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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-2-14, Page 31 i • eeet THOSE 'VACANT CHAIRS. Rev, Dr. Talmage Tells of the Lessons They Convey, despatob from Waeleingtou days; Rev. De. Talmage preacned from the following 1:ext;—Thou ellen be miss- ed bemuse tby seat will be empLy,"- 1 Samuel xx. 18, Set on the table the cautery did the chased salvo ware of the palace, for King Mon will give a state dinner to- day. A. distinguished pluote in kept at the table for fo hlj on-ltiela w, a bale - hinted warrior, David by teems, The gueets, jeweled and ,plumed, acme ti and take their place,. When Lbe peo- ple term invited to a kLegee banquet thee are very apt to go. teat before the covers are lifted from Lhe feast Seal Woke around and finds a vacant hied: at the table. Ile saye within hlmeelf, or perhaps audibly. " What demi this mean? Where is my son-in- law 1 Whore is Devtd, the great, war- rior? l invited him;'I expected. him, :Whata vacaut ()hair al a king's banquet!" The fact was that David, the warrior, had been aeated for the last time at his tathee-in-law's table. The day before, Jonathan had capered David, in the words of my text, "Thou wilt be missed, because thy seat will be empty," The prediction was fulfill- ed. David was missed. Ilis seat wee empty. What one vacant chair spoke louder than all the occupied chairs at the banquet. In almost every house the articles of furniture take a living personality. In that picture a atranger would not Ace anything remarkable, enter in its design or execution, but it is more to you than all the pietures of tbe Louvre and the Luxembourg. You remember who bought it and who admired it. And that eyinti-book—you remember who sang out of it ; and that cradle— you. remember who rocked it; and that Bible, --you remembered who read out of 11; and that bed—you remem- ber who slept in it; tend that rOom— you remember ghp /lied in it. But there is teething in all your house so eloquent erte ea inighty-voiced as the vacant eletir. I ppose that before Seal end hie guests got up from thiel banquet there was a great clatter of Wine. pitebera ; but all that raeket was 'breveted out by the voice Slott emus ftp from the re.o.int chair at the table. 'first, I point oat to you the fatleeret broken chair. Old men always like to alt in the mane place and the same cheer. They e.oenehow feel more at home, and sometimes, whoa you are in thetle place and they come into the roam, you jump up, and suddenly say, "Here, father, here's your chair." The probability ildt is an armchair, for lie Ls not so strong as he once was, and he needs a little upholding. The hair a little frosty; the gums a little depresaed; forein his early days there was not much. dentistry. regtatPa cane and eld-fashicled apparel, for thoush you may have euggaisted some ianprovement, father clime cot want any oe your nonsense. Grandtather never had much admiration for new- fangled noti.ons. I sat at the table of tine of my parishioners in a former congregation. An aged. man was at the table, and his sen was presiding, and Ithe father somewhat abruptly ad - dim*. the son, and said, "My .'son, don't, now, try to show ore because the minister is here I" Your father never like,d any new customs of mann era. He preferred. the old w ty ef doing things, and he never looked so•happy, as when with his eyes dosed, he sat: in the ermehair in the eorner. From wrin- kled brow to the tin of the slipper, what placidity! The wave of the •past yelere of hie life broke at the- foot of that ohair. Perhaps some Limes he was a, little impatient, and sometimes told the same atory twice, but over that 01,d, elide how many blessed memories hover. I hope you did not orowd that ole chair, and that 11 did not get vary meal en the way, especially le he has been so unwise as to make all his pro- perly to his children, with the under- 1 standing that they are to take mire of him. I have Seen in each cases chile deen crowd ,the old man's /shale to the doer, and then orowd 11 clear into the I street, and then orowd 11 Lute the poor house, and keep an crowding it until the old man feel out of it into his grave. But ,your father's chair Ives a sacred plaoe. 'Rho children meed to climb up on the rungs of it for evade night kiss, and the longer he stayed, the better you liked it. The furniture dealer would not give you fifty °ants for it; bat It Is a throne of influenee en your domestic circle, I go a little further an in your house and I find the in,other'e chair. It hi very met; to be a reeking chair, She had lea many cares and troubles to acothe that it must have rodeers. I reineenber it evell. It was an old chair and the rookers were almost worn oat, for I was the yeringest, and the chair had tanked the whale fam- ily. .11 .made a creaking noise as it moviete Inn there was musk in the newel, I( was jest high enough to 111100Y asohildren to. put our heeds into her lap. That was tho bank evintre we deposited all oar hurts andt worriee. Me, what a chair thatewttal It wag different krona, the father's ohair; it wail entirely difeerent. Yau alk me howl 1 cannot tell; but we den 11 was different. Perham theca was abent this deaar more gel:item-se, 'lucre thoderneeee, more grief when we had dyne wrong. When we Were wayward, father seolded, .but mother creed, It was a very wake- ful chair, In the atok day of cbild- ren, other ohaire oeuld not keep awake, that cheer always kept awake, —kept easily a wake. That ohair knew all the old lullabies and all thotete wordless songs*, which mothers elms to their etek children—sengs ID whboh all pLty and eerapieseien and sympathetic intluences are com- bined. That old chair has stopped reeking for many yeare. It may be get up in the loft tar the garret, but it holds a queenly Power yet. When at midnight you went into the grog ethop to get the latest/eating draught, did you not hear a voioa that eatd; "My son, why go in there'?" and loud- er than the betieterous encore of the theatre, a voice saying; "MY eon, what do you here?" And when you went into the house of stn, a nese seeing; "What would your mother do if she knew yoa were heed" and you. were provoked at youreelf and you charged trourself with superstie teen and fanateciera, and your head got hot .weth your own thoughts, and and you went home, and you went hoi bed, anul n.4) sooner had you. touch- ed the bad than a yoke gain; "What( o prayerlese pilaw I" A. 'ung man went off and broke his mother's heart, and while be was away from harm his mother died, and the tele- graph brought the. non, and ha came, into the room where she lay, and look- ed upon her face, and ho oried out; "0 mother, mother, what your life amid at do, your death stall etfeetl Thee moment 1 glee my heart Gue." Med he kept hie proeneee. Another Victory for the variant ohalr, Witb reference, to your mother, the worde of bey text were fulfillen;."Theu abaft be neeeeed because thy seat. will be onepty.e I go on 0 lath farther and I Dome to the invand'e chair. What: Hew long have you teen eikdol ''Oh, I have been alok ten, twenty, Genie, yeara." 15 It posetble ? Wbat a story of endurance. Thera are in many of elle laza lice of my congre- gation, these Invalid deities. The co - °apatite of them think they are -ic- ing no geed he the world; but that /regaled's ohair le the mighty from which they leave been preaching all those years, trust. in God. Oh, what a means of grape to the world, these invalid chairs. een that field,of human steeterin.g, the grace. of God gats its victory. But when one of these in,alideri chairs became vacant, how suggestive it is. No more of bolstering up of the, weary bead. No more changing from side to side to get an easy position. No more Me of the bandage and the bataplasm and the.peeseription. That chair may be fielded fele or taken apart, or set away, but It will never lose ill queenly power; it will always preach of trust ID God and cheerful sulenele sten. Suffering, all ended now, Well respect to that Invalid the words of my text have been fulfilled; 'Thou shale be missed, bemuse thy seat win be empty," 1 pass on and 1 find one more van- ed; chair. It is a high hair. It is the *Mid'chair. If that chair be oc- cupied, I think it is tee most potent chair in all the housebold. All the chairs wait on it, all the chairs are turned toward it, IL means more than David's chair at Saul's banquet. At any rate it makes more rarket. That is a strange house that can be dull with a child in it. There is no- thing to arouse and melt and su.b- due the soul like a child's voice. But when it goes ream you, the high ohair beemnee a higher ohair, and there is desolation all around about you I cannot speak from experience thank God.; but in three-fourths of the homes of my congregation: there is a vacant high chain Somehow; you never get over it. There is no one to put, to bed at night, no one to ask strange questions about God and and heaven. Oh, what. is Lite use of that high chair 1 It is to call you high- er. What a drawing upward it must be to have children in heaven, .Wille respect to your child, the words of my text have been f ulfilled : "Thou shalt. he missed because thy seat will be empty," I have been very earnest this morn- ing, been use 1 ealize the fad that Lhe day will come when the piietor's will be empty, Prom this point how often 1 have looked off into your bees, I Wye seen a great melee healitiful and thrilling teighte, hel never any- thing ID equal what I have witnessed when, in this chair, I have looked all ante seen ,you rise' for the dokology. Seated In thee eealr, 00Mee1inee I have greatly rejoiced at seeing multitudes come LO ewe and thee nein have, trembled for fear meg would reject the goepel. 1 wonder whet thee ohair Will testify When I have left it for th lest time? Will it tell of 4 Useful liee, 91 an earneet ministry, of e Pere paled, 1 God grant it. The most powerful sermon that; is ever preach- ed Is by the vacant ebair of a pastor the Sabbath after he has been carried away from it. And ob, when we are all tlerough with this world and we have ehtiken bands all around km the lest time, and all our chairs in the home etrole and in the outside world shall be vecant, may wo be avertible - Mg God iit that place teem which we phial go out no more torever. Teenk God there will be no vacant chairs in heaven I IMMUNITY FROM COLDS. nee Women Secured et by use of Vold ti ,ter and a nom Brush. A woman who for years suffered Oulu vlotent colds wheish several times threatened to end fatally claims to have attained immunity by the use of pure ooid water as a medieine, and an ordinary house ere. .or cur.yiag ai morning and evening exereise. Owing to a severe nervous breakdownt she was obliged to consult a physician fee:none for his anginal and simple methods of treatment. After laying down Lhe law on the subject of diet and Intel air, ho said: ''Inc will also go to a store and purchase for 35e a borse brusb, with which you, will give yens whole body a thototegh rubbing eace morning before you bathe. .As soon as You, rise you will fill a quart pitcher will drinking water, andeeip it slowly Waile dressing. At night do the same thiag over again, omitting, of course, the bath." The mild water was easily managed and soon beeame indispensable, but et first the horse brush seemed to tear the sensittve skin. Having absolute confidenee in her physician, however, the patient persisted, ate first barely touching the bristles to her body. Within a few weeks she was not only able to do the currying most vigorous- ly, but really anticipated it with pleas- , me, The signs of the first winter cold StrOVie her.in haste to the doctor. The gred man of medicine refu.eed to sur- ely her with drugs. ile questioned her as OM Mould a child as to leaving her window -4 open at night, as to drink- ing wat Ir regularly mad taking her exexteeee, upon all of which she pass- ed A FAIR EXAM1NATION. fts eald, "Then your have been indulg- ing in overeating. Whenever you eat heave rich dinner, and let it be as *elegem as possible, omit the next meal And rubatitute a quart of water. You me't tyke cold unless you get into ecenditicin for it." This she did and: the cold failed to mature and, although she has frequently left undone those things which she ought to have done, and vice versa, and paid a penalty proportion- ate to her carelessness, she has never slime suffere.d from a really' violent coed. Of course, any system of living which builds up a well-nourished body is inimical to colds as well as other forms of disease. Cold watee taken in this manner simply washes the stomach, candies off the injurious acids, which generate there and which, allowed to eiroulete through the bleed, impoverisb it, ited:eby weakening the vitality of the pereen, After washing the blood clean as it were, the next thing. is te Mello., circulation. This is done by mesas of the vigorous currying, which beside bringing the biome to the sur- face to resist external chill, also opens the pores, allowing impurities to eacape. Then the daily beth finishes the work. Those who intend to ,pat this simple cold cure in practice, and it is a remedy for many another evil, should remem- ber that water taken with meals does not vaunt at all,, or if le does it: is rather to be. added to the side ofethe enemy. It meet be taken- before breaktast and again just, before retir- ing, and 0 whole quart most be sipped within say three-quarters of an hour, 11 C111,1 Witter chine one, the tempera - Lure may be ratee.d a Mlle until this difficenty is overcome. Some good thou!) distilled water is best where there is tiny munition of the purity of the water seemly. 'A PLAUSIBLE STORY. Lady—Why axe you wandering around the country, I should like to know, instead ot staying at bomo and taking mere of your family? Tramp—You dee, mum, my wife bad a very good servant girl, a regular jewel, mum. That doenn't ;MM. possible, There never was but one perfect glee and gay wife had her, MUM. Merced What c beaky woman' Yea, Mum, 00 my wife often eaid. But you dee, mute, the girl didn't like me. No, mum. S.h.t weld my wits, would have to diecherge he or me, so she clip:Merged mc. Oh, 1 mac. Dere% some money, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL, LESSON, FEB. 17 "Ms Po In nememberance or Ile," *Mt , 26, 1? -30, Golden Text, time ee. 10. PR,ACTIOAL NOTES. Verge 17, The feast of unleavened beefed, The pitesover festival, which laeteel a week, duriag whiele ime lea Van - 04 eaed was used. The pessorer Map- per wan regularly eaten on the leth of Mean, which we 'Understand to have been egalvalent that year ta April 7; consequently the inquiry of the ull4eiples, Where welt thee that we prepare for thee to eat the page - aver ? was made on Tlyursday. 18. This verse Undloates that with- out the knowleelge of the diselples Je.sus had already arranged with a friend foe a reom. Besides Lem room, the lamb and the bitter hortie and unleavened bread were .required far a regular paesaver feast, the bnip91.10.Thteiola.lgohf 4,mlultayeal:190.obedience 10 20. When the even was °eine. With the "even" began the next '.'day;" therefore we may safely reckon that Jesus sat down with the twelve promptly at sunclawn—that is, a few minutes after six. -Aneieut tradition and modern embolarsidp agree in their guesses that tbe upper room in welsh the lad, supper was eaten was. in the home of Mary tee mother of Mark. There are intima- tione, Act Id. 12, that a few weeks later than thie Mary's house had 'be- came the regular meeting place oe the apeetles, and it is easy to guess that the pent:coastal scenes and those of atm leesson to -day had by that time already made the upper ram of that house a holy place in memory. The phrase "sat down" must be explain- ed in accordanee with what we know at the reclining customs of oriental and Roman dinar e at this time. While the disciples gathered around the table a strife began among them, Luke 22. 24, as to which shield be an - waded greatest—a strife that shows that even naw, a few henna before the crucifixion, they had no adequate comprehension ot the spiritual char- acter of our Lori's kingdom. From: the supper table Jesus arose and, to their great surprise and against Pet- er's hot protest, washed the disciples' feet—teacbing them thereby a lesson of bumble charity, that beautifulspir- it that coverath a multitude 'of sins. 21. One of you shall betray me. An astounding declaration, It was made probably to give Judas opportunity to repent. John observed the "trouble" of the lidaster'a "spirit" es the words were spoken. 22. They were exceeding sorrowful. Our Lord's wordand b is manner alike impressed them. What terrible re- sults might be expected from such a betrayal! Lord, es it I? Not "Is it he?" The form of the question In the Greek anticipates a negative reply. 23. He that dippeth his hands with me in the dish. Tee. Revised Version modifies the tense here: "Pie that dip- ped." Some scholars assuming that. Judas had just dipped into the dish,' understand that by these words Jesus informed the apostles which was the, traitbr; but others understand that' our Lord here enlarges on the horrible treachery of the aot without disclos- ing the traitor, as if. he had said; "I need not mention names, the traitor knOwe ens own treason ; but this I eay—it is one whose courtesy and apparent friendship .are notable." for a blessing on it," Take, eat.; this es, m).. body. "Tide 14 pay life; absorb it; take it into yOtt," De could not have meant them literally to eat his hotly, and they were too familiar with his mode of speech, to tio ,uaderstand him. They WA heard him, or were shortly to bear him say, "1 am. the Way." "1 am the Door," "1 ana the Vine." The) had heard him say, "The seed is the word," '"Ilhe harvest l the end of tho world." And they understood all a these to be figures, of epeeoh. Gave thanks. From which fact comes our peruse "the eucharlst"—that 10, "the thanksgiving." Drink ye all ot it, !Participate it the life here syme bolized. This is my blood, of the new testament, "The blood Is the nee." For "testament." we should recd "revenant," "God is now making new terms of salvation with man. These terms involve the shedding of my blood for their redemption. Drink ye all of it." Steed dor many. For multiLudes. This does not suggest any Henn to tbe number of the re- deemed. For the remission of sins. For the freeing of souls from the Power and guilt of their wrongdoing. 21:1. Fruit of the vine. Wine: juice of the grape. That day when I drink it new with you in my Father's king- dom. The time when with a new symbolism, a new meaning in the rite, Jesus partakes with the dear ones he has saved In the everlasting banquet his Father has prepared for him and for us, 30. Between verses 'Le and 80 many things were said, Here we must. place oar Lord's, temente:1g to Peter, and the apostle's hot denial that he would ever deny his Master. Here eh:le:mines the matchless comforting words of Jesus recorded in John, pimps, 14-17. Whe.n they had sung a hymn, If they were keeping cease Lo the Hebrew ritual this hymn teensist- ed of Pulling 115, 116, 117, and 118. They wed net into the mount of Olives, In he lower shadows of ' which nestled the garden of Gethse- • mane, to which Jesus at once reLir- . • QUEER INSURANCE'. Thoestines of Polloles Mande collectible by the Queen'. maim "One of the most curious incidents, in conneetion. with the passing of. Queen Victorin," says a prominent in- surance man, "will be the colleetion of thousands of policies on her life, whith have been curried for years past by all :gasses of people to England. Vest 'of this insurance was taken out by trades people. and was a purely buslei :I:less-like precaution, They assumed , that the death of the Queen would be; followed by a period of court mourn-, ing lasting from four to de months,' during which time no great state ienc-I ; Gans would be held and society gen- Ierally would be in retirement, The; Idled of such. a waster/ un business' was certain to be demoralizing in (lel extreme, and it was easy to foresee, that it would mean' a falling off in traele•to the tune of millions of pounds. The insurance was written as an off- set to such a contingeney, and ranges all the way from Lhe little £20 policies of bumble shopkeepers up to lump sums of thousands. The bulk of it was taken eat many years ago, because no pi udent company would care to as- sume the risk after Lhe Queen passed a certain age, and she has 'Ned so musheloager than the average human being, particularly the average crown- ed head, that the insurers have had a good deal the worst of the bargain. I dare say most of their preraiume have trebled or quadrupled the face of the. policies, tt hies always been possible to obtain such insurance, however, in few companies that mode a specialty writing it, and 1.1 is 0 well-known fa.ot that an enormous sum was placed on the Queen's lifts for the twenty-four houro covering her jubilee eelehretien. All the London storekeepers counted upon gathering M itt immense harvest on that day, and they were thunder- struck when a rumor went out, short- ly before, that tee venerable sovereign had had a serious seizure. It was said afterward that the story was sheeted by insurance promoters, and if so, it was one of tho most told -blooded and heartless pieces ot commercial strategy on record, lent be that es it natty, it Zesaulted in wholesale insuring against the possibility that the celebration would fait to take plena awarding to programine, and it wag said on good authority that insurers included not only the common run ot tradespeople, but folks Who had owns to rent,street stalls Where and proprietors of tem- porary places of arnueement. That re- minds one, by the way, that the prin- cipal London theaters are said to be among the establishments that carry the heaviest regular policies on the Queen's life. in ihnie ease the procitution eon bo (matey understood, toe them business ha e always been strongly affected by occadone of mean mourniug. A few (lays' retiree meet 01 the coute following the death of some nether member of the royal family invariably reduces receipts do a emotes extent and I think most of Plena will simply dose their elooes dur- ing tlie •period of mourning for the Qteeen." '24. The Son of man gooth es et is written. Plainly foretold to us, who get prophecy and fulfillment at once. But wise Bible students in our Lord's day were not agreed about the mean- ing af either the Son of man," or "the eufferen.g Messiah," Woe auto that main by whom the Son of man te be- trayed. This la neither a cause nor a sentence; it is -a beart-broken re- velation of therein of a soul—a chosen friend turned traitor to the Incarna- tion of Goodness. It had been good for that mast if he bad not been born. Even at this awful climax of his his - Lary Jases has not one word of sorrow for himself, but infinite pity for his would-be desVoyer. 25 Judas, . . blaster, is it I? Everyone eerie had asked, and had been replied to, Possibly, as We i31114.1 seen, Judas bad just before, tele dipped his hand into the dish ;And tha queetion- ing eyes of the others may have loosen- ed his tongue. Thou hest said. This, according to Palestinian idiom, was it distinct affirraation—"Yes." Whether or not the eleven deare it is not' quite plain; they evidently did not promptly understand It. John says that Jesus "dipped a sop" --soaked a piece of bread in the stew—andl gave it to Judas, ,after leaving told john at least that he was about to give the, "sop" to the traitor, -Satan entered into Judea—his devilish purpose was Veil - (lately confirmed—and when Jens said, "That thou elooet, do quickly,' 'Judas "wetit immediately out," apparently leaving the eleven 51111 i,n &Wet as to which of the twelve should betray t he Men ter. 20-28. 45 they .Were eating. To- ward the dose of the supper. Josue Look bread, Evidently nleavened bread, something like our °Id -fashioned "pilot bisouit." alleseed it. "Prayed LORD OF A WIN DOMAIN, EDWARD VII., KIND AND EMPEROR OF A VAST St'he4 a Sew York Peeler Says Abed the Dembitons or the New eeene and Ills nine 1month-ea entelon seldieecee • 'When e stout, good-hurnoured, nlighily bald gentlemen of 59, dressed in the spectacular, though not battle - Scarred, uniforni of a Briash ,Geld Marshal, was saluted by humbly genuflecting subjects as King of Crest Britain and Ireland and Jini- paruor of India, the ,opene furnished food for Imagination, says the New York journal, The face of this Foutlemaa will soon become the best known of all the faces ta the world. It w/11 de stuck on letters written by the light of fie.11011 la rape La snow houses in the darknese01 Arctic winter noons, and In the sonelline nt Amtaratle mid - !eights, ENGLAND AND THE EXPIRE. We often liay that "England" will do this or the, as itt England and the Brie:Lib Empire meant the 00m0 tieing, The truth it that King Ede ward has orar a deem times as many subjects ,outaide of Magian(' a8 be tee Ln it, and that England contains only about one two hundred and twentieth part of Lhe land of the Empire. There never was a king before who ruled ewer tie many varied :samples of the earth's surface. If you dart at Greenwich and go eastward or westward around the world, you can- not strike 11 spice of ten degrees is Lhe whele '80 degreee of longitude that (Woe TVA lie on the meridiem of ,some British possession, except one gap of about twenty degrees in the island - lees wastes of the Attitude. Nor can you find a zone of ten degrees latitude anywhere from the North to the South Pole that does not ones British territeree KING EDWARD'S SUBJEOTS. Edward VII. rules 0000 people ol every race and of almost every na- tionality on the globe. He lute Eng- lish, Scotch and Leah subjects every- where, French eubjects in the Chan- nel Islands and in Canada, Spanish subjects in Gibraltar, Italian ane Greek subjects in Malta, Arab, Cop- tic OUI1 Turkish subjects in ,Egypt. Subjects ot a entre of Asiatic raced in In.dia. Chinese subjects in Hone Kong and Wei Hai Wei, Malay sub - jade in Borneo and the Malay Pen- insula, Polynesian subjects in the Pacific, Dutch, Zulu, Hottentot and Bushman subjects in South Atriee., negro subjects in West and Central Africa, and Indian and Eskimo sub- jects in Canada. Think of the prayers, that are go- ing up from all over the world for that bald gentleman with the red Goat and the blue ribbon. In a hun- dred languages white, black, browo, red and yellow men are breathing "Gad Save the King." If King Ed- ward ehaald go to some parts of his Mimeo: he woull find subjects whose first impulos would be to eat him. In other parte he would find people who would knock thieir foreheads on the ground and worship him as a deity. MANY RELIGIONS. Edward, King and Emperor, repre- sents more vuriegatea religious sentiments than any other man on earth. He is the official head of the: Epis- copel Church of England and of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. De holds the title of Defender ot the. Faith because the Pope bestowed it upon Henry VIII. for writing a pamphlet against Luther just betoa'e Henry deserted the Pope for not giv- ing him, a. divorce. He le Lhe greatest heedrunmedan sovereign of the world, ruling over mere eleslenes than obey the Sultan of Turkey. He is the first Brahmin and the first Parsec sovereign of the globe. ile possesses, the most sacred shrines of the Buddhists. lie is the head of several colonies of Ounfuotans. He has subjects of every shade ef idolatry, many el whom are regularly eupplied with machine -made gods by enlexprising British tnenutreeturers in Birmingham, ATTACK. OV NEXIT-MORNINGNESS. Mis. Seltdom-Holme—My husband poor tam, was so sick this morning that 1 WAS awfully uneasy about him, Mrs o qu e n t— t was Ide mated with Mint Ines. Selldom-lechno—I thought at first it was grip, but he tolel nte 'it was nothing but it alight attack of katzen- jammer. He says that's French for intligesLion, end he'll be all rigbt in A dey or two, REVIVAL OV RINGLIeTte Altheugh the smartest Parisiennes wear their hair dressed oa the top of the head, it is drawn back loosely mad naturally from the face, and not un- duly puffed out, and the little bunch of Josephine merle to almost. invari- ably seen. For evening wear there are the daintiest little headdresses, 'com- posed either of flowers or the airiest materials, which are placed very for - wird ott the head. VANITY'S :VISIONS. IN 8VENINIJ SOWNS, Luxtmoue WRAPS AND SMALL ACCESSORIES. Girl's Dell Gown --'reiree-nuartee 0Ottlokto Coot and Ilton Jacket ea Droadtall—OrepO de Chino Palmier, A Glory ef Geed, The popularity of the plain short coat in the midst of so much that is ornate and heavily garnished Is In part accounted for by the fact that it accommodates the fur collarettes and boas nicely, and these aro quickly thrown off when one enters a warm room and the jacket is thrown open, whereas the removal and redonuing of LENGTANTHS SALL GOWN, a large fur trimmed wt'ap are affairs of which one thinks twice. However, the truly luxurious woman must have her heavy furs, and a better example of all that is delicious in this line would be far to seek than a three- quarter sealskin coat of today; for in- stance, one with the new rolled collar, lined with sable, immense soft revers of sable, scalloped bell shaped sleeves and handsome large tortoise shell but. tons. Less imposing but equally style nth is an Eton jacket of black broad- tail with great revers and collar of white broadtail and broadtail muff to match. It Is to evening styles that the magic fashion draws us most irresistibly just at this season, for among all vanity'e visions are no greater dreams of de liget than the confections for the fair young girls wbose debut society is now celebrating. One of these appears In the eut—a fascinating .first ball gown of net with cboux of illusion and pale pink wild roses with dark glossy foliage and garlands of flowers serving as epaulets, while the actual sleeves are in one with the draped bertha. A. girdle and ribbon of pale pink satin complete the corsage. Crepe de chine is the popular evening gown material in soft shades of blue, FASHIONABLE PInal, pink, meant, etc., and very charming is a confectiou of pale blue crape and silver embroidery. Although it smacks of repetition to mention gold, such mention is Impera- tive, for vela continues to be the glory of the toilet. One seam in trout and one in the middle of the back metric the newest skirt welcome revival reported is Una of "pinked out" taffeta rueleIngs among Stylish trimmings for gowns ha gauze fabrics. vegetnbiee Redolence. Cold vegetables, such as peas, beans, asparagus, Brussels sprouts, undertow - ors, ete., can all be warmed up feed served a le, Maitre d'hotel by tossing teen) in butter over a =iterate fire, with a sprinkling of chopped parsley, 901Mer and salt and the squeeze of a lemon. Boiled potatoes are best served cat In slices and tried as pommes de tette sauteee. Scalloped Tooker. One of the ways to manage the "MO over" portions of the noble bird elOW in season is as follows: In a buttered belting elide lined with evinnbs, put alternate Inyere of half Inch bits of cold turkey, Sterling and gravy eer white seem nu(' omelet, if there be no stenteg and gravy), Cotter With eruelbe ed bake 15 Mieutee.