HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-3-1, Page 7y+�yItISTIANITY AND ` WOMEN;
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IRR BARBAROUS DISTINCTION OF SEX.
•
Wolnanr$ Condition in any Oriental
`", OountrIee,
(By Rev. Hugh Price Hughes.)
erg HRiST1ANITY has
drone so much for
woman that it is diffi-
cult for us to realize
bow much. When
Ciirisblanitymime into
thin world, woman
wad the slave—ib
would often be Mor-
tally correct to say the
e •} =_ g r chattel—fireb, of her
r. `��•F /father, thou of her
!% �Lk "�t hoibend. Even in bhe
t r • most civilized coun-
tries 'ehe had praoti-
a:aelly no pommel righter at all. Snoh rights
ran she did resent were 'here, rob for her
•awn sake, but far the bent fib of her father,
.her bueband, or her son. She was praoti-
naity treated au the toy er the drudge of
line partlau av man who happened to have.
Irgal poseeasion of her. Jean Christ was
dfatioguiebed from ail other great leaders
ed t•henght and rel glen by the marked
esautteepe and , reverence with which he
"abed Woman.. From him she invariably
neeelved nothing but repent rend kindness ;
and it is an intereet;rnp; nand delightful fact
likely Eq far as We .snow, no weman ever
ereeodted him, or did hire any injury, or
elesarted Bim after bi coming his "disciple.
3iSe to the other sex was one 01 tem
' rrehen peace and goodwill Women had
nue »bare in the wrongs end cruelties which
pmltimately broke hist heart: He alone of all
great Oriental tuschere deneonoed and '
AIDOL1SHED FOREVER POLYGAMY,,
which ander all oiroumebrnets must be the
elegreda'bten of women., He introduced into
marriage e e too.;erneeri and its eaoredneas,
and, in so doing, created, for the limb time
in home n history, . a true home. Ib le only
'ars far as the iefinenee of Christ extends
Inuit weman receive.,, either from her hue -
:band, or from her children, the respect and
aeyeraooe and therefore the real affection,
to whfoh she is entitled.
`3lybat a contrast all thin Is to the meat
:monspicuous facia in the Item and teaching
sof other leaders of mankind? Baddha
began bis remarkable career by the cow-
ardly and et. graceful abaodonmenb of hie
Wife and child. The reletdon of Seoratee to
11a wife ie the darkest blot en his memory ;
avers at the solemn' cine of his life, when
his wife and ohi'idren were weeping; over
:him, what barebnese he displayed in his
:references to them, and in bis command that
tbey alio-old be r+•meved.from .hte pretence 1
I3f the infamous teaching of Mohammed
with respect to woman, I it earl say nothing.
Sic ONE ITNTJL. CHRIST CAME
2Ieoegnized and proclr reed bbe -brae sphere
and wsieeien of weman ; and, indeed,
Christ's teaching with merman to woman was
e01subaard-of and so revolutionary that it
le only at the clime at the nineteenth oen-
tnew of the Chriefrian era that Christiana
themselves are beginning to act upon it. All
through theChrieiitan centuries until now
tithe beaching of the Christian Church with
Toepscb bo woman has been largely heathen,
in gee very teeth of the doobrine and the
example both of Cbrleb and of Lia apostles.
One of the most codeine dolneiona respeot-
Ing women current in the Chriselan Church
is a betel misappreheueion of the teaching
of St. Paul on bile aubjoob. He has been
;mapposed to advocate a subjection on the
parb of woman wbleh the enlightened con-
aelenoo of our own time resents and denies.
.Bub this interpretation of certain sentences
mead by St. Paul is whinier erroneous. There
la nothing in the Scripture itself mere ex-
albed than the true dectrine of St. Paul
with respect to women. Ho asserts, in -
:deed, that as Christ le the head of the
.church, so is man the bead of woman ; but
what door that mean? • Christ is not the
'Head of the Chnroh .to lord it over the
•f3hnroh, or to take advantage ef the Church,
sr to ease the Church for hie own personal
advantage ; + nb in order that he may give
ail that be ban to the Courtin and to exalt
the Church to share his own throne and his
ewe jay. in like manner, argues St. Paul,
the hfghenb minden of man is to lift up
woman' to the full rnjoymsnb of all the
sntberlty and all the hsppineee of which be
lean if le capable. There is
beechen sex distinabieu is now made. 1phe
girl is trotted exaotly'like the boy. In
soaoadery wheels this Is also vee care.,
Even in our universities the barbarous dis-
tinction of the sexes le rapidly disappear-
ing, When, egalo, with respect ; to the
various 0000patiens, poor women' have
always been obliged to work for their liveli-
hood ,• but, after a fierce reslatanee from
reaobienaries of all carte, the learned pro
fessisns themselves are now opening to
weman. ' i need not dwell en the extraordi-
nary and inoreag degree ria g e in whioh wornen
partieleate in abaroh and public life. The
Soolety of Friends and the salvation Almy
have the immortal honor of being the .fires
communities of Christians to aooepb the
teachings of the New Testament : that in
Chrisb Jesse there is neither male nor
female.
In the act
bivibler of civil litew amen
is now for the that time taking active and
beneficent part. You find her on boards
of guardians and school boards ; she will
soon be found in town oonnoile and parlia-
ments.
Alt thio is the direct and inevitable result
of the;teeching of Josue Christi, who abol-
fished ell diatInobtoes bebween the emcee
except those that are natural and inevitable
and blessed. Selfish and degraded men
have tried to sstabibsb some mental super-
iority for their ownsex; there le no evi-
dence of bin in reason, in Scripture or hi
history. So far es any evldonoe deer exist,
it is the miserable result ef the selfisbneea
of men in heathen countrieo, where they
have taken full advantage of their physical
superiority.
A VERY CURIOUS INDICATION
of the effeob of Chtiabianity upon woman
wan brought to light by the late Proleeser
Rellosben. Ile made, in the museum of
Oxford, one ef the termini and moat re-
markable oolleotlons of human ekuflu bbab
has ever been breughb together. A friend
of hie informed me that whoa the Professor
instituted minute inveatigatione ° with
respeob to tie capacity of skulls before the
advent of Obriet and Mem, be diacevered
the striking faob that the difference in size
between the male skull and the
female skull Is much tete in the Chrletlan
ere than in any previous period of history.
Hera, then, we have imbedded in the very
phyeioial frame of woman a striking indica-
tion of the way in which Chrisblaniby has
already enlarged her intellectual aphore;
and this is but a propheoy of the immense
and limitless servicer which Chriabisnity
will render to weman in tho holier ages be -
fere ne.
MUCH AS 'CHRISTIANITY HAS ALREADY DONE
N0 REELECTION 'CPON WOMAN
in atattag that it is the duty of man no to
Mb her up, because, as a matter of fact, in
all heathen' Iande, and in all se -called
Christian lands where the teaching of Ohrleb,
is not yet accepted, weman is degraded.
Inho aeiffehnese el men has taken advantage
of her physical weakness, and also of the
way in winch beautiful and sacred maternal
Ankles haedfoap her in the mere struggle of
axiatenoe, to degrade ha r and to wrong her.
Now, the essential duty of the Christian
Sian Is to de the execs eppesite, and ulti-
mately to create a aooial order in which no
elegradod savage of the mate sex will be able
As take advantage to aty way ef the physi-
cal weakness of weman.
Every man's true preibten in the scale of
real greatness is determined by his attitude
and relation to weman. Any mean who
alerplses a weman, er disparages woman, or
daises any advantage of woman, may beast
react of his heeor, and of bis wisdom; and
sf bis gravamina ; but he is realty a degraded
sand contemptible savage. All moral pro-
gress for man dopende upon the extent to
which he accepts and imitates
ern, LARD'S TREATMENT OF WOMAN.
And the true poet ion ef all oemmnnibies in
'Che scale of otvttiratlon le determined by
Ike legal petition which they concede to
twsmen. In our own day the teaching of
... isb ha.snddenly taken peeseselon of the
b men In all cemmumlttes. During the
b thirty years the Christian movement in
aviation to woman has made greater progress
than during the preceding 'seventeen
centuries. We are rapidly realizing the
truth of St. Peni's teaobing ; and the meati
,alaaraoteristib, as well as the most reveler-
tienary, feet in the medera life of civilized
cemnauuibiea fs bee way in whfoh the
personal ri hbs of women are being re-
Imp:rizxd in—all directions. There is nob
xuifietent space at my disposal to enumerate
sail bbe astonishing ways in which, for the
limb time in history, weman is being
emancipated from the ser eeltnrte be whioh
heathenism had doomed her. Neither is it
useenesry bo enumerate thein—they are eo
i�ppaaatent, so well known: Indeed, We aro eo
fsmiiler with them bhab we scarcely realise
The chimp that has taken piece in the life-
time of the preeent generation. Let any-
one try to realize the advance whioh has
been made be the dirention of educating the
embeds of weiase. Now, tsr the first time
In bosun history,
rWOMAlx IS 0000 EMICATEIa.
urs primary schools •01 ,gangland no
A SOCIETY'S .NOBLE ;'WORK.
HOW THE ANQIENT ORDER, OE FOB-
ESTBRs Fenn; .A nnorina
for woman, there is still a great deal to
achieve. The laws of England do nob yob
fully recognize the claims of womanhood as
atoll, notwithstanding the enermoue ad-
vance of recent years. Ties right of women
to hen own property, to her own body, and
to he own children, is new fully recognized
and established by great lege) deoieiees;
and -no words'can describe bbe priceless vain,
of each of these acts el juetice, or the
miseries which they will avert in millfone of
casae. Noe a few excellent persons are etiti
so misled by utterly nn-Cbriablan customs
and traditions which have dome to us from
heathen, generally from Oriental sonrcee,
that they are alarmed ab the way in
which many of the old disabilities of
womanhood are now being rimmed. But
there le nob fibs leaeb occasion for this alarm.
To talk about weman betng.ender any con•
eeiveble clroumetances " nneexed," is to
talk atter nonsense.
SEE IS A FACT Too PATENT,
tc a vital, too essential, to be altered by any
law or engem. There oan be no denbb,
however, that every purely artificial and
conventional distinction between man and
woman is en the point of being abolished.
When that is achieved, Hewitt be found that
bbe necessary and inevitable sex distinc-
tions will suffice, and will achieve mirth
more directly and thoreugblytben any vain
inventions of man the purpose of the
Ebermal ween ho said, " Ib is net good for
man to be alone." • No doubb, in the -daring
attempt which is new being made to nob en
the tesehing of Chrisb, there will be mis-
takes and blunders for which some must
suffer ; but its will end in an immeasurable
enrichment and elevation of human life.
I am very mnoh afraid that even row I
have given readers wbo have not internally
studied this eubjecb, a quite InadrTaste Gere
Dept ion of what women owe to Christianity
but if they sill try to realize the exleting
CONDITION OF WOMEN IN AFRICA AND IN
ASIA,
they will be able te form some idea of the
lmmenee•meral and epirituai, revolution ini-
tiated by our Lord Jenne Christ, which is
alewly reoonatruoting human seoteby. I
wilhonly add that, as Christianity has done
so much for woman, it le natural to erpoot
that' woman would befriend Ohrietiantty.
This she has done in all ages. Women
were lean at the cross and first at bbe grave
of Jester Chrisb ; and from that time until
now they have rendered the Christian faith
unspeakable service. Ignorantand degraded
men have nometimee sneered ab the marked
devotion of women toward Christianity :
They ,maid not in any way mere conspicu-
ously exhibit their own imbeatliby. There
could be no higher tribute to the
Christian faith than the reverence and affec-
bion wibh whish pure women oling .to ib.
There ie no better teat of any particular
religious, social or political movement than
its probable effect upon the rendition ef
woman ; end the most hopeful eign of the
future, as we new stand en the threshold
of the twentieth century, in the ever-in-
oreaeing intereeb *doh woman taker' in
every department of human life. Until
now she bas been unduly confined to the
kitoben and the nursery; she bas been pre.
vented from taking her legitimate part in
all spheres of human life. Now, however,
she is realizing her many-sided minion, and
those who would fain prevent her from ful-
filling it are growing weaker every day.
This is the brighbeeb of all omens, and in-
dicate's that the twenbreth oentnry will
probably be the beet end the happiest in
the history of mankind.—Independent.
Dorrtble Murder by a Witch•Doetor.
The Matabeleland despatches state that
,Colonel Goold -Adams hes captured and shot
a notorious witch -doctor. The wiboh-deotor
had visited the break' in the vicinity of
Shiloh, and carried off may women and
ohildren. In one instance a woman who
fell into his hands was murdered in the
mosb horrible manner. Her bends and feet
were first bound together, rad the dootor
then " prinked out her eyes with needles. She
was efberwards thrown Into the $harm
River, wirer° she was born to pieods by
crocodiles. On the bearing of thin abroolby,
Colonel Goeld-Adams ordered the arrest ef
the witch -doctor and the victim's husband,
and they were both tried for murder, and
condemned bo be ,hob. The other women
and obtldren seized by the witch -doctor were
set at liberty.
The Startling Experience of Mr. Isaac
Briggs. of London—A Sufferer for Four
Years—Ills Lodge Canoe to the 'testae
After, Doctors --
c Mad Fatted Ire is Again
Able to be Out.
(From the London Free Press.)
The home of Mr. Isaac Briggs, at 501
Charlotte etreeb,this oiby, is one of the most
prettily situated and well kept of the many
hawed of he The
t workingmen of Louden.
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8
m
front is carefully boulevarded, and at the
side aid rear of the cottage home iealattice
work covered with vine,, and there is alto a
garden. Within view are fields and woods,
and in fact there was nothing needed upon
the ooea140a of an autumn afoornoen visit to
make the let of a sink man amid such bur-
roundinga as pleasant as peasible.
And so it was not to be wondered at that
Mr. Briggs was found in a cheerful mood.
But a conversation with the gentleman re-
vealed the faob that there were very good
reasons why any man under the same cite
oumetanoee, and enjoying the same bright
hope, could n obbut alsowleis facetoboemforth
with whet he felt. The story as told will
be found most interesting, and than it is
absolutely oerreob there are many of bbe
friends of Mr. Briggs will testify, should
Nita testimony be needed. Mr. Briggs has
been an invalid for four years and had been
unwell and under medical treatment for
eight years. It was In 1885 that he fires
fait •tire twinge,, the aches and the, pains
that foretold trouble. Ho 'lectured medical
attendance, and !earned that his liver • was
out of order, his kidneys were bad read Web
he suffered• from dyapopela. However, he
worked along for nearly four yearn, when
the terrible malady affected his eyetem in a
way painful to relate. It enure 'directly
after an attains of "bbe grip." Mr.
Briggs was yet in hie "fifties," and
ne all appearances was a well preeorved.
ar, d strong man. But almost without
warning the jointe in every part of his
body were as solid and immovable as
though they bad been padlocked, and
the strong man became as helpless as a
babe. Many doctors were cousalted,
and they all promised relief .and occa-
sionally a slight relief did came. But it was
only temporary, and the unfortunate mea,
in consequence of theme relapses, was
gradually loosening bis hold upon hope.
The days were long and weary bheethe spent
upon his bed, with the dismal prospect
ahead of being held a close prisoner, to be
released only by death.
The family, too, 'began to lose faith` in
medioal skill. They had given a trial to
some of the foremost practitioners of the
oiby, but always with the same unhappy
result. Patent medicines of varione deeorip-
tfens were likewise tried, but in vain. Then
about Christmastide same news that had
almost been expeoted. Mr. Briggs bad net
long te live, the dootoresaide Gradnellyhe
grew weaker until early in the spring so
seriously ill did he appear to be bbab the end
was deity looked for.
Court Forest City, A. O. F., of which
Mr. Briggs Ian member, proved east at this
jaaoture to be a friend indeed. During all
his illness the brethren had leaked carefully
after his wants, and had beenveryabbentive.
And no one iegrebted mere than they the
unhappy prospect. One night the court
was discussing the case when it was tug -
gee had bhab Pink Pills should be tried. Searles
had been told of what they had eii'eoted 'In
ether centre. Then why not in thief Finally
the court agreed t o present one dozen boxes
of the pills be Mr. Briggs. The attending
doctor told his patient bbab• the pills were
only geed for cases of paralysis, but he con -
enticed to their baing given a trial as a lest
hope. Accordingly Mr. Briggs began bak-
ing them. Very noon a change was noticed.
He grew more cheerful and suffered much
lest. His whole system seemed to be
awakened to new life, just as wan the world
outside, for it was the glad epringbime of
the year.
With renewed strength name renewed
bops, and the invalid began to look upon
Pink and
as hie deliverer. He need them
faithfully, baking rix a day. In a month he
was able to leave his bed, and he did eo with
a thankful heart. Only those who have
been foroed to undergo long oenficemont
bebween bedclothes oan realize the pleasure
and joy there were in that first day spent
in the nest little parlor, seated in a big arm
ohatr beside the window where the sun
sent in its warm, bright rays. Since then
Mr. Briggs has been atone daily. He
user °rutahea yet, but he grows stronger
every day. Now he ban use bis hands,
craning wibh a knife end fork, and the
joints continue to grew looser and pliable,
giving only a faint idea of the veritable
knots into which those of the hands and feet
were tied. There was a oeeeation of the
pains too, a meet pleasant fad to the invalid
—and she blood vessels that had become
lost to view and dried np are now quite
healthy looking.
Mr. Briggs has only used twenty boxes of
the pill., at a coot of $10. Certainly his
bill for medical attendance shows a marked
deoreaee.
Mr. E. W. Bayle, druggist, 652 Dundas
street, who is also seorebary of Court Forest
City, was oleo interviewed with respect to
the case, and his .tetemenbe were all con-
firmatory of wbab Mr. Briggs had said. Ho
said he had bad a tremendous male of the
pills. No other similar medicine ever ap-
preaobed to the same demand.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a perfect
blood builder and nerve restorer, during
'such dimmer' as rheumatism, neuralgia,
partial paralysis, l000mobor ataxia, Sb.
Vibes' danoe, nervous heedaohe, nervous
prostration and the tired feeling therefrom,
the after effect's ef la grippe, diseases de-
pending on humors in the blood, each as
norofnla, chronic erysipelas, eta. Pink Pills
give a healthy glow to pale and Bellow
oomplexlone and aro a speoifio for the
troubles peculiar to the female system, and
in the case ef men they effect a radical cure
Wall case's arising from mental worry, over-
work or exee'seee of any nature.
Bear in mind Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
are never sold in bulk, or by the dozen or
hundred, and any dealer who offers 'lubab!-
tutes in this form in trying bo defraud you
and should be avoided. .Ask your dealer
for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
and refuse all imitations and enbstitubes.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pill. may be had of
all druggist!, or direct by mall from Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co., Brookville, Onb.,
or Soheneotady, N. Y,, at 50 cents a box er
nix boxes for $2.50. The prior et which
these pills are sold makes a course of treat-
ment Comparatively inexpenelve as com-
pared with other remedies or medtoal treat-
ment.
Paps—My ren, how did yen get so hope -
tally entangled with an actress? Willie
(blushing)=Well, you etre, she deem the but-
terfly danoe, and. carries 300 yards of ekirb 1
Mre. Blnerteb—Aren't 3 ote going to mend
your dmtaginer to fintnhine soboe', after
all? Mrs, Newrieh---Wbat'a the neo?
fibe'r as goad as eaptared a ricde young man
UMW.
" This parrot, ma'am," said the dealer,
" is one that I can recommend. Ib was In
the family of a clergymen for many years."
" Well, gents, what'll ye have? Name
your pizen," ohrieked the parrot with start-
ling emphasis. " He was obliged bo pert
with it, however," continued the dealer
with an apologetelo cough, " and for the ledb
ye.sr or twit 11 hes belonged to the alderman
from any ward."
b&*RI.AGE BETWEEN 1140I11I55,
Igesrarrbab1e Cissa IdtolY Aired In it A utile a
Court.
The legal world of Leaden le • mUoh exert
deed ever the complications likely to ensue
from revelations made in a trial which has
just been bad before Mr, Justice Ohitty. It
appears 11101 In a marriage dointraoted fin
1865, and which, up 'to the present time,
was thought valid, both parties were we -
men. In the year meutIsned, Mrs. Relabel
Elizabeth Wiener, a widow, wee harassed
by creditors, who wanted to arrest her and
attach the income she derived from the w111
of her husband, Thts income, by the will,
she would lore if she married again. She
had living with her a son and daughter,
tegether with Mimi Sepbla Newland, a
>.
cousin of Mrs. Oullene.r Tato husband; The
whole family wan euffering ler the want of
food, when it was suggested by the
daughter tbab her mother marry
again after which her children
wenld collect the income and sup -
pub ter, It was diffioult to find a husband
who could be Metaled. Se Mrs, Calmer, io.
man's olothorr, ander the name of James
Stanley, was married in due form to Mea
Sophie Newland, who, at the marriageoere-
moay, took the name of Mr,. Oullener.
Both signed their borrowed names in the
register of the pariah, and Miss Newland
lived with Mre. Cnlloner until 1883, • Both
have testified on the trlai to the facts here
narrated. Mr. Justice Chitty refueed to
believe the wltnereea, and diemiesed the
ease, holding that a woman who has, by
her own admineion, been for years
" eteeped in fraud" has no right to cern-
plain if the Cenrtr decline to believe her
when she comes forward in ber own inter -
ern to impeach a solemn entry in a marriage
regfeter, the accuracy of a tesital in a deed
to which the was herself a party, and the
plain intent and meaning of the (vnrse ql
conduct wbiob rhe has pursued. -Literary
Digest.
PRINCE Ole WALES ISLAND.
An'nitre stir gWitof Information for Geo
graphical Readers.
Janne Mllier, wbe has long resided en
Prince of Wales Island, and who, by reasen
of his being the flub white Battler and now
controlling the largest interest, is referred
to at the monarch ef that island, bee
arrived here. Mr. Miller is located at
Hunter's Bay, where he 'has been for four
years in the bneinene of catobing and salt-
ing I almen.
The strange Island of bbe Prince of
Wales, en whioh Mr. Miller ber elected be
make his home, lies ab the month of Dixon's
entrance and only aboab three miles from
the northern line of British Celambie.
The island ie aboab 2C0 miles long
and frem 10 to " 30 • or 40 miles
wide. Ib is tingnier in its make-np, having
a fringe of lowland all around. Toward the
centre are ridges of meuntaine,tomo of.
them reaching lofty heights and covered
with perpetual snow. There le magnificent
timber in groat quantities. I1 omelets of
spruce, fir, hemlock, splendid yellow cedar
and a very superior red cedar.
" The island has never been surveyed nor
explored," said Mr. Millar, "and 'tome day
it must peeve, I think, a meet inviting field
for exploration. The Indiana, of wham
there are probably some 3,000, are scattered
around the island shores in Mlle villages,
usually of about 100 inhabitant/ each.
They oeneist of manydifferent tribes. Most
of these 1 came in contact with are Hydatid.
There aro between 300 and 400 of them at
Hunter's Bay, and they are quite indus-
trious as fishermen and s leers of the sal-
mon,"—San Francisco Chronicle.
A LONG RaNGE.
A Wire -wound Gun That Sends 380 lbs. of
Metal Twelve Miles.
In a paper read before the Western
Seoieby of Engineers, Cepbain W. H. Jaques
sayer : "The wire•wrapped type had bbe
honor of firing the ' Jubilee round,' in the
Queen's Jubilee year, and gave wonderful
results, On April 16, 1888, was fired at
Sheeburyneee the firat of a Renee of rounds
intended to Investigate the conditions at-
tending firing at very long ranges. Tee gun
selected was a 9.2 gun, made ander the
direobien of Ganeral Maitland In the Royal
Gun Factories. The weight of the guys was
22 tons, that of the p:ojemi.e 380 lbs.,
wbiob, Bred with a charge ef 270 lbs., gave
a muzzle veloolty of 2,360 foot -emends. The
elevation of the first round was 40 deg.
The prejeeb(le fell at a range of about 21,000'
yards, er nearly la ram Oa July 12, at
43 deg. elevation, a range ef 21,600 yards
was attained ; and on July 26, wieb 45 deg.
elevation, the range was 21,600 yerds, or
about 12.4 miles. The prejootele remained
in the air abent 69.6 aeoende, and its tra-
jectory reached a height of 17,000 feet, or
about 2,000 feet higher than the summit of
Mount B'am"
Mrs. Blank baked 'a cake am an object
lesson to the new cook. The latter, having
tasted it, remarked approvingly: "1 oeuld
always eat after you, ma'am.'
.a yIone
.,3
Pt, SHORTENING.
Down the street through the busy way
A lady passed on marketing day.
Who, pausing at a grocery store,
Stepped quickly in at the open door.
With bated breath and anxious mien
She queried : "have you COTTOLENE?"
The grocer, leaving off his work,
Interrogated every clerk ;
But none up to that time had seen
An article called " COTTOLENE."
"What is it?" said he to the dame,
"That answers to this curious name.
What is it made of? What's its use?
My ignorance you'll please excuse."
"You're not the merchant for my dimes,
I see you're quite behind the times.
For COTTOLENE, IA have you know,
Is now the thing that's all the go,
An article of high regard ;
A healthful substitute for lard.
Its composition pure and -clean ;
For cooking give me COTTOLENE."
As from his store the lady fled,
The grocer gently scratched his hea
On his next order, first was seen, ,
"One dozen cases COTTOLEN.ig°" ;
,Ask Your Grocer forlt.
Made only by
N. IC. FAIOANK & C0.1
Wcllingto t and Ann Streets,
M `tINTREAL.
THE ULD WORLD, , SERVANT.
She is by . no Manner of Means a
Flawless Gem.
ITALIAN MAIDS OF ALL WON4.
"Matter Out of P1aee" Not Abhorrent
to the illifelien Girls of 'silan—The
recliner .Beaddresa of Lombardia*
NarsemaldO.
Here is a readable, extract from a letter
wribben by a lady in Milan : " I wonder
where that Batton has gone off my wrapper."
11 was a little American woman who
epake ; she was married to au Italian gen-
tleman, and, ae Ruth of old, whibber her
husband went went she, and so found
herself in Italy. The friend be whom the
remark was aedre/sed replied : " I do nob
know, unless that little women of yours has
carried it home to her lawyer."
The " little woman " wee the 'servant,
and the " lawyer" her husband, a copyist
in a lawyer's office.
So well developed is the appropriative
faculty of the average European servant
shat when an article is alleging, no matter
hew &bieard, its disappearance is at enoe
abtrihut'ed to le nerve. The maven
for this may possibly be found in the
fact bbab the wages of the ordinary
heasehetd servants aro pitifully email,
and they usually have families depending
en tbem for support. Other causes may be
bee eduoatlen, or lack of it, in the claw from
whish the servant Domes, and the socialistic
tendencies which permeate all Europe, and
welch teach : "You are rlober than I, but
you have no right to be,. therefore, 1 will
bake a part."
THE MAID OF ALL WORE.
The maid of all work comes in the morn•
lag and prepares bheesoffee, which ie served
to the family in bed. At noon comes the
breakfast of beefsteak, paeans and fruit.
She then has liberty until time to pre-
pare the 7 o'clock dinner. Her duties are net
onereue, and, as she takes her own time and
doss her work in herown manner, ahs has
not a bard time of it. If she ohne es to eft
on the floor while washing the dishes—
and she frequently does—remenebranoe is
useless. Her method of cleaning anything
is original, and generally consists in wiping.
it off, without waehieg, with a soiled cloth
—always a soiled cloth in preference to a
clean one. Her favorite towel for wiping
the dishes is the table cloth, from which the
meal has just been Nerved, or the dirty
kitoben apron tied about her nook. As a
gentle reminder that a little fee would be
acceptable, she suddenly acquires a strong
desire to peliab semethieg—from the shoes
on your feet, bo bbe brans cornices over the
window. , If there are guests in the sale
she is likely to appear at any moment with
the most melees piece of tinware in the
kitchen, scouring away an if her very life
depended upon it. If all this exertion fails
of its object she will reasrt to bbe bookcase,
and slowly and carefully dust every leaf of
every book there, and tnenplaoe them back
all amide down..
"Juliette is to be married loon," said
Marguerite to me one morning, "and when
the daughter of a servant of the gran pezza
marries they always give her something
nice ; the greater the people the nicer the
present. Julietba expecte something very
nioe from you." After such barefaced flat-
tery what could I do but help Julletta to
realize ber expectations?
Te the average servant the nee of the
doorbell er knacker le absolutely snperflu-
sus; she simply epene the a€or and walks
right in. -
L OMOABDIAN NUTRSEIrAIDS.
The first object of great curiosity that
'strikes the eye of the foreigner as he comes
down this aide ef the Alps is the peculiar
head-dress worn by the Lombardian nurse.
maids. Ib remises of a circle ef flat silver
hairpins arranged about the back of the
heed in such a manner as be look like a
teelloped tin pan—" Uneasy Iles the head
that wears a epedinl," mlghb be a more just
rendering of the familiar phrase. The
nurses are obliged to sleep in them, as it la
such a work of time and patience to braid
and tsetse the hair about each separate
pin that ib le only done up once in two
weeke. Ib is very hard en the. hair, as
the pine cub it and it moon becomoe thin
and scant and unlikethe magnificent
Drowns of glary worn by the rest of the
Italian women. In the midst of the circle
is pinned a bow of bright ribbon from three
to five fleshes wide, with long ends reaching
to tine bottom of the short, full ekirb.
About the edges of the skirt, is also a band
of the colored ribbon.
Across the bosom is a brilliant handker-
chief, around the neck are 'triage of oeral
beads and in the ears are Large hoop oar -
rings of coral. A completely picturesque
costume. In taking an airing the wee,
brown babies are bound tighb in their
swathing bands, enveloped in gauzy
floating veils and carried en a pillow
in the nurse's . arms. Baby oar.
sieges are never seen in Italy. A libble
American lo as wheeling a large doll in a doll
carriage In the park was almost mobbed.
So great was the iabereab exhibited in the
strange toy that it wee wi h difficulty her
mother rescued her from the engem crowd,
pub her on a oar and got her and the carriage
safely home.
The aurae is the true autocrat of an
Italian household. For her meet be pre-
pared the beet and meet Latriafoue food ;
ebe must have the finest of white bread ;
ebe can sib comfortably in the -beat room In
the house while the mietreea le toiling in the
kitchen. Her wager are high -50 fiance a
month and the spadini and pretty costumes
she wears.
Epigrams By Bishop Newman.
"Great truths never come singly, but in
pairs."
"Humanity is a oinking Peter ; Christian-
ity is the helping band raislog humaniby."
"The time will came under Chriet'e
reign when the great epic will be not
Milton's 'Paradise Leat,' but 'Paradier)
Regained.'"
"Chrfeblaniby is the meat intellootual
.religion known to the world. Jesus (lintel
is the numb prodigious intellectuality known
to history."
" [there to a vent difference between
Ohriatien and Chrisbliko. We are a Ohrinbian
nation ; but we are nob a Ohrlabllke nation."
"The devil is nob as had es he will be a
hundred years from to -day."
"Heaven le an eternal approach toward
God, ' Hell le an eternal retrooeeslen from
God."
"But few men are pious when away
from home; Circumstances are a means' of
grace."
"The only'power that can re.create In the
power that created."
Charles K. Barrie, of . Milwaukee, the
mann who wrote " Afber the Ball,' ''w+►a mar-
ried In Ontoago 'the other day+ gin wife
Hoye he will soon sing a new bane;' Mid he
neve, he hes nn objection if he oan make an -
Daher 1100,000 by 1b.
There Is so snob thing as an Imitation
baseball diamond.
CARTER'S
ITTLE
IVER
PILLS.
Sick Meadaoh,e and relieve all the troubloo inti- .,
dent to a bilious state of the system, such as
Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness Distress after
eating Pate in the+ Side, &c. while *facile most
rem al fable success has been Shown HI cin'ibg
SICK
Headache yet O,ixasrt's Manus Levee Poen
are equal valupable in Constipation, curing
and preventing this annoying coalptaint, ',ASO
they also correct all disorders of the atarnaelt.
stimulate the liver and regulate the bowels.
Even if they only cured
HEAD
Aghe they would be alolpst priceless to those
who suffer from this distressing complaint%
but fortunately their goodness does not end
here, and toe who once try them will bud
these little pillsvaluable in so many wrimatrate
tney will not he willing to de without therm
But after an sick head
ACHE
is the bane of so many live, that here is whore
we make our great boast. Orin prier reeve i,
while others Hanot.
CieareasiS1 n-o'iaa nivnn Pwa are very email
and very oast' tb tale. Ono or Iwo pills maids
a dose. They are Strictly vegetable and do
not gripe or purge, but by Blair gentle amnia
ease all whopue<e thele. In Menat $6 ciente;
for $1, old ever:wheat, or sent 5' mein
Caltnnii linnli tl02 GQ, ITate Yost.
Tai h11 dos h hitt,
GETSING A LINE ASHORE.
Am Old Wrecker Tells How 11 May Be
Oona.
Ib Oben happens that all hands on board
of a stranded vessel might be saved but for
the difficulty of getting a rope from the
beat to the shore. A correspendenb of the
Scientific American says : " During my 30
years' experience I have dene coneiderable
wreokixig, and during that time I had
a number of occaaiens to send a line ashore.
We then called it running a line. After
trying buoys, bearde, rafts; ebo., 1 adopted
the plan of a barrel with & reel Weide,
leaded inside en the corner, and a grapple
on the onteide to the shepe ef a enc -finked
anchor that was to catch on to prevent tho
surf from carrying the barrel back when it
,truck shoal water. The lend I put in
heavy enough to keep the barrel partially
en end, and on the bobtem and aide of the
barrel theta the grapple to attached to. The
device m se cheap and simple that any
sailor can make one for bis vessel with little
coat, and in may be relied on to help him
cub of a bad mete."
Unappropriated Syllables.
In the early days of the gold exoite-
ment in Oalfiornia a young German from
Miehlgan departed for Califernia, and, after
preseeeting for awhile, settled there.
Hit name was John G. Almondingor, and,
wishing to Amerioaniza himself as much as
peaelble, he applied to the Legislature of
California, and had hie name changed to
John G. Almond.
A few days later a man named John
Smith applied to the tame Legislature, and,
after reciting a leng catalogue of the ills to
which he rats eubjeob owing to hie unfortu-
nately cowmen name, he said in conclu-
sion :
" And, whereas, I have noticed that yen
have curtailed the name of J. G. Almond -
lager to J. G. Almond, and have not dis-
posed of the ' Inger,' which teams to be
lying around loots, I respectfully rogueeb
that the name be added to my name."
The result of this appeal is net stated.
And the Bat 51111 Lived.
A queer story comae with first -oleos recom-
mendation all the way from England.
Thirty-three years age, in 1860, a somber
el the Chaplin family died at Blankney,
.Llnoelnehtre, and was laid in the family
bomb. This particular Chaplin was a
naturalllt, and among hie other pets had a
large gray bat. That bat was permitted to
enter the tomb and was sealed np alive
along with the corpse of hie dead master. In
1866 the vault was opened, and to the sar-
priee of all the baa was alive and fat. On
four different occasions einoe the Chaplin.
have looked after the welfare of their dead
relative's pet, and each time ib has been
reparbed that the bat was still in the land
of the living, aItbough occupying quert era
with the dead. He was fast seen in 1892.
mound to be-Engllsit.
Algya-Hullo, sld man 1 What the devil
are you going round with only one Monter
leg turned up ler v
Oholly—Weil, yen tee, deah boy, my
early cable advice, reported : " Reim, fol.
d byclear weather,"and I had to verb
Iowa
ef compromise the matter, dontoherknow,
" Will you Five me thio little hand 1'
he pleedad lovingly. " Reginald, this
hind to alleadq pledged,"° the replied.
" I will redeem ib," he adewered, ab-
sently, " if you will let me have the pawn
ticket." •
MY MOTHER'S MEMORY.
There is one bright star in Heaven,
Ever Shining in My night ;
God to aro one guide has given,
Like the sailors beacon light.
Set on every shoal and danger
Sending out its warning ray
To the homebound weary stranger
Looking for the landlocked bay.
In my farthest, wildest wanderings
I have turned me to that love.
As a diver'neath the water
Turns to watch the light above.
Virginia raises 5,000,000 bushel, of pea-
nute and $4,000,000 worth of fruits and
vegetable.. The iron product le 200,000
bens, and over 32,000,000 of gold has been
Bent to the Unites: Saari s mint: This State
Ines the largest lead mines in the South, and
the greatest menganeee mines im the world.
A patch on a hoy's treaters is something
now under the son.
Time files ani ate ye for no man. The only
fellow who oan beet it is the mueloian.
When a man has no bills agatnab Mtn be
muse feel ae If he belonged to the nobility.
When a person le in everybody's mouth
he naturally has a high appreciabfoa of the
popular tante.
You don'b nee much of him at We eraser*
of the year, bub the grasshopper enjoys a
beautiful spring. ,
Tommy --Paw, Winn is a party worker?
Mr. Pigg -Pretty often he is a man who
works the party.
tithe arrested a State geologist ori a obarge,
of drunkenness shoes the danger of tea'
much rook—and rye.
The time is coming when a man In tbo
gallery s1. a European legislative hall wilino*
be allotted is make a motion.