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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-6-28, Page 6• I E BRUBSIN $ f' OS THE FRIENDS OF LAZARUS. Rev. Dr, Talmage Discourses on the Rich and Poor, A despatch from Washington says: -Rev, Dr. Tulmage.prenohed from the following text: "There was a certain riot man, whioh was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously everyday; and there was a pertain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at laic gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table; moreover the dogs bame and naked his sorsa, [Find it came to pass that the beggar died, and was carried by angels into ,Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried and in bell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and rename in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for T am tormented in this flame, But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime re- eeivedsttby good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is; comforted and thou art tormented."— Luke xvi, 19-26. We stand in one of the finest private houses of olden times. Every room Is luxurious. The floor, made of stones, gypsum, oral, and chalk, pounded to- gether, is hard and beautiful. From the roof, surrounded by a balustrade, you take in all the beauty of the landscape. The poroh is cool and re- tresbing, where sit the people who have come in to look at the building, and are waiting for the usher. In this place you hear the crystal plash of the fountains. The windows, reaching down to the floor, and adorn- ed, are quiet places to lounge in, and we sit here listening to the stamp of the blanketed horses in the princely stables, Venison and partridge, delicate morsels of fatted calf, and honey, and figs, and dates, and pome- granates, and fish that only two hours ago glided in the lake, end bowls of sherbet from Egypt, make up the feast, accompanied with riddles, and jests that evoke roaring laughter,with occasional outbursts of music, on which harps thrum, and oymbals clap, and shepherd's pipe whistles, What a place to sit In 1 The lord of the place has been re- ceiving visitors to -day as the door- keeper introduced them. After e while there is a visitor who writs not for the porter to open the gate, or for the doorkeeper to introduce him. Who is it coming? Stop him there at the door! How dare he come in unheralded! He walks into the room, and the lord cries, with terror struck face, "This is Death, Away with him!" There Ls a hard thump on the floor. Is it a pitoher which has fallen, or an ottoman which has upset ? Nq, Dives has fallen, DIVES IS DEAD The day of burial has errtved. He is carried down out of bis splendid room, and through the porch into the street. The undertaker will make a big job of it, for there is plenty to pay. There will be high eulogies of him pronounced, although the text represents him as chiefly distin- guished for his enormous appetite and his fine shirt. The long procession moves on, amid the ncouatoinee weeping and howling of Oriental obsequies. The sepul- chre is reached. Sit persons carry- ing the body go carefully down the steps leading to the door of the dead. The weight of the body on those :ahead is heavy, and they hold batik. The relies are left in the sepulchre. and the people return. But Dives is not buried there. That which is buried is only the shell in which he lived. Dives Le down yonder iu a deeper grave. He who had all the wine he could drink asks for a plainer bev- erage. He wants water. He dues not ask for a ouptui, or a teaspoonful, but "just one drop," and he cannot get it. He looks up and epee Lazarus, the very man whom he set his dogs on, end wants him to put his finger to water and let him lick it off. Once Lazarus wanted just the crumbs Croat Divee's feast; now Dives wants just a drop from Lazarus'e banquet Poor as poor can be. Ho has eaten the last quail's wing• He has brok en the rind of the last pomegranate Meese the lord has become Dives tb pauper. The doge of remorse an despair come not with healing tongu to lick, but with relentless muzzle t tear. Now Dives (sits et the gate everlasting beggary, white Lazarus amid the festivities of heaven, fare sumptuously every day. Well, you see a man may be beg gated for this fife, hot be a prince in eternity. A cluster of old rage wa she entire property of Lszarns H ears feet and ulcered lege ware an tnvitotion to the brutes .bis food th broken victuals that were pitched ou by the housekeeper, ba!f-chewed crusts, rinds, peelings, banes, grialle --about the last creature ,ptlb of which to make a prinoe, Yet for eighteen hundred years be has been nae or the MILLIONAIRES OF HEAVEN. No more waiting for crumbs. Ile sits at the same table with tee kings, of eternity, biniself one of them, What wore the forty years of his poverty compared with the long ages of his royalty? Let all the Christian poor be com- forted, Your good days will be af- ter a while:. Stand it a little longer, and you will bo all right. God has a plate for you among the princi- palities. Do not be afraid of the dogs of distress ; they will not bite —they will help to heal. Your pnv- erLy may sometimes have led you to doubt whether you will have a de- cent funeral. You shall have grander obsequies than many a man who is carried out by a procession of governors and senators. lobe pall -bearers will be the angels that carried Lazarus into Ab- raham's bosom. The surveyors have been busy. Your eternal. pos- sessions have been already laid out by Go'Is surveyors, and the stake that bounds the property on tbis side is driven into the top of your grave. and all beyond is yours You can sifter,' to wear poor clothes now, when for you in the upper wardrobes is folded up the royal purple. You can afford to have coarse food here, when your bread is to be made from the finest wheat of the eternal harvests, Cheer up! Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning). See, also, that a man may have every comfort and luxury here, and yet come to a wrelebed future. It is no sin to be rich. It is a sin not to be rich, If we can be honestly. 'I wish I had five hundred thousand dollars— £ suppose I might as well make it c millrou—I see so much suffering and trtal every day that I say agate and again, I wish I had the motley to re- lieve it, But alas far the man who has NOTHING BUT MONEY. Dives's house had afront door and a bark door, and they both opened into eterally. Sixty seconds atter Doves was game, of wheat use his horses? he could not ride them; of what use his rich viands?, he weld not open his clenched teeth to tet them; of what ' use his fine linen shirts, when be could not wear them? The poorest man who stood along the road watch- ing the funeral procession of Dives owned more of this world than the dead gormandizer. The future world was all the darker because of the brightness of this, That wife of a drunken husband, if she does wrong, und' loses her soul, will not fond it so intolerable in bell as others, for she has been in hell ever since she was married, and is partially used to it. But this man of the text had every- thing once, now nothing. He had the best twine; now he cannot get water. He had, like ether affluent persons of the East, slaves to fan bim when he Wes bat; nowt be is beings consum- ed. He can afford no covering so good as the old patches that once fluttered about Lazarus as he walk- ed in the wind. Who here will take Dives fine house, en"i costly plate, and dazzling equipage and kennel of blooded dugs, if hi eternity must be thrown in with it! See farther in the text the extreme suffering of the finally exiled', It bus been a wonder to me why t ni- versatists rome to my Church, not merely temporarily, but that they! hold sittings here, and come to all , our services, atad they are among my best friends, I hold in my hand ales-' ter which makes it p1, in. The writ -1 er of it evidently believes there is no future place of punishment. He says in his letter: "I don't believe Lhaatl which you preaoh, but tam certain you believe it, I prefer to bear you expound the Bible, because you do not. ignore hell; for 11 the foundation of your faith is Line, hell to just as certain as Paradise, and has just as much of a lac:ality " Now, I under- • stand it. Men want us to be frank in the declaration of our beliefs. All - the world koowa that the leading denominot:tons in this day believe that e tiers as a hell as certainly as there d is a heaven. Why, then, 'slur over e ' the feat, or try to hide it, or 'declare o it only wfLh slight emphasis? I am Irl I an old fogy in my intcrpreeatton of the Bible. I have not so much tant- s (act as those men who know bow to make tin eternity of their own, spin- -' ning it out of their own brain. Not having intellect enange to fashion s an eternity of my own, I tome' aka Hi • the theory of the Bible, 1 BF SIEVE! Ili A }fel LI e if I had not been afraid of hell, I do t not. think I should have started for heepeu. Toil say, "I will not be aoared' to that ways. I will not be 5 ' eriteetecl liy any future ample event,' You are quite mistakesi, I ran frighten you half to death in five Minutes.As you are *reeking along, the .streets, lot me pull down the house-nteffoldine, weighing two xr three tons, about your head, and you will loop as Nvbite as a sheet, whale youi; heart will thee* lake s Jeep hemmer, Now, if it is not ignoble Lo be affrighted about a fabling seta - fold, 1s it ignoble to bo affrighted by a threat from the omnipotent God,. who with one stvoke of his right bund could crush the unlearn? You ask how God, being a father, could Lee us suffer in the future world? .I answer your question by asking how God, being a When', can ;let eufforieg be, iu this world ?Moll me wby be el- bowed that woman to 'whom I admin- istered the hoig antcrament this af- ternoon to have a cancer,; tell. me wby children suffer such pains in teetb- ing, the lancet striking sueb torture in the ewollen gums, aeou bail to ex- plain to me suffering in the present time; be not surprised if I Mil to ex - petit to you suffering in the future. On the way to reject the doctrine of future punishment, men begin by re- jecting the idea of material fire. In a. few years, while they admit future punisbinent, they deny that(it.is eter- nal. A few years after that they east out the whole idea. of future punish- ment, and led all the thieves, picktme- kets, and debauebees of the univelve go into gory. As fag as I can u'1- derstatad they modern papular theory A .ranee to my last account, I have set of futon' punishment, it, is that a man b,. fore you two words. CHOOSE YE I gaps down and sits on a bard -bottom - WATER for a little while, and after . WATER DIVINERS. he gets tired of roughing it, gods up trranCe wtLL orvcate,tte tae ouetene to sit on cushions in glory. I will Haute er There (target'. Experts. give you my idea of future suffering. For many years men in this noun - T do not ask you to take my theory. try and in Europe have Claimed that >r am not num pope; r am your pas - they were able to ascertain the Ger. I believe tient thorn is an titer- sources ofwater-supply by means of nal heli, and T believe that there is divining rods and other instruments literal fire. Would not a common•aense man not of fanciful names. In later years also these gifted persons have asserted prejudiced in the naso take this to be their ability to discover minerals as fine literal firel an all -sweeping well as water. The faith in the we- t an eternal fire? Leat you should ter diviner has been particularly pre - dispute it, it tails what the fire is valent in England where he still plies to kept in. his lucrative profession without legal IT IS A FURNACE 01' FIRE. interference. He is often employed Lest ypu sheuid say, that it is edit- even by town authorities, who fail to forint kind of fire from that which realize that they are merely his dupes we know about it, it says, " Its smoke when his art proves inadequate to the ascendeih, up for ever.", MI I your fa- task of discovering water sources. Ther and mother who adopted thin lit- Among implements besides the divin- eralesm, were not such big fools as ing rod whioh these sorcerers, water you make out. They studied their Bi -seers or wizards have devised as the bees more then we do, and read less means of divination, are mineral rods, of the human criticisms that have equipped with. a magnet at one end,. a:lopped over ou the pure page. All exploring pendulums, hydrosoopic the engines of the nineteenth century compasses and many others. have turned their hose towards put- In March tetat, a oommisston was ting out this fire. But still, it hes appointed in Freon, to study all the burned on, and meal ;burn for ever. et apparatus and 'methods employed by is a great stubborn, overwheimingeact: divirars. The French engineer, M. that all the ingenuity of man and. Borthier tie Rolliere, is the President devils may war against, but cannot of the commission. He 13 now en - destroy, There is not so much evidence gaged in making a oolleotlon of di- thnt there was a raging fire a few vining implements of all kinds. He _ is weeks ago In Chicago as that there is accummulating all the literature he to -night a fire in hell.; for the one oan find on the subject, and there are information we have on human au= not a few 'books and articles in re- thorlty, the other by the mouths of .views and journals, mostly written evangelists and of prophets, ` and of by men who claim to be gifted in this the Lord Jesus the Son of God, line. Ho Le also oolleotiag the names God deals with this world in two and addresses of inventors of the al- ways—by treaty and by cannonade; leged devices, by treaty, in whioh, for the auks of It is needless to say that scientific Jesus Christ, and by the surrender of mon regard these diviners as frauds our hearts to him, Fie will be at peace pure and simple. They believe the with us, or by the opening of the whole business is akin to that of the smoking batteries of hall fire, by fortune. teller, the fake spiritualist or whioh He will hurl upon his anemia„ any other charlatan; and they think a horrible tempest ; and he who will it strange that the frauds heve so not be drawn by love shall be crush - long been permitted to ply their voca- ed under His wrath. tion without fear of prosecution. Usu- See also, from this subject, that ally the victims are the only ones to heaven is not a myth or an abstrao-, suffer, and they have to pay dear for Lion, but a place of warm personal their gullibility. Intercourse. Lazarus was carried up It is high time the whole matter to the bosom of Abraham, one of `vas thoroughly investigated.. The the glorious old patriarchs, 1 sup- French oommisston proposes to make I'ose Abraham happened to meet him iia inquiry fax reaching and to place its proper light, A report that will be Jerre 28, •1000 and with au embrace, wild with 'ho' eosi:apy ok heaven; 0LD FRIIbNAS It2EBT AGAIN, I see a mother and her child meet„ Ing at the foot of the throne after some yearn absence, `£lie child died turnery yearn ago, but it li u child yet, I think tee little ones who die will remain abildrail through all eternity, rt would be no heaven without the lit„ the darlings. 1 do not want thane that are is heaven to grow up. We need their infant volae 'in the great song. And when we walk out in the melds of ligit, we went thorn to run ululate and clap their hands, and prole out the brightest of the field flowers. Yes,. here la a ohild and its mother meet - Ing. The child long in glory, tbo mother just arrived. "How changed you are my darling!" says the mother. "Yes," says the child, "this is such a happy plaeo; and Jesus has taken scall Dare of .me, and heaven is so kind, I got right over the fever with which I died. .The skies are so fair, mother! The flowers are so sweet, mother I The Temple is so beautiful, mother 1 Come take me up in your arms as you used to do." Thus 7 have set before you light and darkness, joy and sorrow, victory and defeat, the rewards of Lazarus, and the overthrow of Dives. Chouseye between the'ingelie escort end the parched tongue, between the fountains of God and the waterless desert, between a glorious heaven and e burning hell. In the name of my God, and with re- al the gate. And so, after death, we the whole matter before the public in will be greeted into glory. Our de- parted friends will be at the door. They have been waiting for our come ing, Count up their number if you can. Your father is there, Your moth- er is there, Your abildren are there. Your old neighbours are there. lileny of the friends with whom you used to 'attend church, or do business, are there. They have hseu deed these five, ten, or twenty years, and have been waiting within the veil. There is no Lok in heaven, because it is an everlasting day; yet they keeps an co - count of the gassing years, because they ace all the time hearing from our • world. The angels flying through heaven report how many times the earth has turned on iia axis, end in .bat way the angels oan keep a diary; and they say it la almost time now for fetter to come up, or for mother to some up. Some day they see a cohort leaving heaven, and they say, "Whish•, bound?" and rho answer is, "To 1, ..g up a soul from earth ;" and the question is asked, "What soul 1" And a family oriole In heaven find that it is one of their own number that is in be brought tip, and ,tshee some out to w;atclt, as on the bent, we now wa lrh for the sail of a ship that is l' bring our friends hone, After a whin, the nohort will heave In sight, Vying nearer and nearer, until with a great clang the gutes hoist, accepted generally es a result of an able and tborough investigation will be a boon, for it will greatly diminish the number of vietima of a class of sharpers who should have been sap- preasddlong ago. ADVmOI'n TO YOUNG WIVES. Never disturb a man while reading bis paper. Never ask a fat man for anything when pulling on his boots. Never speak to ano.an until he has bad something good to oat. When you want anything wait un- til your husband has had his breakfast and then help him tenderly Auto his coat, and whole 'behind him smoothing bis collar the right way, ask him for it. When ha looks injured:an'il plaintive examine els plate, there is sure to be a vacancy, If he lies on the sofa after dinner and shakos the house with his snores accuse him not of sleeping, for he is Merely thinking with his eyes shut. If he loses his handkerchiefs every- where but at home let him have his own way about it—that the washer- woman is dishonest without your knowing it. if he says he ha going to the club for an hour, dear, bid him adieu for the evenin If you went ham to do anylbing never tell lien it is good for )aim, for he wilt not be "tied to a woman's apron strings." , r Young Folks. A. 1307C'S MOTHER, My mother, &hoe% so good to me 1CL I was good as 1, cpudd be, I -couldn't lie as goad. No air; Can't any boy be, good ae herr Ste loves me when, I'm glad or mod, She lona ate when, I'm gond or bad, en',. what's the Bonniest tbiitg, elle says She lone rap when she puenehes. f don't like bee to punish me. !Chat don't ham, but it hurts, to see Her cry. Non I cry, an nen, We both ory—an' be good again, Slip s mwheisptcs 'nd sews littllovee coate andn Srundayeoloathes, An' when my, pa comes home to tea.. SIM loves him 'most as muele as me, Site laughs and tells hem all T said, An' grabs mo up an' pate, my head, An' I hug her au' hug my pa An' love hien ptuivt' nigh newel' astern. James, Whitcomb Riley. • THE WISH APPLE. ,7tmmy Smith wasn't sash a bad lit- t.le boy, but be had areputation. If a'stone oonuted awindow in the vil- lage, and the wnndon got smashed, '[was sure to be Jimmy that was blam- ed for it. If 'Willie Prune came home with. a black eye of aSat,ua•day after- noon, his mother was sure that Jimmy hod done it. And yet Jimmy wasn't such a bad little boy after all. He could till the box quicker and get the cows in from pasture sooner then wellie Prime, who was the good little boy of the neigh- borhood, and Jimmy was a master bustler at chores when he wanted to go a -fishing. But he; had a reputation and was just a plain, boyish' bay, who believed in ghosts,. and fairies and things, This particular Saturday afternoon Jimmy wanted to "go to the ewimmin' hole wid de gang," but misfortune had overtaken hint• im the shape of a bent pIn which was found innocently re- posing an the seat of Deacon Smith's chair at prayers that morning. So Jimmy was forced to spend the after- noon a prisoner "in durance vile,' in the garret, where he sweltered In the heat and took rare comfort shying dried apples from the windows at the fowls and pigs in the barnyard. There would be astrange swelling of breasts In that same barnyard after the dried apples had made the as quaintanee of the water from the pump trough, and Jimmy chuckled as the thought oeme to him. Any sport soon loses Its zest to the prisoner, and the supply de dried ap- ples showing an appreciable shrink- age, Jimmy thought it was time, to quit. He flung himself an an old mat- tress under the eaves and banged has heels against the rafters overhead. "Wish'd there wuz some fairies up here," he setd. "You do, do you?" piped' a thins 111- tle vouce which' seemed' to come from the strings .of dried apples over his head. "And what do you want with falries?" Jimmy opened his eyes wide, and his mouth; wider, and stared hard nt the strings of dried apples. "I thought you wanted a fairy," piped the thin voice. "Here T am, now what do you want, boy?" "Where are you?" said JImmy, "I' don't see nobody? Who be youi?" "I'm one of the dried apple fairies," said the, voice, "that's why my voice is so thin. It's us as makes' the ap- ples swell so whew your mix 'em With water. When they are all swelled ups our valines swell, too, and we step out and enjoy the fun. If hs beoause you, bane given so many of my friends enjoyment thus afternoon in the barn yard that I want to do something for you." "Ohl" said Jimmy. "What would you like most?" "Same apples, and ice cream and "Hold, onl Walt a bill" broke in the fairy, "Not so ;fast, please, one thing at a time. Apples are right in line, but I don't knowt about the roe creapn and the rest." "Why, I thought fairies could do anything," maid Jimmy. "So they oan, so they oan some of them; but there are others who have their limitations. Speaking of ap- ples, bow do yep, like that one?' Jimmy opened his eyes wider still when he saw a big rimy apple smiling at tam, from the edge of a box near his head. "Is it good to eat?" "Sure," said the fairy, and Jimmy had pounced, on it and taken a big bite, all in a minute. I,5 was 00 good another big mouthful end then he stared hard. The biles filled up as fast ae he Look them, ante that apple grew whole and rosy agate, "Wish *ben yeti bite;" said the fairy. "Good -by, and god look too you Jimmy." "Hallo, are you going?" cried the boy, but no answer nam back. "Gee! but this is a luffhe good[ ap- phe,' and he smaokedi lets lips and bit into it again. "Wish'd I wises In the swimmitt' hole,' And before the words were fairly out of his mouth he wee floUntIsring in the swimming hole with all hie clothes on and tee other boys throw. lug mud at hini. "Gaol" acrid he, refuelling for his ap- ple whioh bobbed along on the water to front of him, .Taking a big bite he wished bimeelf ca tela of the straw stack to dry in tine sun. The straw stack was hot and before he stopped to think Jimmy said; 'Wish tbie straw eta.* wee en top of the north pole," Away they were whisk- ed in. an inalant and Jimmy, ndarly frozen and his teeth chattering, found himself• looking dots n from a terrible height, en a great field of las where great polar bears were hav- ung a dance In boner of the midnight Sinn, Looking up; they caught sight of Jimmy and a big old grandfather bear meat "Wotug'lefl WW^augtel 1 smell a bad boy who puts bent pints. on Dea- con Smith's chair and who throws etenee throughthe saline windows. Woughf! But }we'll make a dainty salad with walrus fat!' and off he aoi'ambled to olimb the pole. Jimmy saw bun coming and heard what? he said. "Oh, dearl P11 he good if I ever get back out of this," said he, and he tried hard to bite gds apple; hat it wee frozen so solid )bat his teeth amid not dent it end wish arsi hard as he might, the wish would not come if he could not bite the apple. Just then, he looked down and saw the grandfather bear's great red mouth opened wide td catch[ him and he felt himself slipping, slipping! Then with an. awful scream, he fell -bump off the mattress on to the garret floor. and woke up. "Guess I ate too many dried apples)' and he rubbed hie eyes. "Jimmy) Jimmy! Oh, Jimmy!" his mother's voice called at the food of the garret stairs. "Yes'm," he answered, "I ain't goin to bend no more pins." "Supper is toady," she said. - e TO ADJUST EYEGLASSES. " Oh, yes," said the optician, as he Bitted a pair of glasses on the nose of a customer, " There le an art in putting on nose glasses and at least a halt of the people who wear glasses don't know how to put them :on, The result is that the moment they begin to•perapire a little or when they shake their heads or make any unusual movement, off go the glasses smash on the floor or more often the side- walk. Of course, we optioians don't ktok, for that very thing gives us a good part of our business. There is a geed profit in putting in new lenses. Really the only sensible glasses to wear are spectacles. They fasten over the ears, and they never fall off and they don't get out of adjustment. They Lit on the same place every time and the eye looks Lhrough the cen- ter of the lens IIA it should look But most people think that spectacles make them look older or something Like that and they insist on nose glasses. Then they don't know bow to put them on, and if they won't get them juet right the eyes don't look through the center of the lames and if there is any disorder of the vision other than nearsightedness the hm- properly adjusted glasses often do more harm than good, to say nothing of the expense from breakage. Now, madam, if you feel you must wear glasses instead of spectacles take them like this." He took tits glasses and hold them perfectly level before hien. "Stretch them wide apart and approach the nose like this." He advanced them to- ward. the tip of the nose, "now raise them up so." Still bolding the glass so that the springs stretched wide over the 0.005 he advanced Lhem upward untilthe upper points of the clips were directly under the eyebrows. "Now Let go," said he. The glasses. were on firm. "Shake your head," said he, The customer shook her head, The glasses wiggled but did not fall off, •" You sae," said the optician, "you can't shake them off. They sit per- fectly and just fit the eye. You don't want anything better than that do you? Now try putting them on your- self." The customer took them off and at- tempted to put them back. She got them on askew. "No 1 no! no I" sale the optician, " [-hat's all wroug," and he showed her over egtttn how; It should be done. It took nix tints trying before the customer mastered the knack and want away happy. • "She'11 be bank in a month," said the optician, "wanting one or two lenses to replace her broken ones, Now I've showed her exactly how to pktt them on, but she'll get careleaa alter a while and will forget all about it. I can always tell about that by the way they catch on to the knack of adjusting them when they first put them on. People who have to wear glosses at all shauld wear spectacles. But 11 they will wear nose'cltpe they Must learn how to adjust them or thoy'Ll ruin their eyes and brenik their )rockets at the salve time. Woman are no worse than men in that. I've got one customer who paid me last year e50 for new lenses, Mat's about el a week, and I can't got leim to wear spectacles yet," HEALTH. THE COMPLEXION, A French duotor has made a • dia• oavory teat the Alio frum carrots bee wonderful properties, Ilitbeeto tee cored and negieoted, : Pertloularly Is it beneficial to purifying' the blood and improving the eomplexion. French women are making parrot wine andparrot. i9 to, a "•,1 u.ae t reeipa, and find that it, without doubt, renders their akina clear and bright, An excess of meat diet, riob and highly -spiced -foods, vinegar, tea and sweets were declared to be the' dead- ly enemies of geed looks, A disagree, able breath and an unpleasant taste in the mouth show an unwholesome condition of 'the digestive organa whioh sooner or later will be made apparent in an impaired complexion by the presence of a muddy skin, course pores and blackheads. The suggestions made as. aids to a good complexion were a correct diet- ary observance and a daily bath, but never at night, when tired nor immed- iately after eating. The best medical authorities were quoted to eubstan' tia,te the theory. The wearing of veils was roundly denounced, as they coarsen and roughen the akin, especially the nose, - besides being a positive injury to the eyes, "If anyone does not believe voile also cause nervousness,"says an ex- change, "try them on men and see how long they would stand them." M SML POULTICES. In making any kind of a meal poultice have the water boiling and the bowl and spoon with whioh it is mixed warmed. Stir in only just sufficient meal to make the mixture thick enough •to spread, Without sticking to the knife. Turn in the edges of the poultice all around to keep in the heat and roll it up to a flannel, or put it between• hotplates to oarry to the bedside. Apply with- out delay and cover with a pieoe of rubber cloth, then flannel. Fasten securely to the part needing the pout - tin with a bandage. If necessary to repeat the poulticing have the fresh bandage ready before the old one Is removed in order not to chill the patient. When the poultioing is fine ished, wash the part with warm wat- er, wipe dry and cover with hot flannel. When it Is necessary to poultice the lungs, two large pieces of cotton or linen should be shaped. one for the chest and one for the back and sides. After the poultices are applied a jacket may be formed by securing the edges over the should- ers end under the arms by pins, then using -a binder made of a broad strip of flannel or flannelette to go round the body. This should have two straps sewed oa behind on its upper edges to pass over the shoulders and pin in front. Whoa a patient oanuot sit up, be may be, turned an one side while the back poultice is applied and the binder with one and rolled back into posi- tion. The patient can then be turn- ed on his beak, lying on the poultice, while the rolled end of the binder is drawn around, rho chest poultices ap- plied, and all fastened with safety, pins. --- HEALTH COMMANDMENTS. 1. Don't leave your rooms in the morning with an empty stomach, L,, Never expose yourself to cold air immediately after you have partaken of a warm liquid of any kind, 3. Don't leave your abode in cold weather without warm wraps around your shoulders and breast. 4. Begin respiration in the cold by breathing through the nose. 'I'liis ;will give the air a chance to get warm before reaching the lungs, 5. Never place your back near a heated Wren or legatee!. a wall, warm or cold. U. Don't stand before an open witn- clew in a railway carriage, nor take a drive in an open carriage after vio- lent physical exercise. 7. Don't remain motionless in a cold room, and do not stand in an open space, on ice or now. 8. '.Calk only when you must, for the old phrase, "Spaeth Is silver, et- lenoo is gold " holds guod even he hygiene. 9. Don't put off your regular bath. When the ekiu is not kept; fresh and soft the oold draws the,porea togeth- er and you are tendered susceptible to pulmonary troubles of tell kinds. 10. Don't reliro with cold or wet fent. Nothing preemie sleep with so much certainty as the negleot.of your pedal extremities. A FEMINTNIII.BUTTER. And now, children, said lee teacher, who had been talking about military fortifications, can any of you Loll me what is a buttress? Please, ma'am, Cried little Willie, enepping hie fingers, it's a nanny goats Tile man who loves home best, and laves it most unselfishly, loves his Country best, --i. G. Holland,