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The Brussels Post, 1907-7-11, Page 6AN-r-TATTRACTIVE FAITII All Things Uplifting and Sublime Have But One Source. "The beauty Of holiness.- Psalms It would be safer to eny that sin must Note be somewhere tutting •weerever 111VVO IS Religion ouget In be the most natural, deformity, milli, or Mauve -IMO, as a desirable, and attractive thing.1.0 man, centrum' phase Inc it, the bleuk and for It simply stands for lee development barren le the evidence of that- which is of the best in us, the coming into the forsehen of 00(1, Things (resolute are full and rich heritage tete is ours as not divine. Religion Ls tert repression spiritual beings, and the realization of ea development inh, a fullness and our highest possibilities of clew:later tuM beauty far letyund our ilretuus, service. Ile veto Ignores religion is at- It Is a good thing 1,, see the divine in ting himself off from the lest and Inost ali bitge Mir tuid lovely ki lake them beautitul poestellities M his Ilfe, as evidences that the love, thut one's pro - Some have talked of the nereseity of 110111100d 111iS world good in its primeval making religion attractive, 11 doa not glory etel is yvorking, still is seeklug to have to be made attractive.there 15 DO- enrich our lives and lead them out le thing more desirable than lhe peace, the fullness of joy. Why ehottld nut we, power, and prosperity of the real life IlIce the poets and preachers of ancient which it, anfers. It is Lite imitation, the Melee trate again of the gladness of false and the prejudiced presentation of living. religion that men endeavor to chose up Character may need for Its full &wet - attractively. In that they never sue- opment the etorms and wintry blasts of coed, for cramping the soul and twist- Me, but It peals just as truly and just is ing the intellect ever is opposed by the much the sun.shine;• the days when the best In us, heart goes out and joins From the caricature of religion we turn with loathing. Mummeries and mockeries, fads and forms leeve us ,empty and impatient, The heart of man goes out to thing§ fair, lovely, joyous, end uplifting, and they who find no God la the 01a -borate sermon or the ser- vice in the church somehow are thrilled with the feeling of the divine and in- spiring in the woods and field and Mountains. All things good, •all things attractive and lovely. Uplifting and sublime have but one source. THEY TOUCH OUR HEARTS( IN TIIE SONG OF NATUFIE, when 'something leaps within us at the gladness of being alive, and we' drink in of the Infinite love that is over all. Just as the sun seems to cull t,he flow- er:: out of the dark earth and draw out their beauty, calls forth the buds and brings the blossom into perfect fruit, so there ls a spirit of divine life in our world calling us out to the best, seeking te woo us to the things beautiful, Man needs not to repress his life, but to lain to respond to every worthy impulse, every high hope, to find the life beauti- ful. because they come from the heart 01 all The beauty of holiness is the beauty of being; they yeah our spirits beeau.se character. It is the adjustment of life to they are spiritual. Deep calls unto deep nature and neighbor and heaven so that when the divine in man answers to the etrength and harmony ensue, so that divine in the world without, in human duly becomes a delight,. labor a song of affections, in noble aspiretions, and in praise, and out of life's burden and glorious deeds. bottle the beauties of godliness, of love, Too long have we believed that only and leneerness, joy and gratitude begin the unpleasant, the gloomy, and repo- le bloom. tare could be right or religious. There Lay hold on everything good and true, is a type of conscience that determines on all things glad and elevating; cher- edifies by the rule, that 11 a thing is 1#li every fele thought and aspiration; pleasant or beautiful it must be sinful learn to see the essentially religious in and wrong. To such souls it is a sin whatever lifts up life, in whatever helps to be sunny M disposition, to delight in humanity, and so make life rich in tete Fathers fair world with Its glow- heavenly treasure and glowing with the Mg riches and bounty dropping daily glory of other worlds. from his hand. HENRY F. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 14. Lesson II. The Ten Commandments - Duties Toward God. Golden Text: Deut. 6. 5. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. Based on the text of the Revised Ver- sion. The Law of the Ten Words. -The Ten Commandments of the 'Mosaic law are armed to under the various titles of 'testimony," "covenant" (Exod. 25. 21; De(it, 9. 9; Psa. 119), and "the Deca- Jogue." This last title means literally Me law of the len words," vetich is the Dame used in Exod. 24. 8; Deut, 4. 13, and other passages. The name "Ten C.omandments" is a less accurate Wage more common rendering of the original Hebrew used. The commonly accepted view among Old Testament scholars leaves undisturbed the tradition of the Manic authorship of "an essentially spiritually and ethical cotle of ten pre- apts." It is, however. considered prob- able that this code existed originally in a much briefer form, to which from time to time various reflections and promises wets added for the purpose of strength- ening the appeal of the code to the mind end will of Lite people, ln support of ,this theory it, is pointed out particularly that the Pentateuch iself contains two versions of this code in which are found not a. few and not altogether unimpor- tant variations, especially in the ra- tans for obedience attached to the fourth ewer fifth commandments respeetively. The version of Excel. 20. 2.17, is general- ly regarded as the older and more -classic, while that of Detre 5. 6-21, is edmIttedly of later origin. To 1110 dif- terences between the two versions in detail we shall have occasion to refer 411 the explanation of the separate com- marelments. The theory of a more simple original version from which both from a root meaning "to desist, to supported by the theory that the fourth commandment as we now have it in Earl. 20. 8-11. clearly presupposes on fie part of the author of this passage an acgeaintance with at least the thought of lite creation story, as found in Gen. 1. 1-2. 3. (Read In (hls connecillon the introductory Note to the Lesson Word Studies for next Sunday.) Verse 1. About a month and a half lia.s passed since the events of our last lesson occurred. Israel under the leader- ship of Moses and Aaron has proceeded en its journey toward Sinai, making several stops by the way. The stages of Ole journey are indicated in Num. 33. 12-15. And God spake all these words -Amid Thunder and lightning from Sired and with the sound of a trumpet Jehovah proclaims the words of the law in nrti- culato tones in the ears 01 the terrified merle (Earl. 20, 18; DOuL. 4. 12). Later 'the words, thus uttered by the voice of Jehovah are graven by Ms own finger on tables of stone (Earl, 31. 18; Deut. 4, 13). Witnessleg the apostasy of the people on descending from the moun- tain, Moses brake these fleet labia (Exod. 32. 10), which inter are repleced be others, also written by the had of Jehovah himself (Exod, 34. 1). These seeond tables are &patted in the Ark for safe keeping, ad In token of their great importance (DeM. 10, 5). Thus 1110 sublime biblkal account of the giving of the lalosaic law. 2 I am Jehovah thy God-lt was im- portant that the people should under- stand that the law given by the hand of Moses is of higher origin, centaining the commandment of Jehovah himself to his people. Bondage -Hebrew, "bondrnen." 3. Thou ehalt-The pronoun is in the second person singular. Tee law ad- dresses itself to each individual member of the nation. 4. (lava image -Or, "molten." As tle, first commandment asserts the unity of God and is a protest against poly- theism, so the second emphasizes his spirituality, and is a protest against idolatry and materialism. The censtruc- tion of the Hebrew text of this command- ment has been intich disputed, though tee natural sense seems to be: "Thou shalt riot make uoto thee a graven Image: (and) to no visible shape in heaven, elm, shalt- thou bow down, etc." The water under the earth -According la the Hebrew conception the earth, which was nal, was supported upon the waters of the "great deep" (cam. Gen. 1). 5. Upon the third and upon the fourth generation -The inexorable law of heredity is valid for good as well as foi evil, Ile subtle workings whereby 11 appears sometimes to skip one or more generations bas in our time especially become a matter of most carefulscien- tific study and investigation. 0. Unto thousands -Or, "a thousand generations." 7. The name of Jehovah thy God - Among ancient Oriental peoples the name of a person was regarded ns of much greater significance and impor- tance than in our day, standing, as it did, in a peculiar sense for the person himself, Hence M blot out a name want practically the annihilation of the person and ad memory of him. To use, therefore, unnecessarily or carelessly the name of God was the height of ir- reverence. Later a too literal interpre- Mem of this commandment led to a substitution of the word national" (lord) for "Yahweh" in reading the Scriptures, which habit, in turn, resulted in a an ruption or combination of the tyvo, from which has come our English word "Jeho- vah." 8. Remember the sabbrith day to keep it holy -The weird "sabbath" is derived Iran a root meaning "to desist, to cease." It is yvorley of note 'het in a time when religion consisted chiefly in the observance of ritual and ceremony this superior ethical COL1A ORM alpha - 011 onlyane external and formal re- ligious duty, narrowly so called, namely, that of Seibbath observance. 9. Six clays shalt thou labor, end do all thy work -Note that the positive ammand bit WOVIC is as binding as the prohibition to work on the Sabbath dny. Son . . . dnughter, . . manservant .. • niakiservat ... stranger -Personal responsibility for keeping the laws of God is en -reaching. 11. For in six days jehowth made heaven end earth, . and rested the seventh day -The reason for obedienee given in the version of this conimand- rant in Deutcronotny ie, "that thy man- eervant and thy maidservant my ee.st as well as emu. And thou shall remem- ber feat thou west a servant bn the land of Egypt, mid kneel' thy God brought, thee out, thence by it mighty litind and by an onletrelehed twin : therefore kilo- volt thy God eommanded theo lo keep U he Eightieth day." Later the apostle 'Paul argued strongly for Christian liberty ancl observence of divine law as., a mauve of Christ -la expediency. The latter view also Was energetially Mined by Luther,' and was favored in Ibis fame school of roforrocd theology es mat In harmony wee bibIletil Malt - Mg. ROYAL NICKNANIES, Hama Almost Supplanted tee puller and aeateltee Forte. Nicknames, complimentary tuelother- wise, thee' been freely bestowed upon Floglish Sti ereigits und princes rrom etddiest tulles. Any schoolboy can Iti call such inallowes as Cour de-Lic "eels Lutetium" "Illuf King Ilal," "illeelle Melee" "itotd nesse "The Black l'rincee and 'nit Miry elenarcli." Even WI1011 no distinctive epithet to retell lie limey, a 111V1i110100 ha sometimes, iu the implant' boti ilim,st supplanted the either tied statelier form, f C.1-l11:.101.11111;3`1,slotC111711111e 11g° ‘010111 R110 COh.l111.111011 ill ballads thal hoops Ins memory greo: to our own time. 11 is "Prince thee not Prince Henry, wlean we delight still to re:intui- t er, and it is be, even niter he had it, Ill! Wild prime and hi, conquering king, Voneeniiiig wh.0111 D1111, hlIl ill IIIS "Agincourt" quer- ies locally, when shall Fatgland see again Such a King Harry? Shakespeare, too, depicting the vic- tor' of Agincourt at his nuteliest and king:tree lakes him bitt the hesitating French prineess, in the famous st:one of wooing. to "avouch the thoughts cf your heart with the looks of it entpress: itlICO 1110 ale 11111111 and suy, 'Harry of England, I am thine.'" \Viet such geed excuse in history end lfleVaillM WV may surely claim a right tc be interested in the royal nickritune.s of our OWll 11100. Forty years ago we learned, on the authority of Queen Victoria herself Ill her Highland journal, that in the Mime male the Prince of Wales, now the King, was always "Beetle"; the Prin- cess Boyal, "Vicley" Prince Alfrerl, "Aflki." and the Princess Helena, "Len- chen." Latter, after site became the Empress Frederick, "Vicky" wns more often reined "Pueselte"; and the young- est daughter, Princess Beatrice, almost lo the time of her marriage, simply "Baby." King Edward. his "Berne" days over, became to hie children, 1/S ninny other British fatMrs do„ Gov't -tor." Later. on ascending the throne, he ac- quired a new and mere distinguished nickname, but recently divulged. It ls "Edrex"-a convenieni conclensallein of Edward. Rex, The Queen has never been nieknarned. The present Prince of Wines and his brother, the late Duke of Clarence, oh- • t Nagar. the mid of half a lemon, ea me the Neenah perfally dry, teke off the , string or peel. turd weigh it; put it into preserving Hoe with sugar in the Move proportion; mince the lemon - reel very finely, add 11 to the ether in- , dents, and Marie the preserving pan by the sate or ate Bre; keep stirring to I provult the rhubarb exult burning, unit when the sugar IS W(.11 111S,011n1, the pan more over the lire, and lot the jam boil until it Is done, taking care to keep it well skimmed 1111(1 stirred with Wooden or silver spoon. Pour 11 into pole, arid cover clown with oil and egged paper. If the rhubarb is y'ourig and tender three-quorters of an hour wriggling from the time 11 simmers equally; old rhubarb, one and one-quate Mr aria one and a half hours, fied Currant Jani-To every pound of Prue olio' threeepaarters pound/ of granulated sugar. If possible let the fruit be gathered en it fine day; yvelgh tt, and then strip the currants from the stalks; put them Into a preeervIng-pan welt sugar In the above proportion; stir than and boil them about three-quarters 01 141 hour. Carefully 1.011101/0 the seurn :is it rises. Put the Jain into pots, and when cold, cover with oiled papers; over these put a piece of tissue paper brUSIled 01*01` 011 1/01h sides with the white of an egg; press the paper round the top et the pot, and when dry, the COVOVIllg 1.1.111 Pe quite hard and tile -tight. 131ack cur - Tent jam should be matte In the same manner as the above. Time,'X to% hour, reckoning from the time the jam roils all OVV.V. Allow front 6 to 7 qls. el' entrants to make 12 one -pound pots of jam. lbc, [Lorne! ihrd.11444,...lras/1101//ChianuoiluSislidll4"._ SELECTED IlleCIPES. Rhubarb Jaire-To every 'toad cr rhubarb allow one pound of granulned swotted readily. when they were mid- shipmen, to thenames of "Sprat," and "Herring." Their sister. now Queen Maud of Norway, is still "limey" in the family; and it was she who bestowed upon another sister. eley modest and retiring Duchess of Fife, the clever mock -Lille of "Her Royal Shyness." ACTED ON ORDERS. When I sailed with Commander Mc- Calla several years ago, said a young naval officer, he ltd already made a re- putation as a rigid disciplinarian. One day it chanced that n Midshipman whom he had sent ashore went a trifle beyond Me instructions given hirn with relation to his errand. The matter was not of the least importance, but eleCalla chided him shorply, saying "When you receive an order, sir, do simply what you are told to do ,and never a particle more or less." The inidshentian touched his hat re- spectfully, Mit he thought the rebuke un - Need for. A few days later McCune summoned him DI1(1 said "You will take a boat, sir, and go ashere to the post -ulnae. See if there is a peclutge eddressed to me." "Aye, nye, sir." The midshipman toob< the boat and went aehore. When he returned, Mc. Calla asked :- "Well, sir, was there a package for tee at the post -cella?" "Yes. sire replied the midshipman, touching his cep. evotere is it?. "Al the post- Mike, sir." "What you didn't bring it with you?' "No, sir." "Why Rot, sir e "Becnuse I had no orders to do so, sir," "I told you to get the package." "Beg pardon, tete but I understood 301 to tebI no merely to see if there was a packtige for yriu at, the poseolliee, and I could not venture to do a particle more 0: less than my instructions indieuted." ALCOHOL AND WORK. Sir V. Horsley Shows' Ilow Use of Stimu- lants Dumpers Work. imp workmen who uses alcohol, even in moderation, Is not, according to a series of experiments quoted in "A1cele,1 and the Human Body," by Sir Victor Horsley and Or. Mary D. Sturge, as valuable to Ms employer Ps the w akingmen who uses none, Diagrams show the amount of lark done in setting up type by compel:Hors who workee one clay taking alcohol in rpodeistioe and the next, day taking none. On the nen alcoholic days the 1vork done was better and more quickly dole, though in every case the men (11 e dnys they took alcoholic stimulants thought they were working more quirckly. Thai mere physical eibor crin done by teetotallers wns demonstrated by taking. two ;wiles of s)ldiers, one being allowed alcoholic slimultints end by paying them eultiolently well for ex- tra work to make sure that they would exert- themselves as much as possible. Here the aleoholics led in the work done for about the first twe hours, hie rifler that their power for work flagged, and et the end of the duty the ncei-el- cebolies were fer nheed in wort( done and got much more extra pay. - ENTIfteLY LEELITIMATE. "Is that intin's businees really os pay - leg ne he says?' 'We all hot air." "f ihouget. we' . "Yes; 11.e deals in fureaces." Tomato Mayonnalse-Skin and slice one pound of tomatoes, and geoid them in belling water. Put them in a salad bewl, with some thin breae and butler, cut into eiscs, a quarter of a small on- ion, salt aed pepper, one dessertepoon- 1111 of chopped pickles and two hard- boiled eggs, setting aside a few rounds cif the eggs for garnish. Mix all to- gether. and lightly mix in a good may- onnaLse dressing about en hour before 11 is wanted, so that it soaks through. Sea Foam Cake. -Two cups sugar, ene elm butter. one clip sweet milk, three and a half cups flour, three lea- spomfuls baking powder, five whites ef eggs. Filling -Boll one and a half pounds of lawn sugar until it hardens in void water. Pour in tyvo beaten white,s of eggs, and beat until cold enough to put between layers. Red 1111SphOlTy 311111.-WO.Sh the fruit and put in kettle. Add ns many cups of granulated sugar as you heve cups ea berries. Take a wooden spoon and erush the berries a little, to bring out S01110 of the juice. Pre on a slow fire, without any water, and bring to a boil, stirring often, so that every part is heated to the boiling point. As Pan es it his boiled up well pour into jelly glosses. Bride Cake. -One and one-half pounds 41 flour, one and one-half pounds of butter, one-half 'pound of candied le- mon. one-half pound of andied orange, bis aol one-balf pounds of currants, eight armies of altnonds, eight eggs, the rind of four oranges rubbed upon sugar, one-half ounce of spices, consist- ing of cloves, cinnamon, and grated nutmeg in equal proportions, (Inc tea- spoon of salt and a small tumbler of brandy. - Groom- Calce.-One pound of butter, one pound sugar, ien eggs, one gill ef brandy. one gill of wine, one tea- spoon each of eloves. nutmeg, and mace. one-half {aspen of all -spice, one -hal( cup of dark molasses, one pound and two ounces ol flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one pound of seeded raisins, one pound of cereals, and one pound of finely chopped nuts. To Use up liam.-First cut from the Meg° end as many slices for frying cis you care for. The small end should be cleaned with a vegetable brush and put in cold water oeer night ad boiled in the same water, adding inore when needed. Slice hot for dinner and put what is left back InM the water to keep it juicy. Slice cold for supper. Take equal poets of fat and lean and put through meat chopper and put in ome- kite or scrambled eggs or mix with dressing for sandwiches. The bone - end water In which it was boiled are excellent flavoring for dried pea er bean soup. or greens or a bolted dinner, What fal, is left should be, fried out and used for frying purpeses, Mr potato mad, and for frying onions for potato soup. Wheat elielins.-Put into a 'mixing bewt one tablespoon lerd or butter, ono tablespoon sugar, and one-holf spoon- ful of salt. Mix together Heil nid one egg well beaten, then oneeeup of sweet milk. Sift two good ,spoonfuls of bak- ing powder In two cups of flour and add to the above. Drup in greased hot reerin tins and bake quickly. To Improve Calce.---Any fruit cake malpe can be impreved by substituting tor the currants, which always are dry and hard. an equal mensure Of chopped prunes, which hold moisture and im- part a delicate flavor to the cake. Shirred Eggs,-I3reak into n dbeh as many cep es there ere persons to be served. Add a tablespoonful of. milk for each egg and all and pepper in taste. Fry one-helf as ntiny sheen -of bacon as there are eggs, and cut in smell square.. When crisp peer into the beaten eggs and mix well, Put lit- itbuttered hoeing dish id Mike in is moderate oven until egg& set, ("AKE-MAKING. Alwhys iree beet sugar for oll Myer eels es. Hove it brisk, hot flre for layemetrices; a elower one for fruit veto, Do riot Mem men (30(cr or kitelien door when entre is in even; 11 oven gels too hot set In rem of eold 1-01 illtig away from pan me indica- Wine aim is ready to leeve mien. 91,10,91,3,1,1NrilM7011,10.1•17,77WITIM When removed set nee on sieve so a LADIEs IN free eireirlation of 111V IS 111.01111d ll. QUEER ROLES WORLD 11‘1 THE MAKING: . ., Never frost lee lower skle ol culte 1 al. , weys turn right :side up, A tin chest er stone jar is best to keep it, in. For cake or cookla that call for at% if a teaspoon of baking pewder Is treed with 11 11 will bo 1011011 nicer, 110USE1101,1) StVW a pound of pante with pot roast, and Pole the line flavur imparted to the rneXits driven (lest into a bar of snap will not split furniture. or treliettte wood. sv‘iY,11''ir'cic.tuar sprinkle_ chloride o f lime in to t Remove Stains from elute-WM 11. Let stand about a half holm and it will 1.1VV011je 11,1111(s. 31 will remove nil stains us nothing else will. To clean walow$ well, use warm soapy water with a little ammonia, linve plenty of clean aR cloths for poliehing. Polish immediately after washing them. To cleati a saucepan whicit lias been burned, put into IL a lump of soda with some cold water. Let it, stand en the stove lo boil for an hour ; then scrub 11 with a stiff- brush. Left Over Jelly, -When you have a few tablespoonhes of jelly or jam left 1'01. it makes a delicious reklition to halted apples by dropping a tablespoon - lid into the core of cacti apple Meets they go into the oven. sponge in place of a cloth or brush. 11, out, of a weak solution of ammonin wlIzto'cire washing 11 newspapers wane out of WRIPP. after the paper has been brushed off, wipe up the carpet with a cloth wrung brightened by sprinkling with wet pieces Work with the grain of the carpet, and dee% not Indies sucli a state of sloppi- ness as a brush, and beskles, it gels a good grip on the dirt, For the daily wiping up of the kitchen floor, whether hardwood or linoleum, it beats any- thing on the mareet. The colors in an old carpet onn be For general cleaning USO a large hair and clothes brushes, borax should be added to felled water, in proportion to about eight, spoonfuls to half a gallon of water. The brushes should be moved up and clown in the WIII0V, so that the biestles are cleansed, but care must be Attica not to let the water touch the backs. 11 dam the backs should be dried at once, and the brushes should be set to dry bristles downwards in a current of air. Another method of cleaning brushes which are only slightly soiled is to rtib flour into them . welt, and then to shake it out. This is specially applicable in the case of those with sliver or ivory backs, which the water might injure. Soak new blankets, when washing, in plenty of cold water for abotit an hour previous to washing. This cold steep is Itt draw out the sulphur used in dressing the wool. New blankets require much stronger soapsuds than old ones and must be taken through a greater ann. Ler of waters. To make blankets when washed equal to pew, choose a nice bright day with a fairly good breeze, but not loo much wind, dolly well in three cir four moderately -hot. waters, in which soap has been boiled, adding a little am- monia; also a little blue in the last water. Shake out well before pegging out, and shake well when dry. If, as is frequently the case, even in the best regulated families, the beds bit - come infested with occupants that do not belong there, they may be extermi- nuted by a free use of kerosene. 11 one has a careless neighbor, as is apt to be the ca.se in an apartment house, base- boards, window -sills and the springs of th) beds should be wiped off with oil at least once a week as a preventive. Ap. plied liberally about the kitchen sink, boller and pipes, cockroach.es and water bugs may be defied, even in an old house. TREATING CUPID WITH TACT. She: "No, It can never be, Mr. Potter. I like you as a friend -I respect you -I-1 admire You ; but tete is not love, you Mere', and I cannot be your wife. But try to bear up under ie for I ant $100 there are other° more worthy of you than I am." H•e; "Very pleciant weather we are having." "Y -e -s, very." "I ant glad of it, ea, and hope it v/111 continue. You see my friend 'rhomp- son's sister is coming to town to -morrow for a Yesit-,`"and he wants nei 10 Show bee the sights. She's a dear child,. with golden hair arid blue eyes, and the sweetest little face imaginable. I never saw such a perfect little tinge' as she was the last time I saw her.'' "How -how long is it since -since you saw her?" "About ten years, 1 think. She was just eight years old then." "Eight and ten are- auk. Lf you dare to go near that girl, 111-111 never speak to you again." 11`e FULL CONCORD. Prigon Chaplain "Ah 1 'Bulger, here yourtre hack again in jail, oril you pro - aged me faithfully that you would never return. Have you no sense of shame? Aren't you ashamed that, your friende. should have to visit you in Ibis pincer 13ulger : "Thnt I am, l'he whole place Is in a detestable condition. MI the rooms are foul-smelling, Mirk, and. cramped. The werdere are bountlere to a man ; and the ineelee-well, I ern ashamed' to sit doe n to them myseji, let alone to tisk my friends to do s.r .1, I blush every time they vitibt, 110, MO, sir, my reelect 0/ 0101110 that fluty should be received in such a huht tis thie k heat], sly, Nell' h0011 I" /1 PLAIN HINT. owlet, en:joker," aid hie frieitd, with n smile tint nteent. vortimet., "you didn't slily very long et the squires house last iliglit. Mailing wrong,. 1 leme?" "oh, Tie'!" l4110911,01' 611811011Y 11•11)10(1. "1 WWI 111013 ,ayny a fc-11, 01011611//1 thlugh lo itit (laughter. when the old VII/11/ 1-urielenly fool, 11,, otrprise and go Ve itt ti pgiln loot to 340,,' rallinr peel at hoeing,. Hoy. der he wore 11 "Ile merely teem nee my Intl, 41,.1 11i.! dm,it rind just rie be 11(W II/4,4W [lir right foot it elceely teneired upon ne that 1 weciet warded, sio 1 thought rd better p01' PRINCESSES 1V110 KEEP PUBLIC - ROUSES Mit A LIVING, A Counktes is lflei.froprletress nf a au Lndry In the Rue becluse, iini The business meows of society wea V;1Vce il(d ': CONICIlled when Itels ameginced tent the iCucriunitesis,s IIIIS (Welded 10 011/11 11 IlOVISPS 0R1R1)111±111110111, th 11 t Me DttelioNs in a:Amnon 1 ing 141 /1101/010 by 111011113 Or u IS/Ok-S11011 or riding seem!, 11 has remained, bowever, for a mein - Mr of foreign society, end a Princess to bete, to make the most startling dm putt:re in regard to occupations for ladies of litle. Some time age the MI- loweig ennouneemeitt appeured in a well-known 601111Ull 'TO all whom it inay concern: 1 here- by notify the free that I have bought rind taken over the buildings of the Hotel du LOC,011 1,1110` Constance, which in future will be under my manage- 'neut.-Alexandra Princess zu Ysen in'T'llie."Prineas, now over fifty years age, who has frequently figured prom - runny In the public eye, NIS 111US tak- en to hotel -keeping for a Hying. She resides at the hotel, ad ite popularity ,amongst holiday-makers Is excellent testimony to her ADNIIRABLE MANAGENIF.NT. Nor is she the only Princess who now manages a public -house; for lately a German Princess leis followed the ex- ample of the Princess Ysenburg, and opened a public -house and hotel for Continental tourists near Duvos Platz. IL is not conducted under her name, neither is the Princess hersel5 to he seen behind the bar. But she frequent- ly visits the hotel in order to see that everything Is beteg condected in a pro- per and efficient manner, and often en- ters inlo conversation with vLsitors, were unaware of her real identity, re - gird her as the manugress. Three years ago 1110 Countess de la-, who is the daughter of a general In the French army, and a gocedaugle ter of 11. lt, IL the late Due trAinnale, became the proprietress of a laundry irt the Rue Lecture, Paris, the werIc of which she personally superintends. The story of the countess is of a romantic though sad character. She married when she. was eighteen, and three years leter her husband cotn- milted suicide, having gambled away the wholo of his fortune, which had brought him 311 no less than 845,000 a year. At the present time the countess is heiress to A FORTUNE OF 8400,000, but there 'are other claimants to the money, and she has already expended 55,000 in law costs. Bang a won= of energy sbe start- ed a dressmaking business, employing no fewer than twenty girls; but hay - Me lost money she recently gave 11 ip. She now employs two other women in the laundry, and, although she does not do the actual, weshing, she assists in the ironing and in delivering the lin- en to customers. The vicissitudes through which Anne Countess of Seaneld has passed form a remarkable story. In 1874 the countess niarried -her first cousin, Fiends Oen- -vie-Metre, who ie 1885 became tenth Earl of Scofield. At the Rine of their marriage there was little 'possibility of .Mn. Ogilvie -Grant (who went to New Zealand to make his fortune) succeed. ine to the tille. When he did, Ile only lived to enjoy it for about six months. After the marriage the countess and her husband fell on bard limes, so much so, in fact, that at one time the earl was obliged to go into the bush le catch rabbits just Mr the atm of the skins, while on another occasion he ac- cepted a job as a navvy on the roads, LAYINC; DOWN TRAM -LINES. Both the /countess -who now resides in Tendon -and her husband toiled to leap the home together. and she hopes seme day to write a piny based on the romantic incidents' of her life as a working -woman peerees. The career of Adeline Countess Schimmeenan, too, who on account of Iter splendid revivalist work among sea- men litui brae calla "the German Agnes Weston," Is full of romantic Ancittents. The early life of the countess WU spent in the most eeclusive circles, and for eighteen years she was maid -of -honor to the late Empress Augusta of Ger- many. the Halser's grandmother, Tiring of Court life, the countess de- eldmi to devote her lime to evangelien1 work, but was kidnapped, pineed in an asylum, end certified as Ittsane. it wtis e.nly alter Parliament was moved rn her behalf, by means of the repletion la - Mine of a rifc'ee of Prince litsmarek, bhtul tbe Petunias WM VOlellSed. S17/00 then- the c()1111WFI3 has devoted hersell entirely lo flliltRiCal work among sea. men, hnd her "hetnes" on the Rollin 1111, taken WC 11101101R all - the World over. London Tit -Bits. • -- A wi.:irrirc ()PP% "1 WOOL 10 get 11 pair Of Beaton," 1'e- rnerh/5I the Vufttennvr, "Huve you the anibueettue matte'1" 0.1111/11501/dV1" Inquired lie. clerk. "Weil," retuned the (3181011101. "f ten given to tindery -stand beat they're the kind W1114111 Ile in weight." Nicotine is rapidly Into1 to all mend y 51 cent. of lealleivenught her. r•lijn• orr Ole i',(RAIlfsii NON. A meteor lather, one clay during the hour ' fort. Mewing, euggetited kr he lamile feet (see drew whet he or tilln woonl an, to he wimp itnoWn Op. Al thU Old IIIV.80',60.11 0011. /I 41 lult (.101/1Y 141//'", "1,1313'1" Itititi Iht/ "IR/1.1 111,11' 'MY11/1/111. 3"'" 1,10 loo too ,ttPuttio 3(,11 grim up?" the jeep jeri, "1 weisitt Wm to 1,1 tweeted. but I doe 1 Mem how lo deIlW 01, J.1 MATTER FOR MOUE 011 teteS ASs TRONONIICAL SPECULATION, Curious Stars Illieelleite 1110 Methods 011110 Cs -evicted C,flt'enTres nrt at13rori • ace of a smith number of curiously shnped slam 'mesa strange planets tire not mumb like the tenth, min and moon, but inote closely resemble a pear or an egg in form, Ten such mere, are now known to ant, flee in the mailmen 11011 111.0 In the soullient This inny seem a very piengre result to lima who are noutequathled with Elm dal:Mints that attend the search for such slurs. But to those who do know tied understand lira difficulties the dis- cm/cries alreedy made would seem le Indicate that there nee innny more of theses near -shaped stars in the universe Rath astronoineus have yet been able to observe, The km stars &reedy discovered, though grouped together under the gen- eral title of pear-shaped, represent all degrees of ohlatenesS. Among the most marked of these strange planets QM stars as ,elongated as Al 1011)0(10 or a. etcetera cigar -shaped balloon, while others ere orbs NEARLY SPIIEBICAL IN FORNI. Although these strangely -shaped lights of the elcy are called stars, they ttre 10 reality systeths, or, more aceurately speaking, lea stars. In .the case ef Iwo of the ten already discovered the componenl slurs nee so pear one an- other that they touch, and tit, the point ot (meted they lnerge Into each other. IL Is very difficell, therefore, to say pre- cisely, whet is the shape of these figura- of-eight stars. Such a system must ee in a state of the most, unstable equill- britun; and sooner or later the centri- fugal force will prove too great for tbe slender, overchenging nexus that lends these Siamese twins of the sky together. l'hen the connecting link will be brok- en, and two 110W WOVICIS will be borne. When this lakes place there will be for both stars a period of stupendous unrest. From ,centre to circumference the vast bodies will oscillate In great, swelling pulsations, until finally Um more powerful of the Iwo gains com- plete control of the other. Then the les - set of the two will beceme. the satellite of the greater, and will revolve mond it, as the moon circles about the earth. It is the believ of many ef the lead- ing astronomers of to -day that the earth. (rill:lids men were 00110 joinett legethere l SIAMMSE TWIN FASHION. There ars even those who point to the very spot where one satellite broke away from its mother earth. They In- sist that over the vast spaces of the globe where the Patric Ocean now rolls in long silver water-brealcs tee 0,000 gia.thered to Itself a separate ex- istence.Nay, they even ten us that beneath the surface of this spacious. stretch of sea, fully three thousand fathoms deep, may still be found the scars which mark the plare where a world was born, But the :truth of this - cannot be verified until the seas run dry. When VMS thls wonderful birthday? 111 the beginning of created things 11 ubout the only answer that anyone has attempted to give. But 11 a more pose iive answer is required, 11 may he skito ed that, the South African astronomer, Alexander Roberts, has assured, yet with some hesitation, and with no smell uncertainty, that, at the very least one hundred million ears pleasure the' trottmn's age as a seperate world. It W8.9 once so near the earth, even after its individual life began, that 11 modeled its mountains and sees; but as the years came and departed 11 drifted Willey and farther away, WI at last a heave of the ocean, a rising and falling of tides, Is all Ihe greeting the earth has to give to its OIC1RS1 born. A PEAR-SHAPED STAR e IR a world In the formative period; a reund glebe Is the finished product ni many evoludons. The substance of these strangely -shaped stars is es dia. ehanous as a summer cloud; In the spars of a few hours their huge bulk, semetimes as much ns three hundred million miles in diameter', contraots and expands through a range of over a Mil- lion miles. Storm and Mettle are the &obits that brood over their. vast, lie mulleus, shoreless wastes; there Is the ceaseless clash of storms, and the surge of sorely tossed, titanic waves, MR. IOS110 in the spaciousness, impressive in their stupendous movements. their importance, their human attractiveness and interest lies in their potentiality. 'they are the worlds of ages separated from the present day by encomfortable centuries of Inc.lOur own little plan- - et may then be, like the moon; a beat- en! Milder, a deed world, a desolnte land of fierce extremes of heat and cold. In Iceland men kiss when they mat, , but a 011111 rnrely kisses a IA/Oman. 'Pc yoit ltd it more economical do your men cookIng?" "Oh, yes; kly hushond doesn't eat half' so much es let usea tor ClIent--"I want yoe M lend me an out for a Moment." Banker (without looking up) -"Yes, but only at 11 per gene, end with Iwo sureties." ' "Sic," the end -faced man said Jo the heneyeret man who WS'S smoking a long Heck Eager and evading a newspeface, "would you rellow your boy to smoke Neorelles whve he glows up 1" "I've never given the questien n 1110111 011 15 0101/1011, /11/11led the olher. "Weal, I Never ronderNI upon the effect, upon the constitution, lo may nothing of the tilled of your enti, to tillow him lo smoke !he deadly things?" "Never a. thought - no. SIN" "And will you nllow 10ni lo drink?" "I have never thought about IL" rim tench things he? Are you letting your chliti gecw itp in the nitcfst ot temptation without speaking n hither- lv Weird .1n- .." "Look here, sir 1 Yon menn well, I suppose, Mit let me tell you ItI I've been tt. (smarmed bachelor for the Indl. twenty yeate." The sec:1'1400d 101111 vanished. ^ .1' '://1 11.