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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1905-09-07, Page 7J CURRENT TOPICS IELIJAH'S HARD TAJ******SK; eiHOME. HON1� one the representatives ut the rn- 'IYto esselonal assembly which the Czar avec his subjects is not the stvos asked for in their Moscow con- ference. It is not the one that the "intelligtsa"—the educated classe•s— h b 1 di f From the ave eat pea ng or. puint of view of western Europe and America the assembly is but a faint shadow of a legislative body. it has little power as regards legislation or the supervision of finances. It is a consultative rather than a legislative body. The autocratic power ef the emperor remains unimpaired. Ile holds the purse and the sword. What are called in this country "the in- alienable rights of the citizen" will continuo to depend on him. Nevertheless the grant of a nation- al assembly, although it has little power, is the beginning of a new era in Russian life. It is the first step which emits the most. 11 Russians aro not different from other people the elective body which will represent the aspirations of the reeve enlight- ened and progressive elements will not be satisfied with the small power it has, but will gradually reach out for more. A popular assembly may make slow progress in its efforts to wrest power from an autocracy, but it is always the winner in the end. It is a great gain for Russia to have a body representing the people, however imperfectly. which the Czar can consult. It will bo the mouth- piece of whatever public opinion there is In the empire, and the Czar will be enabled to learn more fully and promptly than he can now what that public opinion is. Even if the national assembly should long re- main a purely consultative body if, will bo of singular value. It will be a school for training Russians in par- Ilamentary life. It will he ft place where men can speak their minds reasonable freedom and exercise with- in bounds the right of criticism of administrative officers. Those who go slowly go safely. Russia is not prepared for universal suffrage, the secret ballot, and a leg- islature with extensive powers. It could not snake a wise use of those things if it had them. It would he unwise to make the Russians their own masters too suddenly. They still need the autocracy. '!'hey also need education When they get more of it they will get more rights. They will get a genuine legislative body instead of. the semblance of one. Bishop Potter gives ministers good advice in telling them to preach only twenty minutes. When a Spurgeon or a Beecher arises ho may preach as long as he pleases. The longer bis sermons are the better his hear- ers like thein. But most clergymen are not ileechers or Spurgeons, and the averngu minister who preaches more than twenty minutes, by boring and wearying his auditors, undoes, in the last half of his sermon, all the good ho has dune in the first half, The Puritan minister usually preach- ed nn hour nr Whore. Tho congrega- tion listened with rapt attention or was moved to demonstrations or re- ligiour. enthusiasm. Ministers find it difficult to understand why, since people then listened gladly to a long sermon, they now object if it lasts for from thirty to forty -live minutes. The cuusrw of the change might l:e hard to give. As to whether the change has taken place or not there can Le no question. Not only do people object nowadays to long ser- mons, but many will not go to hear them who mould go to hear short ones. Long winded ser tnnns have emptied more pews than anything. else. The minister may prefer to preach long sermons, but he should consult his hearers' wishes, out his own. He should set before his cus- tomers the wares they went. Preachers accustomed to talking from n half hour to an hour perhaps think thnt. they cannot compress their arguments and exhortations in- to twenty minutes. Let them try It. They v. ill be surprised to find how many- good lkongghts may be driven house in that time, if they are ex - pre ssrd as briefly and pointedly ns they ought to be. '!'hey may also food that, instead of sending their hearers mvny tilled to such repletion that they trill neer .tort to tomo back, they will send then away with just onut'gh pal:11111111 10 last until the time fir the next sermon, when they %till return hungry for snore. '1'h,r art of fishing, ehich many young Wren never bonen, is to make short calls and to be su agreeable and entertaining that when the visi- tor leaves his hostess regrets his early departure end hopes he will conn twain. The art of sermonizing and of speech making is after the Fame pattern. Speaker or preacher should learn 10 talk briefly and in- terCstingiy, so that when he slops his 1 Perces eel regret That he did net talk lenge'. noel toil) he to hear him again. lie atves wilt lack en Audience. The fioniegoing of a Good Man 1 Devoid of Terror And it came to pass, as they still I went on. and talked, that, behold, ! theres appeared u chariot of !ire and horses of tiro, and parted them teeth asunder and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. -2 Kings ii., 11. There is something very sugges- tite about the hoategoing of this good man. No one would suspect from his manner that he knew the change was so neer. He was never more natural—never more calm. Was this because he was to go in such an easy and safe way? There is nothing to Indicate that he knew about the way. Why, then, was it.? Ono thing that did much for him was his record for faithfulness. The earliest view given of Elijah is in the presence of the hardest kind of a task. He is called to stand be- fore a wicked king and deliver a most unwelcome message. Other tasks equally hard and dangerous were given him, but he never said no to any. The remembrance of this must have been a great comfort when the hour of transfer came. Duty is an important ting. And the more faithful men are in its per- fot finance the more confidence will they have when the end cornea. The record kept every day in one's own boson. is a record that ALWAYS TELLS THE TRUTH. Doing has the. largest kind of an in- fluence upon being. It is the arra well exercised that grows largo muscle. It Is the life well lived that brings large character. Tho only way to get the good that comes from doing is to do. Itepcntanco for duty slighted may prevent the memory of such failure bringing distress, but it cannot put a different memory in its place. Tho sponge can erase from the black- board the example that is wrong, but it cannot do the crayon's work anti put there one that is right. Faithfulness is a great trouble - saver. He who so does his duty as to have no shame over what is be- hind him need have no fear of what is before him. Hight living makes easy dying. Larger views of life make pleasanter views of death. Another thing that helped give such a beautiful close to life was the gond he had prepared the way for. It was never a question with Elijah as to what his share was, but al- ways a question as to what the op- portunity was. Ile was very careful, therefore, to do alt he could for those who were to come after hint. Ho establisher schools, into which he gathered young Wren, whom he prepared for service. lie called to his side one whom he made ready to take up his work when he laid it down. When, then, the end carne, he knew he had done something that would last. And this knowledge gave a differ- ent look to his going. Ifo who does not leave something here to work for good when ho goes is a failure, no matter how much attention he may have excited or how much honor ho may have received. 'I'IHE SADDEST FACT (11' LIFE is not the fact that nature often makes it so short in years, but that we ourselves so often make it short in influence. Good must have come also from the experrgence he had with divine things. The circumstances under which Elijah had lived were such as made him very dependent upon God. Tiine and again when his heart was heavy had he gone to him for guid- ance and strength. This gave hint large experience in a realm which made it easy to be- lieve in a future. He knew there was a God, because with his heart he had come into personal touch with Him. He knew there was a spiritual world, because he had gotten help which he was sure had come from it. Experience at one point became an aid to faith at another. The best way to remove doubts about a future life is to live them away. 11 we live u life that is worthy to en- dure forever, we shall find it easier to believe that we are to endure for- ever. The mystery connected with death cannot be got rid of, but it can bo lived into a form that we shall not be troubled by it. %%'hen the time comes to go we shall have to go 1►y a different way from Elijah, but it. will be just as safe a way. There isn't anything in the grave for a child of God to fear. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 10. Lesson XI, The Life -Giving Stream Golden Text, Rev. 22. 17. LESSON WORD STUDIES. Note—These Word Studies are bas- ed on the text of the Revised Ver- sion. The Prophet and lis Ilook.—'!'he name Ezekiel tncans "God is strong,' or "God strengthens." The prophet was one of the temple priests and the son of a mein named 11u•ri. ile shared the banishment of ,Iehaiachin II. C. 507. Comp. Ezek, 1, 2 3, and 2 Kings 24, 14-113. Tho greater part of the per;ad of his prophetic minis- try was spent in the ;ailed Jewish settlement at Tei-Ablb, a place war the river Chebar, a canal or tribu- tary of the Euphrates in the vicinity of Babylon. This little colony of Jews, mostly from the ruling classes of Jerusalem, was granter) much free- dom and u large measure of se:f- governnrent. by the Itaby'loninn mon- arch, and continued to cherish a pns- hicnato int crest in the affairs of its native land. Its members confidently expected that in some way they would shortly be r,'.turcd to their old place of power and authority at. the head of the Jettlsh nation at .1erns::ten1. False prophets, such ns those who opposed ,Jeremiah in Jt•r- usnb•tn, fostered this delusive hope, and hence Evekiel, the true prophet of Jehovah, whose message did not promise hnmedinte restoration, twos from the beginning et his ministry unpopular with his people. His work extended over a period of not lass than twenty-two years, npproximnte- ly 502-570 11. C. Concerning the book of Ezekiel it may be said that this book is one of those generally admitted by a large majority of the best scholars to have come down to us in essentially the form in which it left the hand of its author. Neither : the unity nor the authenticity of Ezekiel has ever been seriously ques- tioned. 1lis writings on the whole may be said to be Itc:cingg 1n breadth and sy-uipalhy and evangelical free- dom: nevertheless, his teaching in re- gard to the value of the indivielunl stout, of repentance and the rated of a new heart, and his representation of Gori ns tnetciful and eager to forgtite- furnish some At the finest passe:'•+ to he found in the pages of prophecy. s Verso 1.—'The vi e c.,ntained in 1 verses 1-12 of this chapter 18 closely connected ttith what precedes. The prophet hos shown by a variety of 'different representutoes the blessed results to Israel of .Jehovah's reoccu- pying his temple. The ki'tgdoni of fled now presented tinder the forst of n spiritual house with the living (rod himself for the gl ,rtous inhabitant, and a royal priesthood for its minis- tering servants. is to be not of a re- strictive but of an expanuive char- ncter, and its influence for good is to flow forth with healthful and re- storative energy from the innctuary, investing with freshness of life , and beauty the waste and desert places of the earth. Ile brought nue hack—The guide first mentioned in 1tu :1. •'a roan, 'those nppenrance wee like the a't - g.te •t:iir ef brass, with a lido of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed." This guide had previously shown to the prophet. other parts of tho temple (compare visions recorded In chapters 40-46). The prophet ap- parently had tarried in the outer court of the temple, and is now brought back by his guide, who de- sires to reveal unto liar a new vision. The door of the house—The enstcrn door of the temple. The temple fac- ed eastward, and consequently the court in which stood the altar was in, front of the door to the cast. Out from tinder the threshold—froth the right side of the house, as one passed out of the door custt:ard, and consequently on the south of the altar. .l. Brought the out—Out of the court of the temple; because in the court, surrounded with buildings and walls, the prophet could not see the farther course of the waters. toy the way t.. ... „ • , northward —Through the north gat A etrlil around to the closed eastern gale opposite (ie door of the temple from which they started. llere tho pro- phet beholds the stream emerge into the open at the south side of the gate. Ilan oast—Literally, trickled forth, the stream being movement itely small at first, the waters Increasing rapit lr, !mete tor, in (teeth and breadth. The right sift'—Facing eastward with the gate behind, hence, the south side of the gate. 8, 4. \tonsured—ngnin — again— The point of the vision Is the rapid Increase in the depth of the eat ors on the one hand, and the remarkalilc effect of the waters on the ether, as shown in subsequent. verses. 5. A river—Apparently the prophet is mmn.erl at the depth ef the rear atthis point, which reminds him of the impetuous rush of n mountain torrent. 6. Ilnst thou seen this—tlnst thou observed the rapid miraculous in- crease in the volume of the waters? Caused me to return to the hunk of the river—From the deeper water into which, following his guide, the prophet had waded no far as ens ptesihle, until the sl renin became ' rt river that could mot he pn4.ed through." 7. Upon the Lank of the river—The sane hank from which they had started to wade iota the stream). The remarkable fertility on the bunk had sprung into tieing es suddenly and mirnculnuisly as the waters had in- crensed in volume. In this fnct Nes the point of the vision. 1 R. At this point the interpretation of the vision h^gin:. it tells us con- cerning the course of the eaters ; and the effects which they produced. These eorreitponded to the twofold direction of the prof het al observa- tion. Arnbnh—Tho whole valley of the Jordan, extending even beyond the Dead Sen. Is geographically desig- nated by this term. We are to think however, of tint portion of the Ghor juist north of the Dead Sen. Into the sen—The !)end Sen. ilenled—('hanged from salt water to fresh, with the result mentioned In the next verse. t), A very great multitude of fish -- The Dead Sea, now entirely desti- ti}ts of life, west! Qwaria with an abandnnco c,f (.811, and the waters of til' \1 \t fat Ste'ASll DAI N'I'I ES. !laked Skimmer Squash—Wash the squash, cut in halves, and lay shells duwntvurd in n ehallow baking pun. Add a very little boiling water, and bake until tender. 'Then scrape out of the shell, season, add a lump of butler and mash. Or it may bo served in the shell with butter and seasoning. Mashed Summer Squash—Wash, pare, cut in pieces and remove the seeds. Steam until tensor, add salt and pepper to taste, and a generous lump of butter. Mash thoroughly and if too moist, simmer over the stove for a few minutes. Summer Squash in Tomato Cases —Nash 3 doz. tine large tomatoes, cut off the tops carefully, and scoop out a spoonful of the pulp. !'ill the cavities with nicely seasoned mashed stgtittsh, sprinkle a little minced onion over the top; and cov- er with buttered crumbs. Place the tomato tops over each, and bake slowly for half an hour. Scalloped Summer Squash—Press 1 pint of well -drained stewed squash through a colander, and put a layer in the bottom of a well -buttered pudding dish. Cover with a layer of brcadcrunlbs, some seasoning, and little hits of butter, add another layer of the squash, and proceed in this way until the dish is full. Have the last layer of grated cheese and buttered crumbs: pour i cup sweet milk over all, cover the dish, and bake in a moderate oven for three- fourths of an hour. Then remove the cover, and let the top brown de- licately. Fun,uter Squash Fritters—Rub 1 pint stewed squash through a sieve and add to It 3 well -beaten eggs, +} teaspoon salt, a dash or two of pepper, 1 pint sweet milk, and (lour to snake a batter as thick as for griddle cakes. A cup of cold roast beef, chicken or veal added to the batter will 'Hake tb.ee delicious little cakes even more pleasing. Brown delicately on both shies in hot butter or dripping. Sumpter Squash Farci—.~elect a large summer squash, cut a slice off the end, and carefully remove the seeds and pulp in the centre. Chop j ID. cold cooked meat very line, put. it into a bowl with 2 ounces of breaderutnbs, salt and pepper, and a pinch each of thyme and sutnmer savory, and 1 well beaten egg. Mix all well together and if not moist enough add a very little milk or gravy. Fill the squash with this stuffing, and put on the end that was cut off. Roll the squash in a piece of muslin, make the ends se- cure, and steam until tender. This will take from an hour to an hour and a half. Remove the muslin when dope, place on a heated dish, and serve with a plain melted but- ter sauce. Summer Squash Croquettes—Wash, pare, cut up and remove the seeds from the squash. Cook it in slightly salted) anter with 2 cups young green peas. When done, drain very dry, add salt and pepper to taste, a tablespoon Nutter, and 1 small cup fine dry crumbs. Mash very smooth and unix in the well beaten yolk of au egg. Roll in spoonfuls in dry crumb.e and drop the little croqu- ettes in a hot buttered frying pan. Brow.' delicately on both sides, and serve at once. Summer Squash with Mushrooms —Wash the squash, cut In quarters, and remove the seeds. :1st lek1e with seasoning. lay in a baking part'• shell downward, and place over each a layer of small, peeled hroome. Add some seasoning and bits of but- ter, pert n little water in the hot - tom of the pan, and bake in n mod- erate oven until the squash is fen- der. Just before it is done sprinkle buttered crumbs over each piece of squash and let brown delicately. Serve in the shell. Each quarter the sea shall bo healed, and every- thing shall Live w•hlt.hersoever the river cometh. 10. En-getll—To t'e identified with the modern Ain ,l lily , "kid's well," on the middle west shore of the Dead Sen. 1':n-egglaim—'1"his latter place hoe tint yet been identified. 'line great sen --The Ste/Merriment. 11. Marshes . . . given up to salt —The only boon which the otherwise harmful salt wastes and waters have furnished, thatis, the salt supply itself, shall be preserved in stare lent quantities to supply the needs of all. 12. in this verse that of which the prophet obtained at first only n gen- eral view (comp. verse 7) Is more I fully pointed out to him in detail as the conclusion of the tthole set -- Hon. Viewed forward or backward, from the banks or from the midst of the stream, the waters are waters • of life, sostnining life and produring i fruit, and this life and this fruit in t.iurn shall be productive if more lifts! for the fruit thereof shall be for food, end the leaf thereof for heal - should be of a nice sire for serving one WHERE THE BRITISH FAIL HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS. One of the most useful articles to include in one's kitchen furnishings is a knife polishing board. It may be purchased for the small sum of ten cents, and with it comes a cake of polishing material; by Its use It is possible to make a very neat and satisfactory job of one that is usu- ally considered disagreeable. An elaborate stand for a bird eege is mad. of Venetian iron. quite or- nate in design and very effective inn combination with the brass (ago. TIme pedestal is massive and the top is urn -shaped, and supports a hook on which to hang the cage. The idea of this, of course, is that a pet bird may be moved from room to room without the Rouble of screw- ing hooks into the walls or ceilings. Rubber tips for chair legs are an invention that will, do doubt, prove a boon to housekeepers who pride themselves on the appearance of their hardwood floors. These tips, the cost of which is small, cou'•,ist of half spheres of rubber having sharp points, which may be driven into the wood just as a nail is driven. and their use will save much of the wear and tear on floors that are ruined by scratches A sat of shelves originally intend- ed for use in kitchens where dresser space is limited, may be used with very good effect in a dem or studio, and they are so simple in cunetruc- tion that they are easily made at home. Either three or five shelves aro made into a case, the .'hole thing being very shallow, not much deeper, in fact, than an ordinary plate rack. Each little shelf should have a groove for plates and a "lip:' holding the hooks for comes and extending far enough•out for the cups to hang easily without touch- ing the wall. The whole set of shelves is attached to the wall by means of strong nails and heavy eyelet screws, and if given the same finish as that of the 'woodwork or the rest of tho furniture in the room the resultwill be very satisfactory. Some one has discovered a really practical use for candle ends that are too short to burn well and that seem fit for nothingtexcept the trash basket. They will bo found very useful in kindling fires, as they burn with a steady flame, for a few lain- utes, at (east, until the kindling and wood have time to become well ig- nited. One of the most satisfactory ways of providing pure air in a roost is to keep a pitcher of water constant- ly on hand. It will itn11ned' .Lely ab- sorb all of the impure k ._its with which the room is filled, arising chiefly from the respiration of these eating or sleeping in the apartment. The value of kerosene oil in the constant war that is being waged on flies and mosquitoes and other insects is not generally appreciated. One of the surest methods of getting rid of the annoyance caused by flies settling on the outside of screen doors 15 to rub the woodwork of the door with kerosene, the odor of which is so offensive to thein that they will keep away from it entirely. DiSCiI'hINI%. IN '1'111: TIOME. It is ensier to offer advice than follow, and yet much good may be gained by lending to it a willing ear and some consideration. No parent will be the worse of conning careful- ly the following suggestions! First—Ile gently firm with the baby. Obedience should commence in the cradle. Second—fn-istupon obedience in all things and ntall tithes. Third—instill the necessity of truthfulness as soon as your child ;cal n.S '.'- ta*. fourth—ley exempt., ''nd illustra- tion tench self-control. Fifth —Remember that children have privileges its •h so as you— indeed more, for they are helpless and entirely under your nuthority; therefore sacredly respect their opinions and feelings. Sixth --Never be too busy to talk intelligently to your chilck•. n. 1':n - courage questions; seek and give confhlere es. Seventh—burnish a place for ev- erything, and require everything to be kept in its piece. I:ighth—i)emand clemilin"ss in Iter - son, behavior, and e!'ethe e — toot. spasmodically, but from the cradle up. 11 neglected, see it done. '!'ouch the child's personal and family pride Put hint on honor. Ninth—Neser allow your child to , "answer back" until he is old nough to reason: then reason Intel- ligently and gently. It is his due. Tenth -11 you pr Ise your child puuishnte tt. be as good as your teal. Fail to keep your word once nod he will never trtil yott again. Ilut never punish i ' in a passion. You disgrace yourself and break hte spirit, nisei in jun' itis belly. To whip or otherwise punish hien in n passion is brutal; it brutalizes hint, nl`n. ---♦-- -- "Did the bride feel tory much de- pressed because it rained on her weddine day?" "Not at all. Her father •' lis raincunts and she is his only child." J yU1tliRilAN LiF1' iN AMERICA. Mrs. Whitehen—Af ter incubators, this Is the limit. THINGS THEY CAN'T HAKE DI THAT COUNTRY. The Weather Sas a Lot to Do With It—But Britain Builds the Best Ships. We can still assert without undue boasting that Britain holds premier place 111 a greater number ut Indus- tries than any other nation no the world says Pearson(' Weekly. We build the best shirts, make the finest steel, No other country can heat us in the textile industries. We are f,tr ahead of all the rest of the world in the manufacture of sporting weapons, and quite a score of other trades might be quoted in which lop place) is universally conceded to our is- lands. All the same we tnust freely con- fess that there is a large number of industries in which Britain lugs hope- lessly behind. The reasons for our lack of pro* gives in these directions are vartottsd In some of them we really cannot help ourselves. 'Puke, for instance, dried vegetables for which the demand is constantly Increasing, especially for the Navy. Out of eighteen large firtns which contract (or the supply of our Navy only one is English, the others being Canadian, French, Dutch, or Ger- man. 'Phe Board of Trade Journal, com- menting on this fact, says that the principal cause of our failure in this respect is the DAMPNESS OF THE -CLIMATE, there being an excess of moisture in nearly all vteeot.ubles grown in Great Britain. Added to the great demand for fresh vegetables and tho high rate of wages prevailing here, these are the reasons why the dried vegetable bus- iness fails in England. The dye trade, once British, has been captured front us by Germany, and we cannot flatter ourselves that this loss is not largely our own fault. The (act is that the German manu(acterers have not spared money or trouble to find substitutes for raw material. It is their scientific, methods which have resulted in such huge firms as the English Serving Cotton Company buying ninety per cent. of their coloring matter abroad and in English dyers as a whole be- ing able to purchase only ten per cent. of English dying materials. There is one color, however, a brilliant carmine, of which it is said that our failure to make it is not our own fault. The story is often told that nn English manufacturer went to Lyons, whence this color comes to us, and paid its maker $5,000 for his secret. But when the Briton returned home and began to manufacture the dye ho found that the color was not nearly so brilliant as THE FRENCH I'RODUC'P. He went back to Lyons and com- plained that he had lost both his time and money, whereupon rho Frenchman explained—what he had forgotten to say before—that it was only brilliantly sunny weather that the perfect carmine could be pro- duced. Curborundutn, that wonderful and beautiful artificial gem which is only less hard than the diamond, is com- ing more and more into use every day. Yet practically our whole sup- ply comes from Niagara. Here, again, our failure to manufacture for our own market is not our own fault. It is the huge water power of Niagara which produces electric heat too cheaply for us to compete. We may hope, however, that with. to a very few years we shall be able to bent the Yankees by staking car- borundun,, artificial graphite, and shelter products on British tel for the Victoria Falb; of the 'Zam- besi will provide power ,,ti a sc,lisneepagequite unmatched by Niagara or neer page caternct on the face of the earth. Mention of water g1nte. ' %trjngs to mind thio fact that, w•hBn ihfrt!q years ago we mode itempen ropes and cables for half the world, to- day the industry Is prnct irally dead in this country. It has gradually left us for !caly. The reasons are two—first, that IMIy bus ABUNDANT WATi?It POWER to work her mills; secondly, that her supply of labor is far cheaper than our oven. A11 the satire we could make much more use of water power if we wished. Friutrv' gets nenrly 000,000 horse- power from 49,000 waterfalls upon I non -navigable streams. We have many hundred's of similar (albs it► Scotland, Wales, Fumherlanrl, Devon, !and elsewhere which could well be 1 utilised. 1 The success of the new Scottish i alutnin`unn works at the Falls of leoehabe're proves this. • It seems nn old fact that nearly all our hest 1vttew'rilere conte from the :Mat's, and that one has to pay at leivet 5100 for a machine which rer- teialy does not cost more than $25. Nearly every important patent con- nected with typewriters is owned int America. and this though the first writing machines were made on this side of the Atlantic. It is possible that our loss in this respect may be attributed to our cumbersome, tust- ly, and ineffective patent laws. • America, again, provides us with clothes -pegs. The few that nre made in this country are mostly whittled by hand, and cannot, of course, com- pete with the smaller earl neater pro- ducts of American machinery , where bt':c•ks of wood fed into a machine at one end come out at tho other frnish- ecl clothes -pegs. iiiS COLOR SCIitJd . Snvirlicus-1). I'm feeling all richt, except for my color scheme—it doesn't harmonize this morning. Spnrtactrs—Your color scheme? What do you mean? Smarticus—Why, the brow"n of the !nate in my mouth doern't corres- pond to the blue of my feelings. ifappy is the man *he 10 too We, 10 find fault.