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TUNE 251 19,9.
T$E BRUSSELS POST.
WHAT DID ALL THIS CAST ?
'REV, DR. TALMAGE SPEAKS QF THE
HEAVENLY MANSION..
•"Ye Are Relight {Yltit a PION" anti the
Price Was 1'nlri 10 ullrcrent Immo.
of heaven, that onoe swung this way
to let Jesus out, now swings the oth-
er way to let us in. Let all the boll -
!WA of heaven lay holdof, the rope and
ring out the good news: "Behold, 1
bring you glad 'tidings of groat Joy
whirls shall be to all people; for to -day,
is born in Lhe city of David, u Saviour,
Wiliall is C111t'at the Lord!"
The second instalment paid for our
mem la -Mie Ignominious Ill rift or Christ soul .8 01e, eanen was the sm'se do Quar.
Mere Ito Wont to 'think and Pray- anlanla, a mountainous region Cull of
The pavloW'e 811010 Trial -The Dr caverns, where there are to this day
il'tcturus •the Death of Christ on the pen' hofs and wild Beasts of all sorter
'•' /cross. so that you must now, the traveller
, despatch from Washington, Nape says, go there armed witlu knife or
- Ltev. Dr, Talmage preached from gall or Pistol, it was there that
the followingtext:-"Y8 are bought ft:eus want to think and to pray, and
g It was there that tits monster of hell.
with a prise." -L Corinthians vi, 20. -more sly, more terrific than anything
Your friend takes you through his that prowled in that country- Satan
valuable house. You examine the himself, met Christ, TIM rola in the
arches, the fresco, Lha grass -plots, the
fish ponds, the conservatories, the
parks of door, and you say within your -
.self, or you say aloud: "What did all
lily for this the beat friend, the world
ever had, 11110881' now utterly friend -
as an officer of a court -too comes
!n a ill m
up end
SMITES Ii1NI IN ;elite M(JI171,I,
and I ae0 the blond stealing from gum
and lip. 0, it was a Cance of a trial
lasting only perhaps an ]loci', and then
the judge rises for I he sentence, Stop I
it is against lire law to give Bentonite
this night's work/ 0 Lord Scents, hay
hold of their souls this'momeet by Thy
e again,
gram:,and iP, li never a ash a
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now lot me oast. them to Thyself, and
Implore them with tears to seek for
the
SALVATION OF TIlleIIt SOULS,
"Tbis night I.hy soul maybe required
or thee„ then whose shill these things
oth-
unless there has been an adjournment
be thou ll you provided?" now " ' my tob1 the
of the court between condemnation eel will you not now attend t
things of your soul? Shall not this lei
nci sentence; but. what cares the
moment when your salvation X11111
edge for the law? "'rho man be
has no t+ reported
in heaven/ For - let trim die'" '3(43 you,
Morel y have
r many f
of -
he
Ile judge end 113e ruffians Vier e,I ,oath rrr
prayed you. Moth-
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inside tate rail cry: Altai ahal er prayed far you, yin„. (iere,t}nn
hat's what we want. Pass Him out wives 1tave been praying for you. Per -
here to us. Awry with hull, away with hips your Christian children have been
Him." 0, 1 bless God that amid all
the injustice that may be infliet:ed up-
on es in this world, we may have a di -
cheek of Christ -that Publius Lenlul- vine sympathizer. The world cannot
lus, in his letter to the Romain Senate, lie about you nor abuse you as
ascribed to Jesus -that rose had scut- much ea they did Christ, and J(3811 13
tared its petals. Abstinence from food stands to -day in every court -room, in
had thrown Hien into emaciation, The every home, in every Store, and says:
longest abstinence from food recorded " Courage! 13y all- my hours of mal -
this c0511" Yoa see a costly diamond in profane history is that of the crew treatment and abuse, I will protect
a costly dress rustling across the of the ship F'uno; for twenty-three those who are trampled on." And
flasbing :n an earring, or you hear days they had frothing 10 eat. But when Christ forgets that two o'olnok
drawing -mom, or you sae high -meal- this sufferer had fasted a month morning scene and the stroke of 111e
b and ten days before He .broke fast. ruffian on the mouth and the howl-
ed span of horses harnessed with silver Hanger moist have agonized every Ing of the unwashed crowd, then He
and gold, and you begin to make an fibre of the body, and gnawed on the
estimate of the value. Tho mar who 8lomach with teeth of death. The
thought of a morsel of bread or moat
owns it big estate 0211001 instantly tell must bave thrilled the body with some-
you what it is all worth. He says: thing like ferocity, Turn out a pack
"I will estimate so much for the house, of men hungered as Christi was uhun-
d tre
so much for the furniture, so much for !one Bred yella-numbthtf theey would hndt devsourp y(thll with
as a
laying out the grounds, so -numb for lion a kid. It was in that pang of
1118 stock, so much for the barn, so ,banger that Jesus was accosted, and
numb for the equipage -added up iu Satan said; "Now change those stones
all making this aggregate." ,which look like bread into an actual
Welt, my friends, f hear so much spply of bread." Had the temptation
10
001+ 10 you and mei ander those 010 -
.about our mansion in heaven, aboutcams Lances, we would have cried:
its furniture and the grand surround- !"Bread it shall bel" and been almost
in s, 'that I want to know how much 1 impatient at lha time Laken for mas
g tirntion; but Christ with one hand beat
it is all worth and what has actual lye back the hunger, and with the other
been paid for it. I cannot complete hand beat bank the monarch of dark
fu a month nor a soar the magnificent dark-
ness. 0, ye tempted one8, Christ was
calculation; but before I got through ;tempted, We are told that Napoleon
ordered a coat of mail made; but he
to -night, I hope to give you the figures. i was not quite certain that it was Me -
"Ye Lucbought with a price." I penetrable, so he`said to the mono -
With semi friends 1 went into II faeturer of that coat of, mail: "Pat it
Loudon Tower to look at the drown jun now yourself and, Ice us Lry Lt;"
jewels of England, We walked land. with shot after shot from lits own
around, caught one glimpse of them,
and being in the prucommon were com-
pelled to pass out. I wish that to-
night I could take this audience in-
to elle tower of God's mercy and
strength, that. you might \vatic around- of mail that struck baok the weapons
just once, at least, and sue the crown ' of temptation from the heart of
jewels of eternity, behold their brit -'Christ, W8 00W 1111 wear; for Jesus
lance and estimate thAr value. "Ye ;monis and says: "I have been tempted,
are bought 13 alla price." Now, if j and I know what it 1st to be temanted.
you have a large amount of money, Take this robe that defended mc, and
to pay, you do not pay it all at once,
but you pay it by insta'm`nfs-so
much the first of January, so much
the first of April, ao mach the first
of July, so 11111.011 the first of October,
until the entire amount is paid. And
I have to tell this audience that "you a half -days journey they mane to Jer-
have been bought with a price," and usalem, and to the top of the Tem -
that that price was paid in different
iustalm lots.
The first instalment paid for the
clearance of our souls was the igno-
minious birth of Christ in Bethlehem.
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n ever be tax C
we nt n Y
Though y strange disposition to jump ; so Satan
looked after afterward, our advent manes to Christ with a powerful temp -
into the - world is carefully guarded. Lotion in that very crisis, Standing
pistol, the emperor found out that it
was just what it pretended to be -
A 0001) COAT OE MAIL.
Then the man received a large re-
ward. 1 bless God that the same coat
wear it for yourselves. I shall see you
through all trials and I shall see you
through all temptation."
"But," says Satan still further to
Jesus, "come, and I will show you
something worth, looking at," and alter
pts. Just as one m1.g1ip go up in the
lower of Antwerp and look off upon -
Belgium, so Satan brought Christ to
the top of the Temple. Some people
at a great ,height feel dizzy, and a
i
We Dome into the world amid kindly
y
attentions.
Privacy and silence are
afforded when Golaunches an im-
mortal soul into lha world. Even the
roughest of men know enough to stand
back. But 1 have to tell you that in
the village on the side of the hill,
there was a very bedlam of uproar
WHEN J'E,US WAS BORN.
In a village capable only of accommo-
dating only a few hundred people,
many thousand people were crowded;
and amid hostlers and muleteers and
camel drivers yelling at stupid beasts make you a large present a you will,
of burden, the Messiah appeared. No r 11 give you Asia Minor, I'll give you
silence. No privacy. A better adapt- In die, Pll glia you China, I'll give you
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giveyou German •11 give
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ed lase hath the eaglet in 1118 eyrie g y' g
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-bath the whelp in the lion's lair, you Britain, I'll glue you all u the
The exile of heaven lieth down upon world." Millet a temptation it must
the Straw. The first night out from lava been1
the palace of heaven spent in an Go to morrow morulas and get in an
outhouse. One hour after laying
aside the robes of heaven, dressed in
a wrapper of coarse line's. One would
have supposed that Christ would
have made a more gradual descent,
coming from heaven first to a half-
way world of great magnitude, then
to Caesar's palace, then to a merch-
ant's castle in Gal:lee, then to a pri-
vate horn, in Bethany, then to fisher-
man s hut, and last of all to the
stable. Nol it was one leap treat the
lop to the bottom. Melt have came
to a precipice and leaped off hun-
dreds or thousands of feet; but the
must daring deed of all eternity wits
when the -Son of God came out ou the
battlements of heaven, and looked off
into the great abyss of suffering and
sin and death, and while all the
throngs in glory stood in dumb amaze-
ment looking upon it, sprang a mil-
lion fathoms down! Ono oat the most
exciting things on the sea is to hear
the ory: "Man overheard!" The seller
y t Y
18aps into the ave. Wilill ono hand
h8 clutches thewdrown}lig' man, and
with the other he 'beats his way back
to the ship, salting down the drowning
t
man on the dock, amid the wild huz-
zus of allthe
passengers. But In the
councils of eternity the ars was heard;
"World overboard!" and Jesus came to
the resent, and leaped Into the depth
of man's stn, and caught the drown-
ing world by the looks, and beat His
way baok again to Iht( throne of God,
amid the shouting of the angels, 0,
the distance between the starting and
the landing'
Let us open the door of the (craven
eery in Bethlehem, and drive away the
camels. Prase on through the' group
of idlers and loungers. What, 0
Mary, no light? "No light," she says
"save that which copses through the
(door," What, Mary, no food? brought she says, "only than whioh is 1lought
in the sack on the journey." Let the
Bethlehem woman who ha8 come in
here wilt kindly attentions
, put t back
(113 covering Crum the babe Chet we luny
look upon it, 1',00kt Look! Uncover
sour head. Let us kneel. Lot all
mines be hushed, Son of Meryl Son
of God! Child of a day -
Lahore
at the top e l of the Temple le the
P Y
look off. A ma mifioent reach of
country. Grain fields, vineyards,
olive groves, forests and streams, oat-
tl:e in the valley,1hills,
nooks on the h t s,
and villages and cities and realms.
"Now," says Satan, "1'11 make a bar-
gain. Just jump off, I knowt it is a
great way from the top of the Temple
to the valley, but L iI you i i
are d v na
you can fly. Jump off. I1 won't hurt
you. Angel's sv111 catch you. Your
father will
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MONARCH Off ETERNITY!
In that eye the glance of a God. Omni-
potence slreathod in that babe's 'arm.
.Chat voice to be °hanged from the
feeble plaint to the Lone that shall
wake the dead. Iliene1ua1 Hosanna!
Glory be to God !11ua1: Jesus Clime f1•on
ileon,1 ti»111aingar
bat we Might ris
altercation with same wretch crawling
up from a gin cellar. "No," yon say,
"I would not bemoan myself by getting
into such a contest." Then think of
what the King 01 heaven and earth en-
dured when He came down and fought
that great wretch of hell, and fought
him in the wilderness and on the top
of the Temple. But 1 bless God that
in that triumph over temptation Christ
gives us the assurance that
. Will AHSO SHALL TRIUMPH.
Helene Himself been tempted He is
able to succour all those who are
tempted. In a violent storm at ser,
the mete told a boy -for the rigging
had become entangled at the mast -to
go up and right it, A gentleman
standing on the deck said: "Don't send
that boy up, he will be dashed to
death." The mate said: "I know what
I nm about," The boy raised his hat
in recognition of the order, Bpd then
00418 band over hand and went to wolkl
and as he swung i,11 the storm, the pas-
sengers wrung their hands and expect-
ed to see beim fall, The work done, he
came down in safety ; and a Christian
man said to him: 'Why did you go
d.oti n int
v the a for o
o as110 baCora you wont
up?" "Ab," said the boy, 'I, went
clown to pray. My mother always
taught me before I undertook any-
thing great to pray•" "What is that
you have in your vest?" said the man.
'0, that is 1138 New Testament," he
said, "1 thought I would carry it with
me if I really did go overboard." How
well that boy was protected, I care
not how great the height or how vast
the depth, with Christ withinusand
Christ beneath us and,Chrial: above me
and Christ all around us, nothing shall
befal us La the way of harm. Christ
htimsol( having beau in the tempest,
will deliver ail those who put their
treat in Him• Blessed be Ills glori-
ous name forever.
The third instalment paid for our re-
demption was the Saviour'a sham trial.
ryhY, they him into the court
loom at two o'clock ia1 the morning.
They gave I3:.m no time for counsel,
They gave Dim no opportunity for sub-
po•sna'Lng witnesses. The ruffians
who Were wandering around through
the midnight, of course they saw the
arrest end want into the court -roam,
But Jesus' blends were sober men,
were 1•espeoteble men, and at that
hour, two c'cheIt L(l the morning, of
course they were at home asleep. Con-
sequently Christ enterers the 'court: -
nem wi.11) t11e ruffans. 0, look al Hind
speak I'n1,1lift
N
no1te to oa 1
1
the lantern Mil 1 ran loots into His
will forget you anis me in the Injus-
tices of life that may be inflicted up-
on us.
Further, I remark: the last great in-
stalment paid for our redemption was
the demise of Christ. The world has
seen many dark days. Three or four
summers ago there was a very dark
day W116n the sun was eclipsed, The
fowl at noonday went to their Perch
and we felt a gloom as we looked at
the astrouolnie'al wonder. It was a
dark day in Leaden when the plague
was at its height, and the dead with
uncovered faces were taken in open
carts and dumped in the trenches. It
was a dark day in London when the
plague was at its height, and Lhe
dead with uncovered fumes were taken
In open carts and dumped in the
trenches. It was a dal•1c day when the
earth opened and Lisbon sank; but the
darkest day since the ore:Lunn of the
world was when the carnage of Cat -
vary was enacted. IL was about noon
w11811 the curtain began to be. drawn.
IL was not the coming -on of a night
that 800Ih0a and refreshes ; 't was the
swinging of a great gloom all around
Lhe heavens. God hung it. As when
there is a dead one in the house you
bow the shutters or turn the lattice, so
God in the afternoon shut the
WINDOWS OE THE WORLD.
AS it is appropriate to throw a black
pall upon the coffin as it passes along,
so it was appropriate that everything
should bo sombre that day as the great
hearse of the earth rolled on, bearing
the corpse of the King.
A man's last hours are ordinarily
kept sacred. However you may have
hated or caricatured a man, when you
hear he is dying silence puts its hand
on your lips, and you would have a
loathing for the man who could stand
by a death -bed making faces and scof-
fing. But Christ in His last hour can-
not be left alone. What, pursuing Him
yet after so long a Pursuit? You have
been drinking His tears. Do you want
to drink His blood ? They come up close-
ly, so that notwithstanding the dark-
ness they can glut their revenge with
ti
la contortions of Ha countenance.
1
They examine His
fee!. They
want eal
to
Peel for themaelvea whether those Peet
are really spiked. They put out their
hands and touch the spikes, and bring
item back wet with blood, and Nettie
them on their garments. Women stand
there and weep, but can do no good.
La L n lac
• i o e for tender-hearted p
men. iL wants w nt a heart that crime has
turned into granite, The waves of
man's hatred and of hell's vengeance
dash up against the mangled feet, and
the hanofsinand pain and torture
ds
clutch at His holy hert. Had He not
been thoroughly fastened to the cross,
they would have ve torn Himdown
and
trampled Him with; both feet. How
the cavalry horses embed their neoks,
and champed their bits and reared, and
sniffed at the blood. Had a Roman 04 -
Doer called out for a light his voice
would not have been heard. in the tu-
mult ; but louder than the clash of the
spears and the wailing of womanhood
and ilia neighing o4 the chargers, and
the bellowing of the cruorfiers, there
comes a voice crashing through, loud,.
clear, overwhelming, terrific. It 1s the
groan of the dying Son of God 1 Look!
What a scene! Look! 1 0, World, at
what you have done, I lift the cover-
ing from that maltreated Christ, to let
you count the wounds and
ESTIMATE THE COST.
0 when tate nails went through Christ's
right-hand. and through Christ's left
hand -that bought both your hands
with all their power to work and lift.
and write. When the nail went
through Christ's right foot and Christ's
left foot -that bought your feet, with
all their power to walk or run or
climb. When the thorn went into
Christ's temple, that bought your
b•
anwithall to p L
r i vr• i ower
0
thinkand
Flan. When the spear cleft Christ's
side, that brought your heart with all
itsower to love and repent and pray.
O sinner, moue, come back I 1f a man
is in no paifl, if he is prospered, if
he is well and. he asks you to come,
you take your Ilene, and you say: "1
coni come now. 1'11 tome af-
ter a while. There is no haute.
snot if he ie in want and
trouble, ,you any: "I must go right,
away. 1 must go now." To -night
Jesus stretches out before you 111r0
wounded hands, and He begs you to
come, Go, and you live, Stay away,
and yon die. 0, that to Him who
bought us, we might give all our time
and all our prayer's and all our succes-
ses I world we could think of no-
thing' else but mane to Christ. He is
so fair. Ile is so loving, He is so sym-
path.izing, Ile is so good, 1 wish ivo
0onid put our arms around His neck
and Flay: "Thine, Lord, will I be for-
ever." 0, (lett to -night you would be-
gin g•
1.n to love Mtn. Would th:L t
I sou
i
r o t
i wreathe ud encs and
tetra this a
atoned the heart of my Lord Jesus
Christ.
1 cannot Arlt my head to the pillow
to -night until I have once more invit-
ed you to .Christ. 1 feel a burden like
0 mcunta113 en my soul. Must I meet
this 1111114000 at the judgment seat of
Christ? Must we all be there 1 They
shell come from the East end from the
praying for you, and yet ynu have not
mond the mercy of the Cross. 0 Lord,
save that man. Now is the accepted
time. Now is the day of deliverance.
is there no charm 1.0 heaven? I there
no horror in heli 1 Is there no loveli-
ness 1.11 the Cross? Is (here no gran-
deur in the judgment, that your souls
are nut moved/ "Ho, every one 111n1
thirstelh, amine" and look at the foun-
tain bursting from beneath the 111olr
of Ages. Though you have been Wan-
dering a great way off, though during
this hist week you have been to a
plata or which you would not like to
tel' your best friend, though you have
wasted your estate of blessing, though
you have been wandering on these ten
nr fifteen years with your back turn-
ed to all early Christian influences,
you may this night accept Christ and
be saved.
!. have wondered these many years,
why' s0 many people come to hear the
Gospel as T. preach it. You know I
have not smoothed over anything. I
believe they. went to be saved, and I
believe you have been sitting anti
standing to -night, anxious after God
and !maven. Though .I tell you these
plain truths In a plain way, with no
possible earthly charm, you know what
I tell you is true. You are an immor-
tal soul, bound to the bar of God, and
there is a heaven and there is a bell,
anis there is only one way of escaping
the darkness, and there is only one
wily of winning a crown. May God Al-
mighty, by Ills Spirit, raise in power
what to -night has been sown in weak-
ness, and when all these scenes have
ptase•d away, and you no more sit un-
der the sounding of the Gospel; and. it
is no longer my joy to preach it on
earth, may we enter into the blessed
es8emblege that stand around about
the throne of God. No sorrow there.
No sin there, No death there. Sing-
ing the eternal doxologies of the re-
deemed -0 may that he our happy lot.
God forbid that one of you should miss
heaven.
'/West end from the North and from the
South, host above host, gallery above
gn118ry, ton thousand times ten then -
WWI. Anti will I be there, and will
' D ' e a
from 1113 1111'01' to throne, and: that all you be there, and nd must w gtv n ac-
the gales aro open, and thu1. the 'door 0(108, and as toy heart, beats la sympa- senna far .this night's eonfrontitg and liflglish weddings,
WHY WOMEN DON'T MARRY.
There is a good deal of discussion
over the feet that many women do
not marry. In fact one would almost
imagine that it is only the men who
marry. now -a -days. There is a rea-
son for it, of course, and there seems
to be an effort on the part of many
to find it out. Some say it is because
she is "too vain," others that she is"too
ext.r.avagant;' "too mercenary," "too
modern." However, Winifred Black
throws a few interesting side lights on
i o
the subject, 'oct many
of which show
the
of truth. She says:
color
"The modern woman doesn't marry
bemuse the right man doesn't ask her.
Women to -day are just as anxious to
be married as choir grandmothers
were; sensible, honest women are liv-
ingto-day
inand the man wee wants to
marry one of them can' do so -but they
are not looking for that kind of wo-
man. Aman falls In love with an
i doll for hes
heartless empty-headed,
pretty fade, and then complains be-
cause he finds the doll's bead is hol-
low. low.
When
a man thee sweet-
heart
a
heart because she wears 'dead swell'
clothes, and then falls to lamenting
over the oupidity of woman when that
same girl asks him what his revenue
is before she decides about loving him
ha is not quite as logical a8 he might
be. Now is he, really?
"Any woman worth marrying will
marry the man she loves even it he
can't scrape up money enough to pay
the minister. She may not be happy
with him after she marries him, but
it will not be his poverty that makes
her miserable. The great law of na-
tural selection holds it sway with the
just as well as with the unjust. You
can't educate the human nature out of
a woman, any more than you can re-
fine it out of a man.
"A master of the science of econom-
ies will elope with an extravagant
creature just as quickly as a proud,
high -tempered woman will mysteri-
ously fall in love with a stupid no-
body. Dan, Cupid, Esq., has gone out
of fashion, but he isn't dead, not by
any manner of means, and never will
be. Men put woman on a pedestal,
but they set the pedestal in the
mud.
A woman's friends hear of her mar-
riagel with a sigh of relief. A man's
friends hoar of his marriage with a
gaspof incredulity.'
Interesting for Women.
The collective of laeea left by the
Empress of Austria to her daughters
la claimed by connoisseurs to be the
finest in the world. Should this collie: -
lion be placed on oxhibitiun in some
museum, where it properly belongs, it
migpossibly give a 4roeh impetus to
lh8- ht industry of sacs -making, whioh
greatly needs stimulating. The Queen
of the Belgians was the first to ap-
preciate that the industry was lan-
guishing in her land, which was the
cradle of the art. Romance and jeal-
ousy enter into the legend of lace -
making. One Jacqueline, Countess of
Flanders was deeply in love 1s'ith her
noble husband, the handsome HenD-
lick, but. hor lurd wax unmindful of
her devotion, and was even known to
bestow giancesof favour upon the
countess' maid Serena, who, fur the.
crime of being comely was sent by her
mistress to a dark Place of conceal-
ment in a corner of the palace. The
room openea on a small, damp garden
and there she would sit sadly and
mourn for her lover, the equerry,
Luilpold. One day she prayed to the
Virgin to come to her rescue by memo
miracle, and then, raising her tear-
8tain8d eyes, she beheld a million of
white silky threads, arranged in won-
derful patterns. Later she began to
wish she cuuld Imitate the lovely pat-
terns of the Virgin's thread, which she
believed were placed there itt answer
to her supplication. At last atter a
month of patient toil she achieved a
piece oe gossamer cobweb -like work
that rivaleu'the miraculous threads m
the n'ork arrayed by her holy patron.
1 he lace was sent to the countess, who
shed tears of delight at the sight of
so ch beauty. Serena was sent
sadmushortly married to the equerryfor.
A sum of 100110)' was bestowed upon the
happy pair, which assured them every
comfort. But, independently of the
countess, they became rich, for the
young wuman taught ber art to sev-
eral daughters, from whom descended
all the Burges lacemakers, IL has been
suggested that Serena obtained her
threads by unraveling her stockings;
again that she obtained them from the
golden hairs of her head. It was Marie
Antoinette who gave the first blow
to lacemaking. The fine lace worn in
profusion at the court of Louis XIV,
and XV, was replaced by gauzes and
muslins. To -day the machine -made
lace is manufactured in such perfec-
tion that it has injured the sale of
handmade products.
BACHELOR REFLECTIONS.
A Loyale.8 marl Inge is lieensed crime,
It is only the man who wrestles
with sin that knows how good a good
woman is.
• It is the tiniest woman that has the
biggest: way of twisting a man around
her finger.
When a woman has a wrinkle in her
stocking she feels as ashamed as if
everybody else know it,
A woman gets a whole lot of cense
lation in the thought that her nature
is too big to be understood by any
body else.
The great grandaughLer of Lor
Byron was married not long ago, and
n moo
entered
nahoe
forthwith on e, Y
Upon 0
quite romantic enough to have suite.
even her famous ancestor himself
Miss Bi.unt-that was her name
married Mr. Neville L iton at Cairo
and the couple then drove ten mile
across the desert to her father's ptae
near Heliopolis. They were met by
aleturest(u0 train of Arab honoree
nd Bedouin camel riders under til
leadership of the oldest Sboik of Os
tribes. The viilogos we1e deeeratod,
whole Hoek of sheep was Toasted, at
there wee an twiddled east Lo th
Hatayc isnot oustomar 1
sten
wh1 h r
her entire trousseau, which le packed
in large boxes, the keys of whice she
keeps. In a number of ways the 011ie
nese differ greatly in custom from
Europeans and Americans. For exam-
ple, it is considered the greatest mark.
of diarospeot to remove one's hat In
company; and the greatest compli-
ment It Is possible to pay a Chinese
man or woman i8 to tell them they look
older than they are. Again, no Chi-
nese would thiole of eating off a whlle
cloth, as they look upon LC with great
horror and superstition,
Lady Yarborough, wife of the fifth
Earl of Yarborough, is one of the
most beautiful women in England. This
graceful and aristocratic young wom-
an was .born to high estate as the
Baroness Conyers. She and her sister
Violet, are the daughters of Baron
family were ennobled
Con ars whose am 1
y
y
in the sixteenth century. The Iw'o
young Baronesses Conyers inherited
but his
father's title,
not onlytheir
They large fortune and his beauty.T y
en-
tered London society only a few years
ramous for
i became promptly a
since, and
P p y
their comeliness, and unusual stature,
both of them measuring but an inch
short oe six feet in height. Baroness
her hand in
Marcia verysoon gave
h'Ia
marriage to Lord Yarborough, and
married Lord Powis.
i a
her sister Violet
is one of the few
Yarborough Lady g
English beauties who do not possess
the usual English brilliancy of com-
that of a
Pestop. Her coloringis t
1
South American beauty;her eyes aro
brown, and her hair is bronze gold. The
exceeding slenderness and graceful-
ness of her figure is due in great' part
to her lova of horsoback exercise, and
in Lincolnshire, where her husband
owns two large estates, she lives at
Brocklesy Hall, preferring the society
of her horses and dogs and country
friends very often to the joys and tri-
umphs of the London season.
Ex -Queen Natalie of Servia is still
a very beautiful woman, H'er greatest
charm is her exquisitely modeled neck,
which is said to resemble that of the
Venus of Milo. The art she employs
to protect it against the ravages of
time is simple enough to be practised
by anyone. It is said that every morn-
ing she takes a brisk walk in the
grounds of her palace, near Belgrade,
with a heavy pitcher on her heart.
This not only improves the neck, but
gives an erect end graceful carriage,
The custom is not original, for it has
beer. a common praotioe among the
w0m8n of the poorer class in Queen
Natalie's country from the earliest
ages.
The Chinese women have wardrobes
of beautifully embroidered silk and
satin robes lined with softest and
richest fur. Even the peasant women
wear ornamented garments,- bright
colored tunics, such as blue ones over
red trousers, or light blue over trous-
ers of pink. The most gorgeous cos -
tunics are seen at' the theatrical per-
formances, which play an important
Part in religious rites, The Chinese
women spare no pains in arraying
themselves at such times. Their hair
is wonclerfnlly arranged and heavily
gummed, and decorated with all. man-
ner of artificial flowers, while their
cheeks and lips aro rogued. Tho aver-
age is
as height. ht of a
Chinese woman
g
g
i
about 4 fort 6 lathes, but in their
trousers and tunics they look mucb
shorter. As a nation they aro ilk,
(.remits.)' superntitiotts, 1parli(Fth}rly the
lower 'dlassee, and radii and wOmeli
alike are much given to gambling, It
is not an uncommon thing to see 11
woman burning joss sticks and offer-
ing tip petitions and prayers for geed
luck to attend her gambling speoula-
(ions to. Ifu Ti, the god of earth, who is
believed by the lower olesses to fever,
all gambling. Before a Chinese worn-
all
sends with
rent
is married, slip s0 . s v 6
an 0
pemp and state of ber future home
Of all the marriage riles of whioh
one ever heard those of Burmah bear
away the palm for conciseness and
sweet simplicity. Here it is upon the
dusky lady that the plea8ing duties of
courtship devolve. She sees a youth
whom she deems oaiculated to snake
her happy, and forthwith offers him
a stink of candy. If he accepts her
proposal he promptly eats the token
of affection, and they are thereby
made man and wife. There is no furth-
er ceremony, and no witnesses are
necessary. In the act of eating alone
this most primitive marriage rite con-
sists, shut if, 011 the contrary, the
youth is not willing, he assures 1„e1'
that that particular kind of candy is
not to his taste, and the maiden must
seek elsewhere for one more apprecia-
tive of her candy and her affections.
Mrs. Langtry has been giving her
reminiscences. She was one of seven
children, the others all boys. She was
put through a course of manly sports
by her brothers, who, when her mother
interfered, proudly observed that
they were making a man of her. Among
other pranks, she was mounted on stilts
one time, enveloped to a sheet, smeared
as to hor face with phosphorus, and
sent at night with her youngest brother
similarly adorned, to make a blood-
curdling demonstration in the neigh-
boring churchyard. She always loved
horses, and began her -sporting career
at 11, when she became part owner
of a mare named Flirt, uncertain both
as to age and forelegs, but winner of
a £30 race.
THE LETTER FROM IIOb1E.
"I feel as though I had met a whole
roomful of my old friends," said the
girl who is trying -in spite of home-
sickness -to make her own way in the
city. "I've just had a letter from
Aunt Louise. It isn't filled with her
own aches and pains and trials and
troubles. The home news is all here,
but there isn't one selfish, whining
word.
"She writes eight pages. See I She's
mentioned most of the people and plata-
ea I'm interested in, and told me doz-
ens of things I wanted to hear about.
I don't mean to say they're important
things; but it is nice to know the name
of Cousin Carrie's baby, and to learn
that Etta Mayo is taking music lee-
sone,of h
a description t o
sons, and to have
new minister's family, and even to
hear that they've laid a new sidewalk
muddy
lace above the
over the
P
post -
office I
'"Gossip?' Perhaps it Is, but it
isn't mean gossip. I wouldn't hesitate
to show it to any one who Is mention-
ed here. And It makes me feel as
isl home,and
though I'd made a v t
B
found that I wasn't forgotten. ,
"I know how Aunt Louise does it.
h people we
ekes
a list of the She m
thole comes to
and when the ml
know, n
write, she just looks at the list, to
make sure she hasn't left any one out.
to be a
says she doesn't
She pretend.
y
er-writer, but her letters. do me
lett
lots of good, for all that. Little things
look large, when one's away from home,
and everything is news!"
Perhaps there is a hint here for
young people -and older ones -who
profess that they would be glad to
write to absent friends if they only
knew what to say
Your Folks. 1
4-10-41.-4,--tie-le
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SOME NEW GAMES.
"How Does Your Garden Growl" is
the name of a new question and an-
swer game whioh will give the young
folks a chance to tbink up bright
things. It was at a party of girls I
heard It the other evening, and tido
is the way it is played:
"I have a little garden," said one of
them, "and In it I burled my baby
brother Willie. What flow.er did he
come up?"
It was not long until one bright lit-
tle miss guessed "Sweet William 1" and
everybody had a good laugh,
Then another little girl said:
"I bulled a satin shoe. What flow,
et' did IL come up?"
"A lady's slipper!"
"A lady's slipper!" was the answer
to that, and then the fun began in
earnest, for nearly every one had
thought of one by this time. One girl
paid a nice compliment by saying, "I
buried a pretty person. What tree
did she come up, and you mustn't guess
this one because its Yew," -
"Burled Cities" can also be played in
this way, but the game is the nicest
with flowers and trees, Here are a
few questions and answers, although
any bright boy or girl can find many
more;
Questions. Answers.
I buried my ser- .
rows and they mane
up as Sweet peas (peace.)
I buried a kiss and
it came up as Tulips (two lips.),
I buried the sea-
shore and it came
up A beech (beach.)
I buried a bird and
a piece of metal,
and they came up
as Lark -spur.
I buried a pony's
hoof and it came
up as ;Colt's -foot.
I buried the Union
Jack and Stars
and Stripes, and
they came up
as Flags.
MAID'S MONEY.
An interesting custom was observed
recently at Guilford, England, on the
occasion of the distribution of a mun-
oipal charity, familiarly known as the
maid's money. The event causes con-
siderable interest by reason of the
seleoted candidates having to decide
who should receive the gift by casting
lots.
The gift was made in the seven-
teenth century, and it was stipulated
that a sum of money should be invest-
ed in consols calculated to produce the
SAM of £12 12s., net for a maidservant
who should have lived for two years or
upward in ono service in the old bor-
ough of Guilford, and who "should
throw the highest number with two
dice or oast lots with another maidser-
vant."' It is further explained that
the unsuccessful maid is permitted to
try three subsequent times for the
gift, providing she does not marry,
The testator stipulated that no maid
who was a servant in a licensed inn or
ale house was to bo selected as a can-
didate. The proceedings took place in
the council ehember, when Mark Dow-
ling, the oldest trustee, presided in
is he absentia of David Williamson, S,P.,
the chairman, there being present a
number of the olcl Guilfordions, fret
eluding 3, Mason Sw8yne and R. Salts -
bury, ex -mayors, G. J. Jacob, 11, Mason
and Drs. Russel and Morton, This
year no loss than ton names were sub-
mitted to the trustees for selection,
The successful two were Louisa Rem-
nant, a servant in the employ of
Matthew Kteiser, of North street,
Guilfardl As the pas(: ken and IS half
rs' and Saab Ann Fro g fey, in the
employ of Richard Sparks for fifteen
P
soars. As soon as the trustees had
talent Their seats the two candidates
were 813111 for to compete for the gift.
A cup end two dice wove handed to
them, end those they threw on the
(able, The young woman, l!rogley
seeeeeded le storing eight',, while her
rive' eectsted five, The gift was there-
upon handed to Miss Fregley,
" 1 unny Freaks" is a drawing game
witch the young folks will enjoy fox
a little while. Each player is given
a strip of blank paper three inches
wide and six inches long and a pencil.
The paper is folded - into three. Each
player draws s. head on the top third
of the paper, and then folds it down
so that the head cannot be seen and
passes it on to his neighbor, who
draws a body on the middle third and
also folds over the paper to conceal
his drawing. He then hands it to the
next person, who draws legs below the
body he does not see, and passes it on,
when they are all unfolded and show
some very laughable results.
The General who started out so
bravely with a 'soaked hat and plumes
bodyof a goose
o have the
turns out t v 6
and the legs of an alligator. The
pretty lady with the waving hair
comes bank with the body of a cat and
the lags of a clown. Bbest
But the of
all is that everybody has a good laugh.
• • . •
"Parlor ball" is a lot of fun. Choose
r of
an even numbs
[ d
up sides an plana
players in a straight line, one either
side ofa piece of white tape
which is
etretahad upon the floor. play-
ers
p la Y
ers on each side should be about an
arm's length apart and about six feat
baok from the tape, then a toy bal-
loon is tossed into the air, and after
that it must not be let fall on the
floor. It must be hit only with the
back of the right hand, and the play-
ers must all hold their left hands be-
hind them. Any one wbo shouts or
even speaks must pay a forfeit, as a1 -
so must any one who moves from his
or her position. Should the air ball
fall it counts one against the party -
standing on the side of the tape on
whioh it rests. Whichever side loses
20 first has lost the game, the other
having won it.
A BOY'S ESSAY ON HORNETS.
A hornet is the smartest bug that
flies anywhere. He comes when he
pleases, ane goes when he gets ready,
One way a hornet shows his smartness
is by attending to his own business, -
and making everybody who interferes
with him wish they had done the same
thing.
'When a hornet stings a feller he
knows it, and never stops talking about
it as long as his friends will listen
to him. One day a hornet stung my
pa, my pa is a preacher, on the nose,
and he did not do any pastoral visit-
ing for a month, without talking about
the hornet, 0
Another way a hornet shows his
smartness is by not procrastinating,
If he has any business with you he
will attenn to it at once, and then
leave you to think it over to yourself.
Hs don't do like the mosquito, who
conies fooling around for hall an hour
singing, " Cousin, cousin," and when
he has bled you all he can, dash away
yelling. bleeds you; ; buNo kinf he stielcsnnever
you
will go 000 on a swell.
I don't know anything More about
hornets, only that Josh .Billings says:
"A hornet is an in0lamible, Josh was
a poor speller, buzzer, sudden in hie
Tmp
r
sirns, and
racier hasty
in his
cenolusious, or end,"
, MAKING A SINGER. ,
What must one do first to b00omo a
greet opera singer? inquired the girl
with a 1"oiae, i I . 1
one's bums of self-conceit
Cultivate1 ,
answered the pian. who had had a lit-
tle to do with the monagereent of opera
oompaa ties.
And after (hall she persisted.
Cultivate on0'8 selfishness and
tempor replied,
r he lied,
p