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A certain Professor Gieler, who has devoted years of study to the pedal -extremities of the human species, has reached the painful conclusion that uw feet have not only grown larger put are increasing in size at an alarm- he rate. And the same sad news <¢omes from France, where the boot- makers say that women's feet are ch larger than they were 20 years "and show a decided inclination to otrude themselves further. The Small foot is going the way of other eminine charms, it would seem, but: there is some hope in the motor, which has reduced the amount of ‘walking done by women—New York “Tribune. One Day in Jail. a Recently Rosa -Pagana, .a Spanish woman, was convicted ‘of = having Killed an unfaithful sweetheart. After the court had passed sentence’ some 10,000 women signed ‘an address of sympathy for presentation to the wo- man, and in due course. it was sent to her. Now the 10,000 seem to have, brought themselves within'the law, or at least the authorities sq.think. The Procurator- general was placed in a state of embarrassment, for the con- viction of 10,000 women would try prison accommodation of the best regulated country. However, the pro- curator has risen equal to the occa- sion, and he will demand a sentence of four months’ imprisonment for the author of the petition, and a term of one day for the 9999 other signa- tories. Even for this short period a Paris contemporary suggests, the pro- -curator’s genius for stowing will be “taxed to the utmost.—London Globe. Equal Pay. Women postal clerks in Norway have been promised equal pay with the men clerks as one of the first re- sults of their obtaining equal politi- «cal rights. In the 17th century, when Englishwomen were still recognized as possessing an economic and poli- tical status side by side with English- .men, there was written an interesting entry in the church warden’s accounts of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, proving that one Elizabeth Bartlett was in- . trusted with the casting of the sec- | “ond bell, and that all the women em- ployed thus were paid at the same rate as men for the same work. An- -other instance is to be found in the records of the Fleet prison, of which the first female warden, appointed in 1217 on the death of her husband, ~ Robert, received the same salary ‘‘as the sald Robert had been accustomed to during his life.” There was no talk then of. confining the woman's sphere to work that was paid badly New York Sun. American Gowns Preferred. The theory of the supremacy of Paris in the way of raiment has had a setback in the faet that Mme. Jus- serand, wife of the French ambassa- dor, has ordered all her spring finery from a Baltimore modiste—gowns, hats, parasols and other accessories. Mme, Jusserand is always a well dressed woman, but she has never shown a tendency toward extremes in fashions either from Paris or New » York. She finds American tailors eually as satisfying as those of the Boulevard de Madeline, and as for hats, a Washington milliner plans or replans her Paris treasures as regu- larly as the seasons change. It is a shock to many American women who cannot wear a gown or hat which does not bear the gold stamp of Du- cet that the Baroness von Sternburg purchases all those lovely “imported” toilets in New York and Baltimore. For one season only did the hand- some Baroness continue to patronize her Paris modiste. Then she tried New York, and became 'a convert to the “made-in-America” theory.—New York Press. Lank English Women. The searching glare of the law courts has been brought to bear upon the subject of the English woman's figure, says a writer in the Gentle- woman. During the progress of a case between a wholesale costumer and a draper expert opinion was called to compare the figures of English wo- men to those of the American and French. It was discovered that Americans lack the Englishwoman’s - Height, though their shoulers are broader and waists larger; the stock shoulder size for ladies across the Atlantic is six inches, while madam on this side of the water can boast but four and three-quarters. . But the length from neck to waist for the average woman in America is only 14 1-2 inches, while in Eng- land it is 16 1-2. The deduction to be drawn from the most vigorous legal investigations on the subject, in which all the witness- es appear to have peen of the stern- er sex, is that the average or stock size English woman of today is (with due apologies to Wordsworth) “a no- ble woman thinly planned.” Beware of Men in Uniform! “To scrutinize the countenance of a stranger in a foreign country is dangerous,” said a young western girl, with a shake of her pretty head. “Yes, I tell you it is damgereps to look at a German soldier, or anybedy with a uniform in that country. When I had been in Berlin only a few weeks ana had not become accustomed to the Kaiserlicke Schnurrbart, or the mustache ‘that tickles the eyelashes, I was foolish. enough ook at a man who apparently recently donned the uniform of a volunteer soldier. Then my mother looked, too. We left the place with our escort and thought no more of the handsme soldier. He certainly did not attract me. We were in the Zoologische Gar- ten and lost our way. The man who was with us went up to the first man whom he saw coming by the rays shed by an electric light. It was our handsome soldier. As soon as he saw ‘me he eagerly said he ‘would show us the way out. It was only with the gredtest difficulty we got rid of the soldier with the long mustache. If you ‘do not want to be botheréd by army nien do mot look in the direction of a uniform. Turn your head when you hear the clink of spurs!”—New York Press. Advice to Follow. If. you must wave your hair om curlers or kids, do it after your hus- band has left the house for the day, and not at night. Just imagine what a fright you look with your hair, the crowning beauty of a woman, done in two tight little braids at the back and six orsev- en horn-like projections in the front. And don’t leave your false hair in full sight on the bureau. Can you conceive how like a wild animal or a scarecrow you must look to him when-he views you in the morning light. Can you blame him for thinking the smart looking women he sees more fascinating than his wife? Remember, he has not seen them in curl papers. To arrange the hair for the night divide it and tie the front part loose- ly on top with a big bow of ribbon, then braid the back. in two braids, and tie the ends with ribbon. This is so much neater and more attractive than to do it up on curlers or leave it done up as it has ‘been all day. A man once said that any woman who wore her hair in kids or curlers in the presence of her husband de- served to lose his love. Some women do not think is possible for them to do their housework umn- less attired in an unsightly wrapper. Usually an ugly creation, ‘bought ready made, of brown, blue and white striped calicos, seems to be the fav- orite garment. Z : The chief advantage is that it does not show the dirt. The dirt is there, however. . - Wives who go into kitchen and pan- try should provide themselves with shirtwaist suits of clean looking ma- terial in light shades, which, when soiled, would show it, and be sent to the tub. : For summer have them made with short sleeves and a Dutch neck, and at least three inches from the floor. These are no more difficult to get into than a wrapper.—American Culti- vator. : Fashion Notes. Wide insets of lace are seen in lin- | gerie gowns. Lambs’ wool is largely used for in- terlining coats. Cotton velvets will be much used for tailor-mades. Jewel fashions highly extravagant. Some of the latest turbans are in shapes copied from paintings of old Arabian chieftains. Old fashioned green is looked upon as the color that will be most fash- ionable next season. Nearly all muffs now have wide pockets of satin to hold purse, card case and handkerchief. Loose-backed coats ionable, but new lines are being intro- duced to modify this style. A straight, well-shaped nose is the first requisite for wearing the hair dressed in the far-extended Grecian coil. 3 In addition to net blouses embroid- of the hour are _ ered with gold we have ‘gold nets em- broidered in color that are very beau- tiful. : New foulards in all-over scroll pat- terns come in all the popular shades and many new tones, such as simoon, ashes of roses, dark canard blue, wis- taria, etc. - Skirts of evening gowns are, in the main, very plain, barring a band of some Kind at the hem of the thinnest ones to drag them downward into de- sired lines. - Taupe which has an undertone of dull green is extremely fashionable, but women of pale complexion should avoid it unless it is brightened up with a touch of some color which they know is particularly becoming to them. Immense roses of bright color or beautiful ostrich feathers trim the large hat of white beaver. Black hats are all the rage in Paris, sometimes all black and again trimmed with beautiful white ostrich or paradise or other expensive feathers. To wear with huge toques in after- noon attire, in lieu of the scarf of fur, many women are adopting huge satin scarfs, three-quarters of a yard in width, hemmed with fur, and which are wound round the throat and fall over the shoulders in the latest approved style. are still fash: New York City.—The blouse that gives a suggestion of the surplice idea is one of the latest and is so well \ adapted to the fashionabl thin mate- rials that it is likely to gain in favor as it grows more familiar. This one Cotton Crepe Waists. * Cotton crepes decorated with French embroidery are used for wash waists cut in the Gibson style, with one large pleat over the shoulder. Crocheted buttons and loops are an appropriate fastening, : Dressing Jacket. The simple dressing jacket is the one that most women prefer and here is.a model that is becoming and sat- isfactory to wear, yet which involves so little labor in the making that its simplicity becomes a consideration: There aré€ tucks over the shoulders which conceal the armhole seams and which mean becoming fulness, but thereiare‘only shoulder and under-arm séams. The front edges are finished with hems and the sleeves can be made in full or three-quarter length as liked. In the illustration challis is trimmed with banding, but cash- mere,” hénrietta and “pretty simple Oriental silks, the various lawns, ba- tistes and other inexpensive printed’ | wash fabrics all are appropriate, with trimming of‘any banding that may be liked, or frills of lace would make a dainty finish. The jacket is made with fronts and back. If is finishéd with hems at the front: edges and the rolled-over collar is attached to the neck. The simple one-piece sleeves are finished with rolled-over cuffs and the ribbon con- fines the fulness at the waist line. A 7/ - is dainty and charming in the ex-’ treme, and can be utilized for a great many different materials. In the il- lustration it is made of messaline combined with tucking, and the cen- tre-front portion is embroidered, while there are bands of chiffon vel- vet, and chiffon velvet makes the gir- dle. Crepe de chine, voile and all the silk and wool tissues are appro- priate, and in addition the blouse can be utilized for the many beautiful cotton and silk and cotton fabrics and for all materials suited to shirring. The sleeves are narrowed but shirred to be dressy in effect, and can be used either in three-quarter or full length. If a transparent effect is wanted the lining can be cut away beneath the chemisette and the under sleeves. = IN The blouse is made over a fitted lining and consists of the fronts and back, with the chemisette and yoke portions. The full girdle covers the lower edge of the lining. The clos- ing of the lining is made at the cen- tre-front of the blouse beneath the right edge. The quantity of material required for the medium size is four yards twenty-one or twenty-four, three aud five-eighth yards twenty-seven or two vards forty-four inches wide, seven- eighth yard eighteen inches wide for the chemisette and under sleeves, one yard of velvet for girdle and bands. Unspotted Ermine. There was a day when ivory er- mine without the black spots would be considered fourth class. Now there is a reversal of opinion. Un- spotted ermine is the preferred kind. Durable Serge Suits, The white serge coat and skirt— or, rather, cream serge, for there is no white—holds its own with the shirt waist. No other fashion puts these out of commission. LEA IE IZ FRI) The quantity of material required for medium size is four and an eighth yards twenty-four, thres yards thirty- two, two and three-eighth yards for- ty-four inches wide, with three and five-eighth yards of banding. The One-Piece Tunic. Among the prettiest of the new fashions is the one-piece tunic that looks like a long coat. It is tight fit- ting, fastened double breasted with two large buttons. and cut away sharply from the lower side to the hem. Dressy Lace Coat. The lace coat figures as a part of many of the dressy frocks of the sea- son. THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV EDWARD NILES. Theme: John's Second Epistle. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Sunday morning the Rev. Edward Niles, pastor of the Bushwick Avenue Reformed (White) Church, corner of Himrod street, preached from text in Acts 2:46: “With one accord in the temple, and breaking bread,” as illustrated by Johu's Second Epistle. Mr. Niles said: We read aloud this entire book of the Bible in four minutes. Shortest of all the sixty-six, it is easily written on three pages of lady’s note paper. The most precious goods comes in small parcels. A vest pocket full of gold buys coal enough to heat and light this church for years. The thir- teen verses of Second John are more precious than the thirty-six chapters of Second Chronicles. Especially interesting is this letter to every woman—and to every man whose dearest friend is a& woman. Few are outside one or thé other cate- gory. While nine of the twenty-two New Testament letters are directed to churches, four to Christians in gen- eral, two to the:Jews and five to in- dividual men, this is the only one sent to a woman. The writer was John the aged, her spiritual adviser and intimate friend. Ofte entertainéd at her home in Ephesus, he often thought of her when out of the city. : I believe we are right in giving her a name. The word translated “lady” in the English text, in the margin is “Cyria.” Like “Martha” in the He- brew, “Cyria” means “lady,” but was just as much a girl’s name among the Greeks as “Flora” with the Romans or “Grace” with us. Cyria, then, was a well known Christian with no less than four chil- dren. At least two were young men whom John had just found to be steadfast disciples in the town where he was holding evangelistic services. There, too, was the home of Cyria’s married sister, as well as of some nieces and nephews. With them the apostle probably stayed. Cyria was a widow of means, leisure and inclina- tion for good works. , Not long before this time, Petron- ius. Nero’s “arbiter of elegance,” a ‘| prominent character in “Quo Vadis,” published his “Ephesian Widow.” It is a satire upon silly women, living for pleasure, devoted to dress, so evil minded and foul mouthed that its translation is prohibited our mails. The contrast between that typical heathen widow of Ephesus and this typical Christian widow of Ephesus speaks most eloquently of how the Gospel transforms womankind. The motive of John’s letter is two- fold: To commend the widow’s chil- dren whom he has seen and to warn the widow lest the children still at home be contaminated. Only a pastor fully understands John’s delight at writing with a clear tonscience, only a mother fully under- stands Cyria’s delight at reading with beating heart, “I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth.” Archimedes leaped out eof his bath shouting “HEureka! I have found it,” when he there discovered the long sought proof of his pet theory. John cries out “Eureka!” with even more joyful Intensity when he finds in Cyria’s children proof of his and Peter’s the- ory propounded at Pentecost, “the promise is unto you and your chil- dren.” © When boys could go away from a Christian home and, in the midst of paganism, live pure, Christ- like lives, John’s preaching had passed beyond the experimental stage. A shadow falls over even this joy. “Some of your children” indicates that the cup of happiness was not full to running over. Rumors had reached John that Cyria’s hospitality was being abused by plausible counterfeits of Christian ministers who were circulating the blasphemy that Christ did not really live on earth in flesh and blood. It was only an appearance. So these men were later known as “Docetists.” Those children were in imminent dan- ger of being led into perdition by the heresy which asserted that only Jesus of Nazareth was crucified; not the Messiah at all... Divinity, they claimed, could not be subject to hu- manity,: Matter is essentially evil. All sin comes from the body. The passion story is drama, not history. Nothing is real but mind. They called themselves “advanced think- ers,” because they wanted Christian- ity to keep pace with the times and infuse itself with the popular Oriental mysticism. “Progress” was their watchword. In reality, says John; it is retrogress, for they “go onward by not abiding in the teaching of Christ.” The glamour we are inclined to cast about the early church is not justified. Its members had the same failings as ours. Its vagaries are strikingly duplicated now and here. Theosophy, Free Thinking, Christian Science flourished in Ephesus. “The teaching of the Twelve Apostles,” a church manual probably written be- fore John died, warns believers against many who went into evangel- ism for what they could make out of it. It lays down this very practical test of genuineness: “If he stays more than two days he is false. If he teaches the truth and doeth it not, he is false. Whatsoever shall say in the spirit, ‘Give me silver,” or anything else, ye shall not listen to him. If he tell you to give for others who are in want, let no man judge him.” Let us apply this test on the pres- ent-day professed improvements upon the old faith: How much do they charge for their text books? What is the price of their treatment? Do the poor have these substitute gospels preached to them? The central thought of this minia- ture epistle is the same as in all of John’s writings, love. Faith is love's basis. When belief is false, love dis- appears. The disciple whom Jesus loved was now a hundred years old. Although his handwriting was trem- ulous with age, he was still a Son of Thunder. His conception of love was not an invertebrate sentimentality, but a discerning reasonableness. He ever emphasized the need of an ac- tual, incarnate Christ on whom to focus affection. So be hurled his thunders at who- ever would emasculate the love-re- ligion and stirred Cyria to guard her family against them. Shortly afterward, John is said to have returned to Ephesus, so weak he needed to be carried to the Chris- tian meeting place on young men’s shoulders. Unable to stand up and preach, Sunday after Sunday he spread his hands over the worshipers, using the same five-word sermon, “Little children, love one another.” When asked why, he replied, “Be- cause that is the command of the Lord, and nothing can be done unless this is done.” ’ The word “Cyria” has still another meaning. It is “what pelates to the Lord,” and hence “church.” From it comes the Scotch “kirk,” the Dutch “kerk” and the German “kirche.” Some think it should be so rendered in this epistle, and that this lady is the Ephesian Church personified, her sister the church where John was holding services at the time, her chil- dren the sorely tempted Ephesian convefts.” - 1f's0, the significance simply broad- ens -froni” the family kome to the church ‘home. The lesson was and remains appropriate to both. Neither at the house nor ih the church do we need a new theology, nor additional commandments. In both places we need the Pentacostal spirit inspiring us “with one accord to'continue stead- fast in the temple; with gladness and singleness of heart breaking bread at home; ” in church, in the house, on the street constantly’ reiterating, thoughtfully contemplating, logically applying the duplex commandment of ove. . - Es Such a widowed saint as I have imagined Cyria, when a boy I was privileged to know. Her time, too, was spent in helping others. One day she stopped me on the street and said: “My boy, do you remember how Nero wished all the Romans had one neck, that he might wring it? Well, I was just wishing that all the Christians of York had one neck, that I might hug it.” ,( Her life, whether worshiping at the temple or break- ing bread at home, approved her words. What a warning is John’s “Look to yourselves that ye receive a full re- ward.” Religion is more than a means for gaining heaven or escaping hell. In neither place, any more than upon earth, are rewards and punish- ments meted out with stupid and in- discriminate uniformity. In the future life remorse will not be localized. Some among the saved barely squeeze through the gates, others have an abundant entrance. Inside, many are unadorned at all; the crowns of others are plain cir- clets;. some heads are wreathed with stars. While rejoicing in their re- demption will not multitudes regret their empty-handedness? To be first at school, in games, among business men, is a lofty ambi- tion. Loftiest of all ambitions is to be first in the kingdom of heaven; to be richest where moth and rust cor- rupt not, where thieves break not through, where industry has its full reward. Such deposits in heavenly vaults increase at compound interest if we walk determinedly in the nare row path, abhor falsities, work no unworthy schemes, speak no unkind words, are intolerant of our own sins, tolerant to other sinners, make tem- ples of our homes and homes of our temples. ? Browning puts in the dying mouth of its leader the cause of that post- Pentacostal joy at church and at home: : : : For life with all it yields of joy and woe And hope and fear—believe the aged friend— Is just our chance of the prize of learning love, : How love might be, hath been indeed . and is. When We Long For Power. Many a Christian of good average standing really longs for spiritual power—at times. When he hears it said of certain rare individuals, as was said recently of a widely known leader in the Kingdom, ‘Mr. lives his Christianity so remarkably that you are always uplifted by it when he is in your house,” he thinks he would rather have that power, so that people would talk that way about him, than anything else in the world. His desire is sincere, for the moment, but it does not last long enough, If it did, the ‘longed-for power would come. ‘‘Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”. But they must care more for the power of the Spirit than for any- thing else in their lives. Which means that they must be willing to pay the price that the Spirit demands for complete entry into anyone’s life. And that is stern, rigid duty-doing at every point; absolute surrender of self and all of self’s interests; the making of the Kingdom and its inter- ests first and supreme in one’s life. If this seems too high a price to pay, we need not wonder that our: lives lack the occasionally, languidly cov- eted power.—Sunday-School Times. “They Feared as They Entered Into the Cloud.” ; Many of the greatest and most up- lifting experiences of life approach in the guise - of - fearsome clouds. Whether any cloud shall be changed into ‘‘the Majestic Glory” depends upon whether it shuts in or shuts out Christ. If He be within it, the vision splendid must soon burst forth to show the Master more radiant, more divine than before. To those drawing consciously near the close of their days this mount of the transfiguration has its lessons of exceeding grace. It is not a pleasant thing to anybody to grow old. To most men, despite all they say and the jests they make, age comes as un- expected and unheralded as a cloud drifting across Hermon’s heights. From some source, invisible, there ccmes a sudden shadow and a dread- ful chill. Something has shut out the sun, slowed the beating of the heart. * = = Happy, thrice happy, that disciple wno sees the curtain shut down behind him and life only to see the veil thrown back which reveals to him the Saviour glorious in the light of immortality.—The Interior. True Moral Suasion. Correct moral suasion is the kind that induces a person to cast out of his heart and life the roots and seeds of the evils which so excite his wrath | men, w they come to fruitage in other
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