The Exeter Advocate, 1898-10-28, Page 700D AT THE FIRESIDE.
Domestic Life the Subject of a Sermon by
Rev. Dr. Talmage.
How to Have a Happy Home—Start in the Right Way—The Door-
. sill of the Dwelling House the Foundation
of Church and State.
Washington, Oct. 23. --Dr, Talmage in
this discourse sets forth radical theories,
whiob, if adopted, would brighten many
domestie oireles; text, Jelin xx, 10, "The
disciples went away amen unto thew own,
bomes."
A ohuroh within a church, a republic
eke within a republic, a world within a
world, is spelled by four letters—houtel
It things go right there, they go right
everywhere; if things go wrong there,
they go wrong everywhere. The doorsill
of the dwelling house is the foundation
of church and state, A. man never gets
higher than his own garret or lower than
his own cellar, Domestic We overarches
and uuderghelles ail Weer life. The high-
ehouse of congress is the domestic,
oirele; the rocking chair in the nurseett
Is higber than a throne. Georee Washieg-
0 tou commanded the forces of '''the United
ntates, bet Mern Weihington ceramand-
ied George. Ohryseitena'a mother, Made
his pen for Mtn. If a Men should star. on
and run 70 years in a straight Bee, be
net get out from under the sbadoW
of bie covn reautelplece.
As individuale we are fragments ead
wales the ellen in parts, euel then he
gradually puts us together. Wien; Innen,
you make up; wbet. you nand1 mane Up:
our dentate and surpleses of obaracter
being the cogwheelin the great imolai
omehaulena, Ono preson has tho patience,
another bas the courage, another has the
Pliteidity, another bas the enthusiasra.
Thet which is tuning In ono is made up
by another or made up by all. Buffaloes
In bowls, grouse in broods quails in
flocks, the human race in circles. God
bits mese beautifully arranged this. It is
In this Way that he balancee society; tine
conservatieo and that radical keeping
things even. Every ship must neve it$
1naSt, cutwater, taffrail, Wiest. Tbarik
God, then, for Princeton and Andover,
for tbe opposites.
nave no more riglit to Mame a man
for being different inure Inc than a driv-
ing wheel bas a right to blame the Iran
abate that Made it to the center. noble
Wesley baiances Calvin's "InetItittes," A
cold thinker gives to Scotland the strong
bones of theology, Dr. Guthrie clothes
them with a throbbing heart and warm
flesb. The difficulty is that we aro not
eatisfled with just the were' that God has
given us to do. The water evbeel wants
to come inside the mill and grind the
grist, and the hopper want e to go out
and dabble in the water. Our usefulness
and tho welfare of sweaty depends upon
our staying in just the place that God
bas put us, or intended we should occupy.
Marriage Garlands.
For rnore compactness and that wo
may be more useful we are gathered in
still smaller circles in the ,horne group.
And there you bave the same variety
again—brothers, sisters, husband and
evil°, all different in temperaments anti
tastes. It is fortunate that it should be
so. If the husband be all linpulse, the
wife must be all prudence. If me slater
be sanguine in her temperament, Wm
other must Le lymphatic. Mary and
Minim are necessities. There will be no
dinner for Christ if there be no hiavthn;
there will be no audience for Jesus if
there be no Mary. The home organize -
Mori is most beautifully constructed.
Edon has gone, the bowers are all broken
down, the animals that Adam stroked
with Ins hand that morning when they
came up to eat their names bay° sinus
shot forth disk and sting and growled
panther at panther, and midair iron
beaks plunge till with clotted wing and
eyeless soultets the twain come whirling
down from under the sun in blood and
fire. Eden has gone, but there is just one
little fragment left. It floated down on
the river Hiddekel out of paradise, It is
the marriage institution. It does not, as
at the beginning, take away from an a
rib. Now it is an addition of ribs.
This institution of marriage has been
defamed in our day. Socialism and poly-
gamy and the most damnable of all
things, free lovism, have been trying to
turn this earth into a Turkish harem.
'While the pulpits have been compara-
tively silent, novels, their cheapness only
equaled by their nastiness, are trying to
educate, have taken upon themselves to
educate, this nation in regard to holy
marriage, which makes or breaks for
time and eternity. Oh, this is not a mere
question of residenoe or wardrobe! It is
a question charged with gigantic joy or
sorrovr, with beaven or hell. Alas for
this new dispensation of George Sands!
Alas for this mingling of the nightshade
with the marriage garlands! Alas for the
venom of adders spit into the tankards!
.Alas for the white hosts of eternal death
that kill the orange blossoms! The gospel
of Jesus Christ is to aesert what is right
and to assail what is wrong. Attempt
bas been madeeto take the marriage in-
stitution, wbich was intended for the
happiness and elevation of the race, and
'flake it a mere commercial enterprise,
an exchange of houses and lands and
equipage, a business partnership of two
stuffed up with the stories of romance
and knight errantry and unfaithfulness
and feminine angelhood. The two after
awhile have roused up to find that in-
stead of the paradise they dreamed of
they have got nothing but a Van Am -
burgh's menagerie, filled with tigers and
wild oats. Eighty thousand divorces In
Paris in one year preceded the worst
revolution that Franco over saw. And I
tell you what you know as well 89 1 do,
that wrong notions on the subject of
Christian Marriage are the cause at this
• day of more moral outrages before God
and man than any other cause.
God ill t110 Home.
There are some things that I want to
bring before you. I know there are those
of you who have had homes set up for a
great many years, and then there are
those here who have just established their
home. They have only been in that h .1):16
a few months or a few years. Then there
toe those who will after awhile set up
for themselves a home and it is right
that I should speak out upon these
themes.• ,
My first counsel to you is, have God
In your new home, and let him who was
a guest at Bethany be in pow household,
Let the divine blessing drop upon your
every 'lope and plan and expectation.
Those young people who begin with God
end with heaven. Have on your right
band the engagement ring of the divine
affection. It one of you be a Christian
let that one Mite the Bible and road a
few verses in the evening time, and ellen
kneel down and commend yourselves to
him who setteth the solitary in families,
I want to toll you that the destroying
angel passes by without teething or
entering the doorpost sprinkled with
blood of tbe everlasting covenant. Wby
is it thee in some females they never get
along 'Well? I have watched such cases
and have come to a conclusion. In the
first instance nothing seemed to go plees-
antly, and afmr awhile there came a
devastation, domestic disaster, or
estrangement Why? They sterted wrong,
In the other ease, although there were
hardships and tale's and smite thiegs 0114
bad to be explained, still things went on
Pleasantly until the very last. Why? They
Started right.
My second advice to you in your home
Is to exercise to the eery last possibility
of your nature the law of forbearance.
Prayers in the boueehold will not make
up or everything, nettle of the best peo-
ple in the ever id are the herdest to get
along with. There are people who stand
Up in erayer meetings and pray like
angels wheat home are uncomprenusing
and (vaulty, You may not have every-
thing just ae you want it. Sometimes it
will be the duty of the husband, and
sometimes of the wife ta yield, but both
stand punctiliously on your rights, and
you will have a Worerloo with no Bluch-
er corning lip at nightfall to donde the
oonfilet.
Aokrowletleit Wrong.
Never be Ashamed to apologize when
aon have done wrong in domestic affairs.
Let that be a law of your household. The
best thing I ever heard of my grand-
father, whom I never saw, wee this:
Tbat once, baying uurighteously rebuked
one of bis children, he himself baying
lost bis patience and perhapa having been
misinformed of the child's doings, found
out his mistake, and in the evening of
the setae day gathered all his family to-
gether aud mid: "Now, I have ono ex-.
planation to make and one thing to say. '
Thomas, this morning I rebuked you
Tory unfairly. I am very sorry for it I ,
rebuked you in the presence of the
whole family, and floNT 1 ask your for-
giveness in their presence." It must have
taken some courage to do that. It was
right, was it not? Never be ashamed to
apelogize for dolomitic inaccuracy. Find
out the points, what aro the weak points,
if I may call them so, ot your companion
and then stand aloof from them. Do not
0:Ivry tho fire of your temper too near the
gunpowder. If thu wife be easily fretted
by disorder in the household, let the hus-
band be careful where he throws his
slippers. If the husband come home from
the store with les patience exhausted, do
not let the wife unnecessarily cross his
temper, but both stead up for your
rights, and I will promise the everlasting
sound of the wartvhcon. Your life will
be spent in making up, and marriage will
be to you an unmitigated curse. Uowper
said:
. The kindest and the happiest pair
Will find occasion to forbear
,And something, ovary day they live,
To pity and perhaps forgive.
I advise also that you make your eblet
pleasure circle around about that home.
It is unfortunate when it is otherwise.
it the husband spends the most of his
nights away from home, of choice and
not of necessity, he is not the head of the
household; he is only the cashier. If the
wife throw the cares of the household
into the servant's lap and theb spend five
nights of the week at the opera or theatre, 1
she may clothe her children with satins
and lace and ribbons that would con -1
found a French milliner, but they are '
orphans. It is sad when a chile has no
one to say its prayers to because mother
has gone -off to the evening entertain -
inept! In India they bring childree and
throw them to the crocodiles, and it
seems very cruel, but the jaws of social
dissipation aro swallowing down more
little children to day than all the mon-
sters that ever crawlea upon the banks
of the Ganges!
Godless Firesides.
I have seen the sorrow of a godless
niothee on the death of a child she had
neglected. It was not so much grief that
she felt from the fact that the obild was
dead as the face that she had negieoted
it. ehe said, "If I had only watched over
and cared for the child, I know God
would not have taken it." The tears
came not, It was a dry, blistering tem-
pest—a scorching simoon of the desert.
When she wrung her hands, it seemed as
if she wouni twist her fingers from their
sockets; when she seized her hair, it
seemed as if she had in wild terror
grasped a coiling serpent with her right
band. No tears! Comrades of the little
one came in and wept over the coffin,
neighbors oaine in, and the moment they
CI \V the still face of the child the shower
broke. No tears for her. God gives tears
as the summer rain to the parched soul,
but in all the universe tbe driest and
hottest, the most scorching and consum-
ing thing is a mothex's heart if she has
neglected bee child, when once it is dead.
God may forgive her, but she will nevsr
forgive herself. The memory will sink
the eves deeper into the sockets and pinch
the face and whiten the hair and eat op
1 the heart with vultures that will not be
satisfied, forever plunging deeper their
iron beaks. Oh, you wanderers from your
home, go back to your duty! The bright-
est flevrere in. all the earth are thee°
which grow in the garden of a Christian
household, clambering over the porch of
a Christian home.
I advise you also to cultivate sympathy
of occupation. Sir James MoIntosh, one
of the 11.10St eminent and elegant men
that ever lived, while standing at the
very height of his eminence, said to a
great company of scholars, "My wife
made me. ' The wife ought to be the ad-
vising partner In every flrm. She ought
to be interested in ali the losses and
gains of shop and store. She ought to
have a right—she has a right—to know
everything. If a man goes loth a bud -
nese transaotion that he dare not tell MI
wife of, you may depeeid that he is on
the way either to bankruptcy or moral
ruin. There may be some things which
he does not wish to trouble his wife with,
but if he dare not tell her he is on the
road to discomfiture. On the other hand,
the husband ought to be sympathetic
with the wife's oecizpation. It is 00 ease'
thing to keep house. Many a woman
wao could have endured martyrdom as
well as idargaree, the Sooteh girl, has
aotually been worn out by bouse man-
agement.
siteheu Wartyrs.
There are 1,00() martyrs ot the
kitoben. It is very annoying atter the
vexations of the day around the stove or
tbe register or tbe 'table, or In the pure-
ery or parlor to have the husbend sayt
"You know nothing about; trouble. You
ought to be in the store half an hour,
Sympathy of occupation' If the hus-
band's work cover blot with the soot of
the furnace, tee the odors of leether or
soap factories, let not the wife be easily
disgusted at the begrimed bends or un-
savory aroma. Tour gains are one, your ,
intoretts are one, your losses are one. Lay
bold of the work of life with both hands.
Four hands to fight the beetles; four eyes
to watob for the danger; four shoulders
On 'which to carry the trial, 11 to a very
sad thing when the painter bas a wife
who (Mee riot like pictures. 11 is a very
sad thing for a pianist when she has a
husband who dote not like nausic. It is a,
very sad thing when a wife is not suited'
noless her husband has what is called
"genteel business." So far as 1 'gelled,
etend a "genteel business," it is somes
thing to NV111011 A RUM gave at 10 o'clock
In the morning and erone evieloh he coulee
home at ft or 8 eiclock in the afternoon
and gots a largo moonlit of monev for do-
ing nothing, Thee is, I believe, a "gen-
teel business," and there bas been many
a wife ivno has made the Jeanette or )1911
being fatisflecl netil the husbaud bas
given up the terming of the hides, or the
turning of the banister, or the builaing
of tho walls And put bleaself in cireles
Wbere be has nothing eo do but &Make
cigars and drink wine and get bireselt
inte babies that upset him, going dowit
ie the maelstrom, taking Ms wife and
children with him d'bere are a good
many trains :uniting from earth to
destruction, Tiaey Ken all boom of the
dee' and all hours Of the night, There
are the freight tealos; thee go very slow-
ly and very neavile, and there are the
accommodation trains going on toward
descruotioni and they stop very often and
lot a raan gat Out when he warite to. But
genteel itilenesti is an express train. Satan
is the stoker and death is the engineer,
and, though one may come out in Stout
of it and swing the red flag of "danger"
or the lantana of God's word, it makes
just one shot Into perdition, corning
down the embankment with a shout and
a wail and a shriek—erash I crash! There
are two Mune of people sure of destruo-
tion—first, those who have nothing to
do; secondly, those who ham something
to do, but who are too lazy or too proud
to do it.
now to Bove a nappy Rome.
buy° one more word of advice to give
to those who woule have a happy borne,
and that Is, lot love preelde in it. When
your itchavlor in the domestic circle be.
comes a more matter of calculation, when
the caress you give is merely the result
of deliberate study of the position you
occupy, happiness lies stark dead ola the
hearthstone. When the husband's position
as head of the household is maintained
by loudness of voice, by strength of arm,
by lire of temper, t to republic of doneestio
bliss has 0000I110 a despotism that neither
God nor man will abide. Oh, ye who
promised to Iwo) each other at the altar,
how dare you commit perjury? Lst no
shadow of suspicion mine on your affeo-
tion. It is easier to kill that dower than
it is to make it live again. The blast
from hell that puts out that light leaves
you in the blackness of darkness forever.
Here are a man and wife. They agree
In nothing else, but they agree they will
havo a borne. They will have a splendid
Muse, and they think that if they have
a house they will have a home. Archi-
tects melte the plaid and tbe mechanics
execute it, the house to cost $100,000.
It is done. Tho (=pate are spread, lighte
are hoisted, curtains aro hung, cards of
invitation sent out. Tho horses in gold
plated harness prance at the ;ate, guests
COMO in and take their places, the flute
sounds, the dancers go up and down,
and with one grand whirl the wealth
and the fashion and the mirth of the
great town wheel amid the pictured.
walls. Ha, this is happiness. Float it on
the smoking viands, sound it in the
music, whirl it in the dance, castalt in
the snow of sculpture, sound it up the
brilliant stairway, flash it in cbantlehers.
Happiness indeed!
Something, Lacking.
Let us build on the center of the parlor
floor a throne to happiness; let all the
guests, when come ie, bring their flow-
ers and pearls and diaruonds, and throw
them on this pyramid, and let it be a
throne, and then let happiness, the
queen, mount the throne, and we will
stand around, and, all chalices lifted,
we will say, "Drink, 0 queen; live for-
ever!" But the guests depart, the flutter
are breathless, tee last clash of the im-
patient hoofs is heard in the distance,
and the twain of the household come
back to see the queen of happiness on the
throne amid the parlor floor. But, alas,
as they come back, the flowers have
faded, the sweet odors have become the
smell of a charnel house, and instead of
the queen of happiness there sits there
the gaunt form of anguish, with bitten
Hp and sunken eye and ashes in her hair.
The romp of the dancers who have left
seerns rumbling yet, like earring thun-
ders that quake the floor and rattle the
glasses of the Meet rim to rim. The
spilled wine on the "Icor turns into blood.
The wreaths of plush have become wrig-
gling reptiles. Terrors catch tangled in
the canopy that overhangs the couch. A
strong gust of wind comes through the
hall and the drawing room and tbe bed•
chamber, in which all the lights go out.
And frorn the lips of the wine beakers
come the words, "Happiness is not in
us!" And the arches respond, "It is not
In us!" And the silenced instruments of
music, thrummed on by invisible flingers,
answer, "Happiness is not in us!"
And the frozen lips of anguish break
open, and, seated on the throne of wilted
flowers, she strikes her ,bony hands to-
gether and groans, "It is not in me!"
That very night a clerk with a salary
of $1,000 a year—only $1,000—goes to bis
home, set up three months ago, just
after the marriage day. Leve meets him
at the door, love sits with him at the
table, love talks over the work of the
day, love takes down the Bible and reads
of him who came our souls to save, and
they kneel, and while they are kneeling,
right in that plain room on the plain car-
pet, the angels of God build a throne not
out of flowers that perish and fade away,
but out of garlands of heaven, wreath on
1 to of wreath, alearatith on amaranth,
until the throne is done. Then the harps
of God sounded, and suddenly there ap-
peared one who mounted the thrope with
ere so bright and broW so fair tbat the
twain 'knew it was Christian love. And
they knelt at the foot of the throne, and,
Petting one band on each head, she
b emit there and said, "liappiness is
With nisi" And that throne of celestial
bloom withered not with the passing
years, and the queen left not the throne
1111 one day the married pair felt stricken
in yeas—fels themselves called away and
knew not which way to go, and the
peen bounded from the throne and ealdm
"Follow me, I vtill show you the way ine
to the realm of everlasting love," And
90 they Went up to singsongs of love apd
walk on pavetxients of love and to lire
together in mansions of love, and to re-
joice forever in the truth that God is
love,
A Timely worsting.
When a British brig was gliding
smoothly along before m good tweeze in
the South Pacific), three mouths ago, a
flock of email birds about the size, shalie
and color ot paroquets settled down in
the rigging and spent an Lour or more
resting. The second mate Was so anxious
to died out the species to which the visit-
ing strangers belonged that be tried to
entrap a speolaran, but the birds were
toe shy to be caught, and too epry to bo
mized by the quiek handa of the eallore.
At the end of about an nom the birds
took the brigei course, and disappeared,
but emeterds nighttelt they came hack
and passed the night in the maiutop.
The next rooming tbe birds new off
again, Mad Veen they rottenest/ et name
tbe sailors erettered some food aboue the
deck. By ;Ms tient the birds bad beeome
eo tame that they bopped about the deck
picking up the menthe. That afternoon
AA estoinshing thing bappened. The neck
came flying swiftly towald the brig,
livery bird eeemed to be Piping as 11
Pureiten by Senile little Invisible 000107
ten whip, and they at once huddled
clowia behind the deekhouse. The super-
stitious sailors at once callea the eaptaim
of the brig, wbo rubbed his eyee awl
looked at the barouteter. A glance aboW-
ed that something was vrroug with the
eleneeptie and the brig was put in ehaleit
to outride e storm. The storm mate
about' twenty Minutes after the birds had.
reathea the venial. Ieor a fevr minutes the
sky was like the Waterless bottom et A
lake—a vast Arab of yellowish Mud—and
torrents of rein fell. Why it did not Meta
Nene' bard, nobody knows; but on ma -
Ing port two days later the captain
teemed that a great tornado had swept
aerose that part of the sea. The biwls 3art
tilo veseel on tbe summing atter the
storm and were not seen again.
Some Naval netleations.
Fathom—A xneasure of six Mot.
Terret—A tower tor the protection of
the Meaner%
Crow's Nest—A Demi) for the lookout
ou tbe =Abend.
Jacob's Ladder—A short ladder with
wood rungs and rope sides.
Capstan—A maohine used on board
ship for lifting heavy weights.
Arinament—A temp expressing col-
lectively all the guns of a ship.
Cable—A long, bevy (Main used to
rattan a ship in place at author.
Bow Chaser—A gun mounted in the
bow to fire on retreating vessels.
Builthead—A partition separating com-
partments on tho same deck.
Binnacle—The oompass box of a ship,
with a hlght to show it at night.
Gangway—nho aperture in a ship's
side delete parsons enter and depart.
lenot•—.A nautical mile of 2,025 yards,
equal to about one and onweighth statute
Displacement—The weight in tons of
the volume of water displaced by a ship's
hull.
Barbette—A fixed oiroular bolt of
=moor for protecting tho guns in a re-
volving turret.
hlonitor—A low, nearly fiat -bottomed,
armored vessel, with one or two turrets,
each carrying two emus.
Bridge—A platform above the rail ex-
tending across the dock for the convent-
onoe of the ship's officers.
Conning Tower—An armored tower
where the wheel, engine, telegraphs, eta.,
ate located and trom which the captain
ie supposed to direct his men during a
battle.
The Liquor Oacstion in Scotland.
"In Scotland," says an English paper,
"a modification of the Gothenburg sys-
tem seems to be making headway. A
little village near Dunfermline, named
11111 ot Beath, bile municipalized its
pubno house and installed the eleotrio
light out of the profits. This success has
raised envy in the sent or another village
close by, called Katy. Kety does not see
why it should not municipalize its
whiskey drinking, so a public meeting
bas been held with a real live county
councillor in the chair to propound a
scheme. A sum of £2,000 is to be raised
as capital wherewith to erect the public
house. There are to he eight directors—
six elected by the shareholders and two
by the County Council. The shareholders
are to get a five per cent. dividend on
their capital, and the surplus profits are
to be handed over to the County Council,
to be applied as it sees fit.
Responsibility.
A oonsciousnees of responsibility quick-
ens a sense of duty to be faithful. To
know that one is trusted is an incite-
ment to prove one's self worthy of con-
fidence. To trust a child is to aid a ohild
to act in the line of the best that is ex-
pected of him. There Is nothing that will
tend to keep a rean up •So his highest
standard of well-being like the thought
that he is loved and honored by one who
Is worthy of love and honor. There is
inspiration and a steadying power in the
knowledge that one has become, however
unworthily, an object of "much love and
many prayers."
New Soutlanese Stamp.
The Soudan is to have a new postage
stamp, so stamp collectors state. t'be
oeason for the change is curious.
The Egyptian postage starup bas a
crescent as a waterneark, but the water-
mark of the Soudanese stamp is a cross.
And good Mahommedans object strongly
to apply their tongue to mucilage that
adheres to the sign of the cross. They
want to Holt a crescent
So the present seriee of Soudanese post-
age stamps are, say the collectors, to be
withdrawn, and those with a crescent
water -mark substituted.
Railways in India.
The railways in India on March 81,
1808, aggregated 25,454 mules open and
lanctioned, of which 21,156 miles were
open or train°, leaving 4,208 miles Under',
construction, or authorized. This was a
net increaso of 766 tittles.
CARING FOR HATS,
wile; the wontee Suouirt Know Who
x,,ii,c4e Dainty milliacrY•
To the daiuty woman who wisher' to
keep ber hats up to the standard without
a greau outlay of money or constant re-
eourse to Madame Millioer, the practical
aiets given bee clatnes by a fiest-eless
teacher ef millinery may prove swarthy of
:lonsideration. The best velem:ewe, says
tbis woman who knows, is better than
silI velyen 80 far 45 durability and 'wan-
ing in order aro concerned, for =ening
or trimming bats, Bain will not soil a
good quality of velyetetin, as a lietie
atealnieg will make it as good as neW,
while a few drops of water op silk velvet
makes little indenteeioes. hard to re-
move. For black bate, oldie go straw, he -
ginning to grow ruety, liquid shoe polish
may be used to good advantage. Ilate
should be brushed avezy day before ine's
ing 451110 to keep the dust from grinding
In, Artifiolal flowers drooping and
crushed may be Inigatenea and freshened
by shaking for tee minutes elereugh tbe
wain front the bailing teakettle. Ostrieh
feathers respond to the same treatment.
A good quality of ribbon makes the moss
durable, and consequently eheapeet, of
an hat teinnoings, standing the meisture
of the sea or flying nuSe of businese
streets or couptry driving better tben
flowers, teathers or lace.
Steel Ornaments reaY be made as geed
as rieW by scrubbing in hot soapsuds,
using a nail brush to reach the inter-
stice% then polithiug with a chamois or
drelog in sawdust. To renovateold Meek
thread, ter French laces dip into 409100ml
Of weak greeo eta, eheu epread out upon
eeverel telekoesees of newspeper lulci
open the ironing tererti or other nab eta -
face. With a pill pick Inn each Bette
Winn en ecelloP, cover the lace with
sheets of newspepers, and put a weighe
ore the Paper, allowieg It to remain
twenty-feur hours. otbire leges,
delicate ribbons and silted may be feeelei
°mid end Omitted with powderee mag-
nesia, or, if got toe badly welled, With
hot flour—taaing care thet 11 is AO
browned in the heating. Sprinkle the
mapenesla or flour twine a smooth sheet
of wrapping paper, lay the silk or lace
upon the paper, and spripkle more mag -
nolo over it. Cover with another 61ieet
ot mar, place a book or mute light
weight on the paper, letting it met there
several days, Take the fabrio up, shake
well and brush with 4 WO brut, Per
lace% time require stitteeing riese In a
pint of 'Meer, in Witch gum arable the
size et a pea is diseoleed, roll aboue
bottle aud pull or pat with a soft towel
until dry.
YOUTH AND BEAUTY
Good Enough l Their Way, But Cliartu
outlives Thtel.33 Both.
Youth and beauty are eolightful, but
they do not endure through the seven
human ages. Charm does, I not long ago
hoard a philosopher exclaim, "Many
women are beautiful, JOB' are charming."
Ho told a truth which, history corrobor-
ates. The fasoluating WOU1012 of the World
have nob beeu the most beautiful. They
have swayed tile other sex by obarmiog
it, They have fascinated by A sympathetic
personality, and quick-witted intolli-
gence. Such women are Invariably good
fellovvs in the best sense of the term.
They never bore. Women who do—those
who go into a frigbtful list of detail
about tbeir worries with the cook, or the
turning of their last year's gown into
some wonderful and Indescribable gar-
ment—or the petty, trivial inoldents of
their household affairs—are indeed the
betes noires of our existenue, We fly from
them at tile street corners, dodge into
stores and bestow, for the nonce, all our
attention on bankrupt stooks and bar.
gains, anything, rather than face tbe
creature wbo bas nothing higher to talk
of than her ailments and vsoes. Our
dressmaker, awned with an appalling
bill, would be more welcome to scene of
us than either tho female bore or her
sister fiend, tbe gossip.—Observer in
Sunday World
The :•allor's Revenge.
The unfailing good humor of the Brit-
ish blue jacket was shown the other day
when a boat's load of A.B.'s from a
ntarnonwar were landed for shore leave
In a Cornish village.
As they journeyed up tbe roadway to
the second pub a gentleman's wagon-
ette passed, driven by a surly-lookiug
coachnaan, and one of the tars jumped on
the step behind
"Elit orf there!' shouted the coachman,
and being a churlish sort of fellow, he
lashed tate s.allor viciously across the face
with his whip. That 'NUS enough!
In an instant the other 11 blues hail
closed round and stopped the trap, the
bo'sun's mate in command. "'Tention!"
cried he, and dention there was. "Dis-
mount the gun!" he shouted, and it
seemed as if every blue jacket carried a
whole carpenter's outflt. In three min-
utes they had taken the wagonette into
172 pieces, and that without so much as
scratching one bit of paint or losing one
solitary screw. They laid them all out
neatly on the stony road, and the ho'•
sun's mate, after inspecting the job,
cried, "Good—Dismiss!"
Matrimony in Greece.
Few persons have any conception of the
life of a Greek maiden. In Greece girls
are betrothed while they are mere in-
fants, and are taught that it is a disgraoe
to be an old maid. Marriages for love are
unknown, but a Greek father is very
stern in regard to a young man having
ample provision to support a wife. A
girl's dowry consists of household furni-
ture and linen rather than money.
Although most Greek girls ars mato!'
ally very pretty, they begin to paint and
powder from a very early age—the cheeks
briglit red, eyebrows and lashes deepest
black, and veins delicately blue. The
result is that they are withered old
women at 40, and thus nowhere are
uglier females to be found than beneath'
the blue skies of this classic, land.
Next in importance to beauty come
languages. Every Greek family who eau
afford it keeps a French nurse or maid,
for Itrooh is almost universally spoken in
society. Painting and music are quite
unnecessary, but girls are carefully
trained in dancing, and drilled to con-
duct themselves with elegance. Lastly,
household duties are taught—hove to
make rose jam, Turkish coffee and earl.
DOS delicate sweetmeats,
Churches IN it(, Cloak Rooms.
Cloak rooms have been plaoed in St.
Saviour's Church, London. The up -to -
gate parson considers it altogether behind
the times that a church should be about
the only public building whore one seems
to be expected to sit inconvenietttly in
,damp or wet clothes, and where no pro-
vision is made for natural indisposition
or for the infirmities of age
110W A SORE HEALS
When the [3100d Is Pure and
Rich It Will Heal FiaPicilY.
This raet otemonetrated Au the Case 0*
cuester cawlese Who wad iaeen Troubs
led With Et 11111:11l lug; epee For More Thsc
a Year.
From The Theme ()Wen Sound -
La the township of Sarawak, Gra,'
CountY, there is probably no better
ittiown or respected former tliao Thos.
Ganden, of East Liuton P.O. Leern-
ing that his nephew, a, you's? Ind now
about ten years of age, bad been cured
of a disease of his leg, wbich threaten-
ed not only the less of the limb, but
aiso of the life of the little feelow, a re -
Porter of The Times made enquiry, end
d -e are convinced that the wonder-work-
ing powers of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
for Pale Peopie have not exhausted
themselves, Meetipg Mr. Gawley in
one of the drug store of the town, be
was asked it the reported cure was a
fact,. lids face lighted up with a eMile
as he said, "Indeed it is, sir. I was
afraid we were going to lose the lad,
but ne ts now as well as ever, hearty
and :strong." Asked for partieulors. Zgrq
Gewley ilia the most natural thing AU
tho world, referred the reverter to We
wife. who in teniog the ease "Is
the month of Sc-plember. 1$57. my Im-
plied', Chester Gewley, who lives withi
us, became afflicted with x severe lean
In his leg,. In a few days the inn) Lee
came badly swollen and painful, atul
the family Ps:tie:an was called in. 'Inte
caeo was a eerplexirig one, but it vrao
diseidod after a few days to lapce the
leg. Tide erne none, hut the wowed
inflicted would not heel up. but became
running eere. inlie little fellow soon
was reduced to inmost a. skeleten. This
Continued through the winter menthe,
And we thought he weend never gee oft
bis bed again. In .A.i1r11 two of the best
Pbyeielans of Owen Sound operaterl en
tbe leg for disease of the bone. In spite
01 Ibis treatment, tbe wound continued
to rum and we were in despair.
August, a friend wielding in Manitou,
Menitoba, advised us to try Dr. Wil -
llama' Pink Pills. We commeneed to
use them at once, and in a ahort time
several pieces of the bone came out
of the sore, and before the boy bad
taken four hex% the leg was com-
pletely Cured. This was oveg a year
ago, and Chester is now well anti es
strong in the lett leg, winch C11115cd the
trouble, as in the other. Of eourse,
recommend highly the use of Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills."
Such is the story of the fourth cure
which it bas been our plensure ro
re -
ort from Owen Sound. Chester 0'w -
is ormolu,. up Mtn 'Orem; healthy
lad, and it is hut adding another tri-
bute to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to say
that they were the histrurnent In hi.
restoration to bodily vigor.
Dr, Willinane' Pink, Pine ereate new
blood, rind in this way drive disenee
from the system. A fair triel will con-
vinee the most slieptica Sold only in
boxes, the wrapper around which heart
the full troths mark "Dr. Wilkins' Pink
Pills for Pale People. If your dealer
does not have theen, they will be sent
post paid at 50 cents a box or six boxes
for $2.5n, by adaressing the Dr.
WIi-
iinmns Medicine Coe Brockville, Ont -
They Never Fail.—Mr. S. M. 13ough-
ner, Langton, writes: "For about rwe,
years I was troubled with Inward Piles
but by using Parmelee's Pills, I was com-
pletely cured, mid althougb four years,
have elapsed since then they bave not re-
turned." Parmelee's, Pills are a.nti-
'tenons and a .specifie for the 0000 01 Liver
and Kidney Complainte, Dyspepsia, Cos-
tivenees, Headache, Piles, etc., and will
regulate the secretions and remove al!,
bilious matter.
Will the Time 'Ever Come?
A pertinent question is asked in The
New Pork Evening Post: "'Will there
eeer come a time when, instead of
boasting of the miles of asphalt pave-
ment in osr cities, we Nue describe
the excellence of the country roads?
When, instead ot talking of the col-
leges and high schools in the towns,
we can be proud of the education given
to farmers' sons and daughters in the
country schools? A time -when farm
life will cease to imply loneliness, drudgery and intellectual stagnation,and when
to live in the country that God has
made will be thought better than to live
in the towns that man has built?"
Miurd's Liniment is the Best.
Road Building.
Fine distinct rollings are required
with a scientifically constructed mac-
adamroad—the earth foundation must
be 'thoroughly compacted, eaeh of the
three layers of stone must be made per-
fectly firm and hard and the final drone
ing of stone screenings must be rolled
Into time interstices.
flow's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any ease of Catarrh that can not be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure,
P. J. CHENEY & CO., Props. Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. 3.
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him
perfectly honurab e in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obligs,
iloqs uisde by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0,
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Drug.
gis,s. Toledo, Obio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, set-
ing directly upon the blood and mucous ear-
fa.ces of tbe system. Ile 750. per bottle.
Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free.
(lien] an:ten
About $1,000,000 is about to be spent
by the Antwerp province far the crea-
tion of new and impro-vement of old
roads. The municipality has Merited
cycling clubs to send delegates M a
meeting, where they will be consulted
as to the roads, wherever possitele, be-
ing made suitable far cycling.
iline.rd's Liniment Cures LaGripps.
int ects Eqnlpped With oars.
An ineect known as the water boat.
men has a regular pair of oars, his
1 legs being used as such. He swims
on his back, as in that position there et
tees resistance to hie progress-