leslie’'s Weekly.
Not Bound to the Hearth.
Women physicians advocated at a
session of the American Academy of
Medicine, in Chicago, the right of girls
to enter any profession or to engage
in any business in preference to be-
coming wives and mothers.
Several men physicians read papers
deploring that too many women un-
sexed themselves by forsaking home
life for industrial work, and asserting
that the future of the race depended
upon the checking of “this widespread
evil.” Then Dr. Helen C. Putnam of
Providence, startled the audience by
declaring that she was in favor ‘of
woman suffrage. She said:
“Every woman has the right to de-
velop her best faculties, to become
educated and to enter a business field,
where she meets many men, so she
can select the father of her children.
I favor establishing a study of ‘home-
making’ in the public schools of our
country.”
Dr. Emma Culbertson’ of Boston
said: “Co-operation of the two sexes
alone is needed to settle the question
of the place of women in business
life.” .
Dr. Edward Jackson of Denver, as-
serted that conditions had changed
during the last hundred years, and
that women should be allowed to
change their habits and occupations.
Dr. Otto Juettner of Cincinnati said:
“The lack of housewives and domestic
servants is disrupting society and
home life. Women competing with
men simply lower the wage scale,
cause a lack of support by men, and
a tendency toward singleness.”
Fashion Notes.
The pastel and sofe blues are among
the best sellers at the silk depart-
ments.
The strictly Pompadour coiffure
calls for a small hat to be worn far
back on the head.
The princess petticoat is almost a
necessity for the woman who wears
fashionable clothes.
A little full V of silk between sur-
plice fronts forms a very satisfactory
style for a slim figure.
An excellent coat for all-round wear
is that made oft voile strapped with
silk but veid of fussy trimmings like
lace.
Pony coats are quite as popular as
ever, and are trimmed with bands of
self material in suspender effect over
the shoulder.
Trimmings of tiny points failing
in pendant fashion from leaves sewed
to the frock materiai are a high priced
French novelty.. >
Though we see less of gold and
silver tissue than formerly, touches
of it remain modish, appearing chiefly
as narrow belts and borderings.
Very wide fancy back combs of
shell and jet curve about the head
almost from ear to ear, the support-
ing prongs disappearing into the fluff
of hair at the back.
For afternoon gowns the daintily
checked voiles in two-toned effects
are exceptionally attractive, when
fashioned with a garniture of
which gives them body.
silk,
It is a good idea to make a plain
bow to back the one of lace or em-
broidery that forms the front of the
fancy bow for the neck, for it helps
to hold out the bow and prevent early
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—From the New York World.
: LORD ESHER.
Astonishing influence is ascribed to Lord Esher, personal factotum of
King Edward, by the latest gossip of London.
His is the responsibility
for the international sensation caused by the Kaiser's Tweedmouth letter.
“Illegitimate Influences at Court” are made the subject of a startling at-
tack in one of the leading English monthlies,
constitute the sensation of the hour in London.
soon after the revelations in Berlin of
the National Review, and
Following, as it does, so
the evils of the Camerilla at the
Court of the Kaiser, this article forms the all-absorbing topic of discus.
sion in political and official circles, in
clubland, not alone in the British
metropolis, but also in Continental capitals, and in spite of the efforts of
the party whips and of the leaders, both of the Government and of the op-
position, as well as of the Speaker, the matter is likely to crop up at any
moment in Parliament.
The charge of “illegitimate influences at court” has not been heard of
in any reputable English print concerning a ruler of the British Empire for
more than fifty or sixty years.
But previous to that time it was a subject
of constant denunciation as a crying evil.
SLEEP IN A CITY TREE
Flatbush Boy Makes His Summer Home
in a Big Walnut. :
Sleeping outdoors in a rudely con-
structed house erected among the
branches of a high walnut tree in
the heart of Flatbush a young Poly-
technic Institute student has adopted
a novel method of “getting near to
nature.” Last year he tried this
method of outdoor life, starting in
the early spring and continuing until
the first real snowfall of the season.
The “tree house,” as the people in
the neighborhood call it, is located on
the lawn surrounding the home of
Mrs. W. T. Lees, who lives at 1704
Flatbush avenue, near Avenue I, Flat-
bush. W. Thompson Lees is the tree
dweller.
A wooden stairway winds around
the tree’s trunk leading to the single
chamber above, allowing an easy as-
cent to be made. The entire structure
THE BEDROOM
that thereafter they would, while the
weather was warm, sleep in the tree.
—New York Sun.
Moonlight,
Many readers may not be aware of
the fact that the full moon gives sev-
eral times more than twice the light
of the half moon. They may be still
more surprised to learn that the
ratio is approximately as nine to
one. Professor Joel Stebbins and
F. C. Brown, taking advantage of
the extreme sensitiveness to light of
a selenium cell, have lately measured
the amount of light coming from the
moon at different phases, with the
result above mentioned. The reason
for the remarkable difference shown
is to be found in the varying angles
of our satellite to the sun. The moon
is brighter between the first quarter
and full than between full and last
quarter.
The cause of this is evi-
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IN THE TREE.
is made of wood and was designed by
young Lees and his chum, Vail Aprle-
gate, a freshman at Dartmouth Col-
lege. The boys built the house a
little more than two years ago, but it
is only lately that they have converted
it into a sleeping place.
At first their intention was simply
to build a *“crow’s nest” where they
could seclude themselves on rainy af-
ternoons and when it was too hot for
active exercise. The “crow’s nest”
did not prove to be large enough, so
the boys added a large platform
which forms what they call their pi-
azza. This piazza is roomy enough
for an ordinary sized dining room
table and comfortably accommodates
six or eight diners.
After Lees and Applegate had thse
house completed their parents toox
an interest in it. They recognized
that it would be a fine place to sit in
the warm weather. Mrs. Lees sug-
gested that a stairway be added to
enable the older folk to climb to the
tree top. HI took the boys three
months te build it.
It was last summer that Lees and
Applegate decided that they would
like to see how it would feel to sleep
They covered the
top of the house with panes of glass
and this gave them all the light, day
or night, they needed.
worked so well that they
character of that part of the moon
which lies west of its meridian.—
Youth’s Companion.
Pencil is Always Handy.
A recent French invention consists
of a flexible support for a pencil, as
shown in the illustration. When the
pencil is used the support bends read-
ily and is no obstruction to writing.—
Philadelphia Record.
Altogether during the year 1908
there will have been under construec-
tion buildings directly or indirectly
i connected with Princeton University
The trial|
declared |
representing an expenditure of near-
ly $2,000,000.
THE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. J. H. MELISH.
Subject: Faith Once Delivered.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—The Rev. John
Howard Melish, rector of the Church
of the Holy Trinity, Clinton and Mon-
tague streets, Sunday morning
preached on “The Faith Once Deliv-
ered.” The text was from Jude 3:
“The faith which was once for all’de-
livered to the saints.” Mr. Melish
said: :
A Pentecost seems to be taking
place in Korea. Forces, no doubt in
large part political and commercial,
but also supremely religious and edu-
cational, are bringing that Eastern
nation to a new birth. Men every-
where are inquiring about the “new
religion.” Churches are crowded
many times a day. Teachers and
preachers cannot meet the need. We
seem to he witnessing what has not
been seen for centuries, a nation
turn Christian.
What is of great significance in the
religious awakening and conversion
of Korea is the kind of Christian re-
ligion which is receiving this over-
whelming response. If the reports
ars true, it is a religion with two
sides. Those who have received it
and who are extending it among their
fellow countrymen know only ‘The
Father’ and “Our Elder Brother.”
‘The names which have been and are
to multitudes of us Western Chris-
tians of value have no existence to
those Eastern followers of Jesus. God
and Jesus they know, but “Christ”
and the docirines of the Trinity, the
incarnation, the atonement, are not
even names. Their religion is with-
out degma.
Is this a sufficient statement of the
Christian faith? I do not mean if it
is the sum total of the Christian
truths. Of course, it is not. Neither
do I mean if it is the ‘irreducible
minimum,” without which a man
can hardly be called a Christian. But
is this faith in God as Father, in
Jesus as Elder Brother, sufficient
for life and death? Can men live
by this? Are these the regulative
ideas of our religion, the fundamen-
tal propositions of which all other
truths are corollaries?
Such questions can be answered
only by the deep experiences of life.
Life, the abundant life, is the test of
truth. There are times which try
men’s souls. Then it is that a man’s
books are opened, his words are
weighed, his traditions are tested. At
such moments the soul is concerned
not with words, but with realities.
He demands real answers for real
questionings. Such was the experi-
ence of Job when disaster befell him.
Under the fire and the whirlwind not
only Job’s property, but Job’s the-
ology, was swept away. Orthodoxy
proved too weak to lean upon. Such,
too, was the experience of Saul of
Tarsus, when he discovered that law
failed to make men righteous. He was
driven by new needs to revolutionize
his religiuvn and morals. St. Augus-
tine, Luther, Wesley, also, were men
who, face to face with new experi-
ences, as few questions which ortho-
doxy failed to answer. They were
driven to the fundamentals of faith
by the facts of life.
If faith in God as Father and
Jesus as Elder Brother is sufficient
it must answer the deep questionings
which spring from the deep experi-
ences of life. These questions are
three in number. Behind all philoso-
phies you will find them. To answer
them all religions have set them-
selves,
The first question is: Is there a
God, and if there is what is He like?
It has its origin in man as a reason-
ing and moral creature. What is the
origin of what we see and feel? Is
this universe self-evolved or is it the
expression of some power which
moves through it and presides over
it? If there is such a Power, what
is it like? Has it any of the attri-
butes of personality, intelligence,
righteousness, love? Behind all hu-
man douhts and questionings is this
mother of questions, Is there a God?
The second question® is: When a
man sees upon his soul the blot of
a sin can it be removed? What theo-
logians call sin is a universal ex-
perience. When Herbert Spencer
came to America he was entertained
at a banquet by the most learned
company which had probably as-
sembled here. At the end of the
program of speeches Henry Ward
Beecher was called upon. He praised
science and eulogized the debt which
religion owed the men who toiled
80 painstakingly to ascertain truth.
And then suddenly turning aside, he
made an appeal to universal experi-
ence. There was not a man there,
he said, who had not done something
for which he was ashamed, who did
not wish he had not done it, who
would like to have men know it, who
would not if he could wash his soul
clear of it. Scientist, philosopher,
theologian, statesman in that learned
assembly rose tothatappeal to univer-
sal experience. So say all men. There
have been times when sin weighed
so heavily upon
children, thrown themselves under
nastic penance. His as deep an ex-
perience to-day as ever, but it is ex-
pressed differentiy. Has my life been
of any use to others? is the question
upon man’s soul to-day. Not have
right? ‘His the
well-doing that weighs
Sin, individual and social, is a uni-
versal and tragic experience.
The third question is: When a man
dies shall he live again? The sight
of a dead face is the mother of all
mysteries. I{ compelled him to ask
whether that soul had gone, and in
so asking it lifted
frem the temporal to the eternal, the
natural to the supernatural, the hu-
man to the divine. Before the ex-
perience of death man stands ques-
4,
wondering whither
ing, hali
iend has gone and he himself
his iri
deep
questions
Spr
) experi-
ences of li h in God
as Fatl 1 3 as Elder Brother
give it answers?
Is a God and what is He
says Jesus, ‘‘there is
the consciences of |
men that they have sacrificed their |
the car of Juggernaut, fled to mo-!
I done wrong so much as have I done |
sense of failure:in|
upon men. |
man’s thoughts |
tioning, eager to know, half believ- |
a God. He is my Father and your
Father.” Scme men there are whe
find it easy to believe on their own
experience that God is Father. Others
can believe only when the sun is
bright and the sea is calm. When
the storm breaks their hearts faint
within them. But the multitude of
us men and women are glad that
Jesus is part of our life. Our bright-
est moments of assurance get their
light from Him; our darkest mo-
ments are not altogether black be-
cause He is part of life. It is by
faith in His experience, supported by
His character, His sanity, His truth,
His deeds that we keep faith in God.
Faith in the Elder Brother makes us
His fellow children; keep faith in
the Father through storm and sun-
shine.
When a man sees the cursed spot
upon his soul can he remove it? “A
man,’”’ said Jesus, ‘had two sons.”
One went into the far country and
painted his soul black with loose and
unworthy deeds. When his mony
was gone he felt his disgrace and
shame. He did not commit suicide;
he went straight home. No sooner
had he reached the road outside the
gate when he was hailed and his
father ran to meet him. Whatever
the spot may be upon the soul if a
man will take his disgrace and shame
to God he will find in Him a Father.
So with social failure. Is the time
short that remains? Waste it not
in vain regrets over it. The past is
irreparable, but the future is still
one’s own. “Come let us be going.”
When a man dies shall he live
again? Knowledge gives no better
answer than in the days of Aristotle.
What seems *to be scientific proof,
when examined, turns out to be
simply man’s hope expressed in scien-
tific phrases. But man has trust-
worthy evidence, not_in the spiri-
tualistic sense, but in the inference
as to what the other world is like
from what we know of this, in his
hopes and faith, in the testimony of
his poets and prophets. And of all
such witnesses to life that desires to
be eternal stands Jesus, our Elder
Brother. Before the gate of aeath
He stands and holds the key. It is
sight of Him, master of life and
death, that strengthens our faith in
immortality, quickens our hope for
the dead and casts about life here and
there the golden radiance which sur-
passes the sunset glow.
For all these experiénces of life, in
answer to all these deep questionings,
faith in God as Father, in Jesus as
Elder Brother is sufficient.
In Korea the Christian Church has
learned to ask this faith of its con-
verts and no more. When will the
church at home learn this much-
needed lesson? There are questions
which this simple faith does not an-
swer. Christianity no sooner had
reached the educated Greek than the
quastions came: What is the relation
between Jesus and God? How is the
Elder Brother related to the other
brothers? What is the true idea of
incarnation and of atonement? Men
have a right to ask these questions.
That right was won long ago by Ori-
gen, of Alexandria. But let it be
clearly understood that all such mat-
ters of speculation, while legitimate,
are not the ‘faith once delivered.”
The faith once delivered is related to
speculative faith, as it historically
has found expression in the creeds
and doctrines of the church, as the
tree is related to its leaves. The
faith once delivered, trust in God as
Father, in Jesus as Elder Brother is
the tree. The creeds and doctrines
are the leaves. From season to sea-
son they must change as new life
pushes off old forms, because the’'tree
itself abides.
I wish I could persuade men who
to-day reject all creeds, and with
them the faith, to see this distinction
between faith and creeds. It is possi-
ble to reject the latter and live by
the former. I wish that I could per-
suade men wha identify faith and
creeds to make this distinction. It
would do much to win the thinking
world to the religion of Jesus. It is
a real distinction. The faith once
delivered existed many generations
before the most venerable creeds of
Christendom were born. It will con-
tinue to inspire and strengthen men
when all our creeds shall have passed
away. The faith is once for all de-
livered.
Subtlest thought shall fail and learning
falter
Churches change, forms perish, systems
£0;
But our human needs—they will.not alter,
Christ no after age shall e’er outgrow.
Yea, Amen! O, changeless One, Thou only
Art life’s guide and spiritual goal,
Thou, the light across the dark vale lonely,
Thou, the eternal heaven of the soul.
Giving is Getting.
The old proverb-writer uttered a
great truth when he said that there
was a giving that tended to increase
and a withholding that tended to
poverty. Giving and receiving are
not two different things; the one
means the other. There is, in the
divine economy, a great principle of
exchange by which giving and receiv-
ing are coincident. Especially is this
principle operative in the moral and
spiritual realm.
The most significant thing in life
1 and development is hospitality. We
open the doors of our heart and life
to ennobling and inspiring visitors.
We give of our capacity; but how
much more do we get. God asks
ius to give our hearts. We do so and
| how much more we get. Jesus
| Christ asks us to give Him a place
{in our life. We give it, but the re-
{ sult is not a giving after all so much
{as it is a getting.
i Be hospitable then.
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Be hospitable
influences of life,
! and let it not be a narrow, grudging
+ hospitality. Be "hospitable to God;
‘to Jesus Christ. Give Them your
[pest rooms. Let Them be your guests,
t and They will give you Themselves
iin return.
Giving is getting, and the greater
the investment the greater the re-
i turn.—Rev. OC. S. Macfarland, in
Christian Work and Evangelist.
i —
Essential to Happiness.
‘Companionship is the one thing in
the world which is absolutely essen-
tial to happiness. The human heart
needs fellowship more than anything
else, fellowship which is elevated and
enduring, stronger and purer than it-
self, and centred in that which dec:
cannot change. All its spring
God. Without Him life is a
and all beyond is a
Yan Dyke.
ito all the divine