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The careest and alit, simplifiers
ell our spelling believe that pre-
judice alone stands in the way of
the complete success of their cause.
The sneers and insults that some
supercilious people have leveled at
then justify to some extent this
view, but of course it does not cover
the whole ground. There is an op -
A Plain Tall{ on the Issue of Birth-
right or Pottage
And Esau said, Behold, 1 am at
the point to die . . .and he sold
position to simplification that is as bis birthright unto Jacob.—Gene-
enlightened and as respectable cis xxv. 33.
theoretically as the most scientific A birthright for a mess of pot -
argument for the change. Ono may tugo--o reads the stone All that
isry
t meant to be the eldest born was
be practical, cognizant of histori sacrificed for a bowl of lentils. Tho
cal propriety, appreciative of re savury steam of a present advant-
ago shutout a vision of future
glory. A succulent dish looked big-
ger than a farm. Esau was de-
feated by an appetite; sold out
for amess of pottage.
Professor Max Eastman, in an h is an almost incredible old
article in The North American Re- :tale. But fur some present-day
view on "Why English Does Not 'transactions which retell it we
Simplify Her Spelling," Might incline to deny its truth -
P Y brilliantly fulness. I knew a man who traf-
states the case against the proposed ficked away his greatness for a
revolution. Aesthetic judgment, he morphine needle. The question
well says, hts been the sovereign once lay bctwcen a few moments'
power in developing the English ease from pain and a lifetime of
honor, and, like his ancient pro -
tongue, and the "true treasurers totype in scripture, this modern
of it "have been and are the know- Esau lot go the greater for the loss;
ers of its immediate beauty." sold his birthright of eminence for
a mess of
DOUBTFUL POTTAGE.
Of course we do not really in-
tend to give up the greater for The
less. 1 have always fancied that
Esau thought he would continue to
be his father's favorite son. It is
lona are essential to linguistic because we dc not expect an act
riches, and no artistic people is of business treachery to affect our
ever satisfied s:th a mechanically permanent standing, because we
perfect instrument. Superfluous count on being just as good men
after a gambling debt or aseason
of self-indulgence; because we fail
tc see any particular jeopardy in
an occasional lapse of virtue —in
other words, because we expect to
gularity and economy, and at the
same time be utterly averse to sim-
plification "with an ax "
Foreign scholars marvel at the
wealth, variety and power of our
language, but these qualities have
their price—complexity. An in-
finite number of combinations, ap-
pareet eccentricities, diversity in
or illogical letters may be due to
analogies, to real or fancied, con-
gruities between words and ideas.
"Buzz" is better than "buz" and
"thumb" is better than "thuni"
to the artist in words, and to take
away the silent letters is to rob
Kinn of pregnant suggestions, asso-
ciations, shades of meaning. There
are strange words, unique words in
the language, and to force them
into categories for the sake of regu-
larity is to devitalize and disfigure
eat the pottage and still retain the
birthright when all is said and
dune that we repeat the old trans-
action. No man, however, can
have hi, cake and eat it, too. No-
thing is gut excel by the sale of
something else.
The spirit of Esau, then, is the
spirit of the moment. It is an un-
healthy opportunism. It lives not
only by the day, but for the day.
Esau constantly exaggerated the
value of impulse. He. was the sort
of citizen who would havo cheated
his creditors out, of 73 per cent.
and then written a generous check
for charity. "When 1 want a drink
I take it," said a friend in my
hearing. But it doesn't take much
wit to live 1 y that law. Surely a
pian would be a fool to take a drink
if he did not want it. But not to
take it, though he wants it ever
se much—that
REQUIRES TIIE WHOLE •MAN.
But the spirit of Esau is, most
of all, the spirit of unfaith. He
sold what he could not see for what
be could see. He traded his birth-
right because the birthright was
a far-off possession. jt is so still.
Each man must devoutly belies° in
the worth of an inheritance of hon -
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HEALTH
FOODS FOR TIIE GOUTY.
Doctor Haig of London, who has
attained eruinenee in the treatment
of certain diseases, came to his
theory, of the uric -acid causation
of many of so-called neuralgia,
rheumatic pains, gouty twinges and
headache as a result of observation
un himself. During his student
and early professional days he suf-
fered horribly from periodical
headaches, losing an average of one
or two days out of every week in
consequence thereof. He experi-
mented with all sorts of drugs and
muses of living, and finally dis-
covered that the less meat he ate
the less headache ho bad, and he 1n Persia Sella ring for prayers
found further that the occurrence
of headache was marked by a situ- five times acday, and rs rush ofants,
f to
amount o excretion of a large the mosques, leaving all business
amount of uric acid.
From these two facts he conchae at a standstill.
cd that the headache was duo to Every year a layer of the en -
the presence of uric acid in the tiro sea, fourteen feet thick, is
blood, and that the presence of taken up into the clouds; the windy
uric acid in the blood was due to bear their burden into the land and
meat -eating. From this beginning the water comes down, in rain upon
was developed a complete system of tho fields, to flow back through
dietetics, having for its object the rivers.
exclusion of all uric -acid -contain- The biggest clock in the world is
ing foods, since, if uric acid is real- not the ono at the House of Com-
lv the cause of these troubles, no mons in London, though that is
permanent relief can be expected such an enormous one that people
so long as fresh quantities of the can walk about inside it. At
offending poison are thrown into Philadelphia there is a clock that
the system every day. is as big as many a. small house.
Man is naturally a fruit-and-ve- In France there is a curious form
or and truth. Only as he comes getable -eating animal, he bolievea, of life insurance, tho peculiarity
back from fiesh glimpses of such and must return to his original being that the longer the man lives
values is he safe in the presence of diet as the only means to his sani- the less his heirs become entitled
Jacob's succulent pottage. Such ' tart' salvation. Its other words, to: The idea is that if a man dies
is the office of faith—to hold us Doctor Haig is a vegetarian. but a young his children will require
firm. The principle is the same peculiar kind of one, for ho does help, but that by the time. he is ftf-
whether for the laying of a cable, not allow all vegetable foods by ty they will be old enough to earn
the fighting of a battle or the sav- any means. their own living.
ing of one's soul. Beans, peas and other pulses are An automatic machine capable of
GEORGE CLARKE PECK forbidden, since their protein is threading 1,000 needles per minute
readily convertible into uric acid, is a mechanical marvel of a Swiss
and especially dons he eschew tea factory. The operation includes
and coffee, their alkaloidal ingre- picking up the needle, propelling
dient, caffeine, being practically it to the proper position, tying a
the same chemically as uric acid. knot, cutting the thread, and re -
The diet of one who would avoid turning the needle to its assigned
becoming a subject to the uric -acid resting place.
diathesis, or who would emanci- Tho civilised nations of the world,
ooe0000000000oo pate himself from the pains of the it has just been computed, strike
already existing condition, must 2,090,000 matches every minute of
therefore consist almost entirely of the twenty-four hours. Some of
breadstuffs and cereals, puddings, the match plants aro very large,
BITS OF INFORMATION.
t Few Items of Fast That 11'01 be
of loterest to Teti.
A load of grapes weighs nearly
:a ton, and yields something under
2.00 gallons of wine.
.1t. present there aro 3,5!'0,000
children enrolled as members of
the Band of Hope in the United
Kingdom.
Tho largest choir in the world is
that of the Mormon Temple at Salt
Lake City. It consists of 350 voices,
all beautifully trained.
In a single minute a machine
which cuts up wood to make match-
es will turn out 40,000 "splints,"
as they are called.
It is estimated that there are 7,-
395,593 Sunday school scholars in
the United Kingdom. There are
707,312 teachers and 49,401 Sunday
schools.
THE SUNDNY SCHOOL
INTERNATION.t1, LESSON,
MAR. 21.
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YOUNG
FOLKS
GOSSAMER -BUILDERS.
Uncle Rollo considered thought -
them. Who can think of ghost Relish. Golden Text, lets 8:1. fully fur a moment before giving (yeah and dried fruit,Huta and the ono in the Unite<! States covering
stories of literary merit without Three eras are considered in the' an answer. milk roducts. 11'ater is the only 2.10 acres, with thin} two miles of
1 cant really tell, Hester, he beverage allowed. It is a meager railroad, which supply the match
the "h" in ghosts t lesson of the Quarter. said at last. "I haven't ever seen dict, and must be more or less mo- machines with 200,00n feet of loge
The. first Era. The Two Great, nriy' myself, but, then, I haven't nutunoue : and moreover, it is not day.
Powers producing Christianity, its,
seen everything, by any means, you always efficacious in curing perio- Tho only fourteenth century
fruits and successes (A.D. 30). know." dical headaches and other supposed street rema►ning in England, Illi.
Tho Everliving Leader and Savi- t Hester, from the footstool, nod- manifestations of the uric -acid H. W. Bennett, declared, in a lec-
our Ascended to heaven, sitting tdee silently. Uncle Ilollo's whirnsi- diathesis. An occasional course of , ture at the Royal Photographic So-
on the right hand of God, but also) cal ways puzzled her sometimes,' it, and a habitual more or less close c;ety's exhibition, is to be found
ever present with his people, and but he always explained things a ,roach to it aro no doubt, of et Wells, behind the chapter house
doing among them the same kind
great benefit to the general health, of the cathedral. It %rands practi-
Another ground for opposition to
simplification in its effect on our
classical literature, on our glori-
ous inheritance of poetry, drania,
fiction. Chaucer belongs to the
few, largely because of his archaie
of things be disooner or liter, even if he didP[d on earth. Nate tease•I but one must not forget that many Cally as it did when first built, the
spellings. Would the classics sof- 'among other things the kind of "1 remember when I was about! of the ills credited to uric acid may only later additions being a few
fer revision 1 Publishers would miracles which he wrought through!
roar age," he continued, looking bo a direct result of eye attain, to street lamps.
hardly venture to give us Shakes- the apostles. So the picture of the down at her, "I used to believe be relieved more by glasses than People whose peaceful slumbers
peare in the revised form. And first church in Acts 2 is the out- firmly that there were fairies. You by diet.—Youth's Companion. are disturbed by the noisiness of a
shining in actual life of the teach couldn't have convinced me that neighbor's dog will no doubt find
/he alienation of literature from fags of Jesus, the Beatitudes and there were not." it consoling to learn that there are
lite'y speech would be a calamity. Golden Rule Tho girl's eyes brightened. HEALTH HINTS. at least three varieties of the can -
The reparation of the written tan- Constantine's niot•t° "In hoc "That's what I—" she began. ins tribe which never hark. But,
F,,itge from that of current use, of sign° winces,' ''By this sign (of the ,But I used to believe almost A handful of flour bound on a alas! these dugs are not found in
Yhc market place and ephemeral cross) thou shalt conquer, is true anything," said her uncle, "parts- cut will stop bleeding. Canada They are the Egyptian
of the church in all ages. eularly because of my nurse, who 1 If
s'ublications, would snake neither No church or body of men which had red hair."
for culture. democracy nor for fur- elenies the divinity and continued He pa.sed a minute, but Hester
ther growth of language. For one, existence of Jesus has ever been did not ask what red hair had to. just as hut as you can stand it three) •m'ttic water diviner is extremely `Ret in the side scams.
Professor Eastman proudly claims largely successful in .spreading the 410 with it, s', he went. on: : "$fie' or four times n day and just before'simple, eater
iaing a small magnetic Linens are either heavy, almost
gospel, or building up the religi would tell me that the gossamer retiring at night. needle, similar to that of the maxi- like Russian crash, or they are
that sound theory and the dceprr ens lite• on the rays was b•Wilt overrti nt �1lany women think that it is weak' ncr's compas, mounted in a small' thin and fine.
box which is carried on a tripod. Fabrics for spring are softer and
11'hon it is put in operation,
the glossier than seer before, but are
presence of subterranean sources of firmer of texture.
water is immediately betrayed by' (licca has been heralded as the
the violent agitation of the needle, eiodish color for spring, but the
the oscillation in some cases being' latest report anis bro.4n.
as much as 150 degrees. i The manufacturers evidently be -
There was to be seen performing lieve that the purples are to have
at the October fairs in Munich, a another season of strenuous vogue.
roan who, besides being endowed Velvet pekins are once more re -
r. ith extra��rdinary muscular re-
ceiving attention. the stripes alter -
strength. possesses the rare gift of eating with the velvet.
being able to exhale through his Silk fibre laces are much worn in
eye.. He gives a proof of this by long sleeve underbodies with recep-
placing seine soapy water around tion gowns particularly.
one eye, the lid of which is closet!. Coats and skirts are being stet -
Then he opens the eye. and immeeli- tacked with flue silk braid .f the
ately an iridescent soap bubble be• sante color and lined to mate h.
gins to form. increases in size Un-
til it detaches itself, and floats
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Fash ion
Hints.
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FADS AND FANCIES.
Touches of color are everywh. re.
There is still a ratio fur bead
'work.
Stripes arc to bo unusually popu-
lar.
A new high linen collar buttons
at the back.
The one piece princess dress is
(•opnlar.
Velvets in narrow, shaded stripes
find favor.
The new spring suits continuo to
have buttons.
Washable tulle predominates for
the summer blouse.
Long sleeves will be worn on all
the tailored suits.
Tulle and linen jabots are as po-
pular as ever in Paris.
Glace gloves still hold first place
for hand coverings.
'regal straw is the finest material
for the brimless hat.
There is a growing possibility of
plaited skirts again.
Gold tissue will be much used
for sleeves and yokes.
Frocks may be buttoned down the
front as well as the back.
Shirley poppies are lovely as a
trimming Inc black hats.
Most of the embroidery seen now
in the shops is machine made.
A device to do away with stock-
ing darning is the gummed patch.
The separate waist and skirt have
almost disappeared from view.
"Puffed cut full at the back" is
the Paris decree for the hair.
Filet net stockings in lisle and
in silk are the rage of the moment.
Color embroidery, on white,
black, cream and ecru will be much
used.
White gloves are no longer worn
in the street, cr, indeed, anywhere.
The grays and the pastels pre-
dominate among the fabrics offer-
ed for Easter.
When two immense roses appear
on the same hat they are unusual-
ly flat in shape.
Jet has not lost• its popularity,
and it appears frequently upon
gowns and lusts.
It is said that steel or bead stud-
ded leather will be a novelty of
the season.
Many of the tailor mades for the
advance spring trade aro of tho
three pieced kind.
There is a fad for lacing the
sleeves all the way up on the out-
side of the arm.
Lace will be more than rivaled in
popularity- by embroidery and braid
trimming.
Tho 'flower put" crown of a
hundred years ago bids fair to be
e favorite millinery shape.
Huge ruchings arc going out and
in their place are seen crush rib-
bon and satin folds.
Pretty chains for muff or coin
purse may be rnade of a plaited rib-
bon to match the suit.
Many of the white and light tint -
cd suits have t )liars and cuffs of
For Hoarseness.—Take ,a cup sheepdog, the Australian dog, and black moire or satin.
of sweet milk, put a pinch of red the "lion -headed" dog of Thibet. Some of the new skirts have five,
pepper in it, heat it, and drink The new device called the auto-„e}'en, or nine gores, with pr.ncls
interests of literature and art sup- The Holy Spirit coming with new
port the opposition to the reformed power and abtn.dance, because
spelling. The simplifiers will have the coming of the Son of Gee! has
uinde the greatness of his work poa-
to reckon with the new line of ar-siblo, is the other force by which
gement, a line that is aggressive tehrie'ei,.nit.y has mcad.e its con -
rather than apologetic.
—'!'--
to (tie senses (0 that people would
nue-sts. presence resence was made manifest ,ether and sing: and a lot of things. looks, good Kra t i an g r
Iiko that,” he concluded. position. There is nothing that so
"How pretty :" cried Hester, , soon restores the tired nerves as
nestlirg her footstool nearer. 18 restful sleep. Get in the habit
"It ens pretty," admitted 1'nc'e of giving up a few minutes at least
Rollo, ''and I used to think about each play to taking a nap, and you
the fairies whenever I went out n'a! find the necessity of tonics
g g
by the fairies. They did it to catch to take a nap
the dew to drink and to bathe in. the contrary, iint itthe daytime; on
s often a sign of
Just before the sun carte up, my weakness if they do not. A nap
•nurse said. all of them would come in the afternoon refreshes one fur
r.ut and have a grand time. Tho tho tine being, because of the com-
fairies would climb up the beams plete relaxation it. affords, and it
toward the sun, and splash each' also helps in the retaining of good
1 I dgond dis-
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Idea .111 ltiehl I rouble i' {n Get
1'r,--eripti„u
realize the fact and the nature of
the power which transformed the
charaet.er of the people, and mul-
tiplied the number of the disciples.
Relate the stories of tho Ascen-
It is all sery well fur a German aio.t, the Promise, the Prayer before the gossamer disappeared indone away with.
doctor to pros; rite hearty laugh- alerting, the Day of Pentecost. the morning. But I couldn't un-! Olio° oil, by acting on the liver,
ter as a remedy for nervous dis-Tho Second Era. The Homo derstand where the fairies went to 1 helps to clear the skin, but the
eases. but perhaps he will also be('hutch at Jerusalem (.1.D. 30-35 or of what they were like, or why we' Person trying it roust also diet.
good enough to tell us where we 30).
shouldn't see them—just catch a; Nothing fried should be eaten; no
are to get the ingredients for his Note the Growth of the church glimpse of them, you know•.” (pastry; no rich gravies or greasy
prescription. in tour directions. "I've wondered two " said Hes 'an pa. If this diet is strictly f 1
One cannot well sit down and 1. The transformation of charas•
laugh "till the tcers run clown the ter, seen in the Apostles, notably
cheeks'' at nothing at all, howeser. in Fetes; and point out. the inci-
anxious to cure a set ere attack of : dents whi.h show what that change
neuralgia• ! was. Seen also in the character
When one comes to think of it, of the (*fret Christians. Seen also
ease the Lady's Pictorial. few in their action under persecution.
things make one laugh to this ex 2. Growth in numbers. Nete the
tent. and what is one person's meat expressions which show this pro -
where hilarity is concerned niay grecs.
prove so puisenons to another as 3. Growth in organization. Give
to plunge him to the very depths the most marked instance.
of depression• 1 4. Growth in extent of country
There are people who will double retched by the gospel.
up with merriment when they see' l)ifliculties and How They Were
some Inc else fall down a flight ef:Overcome. State the obstaelcs in
ter.
•-I )owed, with plenty ..f fresh and graceful!} away.
"Then one day I found out all stewed fruits, a teaspoonful of the
about it," said her uncle. ..it was nil taken half an hour before break -
spiders all the time." i fast and one half an hour after the
"Spiders'" a•d Het ''1' h' ' latest meal every day, for a year,
lite to say 'Ugh :' at spiders.' vity and so clear the skin. it is "What is time matter'." asked a
especially whin t}iey tool yi into quite %1%C!ess to expect results l or
of the man with the tired
thinking that they are fairies., and from taking elite oil in a few weeks "Matter?" was the reply. "Why
build such very pretty things." or even months • where there is a i "Matt have a wink of sleep {est
Hester looked her distress. "I)o�oi`p',.ition to liver sluggishness r,i fit. The 11'ilkin n :telt ] f. r
spiders really and truly make the olive nil should be a regular article throe Konya, and theg•,t up and
threw a lump ca coal at it.
mach on okra on every- ��
i ser. g w ill relieve the liver of its inacti-
"Xot at all, Hester. 11. isn't po-
TROU II LES NEVER COM E
SINGLY.
gossamer. Uncle !telly i" f dict, It should be taken on lit
11:1.1:1'1IONI. AND I.11t111111•.
.In Int etr'-ting Experirueet Being
f tied al ('ardhT.
Cardiff. 11al••-. posse,. :n its
public free library an in -1,:
hi0h tlainis distinction ser the
spirit of enterprise permeating its
system ,�f management. The latest,
and perhaps the most notable. il-
lustration (.1 this is to he found in
the u
inquiry taJ'part mentishment "f a telephone
Ne nodded. "Don't be afraid, trice, on sp
"Did you hit it t 1 Mr. Farr, the chief librarian,
Ire said. "They are little bits of. thing in t.ie Tway of a salad, is .•XO I hit Wilkins. who had •just stated recently that h during the
herd's- i ,
spiders. you know. I never saw 1 idl•y po sib a to use it tun ice } come telt to let the cat into the shirt prru,.1 it has ten in exist-
stated
and afterward describe it ' the way of this progress. and hew them, any more than I have seen - house.'' enee the department has worked
as "the hrnniest thing they ever j they were et ercome—from with 'fairies, but I know a man who has. ( "11'ell. that was surely satisfac- `cry satisfactorily. The inquiries
saw. bet most nervous patients out. from within. Name the sari -'They spin these threads out of their her uncle. `'but these spidersdo tory 1'. received e..ver it very wide range,
probably would not laugh at all if . oes incidents which illustrate and , b.,dies, like regelar spiders in the something ver> like it. Thee ••l: „r a minute it was. Then 11'il- treat► qt:esticros r latiu; to eonserip-
tn cider t• effect a cure an�ittrmpt express both the dificultic• and the attic. These threads are very throw up a thread that the wind kins returned the coal through our
ti"i'• c'" "prrati..n and boiler., to
were Wiser to excite their hilarity' u_a}- the early Christians overcame wonderful and fine and strop catches, and it flies out and up,ladies' fans, hedge hogs, obi -age
by throwing relatives grid servants g'l like a kite. The spider clambers drawing -room come." window. But there p
evil with g,c,d. They term nets, and they catch p teas wog -r to tome." rasions and tailoring. But the
down stairs. Nerve specialists who The Third Era. The Expansion food in them." up along this rope, and sees what 1 rs ! p ,]icy of the committee is to make
adopt the laughter rare will have of the ('hutch (.1.1). 3r -t0)• "I know:" exclaimed the girl.; he can see. Of course the rope is "He went into the hone, and the ratepayer. fe 1 that they aro
either tw practise clewing or keep The cau•:'es of this expansion. "i've seen little white cones, just, tied to the grass or something left the cat still howling.' ,getting value for money, sad as
trained tools es set their patients
The places to which the church like fennels. Do they make flute,' first." ---
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t, consequence the number of trivial
t wn' extruded, i ' s over the tele
too "I sheu.d call him a fairy all the 1X still
TALKER.
que tion. asked phone
.___.__,t, The value of this expansion to "Surely." said Uncle Rollo.I same,'• said Hester. after a pause. j li- singularly small. Where time is
the progress of the church. "And they do another queer thing.I "Anything. sten if it is only a- Maude—Mr. Hard,•ash called nn' required for an answer to be givcth
''You have an enormous appe- State the main incidents of this You've read about the Indian ma- spider. that ran de things like that me last t vening. He's the most the inquirer is rung up later. (e-
lite." said"a thin man. enviously. exp`i'si''n. gic•ians who throw a rope up in the ought to be called a fairy. iengaging talker 1 ever !Mental toe gutsy l►orruwrrs et hooks are able
''What do you take for it I" "in + air and send a boy up on it, and "Then f can saw that I beliese' Clara --Indeed' What did he to find out over the telephone whe-
alt nit- experience.•' replied his It ta:.cs an exceptionally smooth he disappears in fairies,'• said Uncle Rollo. say 1 ithF•r a certain volume is available,
pl:tml• ' fend. "I have found no- confiiiense man to sell mining stock] She welded. I ''Then I can," said Hester, smil- Mfauda -Qe asked me to marry, and to a•k for it to be ;;rpt t ntil
the :7 a:••re .citable than feud:" to a iniecr. "Of course that is a trick•," laid ing.—Youth's Companion. him. !called fit.
''in a rug "