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Wen no other than the Temple of So- liypo a east
Med°, Standing before the altar, Aaron. One of tlie salient features
he cried. earnestly, "0, that one of "the sin whereezi Jeroboam the
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, Genii of Solitude,
the priestheod wbo Were not baptize
where Between Right and Wro
Curse ye Mercah said the °eget of
the Lome eurse ye bitterly the inlet-
bitants thereof; because they came
not up to the help et the Lord, to
the Lord against the mighty,--Juile-
;es, •v, 28.
The :sentiment of the text seenis to
be at variance with the spirit of
Ohristianity. Jeous said '`Illess;"
here it is "Ourseee How can we
fired the key to this Scripture? By
a dip into the history of the times.
The period of Joshua wa.e full of
glory, Warlike tribes were subdued.
goverxrraent established, and peace,
Becueity and prosperity followed.
Then came the time of the Judges—
an era of moral and spiritual decay,
when tlie fortunes of the natioia fell
Tow. God seemingly forsook them,
and their day of glorer turned into
a eight of gloom.
Tile moral, spiritual and material
In a nation are intimately related.
Immorality makes a wig& weak,
and we are not surprised to find lack
of unity, indifference to trilial wel-
fare, no army, and the nation help-
less in the presenile of. a warlike
enemY-
neiennwar brolteenut an appeal was
sent to the. tribes to forward their
quota of troops to fight against Jit -
bin and Sisera. Some swiftly re-
sponded, others beld back. Among
those who for various causes declined
neglected or refused to send men to
battle was Meroz. The time to
strike a blow for freedom had come,
but there was
A STRANGE FAILURE.
The strong were willing to let the
weak perish, though the strong aught
to bear the infirmity of the weak.
Tlie curse of God followed neglect and
failure. What were the reasons same
of tlie people failed to do their part
In resisting emir hereditary and
fierce enemy?
Faint heartedness was one. The
People of Israel were, in part, agri-
cultural, and therefore peaceful, tim-
id and easily friglitened by the hor-
rors of war. They preferred the
security of home to the perils of the
battlefield. This kept them from re-
sponding to the call which- came to
them in trumpet tones.
When God summons US to war
against spiritual enemies may we
eeancit be fainthearted, but strong to
ne, do the riglit. as God enables us to
see tee right!
No doubt there was indifference
The people heard the call t� duty,
but were indifferent to the public
weal. Tee war was far away and no
.teanger threritened' them. Their fielder
and flocks rested under the blue skies
of security. Their commerce and a,gri-
e
r lture were undisturbed, and they
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TWA FOUR BAGS OF GOLD.
Once upon a time there was a good
king who had no children of his own,
but who had four nephews. named
Geoffrey, Otto, Eustace. and Hubert.
These atetiliews the king greatly loved
and as eachappeared to be equally
worthy he was at a loss which to
choose an his successor, so, leaving
his palace, lie went away to the
heart of a vast wood, and, entering
a. small temple, iie ascended seven
marble stees, .placed a magic . ring
upon the altar, . then ..stood with
bowed .heEcd. and ..mitistretclied arnis
rafting the result.
kThstantly there stood before him a
majestic egeratwelve,feet high. "Whet
would the greet king 'with the Geeil
of Scilitude?" aelred the figgre. -
"Thy wise compel," replied the
king, and be told him of this difficul-
ty.
Wiehout hesitation the Genii told
rexn. what t�. do. Than the king went
back to his paiaee, tired gave orders
for his nepliews to be invited to the
grazalest state banquet ever seen; so
that although the young princes had
many times seen the magnificent pa-
lace built of marble, cedar, ebony,
and sneer, and kneW its treasures of
pictures, statuary and priceless woees
of art, yet when they beheld tile
tables ladext with massive gold plate
set with gems, arid saw the great
and heartfelt liomage paid , to the
good king, they were amazed, and
each secretly longed to be eliosen suc-
tessor.
At the close of the banquet, the
Icing eerie his nephews an affectioneta
good -night, and commanded thole
attendance early in the morning on
0. matter of great importance. Tliat
nigla the minces slept but little, fax
they doubted not the time Ned come
when the Inn& choice would be made
known,
Coneermently, they were a little
disappointeci whale on the morrow,
their uncle. taking four bags of gold,
With the same amount In each, gave
one to each nephew, end bade tlient
journey into the world for one
month, and spend the money exaetly
how they- pleased. At the encl of the
month they Were to return and give
faithful account of their adventuree.
fn some suypeise the four peincee
lecparted, but they had not gone far
iefeee they bean to differ as to the
Way in which they should !wend the
eye.'
At eine point Geoffrey said, "Hole
tire fem. exoss reeds; ne; us eedi take
one, coed spena the gold as we list."
So they parted company. Now
Ceoerey had not gene far before he
met Count 'Ulric, a former comrade,
who neat eppereed in. rieh minium
. ,"Oh. Prince," said the -Genii, "be- tartar priests. The altar of tee
.esuse thou beet spoken the truth. Lord (aJelveh"). Mentioned here
Were ciente A. -jeweling to exceange the end cried in earnettnese of heart, *I i contaxet to tile altar ot Aha;
peace of home for the conflict of Wer am your servarit." which had for a while stood on its
They did not ere; they were simply So the Genii helped Prince Hubert nen Restored now to its proper
indifferent. And haw much indiffer- spend his gold, and tfhe month came
place, it had doubtlesbeen relieWed
ence there is to -day in our civilize.- to an end, and the four brothers re- and repelislied.
s
tiou to the needs of the poor, un- turned to court. With Geoffrey carne 22. This verse gives us the three
fortunate and weak! If we are in- a great band of trained warriors, great Items of the sneeze of the
different to others' needs the curse clad in costly uniforms; but when the burnt offering --killing the beasts, col -
will fall upon US, good king saw them lie shook his leen" the blood in entsins, and
eller° was neutrality. liais was the heedsaying, eneemay may not be
Peeine's Pre-eminent sin, They knew ki.
ng; they would take all tilie wealth
the crisis had come, but they (Mello- et the land in Raging wars on die
ed to take part in the struggle. If
-- fenceless eations, and • peace would
the enemy won, there would be little
danger to them; if Israel gained the
day, they would continue on in
peaceful avocations. 'rimy were
"neither cold nor hot"—neutral.
never. be In the land,"
When Prince Otto, teavenetained
and shabby, with nothing to show,
stood before him, he mild, "Not for
you is the crown, oh, Otto, for tee
Neutrality in moral and spiritual
s
matters is a miserable thing. In a lend would be for pleasure eelters
.fierce eonflict of any kind the men and idle impostors only," for 711
ere the king knew that PriACC) Otto s
who remain passive, neutral,
heartily hated,
money lia,d gone to feed, not ihe
really destitute. but those who would
- THE CURSE OF GOD
not work.
„rested hard on neutrelity and Men- Then revile Prince Eustaceabriefeine.
ference, and like Conduct will ering with him hi crowd of peasants, eech
God's curse upon us! of Whom had managed to Mole up a
Christians are called to eternal little of the language of learning.
warfare, Satan opposes the onward
Here again the king shook his eerie.
march of the leina. Christ sum-- etrliese peasante," staid Ie, "bet
mons all to battle against- sin, and e
for you woulii.eane. gathered rine sold
We ought not to be faint hearted,
their fruit harvest. so that and,
indifferent, neutral. e If we would
would have broeglit no want.' As
it was, the fruit rotted on the
ground, sending out so foul an odor
that one, inhalieg it, took a plague
back to a great city, which, plague
spread so that many died." .
Lastly came Prince Hubert, and
knelt before the king. Then the
king said, "You shall be my succes-
sor. for gold is good In thine hands,"
and he told how the gold had been
divided into four parte, To raise
brave men to light for the weak in
swarming hosts for the overthrow defence of the kingdom. To buy
of the Church fled the kingdom of seeds for those who would work on
righteousness. This we hear, fee] the land and were too poor to -buy.
and know.
"Infldelity stalks through the land.
The leaders of sceptical opinion join
hand in -hand. Science and litera-
ture, wit arid intellect, the press and
the platform, fashion and numbers
are pressed into the service to cast
discredit upon the everlasting gospel
of the grace of God."
There is a world battle between
true and false religion, between
Christianity and heathenism. Cod
thunders Trona afar! The Church
ancleChristian.civilization must rally
till /ones fon. ten final conflict eand
ler victory. Who is on the. nerd's
side? May none fail to obey- the
SUMMOUS of King Jesus.
Meroz is a warning to us against
teindity, indifference and neetrality
inaMoral Matteis. We none more
loyalty. May the march of faithful
thousands arouse all dull souls and
the kingdom of God soon come.
win, we must fight!
The battle for right against wrong,
holiness against sin, purity against
corruption wages hotly, and those
who from fear to take their place in
the ranks of God's army are trait-
ors. Beware the curse of God!
There is a bitter warfare going on
in our hearts—for the adversary
fights for our souls. In every vie,
lage, town, city, State and nation
a conflict rages between right and
wrong. Satan has summoned his
and girt with a sword. When lie
heard tree story of the bags of gold
lie said, "Depend -upon it, tile King
made it a test of Baleen X will show
you how to spend. it so that his
kingdom may be extended, and your-
self covered with glory." He then
told of hie own warlike adventures.
in which he had found a rich land
over the seas inhabited by a gentle,
peace -loving people, who knew no-
thing of the arts of •war. Be also
told, of strong, warlike men ready
to fight for gold, who, under the
commend of Geoffrey, would march
away and conquer this land. This
so fired tlie inaagination of Prince
Geoffrey that he went witb Count
Ulric and spent his gold and time in
training warlike bands.
in the meaner:1m Prince Otto went
on his way merrily; determined to go
to a gay city where other young
princes, faience Mende of his, • now
lived. Winn -he lid found them and
told them of his beg of gold,- they
were. delighted, for, with a laugh he
said that nothing, was easier than
the spending ofemoneee. and he meant
to ha.ve a good time hi viewing all
In bringing aid to those who had
fallen sick of the plague, and in
teaching many people now to do the
thing they were most clever at. Thus
was Prince Hubert chosen Ring.
THE SUNDAY SCI10014
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
DEG .4
Golden Text. "Timm That Heuer
Me I Will Honor."
I. Sam, 2, 30.
Verse.. 1e.—The 'first d-uty belore
Rezelorth When lie mounted the
throne was to "open the doors re
the. house of ilehovali." During the
reign of his father. Aline, the senate -
nay had been used for idolatrous
worship. Ite "holy place" was no
longer holy. It had been defiled in
the siglit of God and degraded in
popular esteem. It had become not
only necessary to renovate it. bee to
reconsecrate it to the service of
Jehovah. For. weeks workmen bad'
been busyon the building under the
supervision of the priests. So aeon
as their work was coranleted the
priests and the Levites went in to-
Hezekiah the king ("within the pa-
lace") to make their formal report:
We have cleansed all the house of
the Lord ("Jeho-vah"). The altar
of burnt offering was a great struc-
ture of brass (leroeee or copper), ven-
erated because of .its.eacrednins and
because it had been constructed by
Soloraon. Ahaz, however, ban set
it aside and in its place for some
years lien stood niv.icialatreusi altar
erected by royal -and priebtly•
mania after the pattern of an altar
which the king had seen ,at Dames-
cus. The yeeeele „thereof .were the
iniplemente used ;in the Offering of
sacrifices. Thesenvere now beeaget
bacic to their propet place. The
ehoevihread table ('`the.table of.sileow-
that was best in beauty, art, and bread") was a stand on which were
kept twelve fresh' loaves made from
song, for the ising, his uncle,
ineeavened ftour, ea.cla loaf eirmohe-
these .things, and would liee to hear
of them.
So day and night for a AVtiole week
Prince Otto and his friends spent
Much gold on pleasures, Which in
themselves were not wrong. One day
there none to the prince a beggar in
rags, who in a whining voice told a
tale of poverty. Remembering that
Ilia untie was ever good to the poor,
Prince Otto tooe a handful of gold
from his bag and gave it to the
beggar.
The next day came another beg-
gar, wee in a still morewhining
voice told a yet more piteous tale.
'I'n him Prince Otto gave two hand-
fuls of gold. Now, what with costly
pleasures. arid reckless giving, Prince
-Otto foentlehis bag quite. Wenn' at
the end of two weeks.
Wine Prince leustace left his bro-
thers he journeyed quietly on for Sonne
distance, untilhe met a grave and
leareed man. who when he had hoer('
the story of his bag of gold, erildi
"Come With menmy son, and I still
shoW you a colony of simple people;
let your gold be spout in teaceing
them the wonders of Science and the
truths of philosonher, for Wisdom es
before all things."
So Prince Ifiustace bought an old
testae and turned it into a e.ollege.
Much more gold he spent in paying
learnea men to teach the simple pea-
sants of that happy valley. At iiret
these peasants refueeil to come into
the colleen, becalm° the time of their
fruit' harvest was at liand. but when
they saw the fine college and an the
beautiful growl& surrounding it,
they. Went , in and forgot their or-
.cliards laden with fruit.
Now when pkthee rinthert left his
brothere, lie journeyed on in 'deep
thouget, turning not aside for any
telnpeationn So Anxious Was he to
do the right thing, teat at the end
mg a tribe of Israel.
19neep veesels which King Ahaz
in his reign did cast away included
not only such utensils as knives and
basins, limey of -which were '"ctit in
pieces" (2 Citron. 28, 24), but the
"brazen sea" also, a huge laver
wilieli rested upon brazen oxen, and
vgas one of the conspicuous objects of
the temple court. This was too valu-
able to be destroyed, but it had been
rejected from its sacred place, and
erected at one side upon "a navement
of stones" (2 Kings 16, 17), All
these articles bad now been prepared
and sanctified by the Priests and
their workmen, that is, had been pet
again in good order for the exciusive
service- 61 Jebovale.
20. MI was now ready for tae de-
eleation. liezekiali the icing rose
("arcieee) earn*, and gathered tee
rulers ("priaces") of the eity, and
went tip •to the eouse of the Lord
("eeliovah"), en tonna] procession,
to inelicate the natiorial character of
tlio service; early in the mornieg, to,
show the entleisiastic Vigor with
erincli the worsliip of jeliovali was to
be reiestnted.
21. The siti offering is ordained in
Lev, 4. It syrob,olited the renewal of
guilt mai moral pollution. By re-
moving the comma from enter he
goats we may understand that these
animals constituted the sin offering
wline the bollocks a.nti rams and
lambs served as the burnt ' offering
described in verses 22-24. The burnt
offering is ordainea in Lee. 1. neaese
two secrifiees Were now to be offered
an behalf of three great bastitatioiesi
1. For the -kingdom, that is, no
meeely the eingly Meese and royal at-
tendants, text the Whole organize...
tion of the goeteximeten 2. leer the
eittectuaryi, the temple od Kg courts
defiled by Aliae itend "ineatiteaci of the
dashing it upon the altar,
28, 24. According to the prescrip-
tion of Lev. 1, 4 the priests doubt-
less had laid their hands upon the
bullocks, rams, and lambs just of-
fered as a burnt offering; but now
when they brought forth ("brought
near") the he goats for the sin
offering we are told that it was the
king and the congregation ("the as-
sembly"—that is, the princes who
stead there to represent all the peo-
ple) who laid their hands on the
sacrifice. This showed in a manner
more impressive than Ordinary that
the sin of the whole nationwas
about to be expiated.. Made re-
concilation. "Made a' 'sin offering."
To Make an atonement aneaus to
bring God and all Israel together in
complete harmony, in unison: This
was according to the command of
the king that the burnt offering and
the sin offering sbould be made for,
all Israel, not merely for Judah. Al-
ready the northern kingdom had
been largely depopulated, and Heze-
kiah seems to have been recognized
as sovereign by what remained of
the twelve tribes. The new dediat-
tion of the temple therefore present-
ed a beautiful pictare of unity in
religious and national feeling.
25, 26f The services were distin-
guished by muoic. Cymbals were
metal instruments of percussion,
beaten together like the modern' in-
struments so called, but shaped per-
haps more like cups than like plete.s.
The earliest music always is the
music of rhythm, drums and cym-
bals coming in primitive life before
stringed or wind instrements.
Psalteries are said by Josephus to
have had twelve musical notes, but
precisely what that means is not
clear. We know only that they were
stringed instruments played upon by
bow. The phrase according to the
the fingers and not by a pick or a
commandment of David refers to his
introduction of music by the Levites
MO the worship of the -temple. -The
assoetation of the names of Pad
and Nathan with that of David is
very interesting:. Compare 1 Chron.
21 and 29. But King David and
the two prophets were not personal-
ly responsible for this— the cone
menthe:tent, was nif Jehovale
Moe). The instruments of David,
without doubt, were the cymbals,
psalteries, and harps, and were play-
ed by the Levites; the trumpets were
blown by the priests.
27, 29. This verse gives one of
several hints that the kings of Ju-
dah, like David and Solomon, each
regarded himself as the head of the
Church. Hezekia.h takes personal
charge of this sacred festival. For
ordained by read "of." At the
given signal five activities began:
the flames were lighted under the
offering, the "song of Jehovah"
burst from the lips of the singers,
the Levites accompanied it with a
rhythmical beat,the priests o:landed
the trumpets, and the congregation
(that is, all who were present) as-
sumed the attitude of prayer. eel
this continued 'until the buret offer-
ing 'was finished. Then the king
and his counselors, having supervis-
ed the service, worsbipped by them-
selves in silence much as our minis-
ters receive the Lord's Supper apart
from the administration -of it to the
people.
0alse— Praises; that is,
psalms. From this verse we learn
that the words ofethe eong of Jelin-
-vah mentioned in verse 27 were
writtep by David and by Asaph the
seer, an eminent .Levite musician,
whose memo is borne by twelve of
our psalms.
81. The nation having now been
formally consecrated to Jehovah,
the kingearges those present to make
personal consecration, and se sacri-
fices and thank offerings were
brought in by ramie, people, \Waite
some, going further than the royal
suggestion of a free ("willing")
heart, brought burnt ofTexinge.
From his writings ono would not
gather that Maxim Gorki, the auth-
or of "The Lower Depths," was a
humorist. But a short time ago,
asked by his publisher to write his
own biography, Gorki sent in the
following account of his career; 'In
1878 I was apprenticed to a shoe-
maker; 1879, X was apprenticed to a
designer; 1880, scullion on board a
packet -boat; 18e3, I worked for a
baker; 1881, I became a potter; 1885
baker; 1886, chorister en a troupe
of sta.-oiling opera players; 1887, I
sold apples in the streets; 1888, X
attempted to commit. seicien 1890,
coeyist in n lawyers ainee: 1891,. X
crossed Russia on foot; 1892, I was
a laborer in the • workshops of
railway, In the sarae year I publish-
ed my erst story." A concise of a
variegated career, at any rate!
Many of the distinguished mourners
at the funeral of the late Lady Esher
looked then for the gest time upon
the richly-stulptured tomb in whieh
they laid her. Dut the tomb, With
its marble figeres of the late Lord
ahd Ledy Esher, has been many
years in positiori. It was erected by
order of the former Lord Esher dur-
ing his own lifetime, ele and his
wife sat to the sculptor for their
eeigies, which wee° intended to be
reserved foe use enel. the deaths of
the origieals. Then Lord Esher
ehanged his mind. "Don't trouble
to house than," he said; 'emit thetu
on the tomb how." So for ten
yeera during hie own lifetime there
he and Lady hailer lay in counter -
t presen teem t.
HOME. Z
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Dompwrie nuotms.
Hielecag Nut Chke,—One and .011e -
half cups of white sugar, a. nalf
UP oi butter, .two cups or
three-foerths of a cup of sweet mill,
one cup of chopped hickory mit litre
nels, whites of four eggs, one tea-
spoonful of soda and two teaspoon-
fuls of cream of tartar. lee -with
white icing and ornamout with half
hickory nut kernel.
Nut Cookies.—One cup of batter
and two cups of sugar thoroughly,
worked to a cream, three eggs beat-
en into the sugar and butter, one-
half cup of milk in which has been
dissolved one scant teaspoonful of
soda; mix this with the sugar, but-
ter and eggs. Add flour enougli to
make a dough that will roll out, out
into fancy shapes and bake. To
some good icing add one cupful of
prepared nut moats not too finely
chopped and coat the top of each
cooky thickly with the mixture.
Quick Yeast.—Boil a dozen large
potatoes M four quartsofwater un-
til thoroughly done; mash until free
from lumps; then add two Wane -
spoonfuls each of salt and sugar,
and half a teacupful of flour dis-
solved in cold water. When bilge -
warm add a dissolved yeast cake.
Stir well together and set In a
warm place to rise. On baiting day
put in sponge by using one quart
of warm water and cam plat of
yeast, and -under favorable circum-
stances the bread will be ready to
mix in the course of two hours.
Queen Cararneln—Stir into two
cupfuls of granulated segue just
enough milk to dissolve it, add a
quarter -teaspoonful of cream of tar-
tar and put over a slow fire. Stir
constantly while boiling until a lit-
tle dropped into cold water has the
consisterIcy of putty. Pour into a
shallow pan and set aside to cool
until so stiff that lingers pressed on
it leaves a dent. Now beat until
you have a soft doughlike mass,
Knead this, putupona pastry board
sprinkled with powdered sugar, and
ire.
rollinto a sheet a half-inthick.
Out into squares. Stir in two tea-
spoonfuls of vanilla essence just be-
fore taking the mixture from the
i
Ginger Nuts.—Three eggs, one cup-
ful of brown sugar, a half -cupful of
butter, one cupful of molasses, a
half -cupful of sour or buttermilk, a
teaspoonful of baking soda, a scant
teaspoonful of cinnamon and ging-er
and flour enough to handle. Mix,
roll out, cut out with e, thimble and
bake, pfittipg them so far apart that
they will not run together in the
baking.
Paprika Schnitzele—Slices from leg
of veal of medtuin.teickness, cut into
pieces, see threebyfour inches—or
any size to suit. Salt and pepper
the pieces; roll .in flour, fry light
brown on both sides. Have your
fat hot leefore putting the meat in
•to fry. In frying veal it is nice to
put a little butter with your frying -
fat. When brown, cover with water
(hot) and a small onion, a few
slices of lemon. a bay leaf, a sprig
of parseley, a dessertspoonful of vin-
egar and several good shakes of pa-
prika_ Cover, and let all boil till
the meat is tender. If the gravy
boils down too much, add a little
more water and let it cook until
there is just enough gravy. Servo
on -a hot platter with the gravy
strained over the meat. It is a good
plan to taste the gravy, while boil-
ing, for salt, etc. A half-hour will
dof ems. egi.
this.roate - or "Pomeranian"
Cake.—Four cups of brown sugar,
two eggs, two tablespoonfuls of
melted butter. Beat until creamy.
Add two or three tablespoonfuls of
pomegranate or orange peeling, well
cooked, chop up Bee all the white
part sliced off; one teaspoonful of
cinnamon, three-quarters of a cup
of sour cream, to which add two
teaspoonfuls of bicarbonate. of soda
and about four cups. of white flour,
Sprinkle the buttered pan well with
!nese or. cracker crumbs. Bake in
en:de:rate oven 'thirty or forty min-
Celeste's Fritters.—Stale sponge
cake, cut into rounds with a cake
cutter. Slice the eake carefully and
fry to a nice brown. Dip each slice
for a second in a bowl of bowling
milk, draining this off on the side of
the vessel; lay on a hot dish and
'spread thickly with strawberry jam,
peach jelly or other delicate con-
serve. Pile them neatly and send
around . hot, with cream to pour
over therm
Seed Cakes.—One cup of butter, 3
cups of sugar, one cup of "lopper-
ed" milk or cream, four eggs. Six
cups of flour or just enough to stif-
fen into a thin paste. Two table-
spoonfuls fennel or caraway seed.
One tablespooeful soda, dissolved in
boiling water. Roll out thin and
cut into shapes. 'When dole it is
most nutritious and delicious eaten
with'cream,
33TRA1's FOR LITTLE GIRLS.
Mother finds that cloaks for the
little girls cost as much as those
for their older sisters, and with a,
good pattern one may make a band-
emete cloak at much lees expense than
the ready-made ono tost. Short
lerigths of cloth can often be pur-
chased 'very eheaply from large dry
goods firms, and often the same
amount of money that is spoilt fox.
a cheap jacket will buy hancisoMe
cloth. As a rule, the low-priced
wraps are made of sleazy material
and elaborate* trimmed to Make
them attractive.
All indications /mitt to continued
and increasing favor for the ,eoinfort-
able I3ton jacket, and these jackets
are of siniple coestruction, eau
fly be made, and many eeonornieal
mothers Make beautiful wraps for
their little girls item old material,
and they are oftenquite as pretty as
the high -mend, ready-made wrape.
The 'boot levee of a woolen dress
elciet C011. Of bit() a COPO
or jacket, and sometimes a stylish
wrap can be mode without any frO-
Seat OWILty re( money. AUeines ge
rubrics are used for malting Wraps,
and the styles tor making them are
so yeried thee a pattern can usual*
be seloited to suit the quality and
quantity of material you may leve
oi hend. Men's old clothes
often utilized in this way when there
are no small boys in the fend* aud
with excellent results.
*Old braid can 'be freshened by
sponging and pressing and can be
used for trimming, and nice battens
can usually be found on florae caste
off earrnent.
A serviceable and stylish Norfolk
jacket was made from a partly-werx.
woolen dress skirt of a light-teei
or, but the cloth was first waseed
and then colored a rich dark brown
with diamond dye for wool, A fad-
ed gray jacket furnished the mater-
ial for another pretty wrap after the
poeces were colored a dark red. Telma
pressing thee pieces, the irons need
to be quite hot, and be careful to
keep the iron moving, not pressing
so hard as to make the cloth shiny or
show Marks of the iron, but con. -
arming to press over and over until
quite dry, for careful pressing is
quite essential to Success in the
work of making over garments. i
letillSEHOLD HINTS.
In making jumbles, add to lialf the
dough half it cup of finely chopped
or pounded nut meats and you have
nut jumbles, e'
Stew prunes with one-fourth their
bulk of raisins.and serve with whip-
ped cream, or veith plain cream. The,
result is both palatable and whole;
some.
It is rather late for the suggestiou
now, but bear in mind that pine-
apple juice flavors crabapple jelly
most deliciously. Many place a leaf
of rose geraniura in the glass and
pour the hot juice upon it. The
leaf withers and rises to the sur-
face, where it has imparted its essen-
tial oil to the jelly and given it a
piquant flavor.
In place of baked or stewed ap-
ples, try boiling them, Wipe the
fruit, do not pare, but set in a stew -
pan. To ea.ch six apples allow a
cup of water and half a cup of su-
gar. Let boil in the syrup until the
part in it is tender, then turn and
cook the other side. Boil the syrup
until thick and turn over the apples.
Another good way is to pexe and
core the fruit, steam till tender, then
sprinkle with powdered sugar and
coven with whipped cream. A few
maraschino cherries or fat raisins in
the apple improve it to some tastes.
Cleaning Tinware.—Acids should
never be employed to clean tinware,
beacause they attack the meatal and
remove it from theiron of which it
forms.a thin coat. We refer to ar-
ticles made of tin plate, which con- h
eists of iron coveted wine tin. Rub
the axticle first with rotten -stone
and sweet oil, then finish wide whit-
ing and a piece. of soft leather. Ar-
ticles made whollyeof tin should bp
cleaned in the same manner. Ij a
dry atinneehere •polished tinware
will remain bright for a long period
but will soon become tarnished in
moist air.
SOME WEDDING CUSTOMS.
Originated in Anglo -Sax= and
Roman Times.
When the betrothal of childrea was
the custom as it was among oat
Anglo-Saxon forefathers, the bride-
groom elect gave to his future bride
a ring, or as it was called in those
days, a "wed," as his pledge. It is
from this term that our word wed-
ding has been derived. The ring
was placed on a eager of the right
hand of the little maiden and was
kept there until her marriage, when
removed to her left hand. In days
gone by the bridegroom did not, as
now, at the time of marrying place
the ring at once on the thirti finger
of the bridge, but put it M turn on
each finger of the left hand, saying
as he placed it on the first finger:
-ru the name of the Father"; on
the second, "In the name of the
San"; on the third, "In the name
of the Holy Ghost," and on the
fourth, "Amen."
The bride being attended be
bridesmaids is a custom that has
come nown to us, like so many
others, from the Romans. At their
marriages it was the custom to
have them celebrated M the presence
of ten witnesses, and at the conclu-
sion of the ceremony the contracting
parties partook of a cake made of
salt water and flour—a practice from
which, no doubt, our "wedding cake" -
has Come, while the wedding favors --
which, bye the bye, seem to have
gone quite out of fashion now—were
supposed to represent the true-lovi
era knot symbolical of union.
-WORKHOUSE MUSEUMS.
Several of *the great London work-
houses have remarka.bie museums at-
tached to them. in a Smith Lon.
don uniou museum can be found a
clergyman's letters of ordination
(the owner died in -the house)," and.
a peculiar belt made of human teeth
and brought from the West Coast of
Africa. But perhaps the most sige
nificant of all the things shown= is a
small pocket dice -box. Upoe the e
box is neatly. eut "This box . and
other wagering cost me £80,000,
arid brought me to the workhouseee 4
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Si, Columb Minor, the mothor.
church of Newquay, Cornwall, Eng-
land, possesses a parish clerk of re-
cord age and at t ainmei ts. Mrs
Came has lately celebreted bus niece
ty-eighth birthday, graced by con-
gratulations from all parts of the
Duchy. Clad in the full-fashioned
surplice itif former decd, absolved
only from the more receatly added
caseock, he forms one of the regular
ehoir, following every ivord with
audible equeelentiousness, while be
still feels that be leads there as oi
note. neoW in his eixtieth .yeter of
parith Work, lie is still strong erel
sturdy, and proud to relate that his
father teed grandfather sletred the
preceding Cal Wry in the same ogee
cial capaeity, ,