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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-7-9, Page 3TIIESU ACAIIOo Evils of Some Summer Resorts Un- sparingly Denounced, 11Eetered aoeoremg to ect of the 1'a a the Lord. 1'erhupe these may be meeent of i ultimo, nin the year n. �1'Aousaad Nino lamljlrod Rad Twee, times in 1115 home when Lhe dunce by Win. sally, of Toronto, at may, he a harmless amusement. 1t mepar(ment of agriculture, utteeeen tatty he the means of a barrnless frolic and tho means of keeping the children at house, where the fathers and mothers rrud grandfather and grandmother may he participants in the domestic merriment.. But, though I am not now cieuounctng 1.ho harmless social coloymonts which take place in the hone, I do most vehemently protest against, 1 11 p1.0n13arte0ua danee hall aL our sum- mer .watering places, 1. know of what '1 ate speaking. I am not a stranger lo the soviet etiquette of this world. hien and women whom I address to -day, 1 defy you to find one man or woman of naffed ((p31'it- ual power who will contend that. the senemer ballroom is a safe puree in which to allow our sons and daugb- tors to pass the summer nein f hs. I defy you to find Ono young man or woman who ever learned the lesson of Christ love to the fetid. atmos- phere of a public dance hall. AVOID CJIAUtS OF ClIANCF,, Sommer Cod light the third: Be- ware of all Bnes of chance, What does that mean? Beware or joining the gambling table, which will bo played every night in the side room of tho hotel which opens into the hotel bar, which game will bo kept up until 3 or 4 o'clock in tho morning. Beware of con mingling with the "plungers" gath- ered before the bookmakers' stands at the famous summer races? Oh, no. I would no more expect you to bo found in such flagrantly com- promising positions than you would expect to find your pastor there. But beware of tho insidious beginnings. Beware of wagering the box of candy upon the game of tennis or quoi.Ls which is played in the hotel grounds. Beware of belting the penny upon the simple game which is played upon the hotel porch. In other worrls, beware of taking your lb•st lessons in ono of Lhe awful, the most facinating and the most de- structive of all evils, the gambling evil. When the poisonous desires of a game of chance arc once inoculated Mom home. I would try to warntrttnlo a young man's heart there 500415 you against the temptations which to be no human power to stop him will confront you and which, if sec- :esstul, may destroy your entire Christian character. Tho leprous germ absorbed into the spiritual body in a day may continue to work its malformations clear on Clown to the grave and change your whole eternal destiny. Summer red light the first: Be- ware of Sabbath desecration. That means beware that you d.o not 'm- anner yourselves 137 one false move and leave your beating hearts de- fenceless before the poisoned arrows of the Satanic archers. Beware that you do not practically say to the evil tempters: "Here an I, off on my summer vacation. I have left my religion at home. I ane ready to letyoulead nae where you will. For two or three weeks, or ane month at least. I will enter no church, listen to no sermon, utter no public prayer and ask for no de vine protection. I. will take a holi- day from religion as well as free business, and as a beginning I will disregard the Lord's day." A' despatch from Chicago 00.75' Rev. frank Flo WILL 'l0Jrnage preach- ed from. 1110 following telt: Num- bers xxxii, 23, "Flo 04.1.0 your sin will find you out." Mutt are you going to do this compeer? ""1'ake a vacation," you answer. "'1 am going away to the eouutry. There was once a time 1v11cn I did not believe in moaner vacations. 1 thought they were merely lazy men's 01701)005 for shirk - Dig work. Iiut now .1 know that I was mistaken. -I have boon gradu- ally breaking 11 (0411 under the couse- loss monotonies of busincee. L want and need a change. I and going out 01 . slat 1 among tho green bills o1 by 113e seashore, I will leave word that all letters and telegrams at the store as fa' as possible most: re- main unanswered until I get back. X am going to rusticate. I shall turn myself out to grass and let lay minda"rtul tallow." SABBATE DESECRATION. But, my hearers, before we sever - ate for the summer, a1'yout• pastor I would like to ask you another question: What do you expect to do tvheu you aero in the country? Now aro you going to spend that vacation? You have been working hard during your life. 'In one souse you have destroyed your ability to play. Therefore whorl you go •to the country and do not know what to do tentptations will there assail you which would never tempt, you when you aro at dome and at work. Now, the purpose of this sermon is not to talk of libertines and loafers and dead beats. It is not to up - raid the social outcasts and the sin- ful vampires who its hu;nlan leeches try in suck the life's blood out of their fellow men at the Kummer Iva- tering places. That class of people are not those whom I want to talk to now, But I would to -day, as a pastor, earnestly and prayerfully, give a fele words of practical ad- vice to hard worsting people 1v110 will spend their vacations away I10W TO START. A VACATION. - "NChat do you 111,0011 by such a warning as that?" some one asks. "Wily do you place emelt emphasis upon Sabbath observance?" Be- cause, 1ny friend, the way you gen- erally start youy' summer vacation is the way 7011 will end i1, The Sabbath desecration is the keynote, as a rule, or the forel'u neer, of a long series of spiritual backsliding, How? In all probability you' s11111 - mor vacation will start on a Satur- day afternoon, Now uvi11 you spend your First day in the country? Will you do it with prayer and cOne- c'atio)? Will you do it by taking your children to the Sunday school and joining the OhrisLlan workers of that neighborhood, in public tvor- 511ip within the four walls of the little village church, or will you do it by coming down in your (ish(ng togs or by waving your golf stick or with your baskets full of food for a rollicking 111110 in the woods o1 a Sunday picnic? Metro aro the tiro extremes.. Which will .you choose? Tho 0'310 heads toward spir- itual renovation; the other heads toward 0piritual death, No anal or wei nae ever lived who could suc- cessfully resist the temptations of our summer, resorts who started their vaoatiols by Urealdug the law of God's sacred Sabbath. Settle a alluroh member 01Wtay'8 001105 back to his church home a mortal cripple atter 110 has spm et the Sabbath clays of his 5um:m.er vacation in handling flee tiller of a sailboat 01' in hitting the little white balls over the golf lines or in looking at the bobber floating at the end of a lino attach- ed to a fishing pule. Start your. vacation alight 111• God and it will onri right. Start it by praying to the village pew for divine guidance. Sta't it, if possible, by helping the village choir sing in the (emir loft, Start it as you would 51511 it if the first• Sabbath of your summer, vacation was to bo your fleet Sab- bath in heaven. SV1I,S OF P'UBLI0 DANCING, Summer red light the 5000314 Be - were of the Hotel ballroom aid, the sit11119er public dance 131111, 'I 11111 not now discussing the question of d011011g 111 general; I am int eon- entering omentering whether it bo right or wrong for the young folks, within no quietude 511(1 the sacred pre- cincts of a Home, to I1a3'e old of theft' number finger the ivory keys of the' piano; then, while the atato- ly 13'111138 of the 10)11met or the Fault- 001'5 sound forth, to have 1110 boys or slower beating of the 11111110, :4Vo 41'0 )tn0W that Mit'dalll (1;141403111 1)0101'0 from committing mental, physical and spiritual suicide. The race track and the roulette table are the threatening rocks where thousands upon thousands of human crafts (110 wrecked for time and for eternity. Trifle not with the games of chance, however small the wager, any more than you would play ,about t1 ratty snake's fang or toy with a boa con- strictor's coils or a tiger's claw, 1"LlRTINC DENOUNCED. Sunnnue rod light the fourth: 13e - Ware of trilling with human all'oc. lions. 011, the fascinations and yet the hellish una111orming power of a suuimcr flirtation! slave you ever sat upon a hotel porch and watched the insects gather out of the dark - 11e85 and buzz and play about the electric lights? Those lights have ler them the fatal spell that the glittering eye of the black snake has for the mother bird sitting upon the edge of 1101• nest,* These insects will circle round and round the brilliant light. They will disappear for awhile, as though they know the 1101 tongue of death is ready to touch then. Then at last they Will mance one plunge 51(1 in an instant tho wings and tho lugs aro gone, 'ellen the poor suffering creature falls Lo the grouted, wriggling and twist- ing told trying, to be trampled uncle' the foot of eau. Such are the aw- ful results which follow when the 1)11011111 insects play about the hiss- ing, blasting fires of a summer's flirtation. It may be pleasant for awhile to feel the 1101 flush upon the (Meek; It niay scent only fun to Pass a how hours as a coquette, tear- ing and inflaming the tenderest feel- ings of a true elan in a summer row- boat or in romantic wallas through the wools. It may seem to ho a glorious act to boas) how many you Min conquer in love, as' ant Indian warrior boasts of his prowess in war by the number of scalps he merles at his belt, But by the scorched and bruised and 3ultilated hOa'ts of thousands which have boon malform- ed for time and eternity in the g10wleg flames of a slimmer flirta- tion I clenounco trilling with human love, I denounce it before the young people 34110 may be participants dur- Mg their next summer vacation in this merciless, homeless and damn- ing universal evil, PERIL OF THE WINE 0111e, Summer red light the fifth., Be- ware of the serpent which lies coiled up in the bewitching wino cup. Men carry their bottles of intoxicating beverages when they go fishing or dancing or taking a tramp in the woods, and omen drink everywhere. But this es not the greatest curse for ivlioh our slimmer resorts aro famous. They aro ;toted as places where women get drunk as well as the men, To Inc the most abjectly repulsive er'0atv1'e 011 earth is a drunken woman. When I floc one i know not which feeling predonlielates most in 1ny heart, titat elf pity or of horror, In our suanrine' hotels women 11ow d1'inle everywhere. There- fore, Molds, I beg of you when you ere in rt sn11nn01' party where wine 3s passed around do not touch it. For your Ch1'istian example's sake do not touch it, 3!01• the danger of inflaming your Own 'evil testes do not touch it, Steell bac)( from the evil wino cup, though it may be o11ol•- ed to you by the jewoled bend of a hoseess a1' by the 00mip4111011 who pretends he is your friend, The tempter may 1301 170 able t0 enslave y0 1 1)1 n City '0)1040 y011 awe 311 ac- tive week, bet he May to able to dig for yen a drunkmrxl's grave among the many sinful summer fas- cinations of a 110 Lel pewee. FAMILY feell'A1tA f IONF1. Hummer ted light the last: Be- ware of the family septll•,atiun5 wide]) lance away for 5.117 18ng111 of thou wives from Intel:an(Ie, Mu -Mantle fano wives, brothers from sisters and parelits from children, 111(1rk this, my friends, and whet 'i flay. I speak calmly and deliberately: Nine-tetltlis of all the evil temptations of 0014 5011111181. 1'000010 aro directly or in- directly duo to the separations of Minn Me, 'these 0('p111111>111(3 lay temptations, awful lcmpaltal.ione, at lin feet of the melt wile are em„.„ pelted to stay at home and work, They ley temptations, awful tempta- tions, at the feet of the women who nen off in the mummer hotels. Go 10 a summer resort near to your home. 110 in a placer where all the members of the family can get together every few days, Never let your husband Mem the lesson how to be happy without you. and the children. Wives and mothers, never learn yourselves the lesson how you can be happy without your huebunds and the chit- 3n * sull'1ciclrC time let the fruit to chit - clam by your oldie As fur as you (1001 would help him by giving coatr, may ho able, during the years of him helpers; and friends. Tee aloes Dri e. Beef Frizzled.—lifelt threro your earthly life, never he separated evelythitig to make it. easy fur us tablespoo l3eel of butter to the s e pont ,your laved ones for any length to da right 3C wo aro oltly willing to 1 of tune until you ore compelled to serve. Thal111 sincerity and truth. e1', add two tablespoonfuls of flour lay damn away for the last sleep in Noelsthesame God who saw that. an{i a dash o1 pepper and stir till it a new made grave. 11 was not good for Adam ee he is a paste, then add two cups of In closing T would speak to you alone (Clen, i3, 18), 10(10 ansa sent words of congratulation and good cheer, 130foee we separate for the summer months I would say, men and women, I congratulate ,you be- cause you have well -earned your rest, 1 congratulate you because you have finished a hard winter's work, I congratulate you that you are going out among the trees and the flowers and the 3nountnin5 and the valleys; that you are going to drink out of the cool spring and sco the cows gather for the evening milking. And I also congratulate you that the same Christ whom you worship here you can worship there. Take along the Saviour's compan- ionship. Pray during the next few weeks for divine protection and help, Then, if you have Christ along, there will bo no roar that you will succumb to the evil temptations which beset every ono during a 01114 - mer vacation.. 4 • probable slight figure of Davids (xvii, li3); also that, which is writ- ten of another Saul of the tribe of linea tein (11'. ()or, x, 10), '1'101 people are pleased with their visible king, a choice man and ono of ea- ten 1Wldn'aro,nee, 25, Then Samuel 10111 the people, the Blattner of 14110 kingdom and wrote ie 1n a bunk and laid it up before! lite Lord, wad Samuel sent all the people away, every moan to bis 110080. Ile would doubtless write ;Dena 14-20, with perhaps; additions, ff 111n king would eontiudel• himself shorterdng, good teaspoon salt, two the Lord's rem -event ietit0 a11,d net (ups sour loilk, two level teaspoons fol' the 'Lord toward the people, 1 sada, three s13gh1JY heaping table_ a o�ed9a0➢ofgv�ertb��J1e0md1v9•e FOR Tx -HOME fedfg Recipes for the Kitchell. a Hygiene and Other Notes fg for the Housekeeper. e 000 (41.00 0': earattiee@ooeetj 0£08 UQMlrwS'1'10 Rd':01P10S, Johnny Cake.—Two eggs, two- thlyds cup augur, two level spoons all thongs enneuiling 1IGrn, uhcyilig 5:00118 flour; immune] to maks bat- ter t0 run or spread out well i11 ten. Gooseberry and nice Pudding.— Butter a pie -dist), and into it put a shallow layer of green goo8eher(ie5. Scatter sugar over it, and If you have it, a little grated lemon peel, thenit thick layer of boiled rice, naw another Meyer of gooseberries, rice, ell', Scatter breaticl'urubs over the top, with a little butter 0n them and hake in a moderate oven, 1111017 - honoring .1.T.1 111, all might yet be well by the mee7 of Gori; but if he, like the people, three away from Cod, lives (0 111(00e 11WO±lf 01' the people and relies on hhuu'a 1 wisdom or strength all will bt. lost.. The Lord alone 1>1u81 be cx101led (Isla, if, 11, 1.7). 26, Anel Soul also went ho3ne to (Meath, and there went 1411.11 Flint a band of leen whose hearts Ghul had 1,01>0hled, THE S. S. LESSON. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 12. Text of the Lesson, I. Sam. x. 17-2'7. Golden Text, Isa. xxx111., 22. 1'7. And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord to Mivpeh. The people persisting in dommanding a king that they might be like other nations, (loci selected the man and brought hint to Samuel in a remark- able way, and Samuel, himself en- tertained him and kept him over night, atlointed him tho next morn- ing and sent ilim on his way. This lesson tolls of the Lord's public elec- tion of him to be Israel's king. The story of holy God led him. to Samu- el, as recorded in chapter ix., is one of the most interesting of all Bible stories, The weary, disappointed, hungry man going to the prophet to inquire about the lost asses and finding an unexpected welcome and feast and communion and rest for body and mind and then to bo told that he was chosen to be a king— who over beard of such surprises? And yet it is all a foreshadowing of tho way by which every child of God is led in unexpected ways to share with Christ leis glory. 18, 1.41. 'Ye have this day rejected your God, who Tlinntself saved you out of all your adve'se•ies and your tribulations, and ye have said unto iBm, Nay, but set a king over us. 'They aro reminded of all the Lord had done for them in the great de- liverance .. fronn Egypt and in bus wondrous care of them and are told plainly that their present conduct is a deliberate rejection of 11im not- withstanding all that Ito had done. It Was only a short time before the events of our lesson that they were gathered at this same lklizpeln en- treating Samuel to cease not to my unto the Lord for tient that Ile would deliver then from the Philis- tines, and, being delivered, they sot up the Ebenezer steno, ' saying, "I3iltherto hath tete Lord helped us" (chapter vii., 5, 12). 20-22. When they sought him, he could not bo found. Therefore they inquired of 111e Lord further if the man should ,vet come thither, and the Lord answ3r•ed, Behold, lm Isatin 11158 himself among the (111(11. A11 Israel presented th001501ves be- fore tho Lord by their tribes, and the lot was cast for tho tribe and for the fanlly and for the 41x1, with the result that Saul, the son of ICis11, of 1,110 tribe ot Benjamin, was chos- en. But he could not bo found. God knew the kind of man whom they world like, and let was going to givo them a man after their own heart, and now Ile guided the lot to bring him beforo thein, for "tete lot is (met into the lap, but the Whole disposing thereof is Of the Lord" (Prov, xvie 313). 7a01 knew through Samuel that God bad selected hila (ea, 1), and, knowing this, it was a. becoming thing not to put himself forward, but lot all sou that he had no hand in the election, 23, 24. And they ran and fetched hiin thence, and when he stood among the people he Was higher than any of the people, orcin his shoulders and upward, and Samuel 551(1 to all the people, Soo yo Min whom the Lord hath ehoson, In chapter ix, 2, -tee road that he was a choice young imam and not a goodltet' :Orson in all Israel, 1110511 and blood, and plenty of it, 07011 of good quality, is not av0lytibing,, oiso Goliath aged other glent5 mn.ifiht be envied. Neither is outward apemen- enee eeer;yttting-'••that which people ca1T presence — as Samluel- aftor- tvard learned *hen he appointed a man anew God's Meet (nettled of Me' to plettsn the people ((114peor'' 3141,. (1, 7). 001111'551 QM 7041111 14181 the disciples out by twin) ?riuke x, 1), and he always in dna time pee - vides helpers for nigh ns Eire willing to dwell with Trim for Tlis work (T. C11ron. 31', 23; Tsn. x1i, 10). 27. But The children of )3ellal said, '1Tow shall this man save us? And they deepieed Bier and brought hilt no presents, but he held his pence. When Clore works. the adversary also 49041171. and if We are. on. 11110 Lord's skin, while we are sure to have friends, we will also leave many to despise us. Wenn atu011 rise up against us, it is well to do as Scall did and act as though we were deaf. See alto margin and also Ps. xxxvlii, 13. When later the friends of Saul cried ant for tho lives of these enemies, Ile would not allow them to be harmed (chapter xi, 12, 13). Tt is vary inter,','41ne to nolo all the good points in. 5511, nal'd they arc many up to this time. TINY PAWNBROKERS. Then there are twenty-four of these tiny women returned as pawn- brokers, forty as coalminers, fifty- two as cycle and motor makers, and over a hundred screw -makers and steel pen makers. One girl of ten figures under the classification "missionary, scripture - reader and itinerant preacher," and one under that of "painter, engrav- er or sculptor," There are twenty- two girl messengers in the Civil Sot' - vice, nineteen photographers, and 102 actresses, all ten or eleven year old. The boys of this elementary age aro mare ambitious. live ten -year- olds aro returned as "engaged in scientific pursuits," four are "auth- ors, editors, journalists, reporters, or shorthand writers," and four oth- ers aero described with tantalizing vagueness as "connected with liter- ature." In addition, there arc thee ty-four actors, and 2113 invidiously described as "performers." Finally, those tables reveal the fact that while England and Wales contain six and a quarter million in- habited )rouses, there are close on half the houses altogether unin- habited, while at the sane time, the houses building are increasing at the rate of near 15 per cent. per 5.111100, while the population is only in0r0as- 3ng at a little over 12 per cent, PRILOSOPHICAL HITS. Tho egotist is always the other fellow. Most men would rather fight than eat their own. words. No, Maude, dear; the wife of a gov- ernor is not necessarily a governess, The dentist doesn't deal in .perium- ery, but he is an authority on ex- tracts, It is easier for some men to tails all day than to keep their mouths shut five minutes, You can't :convince the father of twins that utero is clothing 11010 wn- d'or the sun. Tho fellow who makes a fool of himself is seldom satisfied unless ho works overtime at the 10b. Even when poverty pinches some people insist upon adding to their misery by wearing tight shoes. Many a man who has the roman. - Von of knowing a lot manages very successfully to conceal his knowledge. —Philadelphia Record. 4 TOLD T1111 T11UT1I. Edyth—"Aunt Margaret used to say she wouldn't marry the best man on earth." Maylno•'-"Aad dict sho keep her Word?" ledyt11--'Yes; but she got married just the salve." 4 Visitor*• --•"You say you call your Horses 'Biscay and Bengal? Aren't those decidedly unusual 1na11Se5 for ]Horses?" 1'1 mer --''ref tho joggra- des hasn't changed settee I got my echoo)fn', 111011>'s very good names for a pair o' pig bays." Young Jones, at a bazatieelad re- cited once o1' twice, tied the people were Silting about 011(11ting, when he hoard oro of the committee go up to the chairman and whisper. "Hadn't Mr, Jones bettor give 11e another recitation?" Gitelman -- "No, no't yet, Lot thele cujoy themselves a bit longer," Miss Vano—"1 know he was talk- ing to you alnout me, Note, wasn't lee?" Miss 5peiLz--•"Wall, yes." Mies Vano•-"I. thought I beard him 1'01111011 that X lied a thick head of hair," Vise 5.peit0—"1lartly col' - root, Eto didn't 11 0(1tlon your hair, hetdevotf; t • rich milk and heat until it 1s creamy. Add three-fourths of a cup of dried beef which is cut thin and has been freed nom fat and "strings" and cut Ane. Let just Come to a boil, and servo on triangles of buttered toast or with mashed potato. Nice. for breakfast in hot weather. Baked )leans, Camp leashion,—To bake beans according to the cuisine of the camp, soak the beans over night in cold water and parboil. Put into a beanpot with half a pound of pork on top; pour over there wa'tn water to which has been added a tablespoonful of Sugar, a teaspoon- ful of salt and mustard and pepper to your liking. Cover the top with a piece of cotton and fit the lid on. Now yea can bake it in at ordinary oven or in a stone -lined balling -hole by pout' woodside camp, in wlllch you have kept a ilre for two or three (tours, setting the bean -pot among tho 1101 coals and ashes and cover- ing to keep the hent in. Lemon Tartlets.—Take a dozen raisins and split each, remove the stones and stew the fruit in a little water. Mix a dessertspoonful of cornflour with a little cold water. Stir in the juice of'two lemons and the grated peel of one, five ounces of caster sugar and the raisins. Beat all together. Line sumo patty pans With a thin paste, fill there with the mixture, cover each with bars of pastry and hake for ten minutes. N. 13.-71 is an improvement to cook the filling for a few moments over a pan of boiling water before baking. Brown Bread.—Weigh seven pounds of wholemeal (or if you prefer bran - bread, two pounds of bran to five pounds of wheat flour), put it into a pan, and make a hole in the cen- tre. bIic two ounces and a half of yeast with ono quart of warm wee ter, pour this into the pan, and with a spoon work enough flour into it to fern a light batter, Dost some flour over and set to rise for one hour near the fere. After this time the dough will have risen, and the meal will bo cracked. Then work in more water and a dessertspoonful of salt 1311 you have kneaded all into a light dough' and all the paste has. worked from your hands. Set this to rise for an hour, covering with a cloth. Nalco into loaves and bake an hoer. If this makes the bread browner than you like, put '0110 pound of wheat flour to six pounds of -whole meal. IIOONESTY TOWARD CIUILBREN. All the best and kindest mother can do for her children is to rear them up in the love of God and man, and leave them to their 01711 choice, whether their life shall bo an'indns- trious, helpful one, or an idle, worth- less one. Example is (1.1010 than precept, and Actions more than Words. It is a dangerous thing to docoivo a child in even a trifling matter. It is the seed of distrust which may grow to such dimensions as to poison the whole nature, If a boy or girl is called on to bear the pain of a slight surgical or dental operation, which does not require an anaesthetic, it Is always better to tell the truth firmly a� y fend quietly. Xt is wonclertu] haw much Courage) it gives the child if ho has leaned to t1'ust you Im- plicitly. 11 you say "tide will butt you at first, but it will be over In an instant," 11e feels instinctively that you are telling the truth. The indignation and shock to a child from the deception often practised at such times may have a permanent effect upexl the cleai'acter. It is no une001111000 thing for a mother to lose the confidence of her children in same such way, and 01100 lost such COlfideuce ds not easily regained. A 11 10111e1' 19110 retains the conildenee of her children can guide and help them, though she cannot comxnane, in their chole- of tile, without making them 'a4>11.1 ab10 01117110. One of the surest ways to make children good and useful Wren and women fs to give them a profession or trade. It is becoming more and more the rule and 1101 1,110 exception for a girl to study 401' a life's work. If she is ever a wife and mother she will he all the better fitted for her mission if she has learned to do some especial work well. Il'owevel' wealthy parents are, they do a posi- tive wrong when they fail to educate their sons and daughters so they can become self-supporting and self-re- spect log. HINTS TO IIQ4S •.IP �I:FPB:IOS. Rooms Ibfested With ledies,^Should have a plateful of this mixture plac- ed in each window: Mix ono tea- 800011ful each of brown sugar, and black pepper, with a litho c1'uam. To Clean Black I"'elt Ilats, — A good rubbllig with benzine will re- move all dirt and grease from felt Flats. Jiang in the open air after- wards to free from smell, Keep a Separate Sauce-pan—For cooking aII green vegetables in, and do not allow it to bo used for stews, etc., for no food material absorbs flavors more quickly than green vegetables. To Whiten the Hands. Mix thor- oughly two 00114013 of eau do Col- ogne, two ounces of lemon juice, six olnnce5 powdered brown Windsor soap. When hard this makes an ex- cellent soap for whitening the hands. In dressing a salad—and salads arc most in favor at this season -- always remember that the lettuce must ha perfectly dry and that the oil must be poured on it first. It the leaves are first wet with vinegar the oil will run to the bottom of the bowl and the salad will taste only of the vinegar and salt and pepper, A simple and novelcherry-seeder may be improvised from an ordin- ary hairpin. Insert the closed end of the hairpin into the cherry and draw out the pit. With a little practice this simple instrument eau be used quite rapidly, and has the advantage of Ieaving the fruit whole and perfect. A jelly of delicious flavor is ob- tained by uniting the juices of red raspberries and currants in the pro- portion of one pint of the former to two pints of the latter. If the two fruits don't happen to 110 in season at the sante time, can the currant juice .and set it aside until you can get the raspberries. The resulting jelly is not. so limn as that made entirely of currants, w'IticIl is a fur- ther advantage. Perfect jelly is not hard, but just able to maintain its shape, trembling with its own weight when turned o1` IMPORTANCE Ole NEATNESS. Neatness is a goon thing for a girl, and if she dons not lean ,it when she is young she never will. It takes a great deal more neatness to make a girl look well than it does to make a boy appear passable; not because a. boy, to start with, is better look- ing titan a girl, but his clothes are of a different sort—not so many col- ors fu them -aid people seldom ex- pect a boy to look so pretty as a girl. A girl who is not neatly 'dressed is called a sloven and no ono likes to look at her. I3er face may be pret- ty, her eyes bright, but if thele is a spot of dirt on her cheek, and her finger enols are black with ink and her shoes are not laced o' buttoned up, and apron is dirty and her col- lar is unbuttoned, and leer skirt is frayed she cannot be lilted. Learn to be neat, and when you have learned it, your appearance will, so to speak, take care of it- self, TIM LOAN WASN'T NEGOTIATED. Sack llarduppo—).,end ma a fives', old men, and I til'ali ....,.34i>1051111 g 1y indebted to met, � Will Notto--Yes, that's what I'mafraid sit �-n+e RIMIER IER a ' THE wpR 1 V.4I,UE OF E.ADIVI1 131GINNIN% TO BE REAL/441), New Substance Completes '4171151 the 7toritg'011 stays 011lY 7Iintod at, The world's foremost eearci1Ors af» ter the ultimate smote of the mil - verse have at length committed themselves to the stupendous the- ory, Por some time foreshadowed and now apparently substantiated by study, of the new substance, r0.• di 001, stay's a recent London letter. Crookes, the other clay In )Berlin, and Lodge and Curie, last week In London, have eotrlldently prociatm- el that it is easy to dollxlo 11118 great revolution in science in scarce* ly more than a sentence, but to comprehend it is almost as far be. yond tele power of the lium,an mind as the idea of eternity 07 infinite space. The old theory that the atom's of elements consist of individual unite of matter now is definitely discard- ed. Instead, we now ara told that each atony is a whole stellar system of infinitely smaller but absolutely, identical units, all in a regular or- bital motion hydrogen. Axa atom consists of 700 such units o3• Soils. Tho nature or identity of each sub- set -0110e depends upon the number of such ions contained in each atom. Thus 11,200 ions In each atom pro- duce what wo know a.9 oxygen, 37,e 200 of the same toots if confined In a single atom would yield )what we regard as gold. The nature of these ions is, for want of a better word, electrical. In other words, electricity and matter are one and the same thing. IIII`'TEB AT BY RONTG".EN RAYS. This -theory has been more or loss familiar to scientific mein Por two or three years, but it has been utndem- onstreblo until recently. What Itontgen Rays suggested now radi- um scents to furnish complete. Prof. Curiae examination of radium and other phenomena leads Prof. Lodge and his associates to believe that matter is not stable in its atoms, as heretofore sepposed. Every- body is familiar with the disintegra- tion of matter, which means a re- arrangement or recombination of the elements. Thus water may be sep- arated into oxygen and hydrogen, but it never before was imagined that the atoms themselves were cap- able of disintegration. Prof. Lodge suggests that this is a notable process of 11 1.11.100, yet it is proceeding at a rale 00 slow that it baffles the powers of conception of the human mind to estimate the length of time required. In radium alone it proceeds so rapidly that the phenomena, is easily observed. PROF. 013111E'S EXPERIMENTS. Prof. Curie, the discoverer of .ra- dium, in some wonderA4 experi- ments at the Royal Institution 541,0we1 that radium spontaneously, and eontinuolusly disengaged heat so rapidly that it affected photo- graphic plates, even through opaque bodies, It discharged electroscope when merely brought in its vicinity and gave off einanationa similar to itself in constant, oven violent, streams of radiation. In other words, the 150,000 ions, which com- posed each atom of radium, rotated so violently that they flew apart into original units. It has been calculatecd, however, that this e1I13x from radiurn is so definitely email e that a square inch of 5311•fa00 Would lose only one grain in 10,000,000,- 000,000 yew's, Prof. Lodge sur misos that this process of disinteg- ration of atoms may constitute the evolution of the chemical elements. The lecturer ans1ou3ced that with- in a few weeks Prof. Rutherford heed observed the breakup of the most 111,(088170 atoms. 1Te 100114 that a few atoms of a radio -active sub- stance seemed to Peach a critical stage, atwhich they flung away`. small portions of then)selVee with great violence, the residue having the sante property of unstability for some time until ulthnatoly it set- tled down pito a presumably dif- forent 01111stan00. Changes of this sort in more stable atoms would seem to require millions of millions of centuries—so long, in fact, that the longest periods in astronomical evolution seen) but hones in 00:m- paristul, LAIC OF CL3>ANCES, Prof. Lodge affirms, ho'tvovor, that these changes seem bound to occur, according to 11>0d laws. So the state of flit- and decay is recognized not only 111 the stars and planets, but in the foundation stones of the universe. The elemental atoms tltemsrolves are in process of regenee- a11on, It is impossible to imagi110 what would (mem if the separate ions ever aggregated themselves 'to- gether by their mutual attractions into fresh material. The progress of the 105010211 may load to the ells:: covert' of the existence of Etienne, mottle recently formed and others aan- cion t. It will seen (110 1711010 theory in effect is an astronomical one. One is led to wonder, then, if the earth; and 1.110 other planets aro 'not snore ions Miming a single atone of the higher 'universe — where, perhaps, they constitute the specs( of (lost that. worries the careful housewife 3n the world next above es, At all ovel'f5 we (dearly are on tho verge ot the greatest revelations of 00im108 yet vouchsafed rte mankind—a knows• edge so gigantic that it is only lime Heel by the eupaci47 of the human mind to receive it, People at the 'United Kingdo1n pay annually 20 mi113ens sterliing in life insurance pee111tunls. Only n loving mother ran weep bitter teats over a lost oriid, rani then wield idle slipper 0Ie'gctiealiy when et returns, To fi3nish the element, to fled the 3013ri100i end in every stop of tho read, to 11vo the g1'oatest =Lumbar of gepel ho'uri, is uvisdwlrt,