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name of the wisher.
Eligible to Parliament.
In Holland, where qualified women
have long had municipal suffrage, the
committee on revisson of the consti-
tutiof has reported in favor of giv-
~
ing women proportional representa-
tion and making them eligible to
Parliament.—Woman’s Life.
“
Paper for Engaged Couples.
In Switzerland there is a newspaper
especially for engaged couples. Ag-
ents all over the country collect par-
tlculars concerning young people who
have become engaged to be married,
and their’ names, addresses, and par-
ticulars ‘of their social position appéar
in this weekly journal. Every girl
whose name is thus mentioned re-
ceives the paper for one year free,
the subscribers to it being - chiefly
tradespeople, who send advertise-
ments of their goods to those whose
. names ‘are so published. —Tit-Bits.
Swimming as Lung Exercise.
Opera singers -have .taken ‘to sea
bathing ass a means of cultivating
their lung power. Through the rwin-
ter they are compélled to take breath-
ing exercise every day to increase
the capacity and the strength of their
lungs. They must train themselves
{n regular breathing. One of them
discovered ‘recently that steady, sys-
tematic breathinz is essential to
swimming, and especially for floating
Now the singers are
taking swimming lessons, because
they not only get plenty of fresh air
in their lungs and strengthen ‘their
constitutions, but they also get an
unusual training in breathing. The
plan Has worked so well that several
of the prominent singers have adopt-
ed it for daily use.—New York Press.
A Good-Wish Rose.
A clever idea was carried out at a
recent “shower” for a bride-to-be. In
the invitation each guest was request-
ed to send in, prior to the party, a
wish fer the bride, The hostess made
a beautiful large white paper rose,
and before: putting it together she
wrote on each petal a wish and the
As is usual in
most cases, some of the guests forgot
to send in a wish, but brought one
with them, and others wrote them af-
ter they arrived. For this purpose a
large paper rosebud had been made,
into which the wishes were slipped,
and the bud twisted up again. The
guest of honor was charmed with the
rose gnd rosebud, and said that she
should alwavs keep it as a pleasant
reminder of her friends whom she
was soon to leave for a new home in
a distant city.—Woman’s Home Com-
panion,
Sure Cure for Jars.
‘When symptoms set in for an out-
break of conjugal jars—which may
happen sometimes in the best regulat-
ed familles—it is a capital plan for
husband or wife to go &&f on a soli-
tary holiday for a few days, to lei the
clouds blow over.
If two persons start jangling and
getting on one another’s nerves, an
“absence curd’ works Wonders, says
Philadelphia Ledger. Both have time
for reflection and repentance. So if
-you and the husband are irritating one
another like mild mustard poultices,
g0 and stop a week with friends.
Don’t discuss your grievances with
the hostess; calm down, forgive and
forget, and stay away till you can re-
turn in love and kindness.
Short separations taken at the right
moment would save thousands of hot-
tempered young couples from drift-
ing to the ranks of the “unhappily
married.” 1 ose fn
£79 A New Kind of “Rat.”
1
‘There is now a new way of stuffing
the pompadour. It is cooler and
healthier than the present way of
wearing a rat of hair, human or other-
wise, under one’s own hair.
Whoever invented it no cne knows,
but her imitators are springing up ail
over town.
She makes the “rat” of fine silk ma-
line just the color of her hair. She
uses a good deal of it and crushes
. it into the required size.
To keep it from losing its shape
and springing out over head, she cov-
ers it with a plain piece of the maline
basted together.
She arranges this on ber head with
invisible hair pins, and combs her own
hair “over it. 3
Its advantages are these:
it is not artificial.
it is sanitary, for it is not heating
and doesn’t deaden the hair under
it. :
It can be arranged into any, shape
and it doesn’t fade.
It can be renewed each week and its
cost is slight.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Afternoon Wedding Gowns.
A toilet; which has become distinct-
ive, is one which is called the after-
noon wedding costume. The wedding
is preferably at five o'clock and gar-
ments for that hour are difficult to
plan. Mrs. Taft attended the Leiter-
Williams nuptials in a gown of pale
blue dimity sprigegied in white flowers,
with edging of vellow lace. Her hat
was white chip whreathed in ragged
robins with loops of baby blue vel-
vet and numerous bows of golden
brown chiffon. When Miss Winefred
Mattingly became Mrs. Porter, her
- dings and the up-to-date woman
dots on
cousin, Mrs. Robert Treat Paine, of
Boston, were a distinctive gown of
cream batiste elaborately embroidered
in edelweiss, every inch of the cloth
being covered with the flowers and
foliage. Her hat was also of the ba-
tiste, similarly embroidered, with
two long drooping plumes. Mrs. New-
berry, who has been in Washington
during the long season, wore a dain-
ty wedding costume of pale gray lawn
built on cream satin, with touches of
heliotrope on the corsage, at a fash-
ionable nuptial service in St. John's.
There is a simplicity about the make
up of the correct gown for church wed-
is
careful not to get her robe in the class
of frilly things.—New York Press.
Brain Waves to Cure Tipplers.
It must have been several decades
ago that the first woman . crusader
against whisky sat in her home and
thought and thought and thought how
she might bring drinking men to the
path of sobriéty.” What pained her
most, was that she had no way of
sending forth her good counsel to the
multitude. Ah! had she only. started
as a crusader in this, the day of tele-
pathy! ‘Recently, when an Episcopal
clergyman argued against local op-
tion in Aurora, Ill, before four thou-
sand hearers, a little band of women
who believe in the powers of telepathy
sat in the audience and sent out
thought waves in an endeavor to con-
fuse’ him in His arguments. They
were representatives of a newly or-
ganized woman’s auxiliary to the Au-
rora local option organization. Imag-
inative and enthusiastic workers for
local option proposed that an attempt
be made to influence the mind of
the speaker through the mysterious
channels of thought, and several vol-
unteered for the trial. What they ac-
complished is known only to them-
selves. But telepathy is to be a force
until the voters decide the liquor
question. The leaders say they will
have the power of the united, beseech-
ing thought of 8,000 women reaching
out ‘to grapple with’ the doubting
minds of men who would look upon
the wine when it is red.—New. York
Press. : G2
as
Problem Solved in Panama.
Pure food, like charity, begins at
home, the club women of America
were told by Mrs. Mary H. Abel, of
Baltimore, addressing the Federa-
tion’s biennial convention at Boston.
“The occupants’ of your- kitchen,
who listen to your instructions about
germs, do not believe a word that you.
say,” said she. “The average woman
needs a course in marketing more
than in cooking, and not so much to
learn the cuts of meats as to have
her eves open to conditions of clean-
lingss. Even a few women im any
town, by holding stanchly together,
can accomplish wonders in the clean-
ing of markets and provision stores.”
And on the same subject Mrs. E. R.
Richards, of Boston, said: “I have
come tc the conclusion that nine-
tenths of human illness is caused by
food and that six-tenths of the TMine-
tenths are caused by unclean foods.
“The dsrger comes back to the
housewife both for her lack of care
in her own domain and her lack of
social conscience, which demands
cleanliness on every hand.” =~
Miss Helen Boswell of New York,
organizer of the Canal Zone Federa-
tion, of Women’s Clubs, talked enter-
tainingly. She was sent to that coun-
try to arrange a social life for the
women, and formed a federation of
eight clubs. “In each of these clubs,”
said Miss Boswell, “the servant prob-
lem and that of domestic science gen-
erally have been well nigh solved.”
Miss Alice Parker, speaking on
play-ground work, declared play a ne-
cessity and not a luxury.
~
Fachion Notes.
The ends of the ruff hook under the
left ear, beneath a bow.
Elbow-length gloves in a pale ocher
or deep buff are stunning.
A note of relation is seen in a cloth
coat lined with foulard like the dress
with which it is worn.
Feather boas, whether of short os-
trich tips, marabout or coq, are still
much worn and in every -hue,
The new chamois gloves are very
smart. Though called natural, the
tones really run from cream fo deep
ocher. wz i
The wise woman seeks her boas,
riches and rffs with an eye to the
hat which they are destined to ac-
company. .
Of all accessories to the feminine
toilette, few are of more importance
than those employed for the dressing
of the neck.
A soft shade of green cotton is effec-
tive for the embroidered edge and
a collar of pink-and-white
striped linen.
The sides of the crown are covered
by a wide, full, loose puff of net
through which a wide scarf of pidk
radtum is run.
Made to accompany lace and lin-
gerie stocks are seen ties in infinite
variety. Many voung girls affect the
solid color Windsor ties.
With the stmplest of runabout
traveling mohair, serge amd Hnen
tumes, short embroidered muslin
are worn in connection with the
linen collars.
and
cos-
ties
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THE PULPIT.
THE REV. J. E. ADAMS.
Subject: Man's Part in God's Plan.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—In the Ross
Street Presbyterian Church, corner
of Wilson street, the pastor, the
Rev. John Erskine Adams, preached
Sunday morning on ‘‘Man’s Part in
God’s Plan.” The text was from Ro-
mans 8:28: “And we know that to
The Apostle Paul has been called
a fatalist. Perhaps, in late years,
he has been the object of more dis-
cussion and criticism than any other
New - Testament writer. Preacher
and pew alike have striven to under-
mine his system of theology. They
have sought to avoid many of the
fundamentals of his faith. They
have told us that it is high time we
should come into a larger concep-
tion of the ethics of Christ’s life;
and a lessening sense of the im-
portance of His death. They say
that much of His writings was for
the Jewand couched in such figurative
language that the Jew alone could
nde ang and appreciate, and ac-
cordingly, He dweltatlength upon the
typical “and " sacrificial BS nanan tbe
upon the practical and ethical. And
in the chapter from which our text
is taken we seem to have presented
the horrible doctrine of predestina-
tion, a doctrine which by many is ac-
cepted as synonymous with a fatalis-
tic ®reed ' which eliminates man’s
free agency and @ubjects all things
to san incontrovertible and change-
less law of necessity. I wish to.show
you, if possible, to-day, how different
was Paul’s conception of our rela-
tion to God and God’s relation to us.
Let us not doubt that Paul had
absolute convictions that in all
things God’s will ; would be accom-
plished. But let us not doubt, also,
that he had absolute convictions that
men must become co-workers with
God in the out-workings of the di-
vine plan. There was one. occasion
when he fully illustrates - these
truths. It is" when, as a prisoner,
he is being brought to Rome. to stand
before Caesar. This is the message
of . revelation to him. In this. he
gees the will of God. With this pur-
pose he has nothing to do. He may
not. modify it nor. change it. He
resigns himself to it. Nothing
can prevent its accomplishment. It
is God’s will that he should come to
Rome. But shipwreck threatens.
The ship on which he is captive is
overtaken with disastér. Fog, storm,
darkness, danger, all. seem to indi-
cate the! defeat of “the divine plan.
It seems as if all on board must be
destroyed. And again, the divine
will is manifest. Paul is assured of
safety for himself and all on board
that ship. But what does he do?
Does he, in view of this assurance,
make no effort to avoid the dangers
and overcome the difficulties? Does
he meekly resign himself and his
shipmates to the inevitable? By no
means. He becomes a co-operator
with God in the fulfillment of His
purpose. He heartens all on board
that ship. He feeds them. He as-
sures them of safety; but of safety
only as they use every precaution,
as they overcome treachery; as they
strive with all courage and persis-
tence to save themselves and® their
ship. He says to the Centurion and
the soldiers who had him in convey,
when the : fear-stricken seamen
would have sought escape in a small
boat: ‘‘Except these abide in the
ship, ye cannot be saved.” In other
words, he couples human endeavor,
courage and skill with divine prom-
ise and protection. © And so, deliver-
ance is wrought. All things were
to work together for good; but in
that result one of the essential fac-
tors must be human courage and
fidelity. The sun shines to-day for
me, for all the world. That is cer-
tain. Nought we can do may pre-
vent its shining. But it only shines
for me as I open my eyes to receive
its light.” It is in my power to keep
my eyes shut, if I will.
Paul declares in this chapter that
nothing can separate us from the
love of Christ; neither tribulation,
distress, persecution, famine, naked-
ness, peril, sword, principalities,
powers, things present, things to
come; none of these things shall in-
terfere with the keeping, saving
power of God's love, in Christ. And
vet, we hear him on another occasion
fearing, lest, having preached to
others as a minister of God’s grace,
he himself might be a castaway. He
lives again, he says; yet:not he, but
Christ in him; and still he is using
all the powers of determination and
will to keep his body under, to re-
strain it; to make it perfectly re-
sponsive to the control and ordering,
of God. To Paul, this life is a con-
stant struggle; a warfare against
principalities and powers, with
wickedness enthroned; it is a race
in which, if he would win, he must
strain every nerve and stretch every
muscle and lay aside every weight,
and the sin which so easily besets;
he must run with patience, with per-
sistence, looking to Jesus. That
gives us the idea exactly. Use. all
your own power, locking to Jesus,
as your example, inspiration, stimu-
lus and strength. If he wrote the
letter to the Hebrews, and whether
he did or another of the saints is
immaterial, the principle is the
same; he made out a list there of
men and of women who were in
God’s keeping, and yet wrought,
achieved, suffered, triumphed,
through the exercise of dauntless
courage and of splendid faith. And
so we are led to say that Paul's
conception of life was that of al-
liance with God. He was destined
of divinity for high achievement.
This Is not pride, it is not egotism,
save of the right sort. All great men
have lived and achieved under this
conception and in this thought. The
men who have done things have
themselves called of God for achieve-
ment. They are in the divine plan;
they are also agents in its carrying
on and out. Under this impulse,
David went forth from the sheep-
fold to the sceptre. With the an-
ointing oil of the prophet upon him,
he waged his battles against the
Philistines and conquered. Under
them that love God all things work.
lngsther for good.” * Mr. Adams
said: ;
ruin;
done them because they have known.
— ————— Sr
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this impulse, .Savonarola “Fehieyed.
Under, this * impulsé ° John Knox:
«| wrought, ~ defying throngs and dev-.
AN ELCQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY |
ils.. Lincoln and Washington were
the men they were, and did the:
things they did because they were
allied with God, and through their
| personality expressed the divine pur-
pose and power. It was because of
their certainty that God was above
them and in them, and that right
would triumph, that they went stead-’
ily forward to accomplish the high
mission of their lives. We are told”
by Plutarch that Julius Caesar, on a
night of storm, crossing a channel
in a light, open boat, quieted the
alarm of the oarsmen who were with.
him by telling them: “Pluck up your
courage; you carry Caesar.” This
great’ Roman believed in his des-
tiny. '- A secret presentiment bade
him believe that he was born for a
notable career. He had: power, he
had resource, but above all, a pro-
found belief: in his star. The man
who has not such a faith is to be
pitied.” 5 SY
We all need such a vision.: With’
out it we perish. Aspiration is in-|
spiration. .Let us not be deterred.
from building our castles, though
they are in the air. Perchance God
will help -us- lay the foundations.
under them and make therm real and-
strong and permanent. The man’
who says: I must and, God helping:
me, I can, is the man who has’ con
fidence in himself to do somethin
that no one else can do, and ‘that:
otherwise’ will remain undone. = | 3
How wonderfully God holds ter-
rific energies in leash and under con:
tro subject to the gradual outwork-|
ing of Hjs perfect idea for the chil+]
dren ‘of men. In thef‘realm of nature.
all things work together for good.”
The sun, which has in it heat suffi-7
cient to consume our little world in:
a fragment of time, nurses to a ful-
ler life by its gentle caress the ten-
der lily and the modest. violet. It
touches them and evokes their deli-
cate aroma; it puts the roses into
the cheek of the child and the song
into the throat of the nightingale as
it soars and sings to the clouds. It
is true that so well do we understand
the constructive forces of nature,
that it furnishes but a trite subject
for our consideration. But ufder-
neath all physical manifestations
and phenomena, let us believe there
is moral purpose. Nature is God’s
great temple in which His voice is
heard. Jt was through nature’s sub-
limity that David realized man’s dig-
nity. Abave all nature, next to God,
stands man. And for him all phy-
sical forces are in harmony and
work together for his good. And
as with nature, so in history. As
in the roaring of the seas and the
clash of .the elements the ..atmos-
phere we breathe is cleansed and we
ehter into more vigorous life. So
the wars, which seemingly spell
the crumbling of nations,
which spells corruption; through all
storm and revolution, through shock
and tempest, God is leading the sons
of men out into larger life, and
bringing: pon the brighter and better
day. i
And, finally, human experience
testifies to the same truth. We are
told that on one occasion Nappleon
was shut up in an island of the
Danube, hemmed in by the Arch-
duke Charles. He was able to maip-
tain himself there, but he sent word
to Italy and Spain and France, and
he ordered “his” marshal with such
minuteness that every day’s march
was perfect... All over the north of
France, and from the extreme south
of Spain and Portugal, ‘the corps
were, all of them, advancing, and.
day by day coming nearer and near-
er. - Not one of them, on the march,
had any idea what was the final pur-
pose, and why they were being or-
dered to the central point. But on
the day the master appointed the
head of the .columns appeared in
every direction. Then it was that
he was able to break forth from his
bondage. and roll back the tide of
war. “How like our life, as it moves
on, to the command of the Master.
Its forces seem confused to us, wi‘h-
and cohesion, ofttimes antagonistic.
Joy and sorrow, health and sickness,
prosperity and “adversity—all march
in tHeir appointed paths and to their
appointed ends. But at last we shall
see behind them all the one will and
the one power, and we shall be able
to say on the day of final emancipa-
tion and victory, as said Joseph of
old, God meant it unto good, to
bring it to pass. :
So, let us go forth, renewing our
courage as we renew our confidence
that to them that love God all things
work together for good.
i Ty
Advanced Thought. ;
He cannot justly be charged with
illiberality who “ddheres to that
which i§.good” until a better is pro-
vided. “A starving man who casts
away a'foaf of bread because he im-
agines & ten-course dinner ‘ahead
even an’ agnostic would account a
fool. -Why:give up our Christian
faith, which has proved so good, sO
long as only the vague and ghostly
chimera’ of “advanced thought” is
proposed - to take its place? Some
of us knew that faith in Christ is a
very real and precious and joyous
possession, a comfort in- sorrow, a
help in trouble, a spur to higher
living, a source of assured hope for
the life beyond; what has science, or
human philosophy, or any of the
thousand -and one vagaries of ‘free
thought” to offer in its stead? A
joyless life, a rayless future, a
quenched soul—Nirvana!—The Ex-
aminer. -
. —————
How - Character is Made.
One of the chief dangers of life is
trusting occasions. We think that
conspicuous events, striking experi-
ences, exalted moments haye most
to do with our character and capacity.
We are wrong. Common days, mo-
notonous hours, wearisome paths,
plain old fools and everyday clothes
tell the real story. Good habits are
not made on birthdays, nor Christian
character at the new year. The vis-
ion may dawn, the dream may waken,
the héart may leap with a new in-
spiration on some mountain top, but
the test, the triumph, is at the foot
of the mountain, on the level plain.
—Maltbie D. Babcock.
His Eternal “Know.”
\% E Ea—
New York City.—The vogue of the
sleeveless coat appears to be an ever
growing one, ‘and: nothing prettier
or better suited to the warm weather
could be found. This one is simpli-
city itself, yet drapes the figure with
“Sg
Boas Hug the Throat.
The boa is dainty as possible, very
small” but very ruffly, with pleated
butter-colored lace mounting to the
ears and chin in a thick ruche, a
smaller frill pleated about the base of
the throat, and a ribbon tied between
bowed either in front or behind.
: Neck Dressings.
The latest innovation in neck
dressing is the black ribbon stock,
with bow at the back and ends that
reach far below the hip line. These
sash collars are worn with every kind
of costume, from the simplest lin-
gerie frock to the dressiest afternoon
toilet.
Five-Gored Under Petticoat.
Close fitting underwear is abso-
lutely essential to the smart fitting
: gown, at. the present time and the
|‘five-gored under petticoat makes a
‘| desirable feature of ‘the wardrobe.
This .one can be laid in inverted
pléats at’ the back or gathered as
‘liked, although the former method is
to be preferred unless the figure is
exceptionally slight. It can be made
from lingerie materials and trimmed
with embroidery or lace and it is also
suited to flannel skirts. Also it can
be finished at the upper edge with a
belt or under-faced as liked.
The skirt is made in five gores and
when the frill is used it is arranged
over the lower edge. The side gores
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graceful lines and felds ‘and can be
utilized for almost every- seasonable
material. In the illustration it makes
part of a costume and is made of
buff linen braided with white sou-
tache cembined with embroidery. In
place of the soutache and the em-
breidery applied trimming can be
used if it iS desirable to lessen the
labor of making.
The coat is made in one piece, the
only seam being that at the centre
back. It is held beneath the arms
by means of straps and can be closed
with ornamental buttons and cord as
illustrated or in any way that may be
liked. :
Chiffon on Straw.
The novel trimming on a large Mi-
lan straw was all of white chiffon,
the upstanding part being quills made
of folds of the chiffon with a line of
satin for the stem. :
Silver and Gold Touches.
Plaids are fashionable for light-
weight fabrics such as voile, etamine
and gauze. The colors most employed
are blues, delicate reds and browns
fading into buff. Silver and gold
trim many of the new gowns some-
where and somehow.
Coat Mystery.
The shape of many of the choicest
Christ did not huild His Gospel on | evening coats is a mystery to every
a “grand perhaps,” but on the “‘eter- | one but the designer and maker.
nal know." "—Home Herald. i
are fitted by means of hip darts, so
doing away with all fulness at that
point. z
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is three and one-
eighth yards of material twenty-sev-
en or two and three-quarters thirty-
six inches wide with three and one-
half yards of embroidery seven inches
wide and two and three-eighth yards
of insertion to trim as illustrated; or
one yard of additional material thir-
ty-six inches wide if the frill is made
to match.
Hand-Made Trimming.
it is tie gown with the hand-made
| trimming that is considered smart.