The Brussels Post, 1900-7-12, Page 6T
3KINGAR
THE BOCK.
Rev. Dr, Talrnage Speaks of the
[enuineness of the Scriptures.
A despatch from Wnvhington says:
�lity, Dr. Telmnge preached from the
following text : "When Jehudi had
read three or four, leaves, he cut it
with the penknife." -Jeremiah xxxvi,
We look in upon a room in Jerusa-
lem. Two men are there. At the
table sits Baruch the scribe, with a
roll of parchment and an iron pen in
his hand. The other man is walking
the floor, as if strangely agitated.
There is an unearthly appearance
about his ghastly countenance,
and hie whole frame quakes as if
pressed upon by something unseen
and supernal. ft is Jeremiah, in the
spirit of periphery, Being too muoh
excited to write with his own hand
the words that the Almighty pours
upon his mind about the destruction
of Jerusalem, he dictates to Baruch
lite scribe. It Is a seething, scalding,
burning denunciation of Jehoiakim,
the king, and a prophecy of coming
disaster.
Of, course, Johoiakim the king hears
of the ncourrenoe and he sends Jehudi
to obtain the parchment and read its
contents,
Jehoiakim Is sitting in his comfort-
able winter house by a fire that
glows upon the hearth, and lights up
the faces of the lords, and princes,
and senators whu have gathered to
hear the strange document. Jehudi
unrolls the book gleaming with the
words of God, and as be reads the
king frowns; his eye kindles; his cheek'
burns; his foot comes down with
thundering indignat ion. He snatches
the book from J'ehudi's hand, feels for
his knife, crumples up the book, and
goes to work, cutting it up with his
penknife.
That Oriental scene has vanisbed,f
but it has been often repeated. There
are th uaands of Jehoiakims yet alive
who rut the Work of God with their
penknives, and ray object in this ser-
mon is to designate a few of them.
The first man I shall mention as
thus treating the Word of God is the
one who receives a part of the Bible,
but cuts out portions of it with his
penknife and rejects them. Jehoia-
kim showed as much indignity toward
the scroll when he cut one way es
when he cut the other. You might
as well behead Moses as to behead
Jonah. Yes, sir, I shall take
ALL OF THE 13113LE OR NONE.
Men laugh at us as if we were the
most gullible people in the world for
believing in the genuineness of the
scripture; but there can be uo doubt
that the Bible, as we hive it, is the
same -no mare, no less -as God wrote
it. As to the books of the. New Testa-
ment, the great writers of the dif-
ferent centuries give complete cata-
logues of their contents. Polyoarp,
Ignatius, Clemens Romantic!, in the
New Testament books; Tertulian, Jus-
tin Martyr, in the second century;
Cyprian and Origen in the third
century; Augustine, Jerome, and Eu=e-
hius in the fourth century. Tbeir
catalogues of the different books of
the New 'testament silence the sug-
gestion that any new books could
have been stealthily put in. How
many books are on this stand ? You
clay three -two Bibles and a Hymn-
book. There are twenty men here
taking a list of these books. Would '
it be possible for any man to come ,
on to this platform and lay a new '
book on this stand and you not know
It ? Neither was it possible for any-
body to put an additional book into
this New Testament when all the
Christian world was watching.
No, sir ; you shall not rob me of a
single word, of a single verse, of a
single book of my Bible. When life,
like an ocean, billows up with trou-
ble, and death comes, and our hark
is sea -smitten, with halyards cracked
and white sails flying in shreds, like
a maniac's gray locks in the wind,
then we will want God's Word to steer
us off the rocks, and shine like light-
houses through the dark channels
of death, and with hands of light bec-
kon our storm -tossed souls Into the
hnr',bour, lin that last hour take from
me my pillow, take away all soothing
draughts, take away the faces of fam-
ily and kindred, take away every
helping hand and every eonsoling
.voice; alone let me die on the moun-
tain, on a bed of rock, covered only
by a sheet of embroidered frost, un-
der the slap of the night wind, and
breathing out my life on the bosom of
the wild, wintry blast, rather than in
that last hour take from me my Bible.
Stand off, then, ye carping, ptdpping,
-meddling critics, with yrrur penknivesl
The next man that I shall mention
tie following Tehoiakim's example is
the infidel, who runs hie knife through
the liable from Genesis to Revelation,
end rejoeta everything. The hostility
slanting that night in ,that winter
house amotagthose lords and senators,
exists yet.
THE ENBMTES GP THIS BOOK
have gathered themselves into clubs,
and have tried to marshal on their
side, the oharpist's laboratory, and as-
tromomer's telescope, and geologist's
pry, and mineralogist's hammer, and
ornithologist'° .gun ; land they have
ransacked the earth and the heavens
to see if they could not find argu-
ments with which to estate the Bible,
and baulk the Church. and clip the
wing of the Apocalyptic angel, WIth
the back hulk of their pirate craft
they have tried to run down this Gos-
pel ship speeding on errands of salva-
tion. They have tried to stab patri-
arch and prophet, evangelist and ap-
ostle, with Jehoiakim's penknife. They
say that the Bible is a very weak
book, filled with big stories and Men-
chausen adventures, and has no more
authority than the Sbaster of the
Hindoo, or the Zend-Avesta of the
Persian, or the Talmud of the Hebrew
or the Confucian writings of the Chin-
ese, or the Sibyline books of the Ro-
mans, or the Koran of the Mohamme-
dans.
Infidels strike ' their penknife
through this Book because they say
that it is cruel and indecent. There are
things in Ezekiel and Solomon's Songs
that they don't want read in their
amities. Ab 1 if the Bible is so per-
nicious, just show me somebody that
has been spoiled by it. A' thousand
dollars reward if you will show me a
man who bas been made cruel, or ob-
scene, or reckless by the Bible. While
you are trying in vain to pick out
such a one, I will show you five hun-
dred men in this audience who have by
it been tamed out of rudeness, and
lifted up out of sin, andenriched with
innumerable virtues.
Again, they strike their penknife
through this Bible because it is too lull
of unexplained mysteries. What! will
you not believe anything you cannot
explain? Have you finger -nails? You
say "Yes." Explain why, on the tip of
your finger, there comes a naiL You
cannot tell me. You believe in the
law of gravitation; explain it, if you
can, I oan ask. you
A HUNDRED QUESTIONS
about your eyes, about your ears,
about your face, about your feet, that
you cannot answer, and yet your find
fault that I cannot answer all the
questions you may ask about this
Bible. I would not give a farthing for
the Bible if I could understand every-
thing in it. 'would know that the
heights and depths of God's truth were
not very great if, with my poor finite
mind, Icould reach everything„ A
plain farmer said to a sceptic, "The
mysteries of the Bible do not bother
me. I read the Bible as I eat fish. In
eating fi,h, when I come across a bone,
I do not try to swallow it, butt lay
it on one side,. When, in reading the
prophecies, I come across that which
is inexplicable, I say, 'There is a bone,'
and 1 lay it on one side. When I find
something in a doctrine that stag-
gers my reason, I say 'That isa hone,'
and I lay it on one side," Alas 1 my
friends, that men should choke them-
selves to death with bones of mystery,
when there is so ,mush meat in this
Bible on which the soul may get strong
for eternity.
Again, the infidel strikes his pen-
knife .through this Book by saying,
"You have no right to make the Bible
so prominent because there are other
hooks that have in them great beauty
and value. • Tiaere are grand things
in books professing no more than
human intelligence. The heathen
Bible of the Persians says, "The
heavens are a point from the pen of
God's perfection" "The world isa
bud from the bower of his beauty,"
"The sun is a spark from the light of
his wisdom." "The sky is a bubble on
t.be sea at his power," Beautiful!
Beautiful1 Confucius taught kind-
ness to enemies; the teamster has great
affluence of imagery; the Veda of
the Brahmins has ennobling senti-
ments; but wiib,t have you proved by
rtil this? Bamply that the Author of
the Bible wee as wise as ell term great
men that have ever lived put together;
because, after you have gone through
all lands, and all ages, and all
literatures, and after you have heap-
ed everything excellent together and
boiledit down, ,you have found in ail
that realm of the ages but
A PORTION OP TUE WISDOM
thee you find in this one book
Let Voltaire come an with his acute
philosophy; and Hume with his scholar-
ship; and Chesterfield with his polish-
ed insinuations* and Gibbon with bis
one-sided lidstoraeal statements; and
S,haftes;bury witb Jars sarcasm; and
Hobbes, witib his subtlety; and Blount
and Bolingbroke with their armed
hostility -yea, tome on Platonic philo-
sophers, and Gnrmap infidels, anti
Boston transcendentalists, and all tore
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la'olxneted etene'pf darltness-7eliurge
upon you with s rtygilraent of moun-
tain shepherds and Galileeeiaheinmit,
'orward, yo inspired men, to 130'
eteilel dteadyl Talo atrial 14'401
Their rauke wavers They breakl They
1lyl Victory,thr'otegh our Lord Jesus
Cbrlst!�'.
If aelidelity is as.sueoessfal in the
next ,fifty years, in its war
against the Bible, ae it lass
beau in the past fifty, the
year 1950 will nee the Bible in posses-
sion of every masa on the earth who
has a band to hold it, Ona wave of
this Book above the thrones of tyran-
ny, and they shall fall; above the
'temples of superstition, and they Abell
crumble ; above the wilderness, and it
shall bloom like the garden of tiro
Lord, '.Chou Prince of Beaks. we hail
thee to thy coronation 1 The wheeling
earth thy oliariotl the bending sky thy
triumphal arch l the (greet heavens
one etar-studded, cloud striped ban-
ner i
Make the application of this subject
yaurseliives, 3 have preached it that
3 might show you that we who believe
in the Bible are net so verdant as peo-
ple suppose, sdnoe we have a great
many stout reasons for believing in
it. .1 have tried, by my remarks, to
raise the Book higher in your eetina-
attdon.. Take it into your lieart! Take
it info your house! Take it into your
shop I Take it into your store: Though
ylou may seem to get p.long quite
well without this book in your days
of prosperity there will come a time
to us all when our only consolation
will be this Blessed Gospel.
Oh ! in that last hour when the
world goes away ,from our grasp,
press this precious gospel to our lips,
that in that dying kiss, we may taste
the sweetness of that promise, "When
thou passest through the waters, I
will be with thea; and through the
rivers, they shall not overflow thee."
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
SOME GREAT WARS AND A GEN-
ERAL UPHEAVAL PREDICTED.
Strange Presages In Regard to the World's
Iiesllny-E1Irarts From a troop Just
fail tilled In Parls-Grzat War., WII1
'raa'e Place In 1905, 1904 and Follow-
ing Tears.
Some strange predictions in regard
to the twentieth century have been
made from time to time and Vauki,
the oculist has now collected these
into a book which has just been pub-
lished in Paris.
In the fifteenth century an un-
known seer prophesied as follows:-
" The King of Prussia will perish near
Lyons, and the Emperor of Austria
will lose his reputation on the plain
of St. Foos. The great Prince will
only reign 42 moons and 1-3 ; be will
labor for his son. The lily will unite
with the lion, and the royal residence
will be at the junction of the Rhone
and the Saone. This line will last for
10 moons, from male to male."
Jerome Botine who died in 1420, left
Behind some peouiiar predictions.
More than four centuries have passed
away," he wrote, " the altars of Beel-
zebub will be destroyed, the work-
ers of iniquity will be smattered and
destroyed. Then will appear a child
of royal blood, who will come from
Artois. He will govern France with
honor and the spirit of the Lord will
be with him, for thus saith the Lord.
And a shepherd of the people will
arise who will be honored by high
and low, but before the establishes
his kingdom let him who has not bent
the knee to Baal flee from Babylon,
since this is the time when the Lord
by the magnitude of his vengeance
willshow the magnitude of the crimes
that have been committed against
Him. In those days the good will be
tested and the wicked will be destroy-
ed. These are the words which the
Spirit hath spoken to his servant Jer-
ome and the truth of which will be
proved In time. So be it."
Pere Neston prophesied as follows
about 1700:-"A great multitude will
perish, but the wicked will not pre-
vail. They will endeavor to destroy
the Church, but at the moment when
its destruotion seems complete it will
be saved. During this disaster, which
will apparently be worldwide
PARIS WILL BE DESTROYED,
so that fathers, ' passing over the
ruins twenty years afterward, will say
to their children :-" There was here
once a great city but God destroyed
it on account of its crimes." After
these terrible events law and order
will be restored, and the Church, will
enjoy an unparalleled triumph. Eng-
land will also bane a revolution, and
France will help her to re-establish
peace. While these events are hap-
pening the earth will be so troubled
that the people will believe that God
has entirely abandoned them."
Rabau-Maur, who ,wag Archbishop
of Mayenoe, in 880, made the following
remarkable prediction : " According to
our leading Members, when the end of
time is near alt band one of the des-
oendants of the kings of France will
reign over the whole ancient. Roman
Empire, and be will be the •greatest
of all the kings of France and the
last cif his rape. And after a most
glorious reign be will finally go to
Jerusalem and 'willlay down his
crown and his sceptre on the Mount
of Olives, drab will be the end of the
Holy Boman and Christian Empire.';
Saint I5rapee de Rattle, in a letter
written by him in 1480, to Simon do
Simone, kuru .of Mc/Malta, foretells
oertain °vents wliicli were to happen
about lour lautidred years alter his
own death. " 10 all the world," he
writes, " there will only be cute great
Pontiff and one great Ring, .4.11 the
other king's and princes will be sub-
feet. to then°, and they will all be
saints. Then will be formed the teat,.
of the religious orders. It will be oom-
poaod of soldiers of f.he Ci'oes, who
will carry en their flags the imago
of Christ, for whom they will fight,
and his holy army will .deatroy the
cursed followers of Mehemet,"
A quo/train by the celebrated Nose
tredamus Is also supposed to refer to
the coming century, "In those days,"
he says, "France, Italy, Spain and
England will be at ,war with each
other, And alter it will Dome a gen-
eral war, which will be terrible."
A young man of Lyons had a re-
markable vision one day in 1873, an
account of which was published in the
Raparateur tm January 13, 1839. "I
saw two immense armies on he plain
of St, Fans," he writes, " One of the
armies had no leader ; all command-
ed and obeyed. A soldier who dared
to offer advice was at once put to
death. A king eommanded the other
army.
A CROWN OF GOLD
encircled his `brow and a sword
gleamed in his band. The standard of
one army bore the word 'Society,'
that of the other ' Individaallsm.' The
king said to his soldiers: 'Our tri-
umph will insure for our posterity a
new golden age.' The men without a
leader said among themselves :-' The
reason why our prinaipies have not
taken root is because they are encum-
bered by the debris of society. 'We
must, then, do away with social re-
strictions. , , Then the battle began
and after a long eeruggle the royal
army slowly retreated. Thereupon
the king said: 'Lord the blood of a
God was needed to save spiritual so-
ciety; let the blood of a man suffice
to save political society. I sacrifice
myself,' and, placing the crown upon
his son's head, he dashed against the
enemy, and so perished. His soldiers,
inspired with new courage, by the aot,
resumed the battle, .but the issue 8
know not, for I awoke from my
dream."
From the Kabala, and the so-called
" divine numbers," Vanki also obtains
some curious presages in regard to
the destiny of various countries dur-
ing the twentieth century. Thus he
makes the following predictions in re-
gard to France; " The time is at hand
when all things will be accomplished.
The hermetic numbers says: 'A wo-
man protected you as long as you re-
lied on her, but since you abandoned
her you have become weak and im-
poitenit. To -day another woman,
daughter of your impious conceptions,
and of your treason toward the old
faith, is about to seize you, like an
easy prey, and she will throw you to
the ground, bleeding and palpitating,
and there you will remain until your
eyes are once more opened to the
light.'" The two women mentioned
here are symbols, the first represent-
ing faith or religion, and the second
anarchy,
According to the " divine numeers,"
there will be many struggles in
ENGLAND AND IRELAND
and an attempt will be made to unite
all the people under the same form
of religion.
" Struggles and disunion followed.
by union" is Germany's future, as
shown by the cabalistic numbers, The
hermetic counsel reads :-"Take cure
that you do not lose the fruits of your
arduous labor through pride or im-
prudence. You have removed many
obstacles by your strength, and pa-
tience, but before you glorify your-
self wait until the evil times have
passed away."
Disunion is predicted for Spain, and
the hermetic maxim, reads:-" We
should use those powers which God
has given us within their proper lim-
ite. Do not regard as truth that
which pleases you and whish is only
the semblance of truth, and, above
all, do net permit yourself to be car-
ried by your passions beyond the
boundaries prescribed by divine jug -
Lice, since men, acting in aeeurdanee
with their ideas of justice, will in such
it case inflict upon you exemplary
punishment."
To Russia this advice is given :-'Be
more an your guard than over, and
strive to stifle, before they increase in
numbers, and in strength, the germs
of dissolution which you are bearing
in your bosom." To Poland some moa -
sure of good fortune is promised in
these words :-" If you humiliate your-
self, a little happiness will comeback
to yowl'
For Ireland good fortune is predict-
ed. " You will soon poasess all the
elements that make far success," runs
the decree. "May your intelligence be
in harmony with the aspirations of
your heart."
According to Vanki most of the
great wars predicted will take place
1908, 1904 and the following years,
-a' '-ce-4-4 sese-'p-f-,_i-4?-,
'Young Folks, a
HIDE AND SEEIK.
Years and years ago, in the time of
Queen Mary of England, there stood in
the County of Surrey a quaint, ivy
covered manor house, known to the
region about as Oulbberton Hall, The
owner of this fine place at the time
of which I speak wee Sir Tobin Outh-
beeton, Be had a dear little daughter
of Band a noisy, strapping boy about
a year older, Those were trouble-
some times, aa all who have read Eng.-
lisle history must know, Queen Mary
-Bloody Mary, as she is often called -
was a cruel woman, She put to death
a great many, people who would not
Chink as she did on religious matters
and go to the particular oheroh she ap-
proved of.
Luckily for Sir John and his good
wife, Lady Jane, they did nothing to
raise the ire of their Queen.
But Sir John had a brother, an ad-
venturous spirit, who was more often
roaming abroad than at Home in
Blei rie England„ 13'e had 1 been
brought up in Holland and had early
imbibed the religious faith and ideas
of the Dutch •reformers. Be knew
well that to acknowledge publicly that
he was a reformer would be to have
himself proclaimed a heretic, and that
meant death at the stake.
Still, not even the fear of death
could change his religious beliefs, and
he was accustomed to worshiping in
seoret with those of a similar faith.
One afternoon Sir John and his
wife went by coach to London town to
spend a few days, leaving their two
children in ohlarge of a faithful
nurse.
That same afternoon, about dusk,
the two were having a merry romp
on the lawn in front of the manor
with a couple of their pet dogs, when
a man came dashing up the long drive
that led to the house.
The dogs growled and started up,
and then began to yelp. and fawn on
the man in evident delight.
"013, Uncle Dick!" cried the children,
as the man came nearer. But he paid
no attention to their cry of welcome,
and went racing on into the house,
The children, not knowing what to
make of the behavior of their usually
playful unole, ran in after biro. They
found him just inside the entrance
door, prone on the floor, exhausted.
Be was white to the lips and his
dress much disordered.
"01, 'Uncle Dick!" cried the child-
ren again. "What has happened?
What's the matter 0"
"Nothing, dears," he answered,
feebly, "I was just running a race
with some men I met!"
"Did you beat them?" asked the
girl.
"Yes," replied her uncle, with a
ghastly smile. "But I expect they
will catch up with me before long."
He dared not tell these two young in-
nocents that he was being hunted
down by Queen Mary's men, and that
if caught he would be put to death.
Presently the mstn staggered to his
feet.
"Let's have a game of hide and
seek!" he said, with a poor effort to
seem jovial.
"Hurrah! What fun 1" erred the
children, clapping their hands in glee.
"Who will bide?" asked the boy.
"Al! three of us?" replied their
uncle,
"But who will seek us out r' asked
the girl.
"Alt! Some of Her Gracious Majesty's
soldiers will shortly rap at this very
door to ask for me, and perhaps for
you. And don't you think it would
be a rare good joke on them if they
could not find any of uaf" suggested
Uncle Dick. The children thought it
the greatest sport ever heard of.
"Goods" cried the man, "We will
fool them nicely. Now, you ewe run
out the back way with the dogs
and get • into the kennel with them
and lie still. The soldiers will never
think to find you there, As for
me, 1 am going inside the suit of
armor that your great-grandfather
wore, and whish stands in the banquet
hall, Only you will have to help me
into it first,'
It was a difficult matter to climb
into that suit of armor, large as it
was, but finally the bunted man got
in somehow, and the visor of the
helmet was pulled down, That a man
was inside no one would have known
to look at it. Bull an hour later a
dozen rough -looking fellows with
lances entered the hall and ransacked
it from top to bottom. They sounded
the walls, explored the secret closets
and upset things generally. But no
signs of 'their quarry could they dis-
cover, and the frightened servants
could give them no aid.
At last the band departed, and that
same night Uncle Dick kissed his
young relatives good-bye and stole out
In the darkness and across the country
till he oamo to the covet. A sailing
boat took him to the continent,
anti not till Elizabeth camp ter the
throne did he dare tread English soil
again.
Years later Sir John's children same
to know that game of hide and peek
wee with Vnole Dick a matter of 1ifn
and death,
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VIE PRti'1TTIJIST BIRDS,
The meat variegated bird in the
world is the ;Pitta liengalenais, W111011
14 found In India and Ceylon, and in
the plumage of which no fewer than
eine different oolore .are diatingaiish•-
able, and which, in consequence, has
been palled the nine -colored pitta,
With its long legs, short tail and
plump body, it boars considerable re -
Semblance to a thrush. Its colors
are gay and beautifully harmonized,
Its powerful long beak i$ curved on
top and Is generally held firmly
closed; The foot is widely spread, the
middle toevery long. The wings are
short and well rounded, The bird is
a light brown, with black stripes on
the upper part of its body. The heed
and sides of the neck are black, while
a white line passes over the eyes,
forming a kited of eyebrow, and the
throat and part of the bank are also
white, The other parts under the
body aro a yellowish brown, with a
greenish tinge. The tail and. under
parts of the wings are bright scarlet.
The tops of the wings are a bluish
green, while the long wing feathers
are a pale blue. Tho tips of the
shoulders have spots of azure blue,
and the pinions are black. Their
short wings do not permit of any ex..
tended flight, and their long legs show
that much of their time is passed on
the ground. They feed on different
kinds of beetles, which they crush with
their strong beaks. A specimen has
lately been placed in the Berlin Zoo-
logical Garden.
FAILURE�~
OF A BANK.
Deny Deaths Benet iia the Small Island
or anon.
It would need the pen of a great
author adequately to bring home the
havoc wrought among the Manx by
the failure of Dumbell's ,Bank, says
a London despatch. Already some
twenty deaths have been due to it,
Families .who a fe3v months ago
were in the happiest plight are now
reduced to penury, and shareholders
live in terror of call upon call plac-
ing them in the same condition. There
appears to be a feeling that some
vigorous personality is needed in the
highest quarter to arouse the people
from the deep depression which over-
whelms them. The Governor return-
ed to the island lately after an ab-
sence due to long and severe illness.
MATRON Olt MAIDEN.
At all smart functions in future, or
wherever evening dress is worn, there
is to be a distinguisbing mark be-
tween matron and maiden. Unmarried
women are to wear their bows, aig-
rettes, or flowers on the left side;
matrons on the right. It is only a
matter of decoration, but fashion has
decreed it.
In Paris and London the custom has
been adrepted,to the infinite satisfac-
tion of the matrons, but not altogeth-
er to that of the uumarrded women.
What one of them cares to proclaim
to the world at 'arae the fact of her
single blessedness?
Heretofore the only distinguisbing
mark between the married and un-
married woman has been the wedding
ring, of no particular consequence at
evening functions, where, with the ex-
ception of dinners a woman's hands
are never uncovered.
Now all is changed. Coiffeurs in-
sist that madame must wear bar aig-
rette an the right side of bar head;
mademoiselle on the left. If mademoi-
selle desires to enhance her beauty by
a flower instead of an aigrette, let
her have it by all means.. tucked in
with seeming artless grace, but let
her make sure it is the left side of
her profile she studies, while arrang-
ing the effect, lest later on she be
accused tit endeavoring to seem that
which she is not.
Deeesmakers are following the same
unwritten late with flowers or the
huge thou bow, so indispensable this
season to all smart frocks. Let no un-
practised band be so misguided as to
imagine that this oboe can be care-
lessly put ou either the right or left
side. Its proper adjustment is a mat-
ter of art ; its inartistic adjustment
is enough to ruin an otherwise chic
gown. This size of the nhou should
bear some relation to the figure of
the woman who is to wear it. It is
prettiest made of lane, but may be of
chiffon, or even silk or velvet if le -
desired. Commonly, it is the size of a
peony, of u ronlrasting color, to the
gown, and may have ends oe not,•as
one likes, On a slender, flat chested
woman ends that fall below the waist
lino ere most desirable ; a woman of
good curves, on the contrary, prefers
the thou without ends. But with oa'
without, on matron right or maiden
left, the ohou ]oust be set down on
etre side of the bediae, just below the
"deeolletege."
SECRET OF EARTHLY HAPPINESS,
Agree with everybody; It takes loss
time than disagreeing, and the ques-
tions you are asked to agree to aro
not 'input -ant, anyway.
HEALTH.
LEMON -GLYCERINE LOTION,
Everyone has tit one Limo or an.
other felt the need of some practioak
simple and offeotive lotion for ellep.
ped hands, sunburn, tau, eto. This is
especially true of those whose oecupa„
lion domande n lightness and Soft.
tress of touch which cannot ba given
by hands not in the beat condition,
The cleansing power of lemon juice
has long been known; It is frequently.
recommended for removing freakiest
but its more useful property of soft.
ening and whitening the stile is not
so well known. Glycerin is most ox.
tensively used for the skin, and its ver.
tees are exploited beyond measure,
but as ordinarily used by the multi.
tude it falls to give entire satisfao.
tion, which is due to ignorance of itt
properties. Then, again, most pre.
parations said to be glycerine thin
or that, really contain so little gly-
cerine as to be of small effect.
The most effective preparation can
be made at home in a few moments,
inu its aplest form, with Che clear
juice of imone lemon, say orae bunco,
glycerine one ounce, water two ounces,
and violet extract or any favorite -pare
fume to suit one's fancy. IA tea-
spoonful or less is to be thorough-
ly rubbed over the hands while still
wet after washing. The bands
should then be dabbed, not wiped,
nearly but not entirely dry, 'Phs
first effect upon badly chapped
hands may be a slight smarting.
However, this passes away in a mo-
ment, leaving a comfortable sense of
coolness beyond belief until it is ex.
perienoed. In cold weather particul-
arly, soap is very irritating to some
parsons' hands; one important effeot
of the lemon -glycerine preparation is
to neutralize the free alkali which le
unavoidably left upon the skin, and to
stop its further aotion.
With a little more care and expen-
diture of time, a most( elegant cos-
metic jelly can be made from /the
same materials. The yellow outer
skin of the lemon is to be carefully
removed, and after the juice bas
has been well -squeezed out, the thiok
white rind is cut into small bits and
stewed In a moderate quantity of
water until it is soft and can be eas-
ily pulped. This pulp is to be
strained while hot through a thin
muslin bag, one of the table salt
bags is just the thing, using pres-
sure to get out all that is possible.
The clear juice is added before the
pulp is cooled, and also es muoh gly-
cerine as juice. The perfume should
be added and thoroughly incorporat-
ed when the mixture has cooled, but
before it begins to "set" or jelly.
This preparation is quite clean if the
straining has been carefully done
through fine muslin. The perfume
assists materially in preserving eith-
er preparation. The jelly should be
put into a wide-mouthed bottle or jar,
as it cannot ba extracted from a nar-
row neck bottle. There is a very
large proportion of mucilaginous
matter in the substance of the lemon„
which seems to be a beneficial con-
stituent in this latter preparation,
Both of these preparations keep well
for a long time, and being entirely
harmless may be used freely by any -
One,
FACE POWDER.
Margaret Sangster, has this to say
in regard to the use of powder on the
face;
Is it wrong? Is what wrong? Why
to use powder on the face as a beau-
tifier. It is said to be rather the
fashion just now to use something
worse than powder -namely, rouge.
If wrong, why is it wrong?
Well, to begin with, it is wrong be-
cause those who use powder and paint
to make their faces attractive are
not quite honest. They want to be
more comely.than they are. They
are vain. They try, but. they never
succeed in the attempt to deceive
their friends as to their age. They
imagine they can cheat old Father
Time and take ton years off their
faces by cosmetics carefully, applied.
The effort is useless, friends. We
look about our ago, all of us, and we
may as well be resigned to •lt, and
seek the advantages of your ago, for
each period has its special attrac-
tions.
Next, powder clogs the pores of the
skin, chokes tip the delicate, teac-
ake texture, and keeps .:,e slain from
throwing off impurities. A beauti-
ful skin must owe its beauty to good,
health, and to careful washing and
entire oleaniiness. The woman who
bathes will not need powder.
To think too much about how one
looks seems to me very silly and a
sinful waste of time when there is so
much work to be done in this world
of ours.
W(AST.I11D ON HIM,
Dealer, with fine sarcantn. I see,
What you want le a first-class bicycle
for abed $12,50.
Customer', with eagerness. Yea, if I
can't got one for $1A,