The Brussels Post, 1900-8-16, Page 6PAY OF TILE FAIT FUL.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses on
Their Reward,
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A deepatoh from Washington says:—
Bev, Dr, Talmage eereaohed from Oa
following texts --"They that turn
Many to righteousness sllell saltine its
rho eters for ever 'and ever," --Daniel
xii. d,
ft would be absurd for me to stand
bore, anti, by elaborate argument,
prove, that the world Is at the track.
Xou might as well stand at the foot of
an eenbanlunent, amid the wreak of a
eageized rail -train, proving by ()tabor-
et argument that samothing is oat
of order, Adam tumbled over the em_
h ukment sixty centuries ago, and
t ie whole raee, in one long train, has
g one on tumbling in the same diree-
t' on. Crash! orashl The only ques-
t- on now is, 13y what leverage can the
c oohed thing be lifted? By what hone
n er may the fragments be recon -
rooted T
trot: We stay turn them by the
charm of a right example. A child,
coming from a filthy home, was
taught at school to wash its face. It
went home so much;' improved in ap-
pearance that its mother washed her
face, Arid when the father of the
household came home, and saw the im-
provement in domestic appearance, he
welshed his face, The neighbours
coming in, caw, the change, and tired
the same experiment, until all that
'street was purified, and the next
street copied its example, and the
whole city felt the result of one school-
boy waehiag his face. :That la a
fable, by which' we set forth that the
best way to get the world washed of
its sins and exaltation is to have our
own heart and life cleansed and puri-
fied. A man with grace in his heart, ,
and Christian cheerfulness in his face,
and holy consistency in his behaviour,
is a perpetual sermon; and the ser-
mon differs from others in that it has
but one head and the longer it runs,
the better. 'hare are honest men who
walk down Wait Street, making the
teeth of iniquity chatter. Thera aI•s
happy men (vivo go into a sick -room,
and by a look, holp the broken bone
to keit, and the excited nerves drop to
calm beating. They are pure men
whuee presence silences the tongue of
uncleanness. The mightiest agent '
of good on earth is a consistant Chris-
tian. I like the Bible folded between
lids of riot h, of calfskin, or of morocco,
but I like it better When, in the
shape of eama,n, it goes out into the
world—
A. BIBLE ILLUSTRATED.
Courage is beautiful to read about ;
but rather would Ines a nun with all
the world against him confident as
though all the world were fur him
Patience is beautiful to read about;
but rather would I see a buffeted
soul calmly waiting fur the time of
deliverance. Faith is beautiful to read
about ; but rather would I find a man
in the midnight walking straight
an as though he saw everything. Oh,
hew many souls have been turned to
God by the charm of u right example!
Again: We may turn many to right-
eousness by prayer. There is no such
detective as prayer, for no one can
hide away from it. It puts its hand on
the shoulder of a man ten thousand
melee off. It alights on a ship mid-
Atlantic. The little child cannot under-
stand the law of electricity, or how
the telegraphic operator, by
touching the instrument here,
may dart a message under
,.;1 another cuntinent ;
near can we, with our small inletted,
underatand how the touch of a Chris-
tiana prayer shall instantly strike a
wad on the other side of the earth,
You take ship and go to some other
country, and get there at eleven
o'clock in the morning. You tele-
graph to New York. and the message
gets here at six o'clock the same.
morning. In other words, it seems to
arrive here five burs before it start-
ed. Like that is prayer. God s cys,
" Before they call. I will hear." To
overtake a loved one on the road, you.
may epur up a lathered steed until he
shall outrace the one that brought the
news to Ghent; but a prayer shall
catch it at one gallop. ' A boy running
away from home may lake the mid-
night train from the country vitlage,
and reach the sea -port in time to gain
the ship that sails on the morrow ;
but a mother's prayer will he on the
deck to meet him, and in the ham-
mock before he swinge into it., and
at the capstan before he winds the
trope around it, and on the sea, against
thesky, as the vessel ploughs Y. p gets on to -
wart] it. There is a mightiness in
preyer, The breath of
Elijah's prayer
blew all the decade off the sky, and
weather.
it tv as dtr Y'Che breath of ElL-
Jah's prayer blew all the clouds to -
gather, and it was wet weather, Pray-
er, in Daniel's time, walked the cave
as a lion -tamer. i1 remelted up, and
thole the sun by its golden bit, and
stopped. it. We have, all yet 10 try
the full
POW;CR 0h` 1':'AYEA,
The time will. come who: the Atneri-
tan Chn,reh will pray with its £ace to -
Waal the 'west, and all the prairies
and inland aide's will surrender to
God; and will pray with face toward
the nen, and all the islands ani shills
will become Christian. Patents who
have wayward sons will get down on
their knees and say, "Lord, -send my
boy hams," and the boy in Gunton
shun get right up from the gaoling -
table, and go down to the wharf to
find out which ship stases Bret for
Amerlpa.
As sears, the redeemed have a bor-
rowed light. What makes Mars, and.
Venus, and Jupiter so luminous?
When the sun throw's down his torch
in the heavens, the stars pick ap the
scattered brands, and hold them
in procession as the queen of the night
advances; so all Christian workers,
l:etonding aaotmd the throne, will
shine in the light borrowed from the
I Sun of Righteousness, Jesus In their
faces, Jesus In their sangs, ;Teens in
their iritttnph. Christ left heaven
e:nce far a tour of redemption on
, earth, yet the glorified ones knew he
: would came back again. But let bim
abdicate his throne, and go .away to
stay for ever, the music tt'auld stop;
the congregation disperse; the tem-
ples of God be, darkened; the rivers
of light stagnate; and every chariot
would become a hearse, and every bell
would toll, and there would not be
room on the hill sides to bury the dead,
of the great metropolis, for there
would be pestilence in heaven. But
Jesus lives, and so all the redeemed
live with him. He shall recognize
them as his comrades in earthly toil,
and remember what they did far the
honor of his name, and for the spread
of hie kingdom. All their prayers,
and tears, and work will rise before
him as he looks into their faces, and,
he will divide his kingdom with theme
his peace—their peace; his haliness—
their holiness; his joy—their joy. They
glory of the central throne reflected
from the surrounding thrones, the lase'
spot of eat struck from the Christian
orb, and the entire nature a tremble'
and a flash with light, they shall
shine as the stars
FOR EVER AND EVER,
Again' Christian workers shall be
like the stars in the feet that they,
have a light independent of each nth-
er. Look up at night, and see each
world show its distinct iglory. It is
not like the conflagration, in which;
you cannot tell where one flame stops'
and another begins. Neptune, Her-
schel, and Meroury aro as distinct as
if each one of them were the only,
star; so our individualism will not be
lost in heaven. A great multitude
—yet each one as observable, as dis-
tinctly recognized, as greatly cele-
brated, as if in all the space, from
gate to gate, from hill to hill, he were
the only inhabitant ; no mixing up—
no mob—no indiscriminate rush; each
Christian worker standing out illus-
trious—all the story of earthly
achievement adhering to each one;
his self -denials, and pains, and ser-
vices, and victories published.
Agate; Christian workers will shine
like the stars in swiftness of motion.
The worlds do not stop to shine,
There are no fixed stars save as to
prlattee position. The star most
thotbughly fixed flies thousands of
miles a tamaale. The astronomer,
using his teles+.oar for an Alpine
stock, leaps from world -crag to
world -crag, and finds no star stand-
ing still. The chamois hunter has to
fly to catch his prey, but not so swift
is his gam?, as that w'b:eh th„ arient-
ist trice to shoot through the tower
of the observatory. Like petrel. m 'd-
Atlintia, that seer( to come from
no shore, and be bound to no landing
plae--flying, flying—so these great
flocks of worlds, rest, not as they go—
wing and wing—age after ag+—far
ever and ever. The eagle hates to
prey, but we shall in speed heat the
eagles, You have nattced the velo-
city of the swift horse under whose
feet the miles slip like usmooth lie -
and as he pass's, the four hoots
strike the earth in sarh quick beat
your pulses tak:t the sime eibra-
Lion. But alI these things are not
swift tit comparison with the motion
of which I speak. The moon moves
fifty-four thousand miles in a day.
Yonder, Neptune fLsshes on eleven
thou,saaxi mites In an hour. Yowler,
Mercury On one hundred and nine
thousand mites an hour. So, like
the stars, the Christian worker shall
shine In swiftness of motion. You
hear now of father, or mother, or
child sick one thousand miles away,
and it lakes you two days to
t lo h' you hear so e
get them. ,Zr Of m oasts
of suffering that demands your
im-
mediate attention, but it takes you
alt hour to gat there, Oh the joy
when you shalt, in fulfilment of the
text, take starry speed, and be equal
to one hundred thousand miles an
hour. having on earth got used to
Christian work, you will not quit
WHEN DEATH STRIVES et0te,
You will only taioe on more vetoalty,
There Is a dying child in Landon,
Oa lie; sltir'fI must taken up to
God; yea ole thio in an instant ie
de it, There le a young man in Nem
York to be arrested from going alto
that Bat° et ata; you are there in 00
waeta'nt to arrest Moe. Whether with
spring of fecal or strolls of wing, Iley
the tome of sourer new law, that shall
Suri you to the, spat where you would
go, I know not; bull pay text sag -
goats velocity. All space open before
you, with nothing to hinder' you In
in gessipu of: light/ and love, and joy,
you shall shine in swiftness 'of mo•
then es the ,stars for ever
eine ever.
Again; Christian workers, like tie
starsa shall shelve in 'magnitude, The
most illitexa'te man knows that these
Linings in the sky, looking like gu i
buttons,_ are great Biasses of mat-
ter. To weigh them( 0110 wound think
time, it would receuire settles with a
pllhlr hundreds of thousands of miles
thousands of miles long, 'and
at the 'bottom of the chains
high, and chains hundreds of
(thousands of miles wide, and that
Omnipotence. alone could put the
mountains Into the .scales, and the
hills into the: bulan'oe, Beet puny man
has been' equnt to the undertaking,
and has sell a little 'balance on bis
geometry, and weighed world against
,world, Yee, be has pulled out his
m,ensuring-line, and announced that
Hrsschet is thirty-six thousa+ad 'm11xs
1.11 U.I1n .ter, - Saturn seventy-nine
thousand miles tn. diameter, and
Jupiter eighty-nine thou..a'nd1 mites'. in
diameter, and that the smallest pearl
on ilia beach of heaven is immense
beyond aill imagination. So all they
who have toiled for Christ on earth
shall rise up to amagnitude of pron.-
lege, and a maguifade of strength
and a magnitude of holiness, and a
nagnitutLe of joy; and the weakest
sant In glory become greater than
all that we can now imagine of, an
archangel.
Lastly, and coming to this point my
mind almost breaks down under the
contemplation—like the stars, all
Christian workers shall shine
IN DURATION.
The same stars that look down upon
us looked down upon the Cbaldaeau
shepherds.
The meteor that 1. saw flashing
across the sky the other night, I won-
der if it was not the same ane that
pointed dawn to where Jesus lay in
a manger, and if, having pointed out
his birthplace. it has ever since been
wandering through the heavens,
watching to see how the world would
treat him. When Adam awoke in the 1
garden in the coal of the day, hesaw
garden in the cool of the day, he saw
coming out through the dusk of the
evening the same worlds that greeted+
us on our way to church to -night.
Safe for ever—all Christian workers,
No toil shall fatigue them; no hostil-I
ity overcome them ; no pain pierce
them; no night shadow them. For
ever the river of joy flows on ; for
ever the jubilee progresses. The Lomb I
which is in the midst of the throne
shall lead them to living fountains of
water, and God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes.
But none of these things for the id-
lers. the drones, the stumbling -blocks,
They who have, by prayer and exam-
ple, and Christian work, turned many
to righteousness, and only they
" shall shine as the stars for ever."
EXPRESS FOND OF MONEY,
CHINESE EMPRESS DOWAGER FOOLS
THE CHINAMEN.
The Woman Who /lenity hotel China Pond
o1' flattery and Display—Lady Mac-
donald, Wire or British Minister,
erect.
Tsou-Hsi, the name of the Chinese
'Empress Dowager, why is largely re-
sponsible for the present eastern
trouble, is not her full name, but mere-
ly an abbreviation. Among the nu-
merous distinctions enjoyed by the
extraordinary lady is that of possess--
ing the must lengthy nomenclature of
any Chinese woman, as her true name
runs nu less than fourteen syllables.
When she signs it in full, as she does
on exceptional occasions, it reads
Tsr.0-Hsiyu-k'ang yi-chao yu-cb uang-
cb'eng-shun-kung ehing-hsian- ch'ung-
usi. One of the Empress' pet hobbies
is inventing names, and nothing Is
mare certain to win Imperial favour
thin a request from parents to name
the new baby. The child is often
launched into the world with the most
ridiculous apps ilalion imaginable, but
he gets a certain amount of royulpro-
teetion by it, a gold ring and a curi-
ously carved coffer.
Though so strung -minded and intel-
ligent, Tsou-Hsi is almost childish in
her craving for flattery and ostenta-
tious display, She adores brightness
and colour, and always saw to it her-
self an fete nights that the
K
were up to the mark. Her birthday
celebrationsa
b ve always been charac-
teriz b
ed unheard of
Y extravagance,
When the war with Ju.pan broke out
the Chinese notion were being taxed
just $110,000,000 to keep the Empress'
natal day in a beaming fashion. She
afterwards i dilimed apart of this sum
in defraying the expenses of the war,
and then had this generosity and self-
abnegation written up at length in all
1130 leading Chinese organe and eulo-
giosel. Numerous as have been leer
demands and oxtravagttnt her Ideas,
she has always eoutt'ived to have
plenty of money on hind. She had
few sorupiee, bowavee, es to thio re-
lining of her pocket book. In l$e7
80,009,000 tales, gl0,950,090, was ' sat
aside for betiding a navy, Act the
Empress Dowager• was bent on re -ar-
ranging ono of her gardens, so when
the Nye battleships had been ordered
she oaolly appropriated the rest of the
money. She did the same thing not
long sfter'wartls. When 30,000,001 tales
was again voted for railway oonstruc-
tian a part of it was es'pended for this
purpose, but by far the larger portion
Went toward deoot'atittg another of her
gardens,
1:'0111) OF RED TAPE.
She bas always been a stickier for
Deflate' red tape, After Iswang-Sit be-
came Emperor she insisted on every
scrap of state business passing under.
his eye, but no person had any doubts
Whit in reality settled matters, A
small paper called King -Pio is publish-
ed regularly at Pekin; and serves es
court chronicle. Whenever the'Em-
peror wishes to communicate with his
subjects he does so by this medium.
Same of these insertions have been
both amusing and ridiculous. When
Emperor Tung-tohih died and, it was
generally supposed had been helped.
out of the world by the ambitious Em-
press, the latter had ae official notice.
inserted in the King -Pao and signed by
the present Emperor, then a child of
three. It eepresssd KwangSu's "ex-
treme and heartrending sorrow at the
decease of Tung-tcbih," and stated
that the court should observe a three'
years' period of mourning. Further on,
when mentioning the funeral arrange..
ments, it,read: "If his Majesty sees fdt
on the sad oecaalon he will not attend,
but will remain at home in his murs-
ery."
Remembering the pluck and deter-
mination which Ludy Macdonald has
frequently' been called upon to display,
jnone of her friends was surprised to
hear that She had refused to leave'
Pekin, and declared she would stand
by her husband's side through thick
and thin. No person has forgot the
heroic way in which she Sore the first
great sorrow of her life. When a I
young girl she married a Mr, Robert- I
son, who had some appointment in the
Indian civil service; and went out to
that unhealthful country to live. Sev-
eral years later Mr. Robertson and
her children were seized with cholera, i
and all died within a few days of each
other. It was generally believed she
would never marry again. However, I
she happened to meet at a friend's Sir .
Claude Macdonald, until then consider-
ed 0 hardened bachelor, and their en-
gagement was announced shortly
nflerward. She accompanied him to
his charge in West Africa, where she
had no lack of exciting adventure, and
later they went to Pekin. Fine look-
ing, agreeable, a brilliant conversa-
tionalist, and sympathetic, her lady..
ship has been the leading spirit of the
English colony in the far east. Every
European visitor was certain of a cor-
dial reception at the British Legation,
and Lady 'Macdonald prided herself on
being able to give three yearly balls
smacking of true western civilization.
HOW SHE SAW THE EMPRESS. I
Since going to China Lady Mac-
donald has not found entirely smooth
sailing, but has had to resign herself
with good grace to many things. No
matter how rough or inconvenient a'
journey her husband undertakes, shei
invariably insists on accompanying 1
bim. She enjoys the distinction of 1
having been the first European lady to
travel inn ,train from Tien Tata to
Pakin. Half the trip was done inan
open truck. It was due to her initis -
Live that the deputation of "diplomatic
ladies" were received by the Chinese
Empress. It seems that just before
going to the palace Prince henry of
Prussia asked Lady Macdonald if
there was anything he could do for her
in the forbidden city. Now, her lady-
ship had always been consumed with
curiosity to talk with Tsou-Hsi, so she
accordingly jumped at the opportunity
of having her desire realized. The
Dowager Empress' birthday was ap-
proaching, and Lite ambassadress,
knowing what importance was attach-
ed to the date, asked Prince Henry to
request her Majesty's permission to
receive the deputation of ladies who
wished to present an address to her.
Prine Henry succeeded, and this
unique reception was accorded the
ladies, By her eeaond marriage Lady
Macdonald has two charming little
daughters, Ivy and Stella. The latter
first saw light in a Buddhist temple.
FORTUNES IN CHURCH 3EWELs,
The jewels in the possession o
the
p f
Greek church are worth more than the
c
a ltecttan of all thecrowned c caned head
so
E
Europe.. The church has been ae-
cumuiating these treasures for many
years. The figures and pictures as
well as the holy books in the Greek
churches are studded t
() with gams of
immense value, and the church plate
is so costly that it is impossible to
estimate its value.
THE COURSE OE TRTJE LOVE.
She—''.'bore is one serious obstacle
before us.
Ho—Tour Enrollee
Sbo—No; but mylittle brother is
unalterably od to our attach -
Oa T.
Gui of I8�0
It used always to be my custom at
the vanieus,,,,,..government tweet's in
which' I have lived during the lash
twentiY year's toget all my girl
friends to carne every Monday after-
noon. at 9 o'olowk end read history
with me, writes Lady Frederick Na-
pier Broome. I genoraily read aloud
whilst the girls worked. - Sometimes
they brought Laney work, but More
often Iwas glad to see a pinafore for.
a little sister or some useful bit of
plate sewing, for we were very peae-
tical people. The reading lasted a
couple of hoarse them we had .tea, at
which many friends joined us, and af-
ter that the young people played ton=
nes.
It sometimes happened' that we had
finished a chapter tea minutes before
tea time, and then a Clamor arose for
me either to read them a short poem,
or tell them sornetlting about my own
girl days. This last subject bowline
so popular that I am encouraged to
hope it may interest other girls In.
other places.
My own girlhood was a very short
one, for I was married very young,
and I always triad to point a moral—
of course, quite uselessly—of .the risk
of so doing. It is difficult to warn,
when, as in my own ease, this Im-
prudent step turned out so happily,
and it was quite in vain for me to as-
sure them that I was no example, for
I had been exceptionally fortunate.
However, what they liked best to
hear about were the days bet'ore any;
such abrupt terminul:ion of my very
happy girl life came about. The
worst of It wee that my most tragic
complaints of the hard fate of the
early Victorian girl only provoked
peals of mirth.. When I explained;
that in those days there was a hard
and fast line about good loops which
pressed severely on any girl who fell
short of perfect beauty, I was rather
hurt to perceive a tendency to blush
and giggle among ney rapt audience!
But it rattily was hard on a girl, who
nowadays would have been called
picturesque and who certainly would
have had a chance if becomingly
dressed and coiffured to be relegated
to the ranks of the ugly ones with-
' s struggle. You see, the pretty
ople set the fashion, which, by the
,ray, lasted three or four years un-
changed, and the others had to follow
them exactly without the slightest
variation or adaptation.
Oh, the hideousness of our clothes,
and yet we were all perfectly satisfied
and delighted with them. It is non-
sense to say that those fashions have
been, or are, being revived. No liv-
ing girl would dream of wearing the
garments in which I considered myself
a model of grace and fashion some
forty years ago. Fancy appearing in
a sleeve, tight at the arm hole and
gradually spreading to nearly half a
yard in width. Of course, it dipped
into your plate and cup at every
movement during meals, and inside
was worn a sma11 balloon or null of
muslin, ending in a band with a wide
frill of lace, which fell over the hand,
I wonder who invented that ugly and
untidy fashion. We considered it
graceful and elegant, as we also did
a waist which rested on our hips, and
was usually outlined by a wide sash,
with a bow and long streamers in
front. I presume that was the re-
action from the waist under the
arms, but it would be hard to sap
which extreme was the ugliest.
Then think of the shoes absolute-
ly flat and tied on with ribbon san-
dals, and the gloves which had to he
kept in their place by a single but-
ton, and were profusely trimmed for
evening wear. A scarf was worn
over your shoulders in the day time,
made of either black silk edged with
deep lace, or of white muslin and Iace.
A more absolutely inconvenient and
useless garment could not have been
devised. It was difficult to keep it
on, and it served no usefulpurpose
as a wrap, but we all wore scarfs, un-•
complainingly for years. Hats were
unknown for all practical purposes.
Large leghorn hats existed, bat they
were such inconvenient wear; for a
breath of air whisked them off, or
buried your face in their wide brims,
that except in a picture or on the
stage I never saw otter We tied huge'
and hideous bonnets firmly on our
heads by wide strings which we culled
"brides," and protected the hack of
our necks from sunburn by curtains
or "bavolets" of the same ribbon,,
And all had to wear, and, astonishing
fact—ware
.
nllCnmpi l l
ng1
y—
the same
shaped bonnet. Long' faces, short
faces, blooming cheeks, sallow cheeks,
oil wore alike surrounded by this silk-
en oa straw edge, with a wreath of
flo ra inside we s <e 1t•. 4.s for our ears,
they were as carefully oonocaled from
view as though they bad been mon-
strous deformities. Not only did the
bonnets entirely cover them up, but
even in the haus our mode of hair-
dressing seemed designed to ignore
Them also.
I leave it for experts to decide whe-
ther the way our heir was treated
as children had anything to do with
is abundance when at last it Was
allowed to grow, -'Until about 18 of
14 yens of age, ISe poor little early
Viatorlan glt4 wan further handicap•
pad by Ser hair bring generally out
quite short all over the head, If ll
Buried naturally then one wee not so
badly off, but as arsine chanced to be
of un unooinpnomleing straightness, I
AMA have leaked like a email nom,
Vint, 1113 true, there were "kentviga"
even in 'those days, Le., Tittle girls
with two or three long plaits' tied
with ribbons hanging down that'
backs; but Dickens bad laughed that
fashion away before I began to no -
tis or eai•e bow any hair was don6.
It did scorn hard, even then, to be
constantly 'assured by both gover-
ness' and nurse haw very ugly ono
was, but as this crapped hair sur
mounted a thin and lathy figure, plod
la a hideous frock to the knees, with
white frilled muslin trousers appear-
.ing below Lt,' perhaps t I eritieltm
wits justllLcd: Oh, those frills at my
ankles! 'What a torment they were
to my childhood. I am afraid I was
a terrible 'tomboy, and . the torn and
dirty frills brought punishment on my
head pretty nearly every day. I
must hasten to add that the state-
ment of my hopeless ugliness was al-
ways made in order to induce me to
begin to cultivate every feminine
virtue and excellence, eepeeially the
eroivni.ng grana of sitting still, which
I found far the most difficult of all,
I always maintain that the great
progress and improvement of this
century is in the development of the
girl. We were hedged in ou all sides
by rules anal regulations, each more
absurd than the other. I felt myself
becoming very reckless, and fast when
I was driving In a hansom cab with
my husband or my brother. As for
doing so without either of those pro-
tectors, I should tis soon have thought
of walking on my head. People sel-
dom went to the theater in diose days,
and there was as much solemn pre-
paration for
re-parationfor going to a play as would.
now tike one across She globe. 'icor
light reeding we wept over senti-
mental novels, in which the heroine,
clad in a white muslindressing gown
with blue ribbons, this was de riguer,
died invariably at sunset to the
sound of slow music. 1Ve were never
prepared for this catastrophe, al-
though she hid fainted at intervals
of every two pages, all through rho
book, and this certainly oaght to have
warned us that she. had a delicate con-
st!tujaon,
Oh! the nonsense of it all! The one
comfort I have in looking back on
these wasted year's was that'I hon-
estly believe, however ignorant and
foolish had been the method of our
education and the habits and cus-
toms which hedged us in on every
side, we were good girls. I know that
we were very obedient and docile, and
in many ways 'Would now ba called
silly. But we were as pure -minded
and, innocent as babes, ant absurd-
ly unworldly. True+, this white -soul -
ed purity may have sprung from ig:.
noranoe, but who shall say it was not
gond to keep the fruit of that ter-
rible tree of knowledge from us by
every sort of flaming sword?
FINGERNAIL FACTS.
And Their Use N+ the Dercetlen nr
t'rtniln+ii».
The detection of criminals will, it
is believed, be much facilitated
through the recent discovery of cer-
tain curious facts iii regard to finger-
nails. When a crime is oommittad
in is important to learn whether the
perpetrator is right handed or left
banded, and an examination of the
fingernails will throw abundant light
on this point. Dr. Regnault, in a
paper read before the Anthropologi-
cal
nthropological Society of Paris, shows that there
is a wide difference between the nails
of the right and those of the left hand,
and that the nails of the right hand
of a right-handed person are brooder
than these of the loft hand, while
the opposite le the ease with the left-
handed persons,
Dr. A. Minskow his made further
researches in the same direction. Ac-
cording to him, the difference in the
size of the nails of the right and left
hand varies from one-fourth to two
millimeters. In those rare instances
in which bath hawk( are used equally
no difference is size is noticeable. Tha
thumbnail is always the broadest In
the ease of adults and the middle He-
gel: has always the longest nail, next
to R in order being the ring finger,
the index finger end the little finger.
The nails of the right band are usu-
ally .quite flat in the ease of right-
handed persons, the index finger and
thumb being most marked, in this re-
spect. On lett-banded persons strata
flat 'nails are rarely, e y, if ever, seen,
Dr. Minskow finally says that there
seems to b t custom o
o t uta ua connect[on be-
tween
e
tween the otroumferonae of the chest
and the breadth L of the fingernails,
s numerous h e its expertmants having
shown him that the broader theohest
is the larger the nails are.
NOT MtATTJRED,
Waiter—lIrsw iia ysu like the cheesel
sir 7
Ron Vivant—Uull1lt Sabi half
had.
Waiter -Very sorry, sir; wo were as-
sured tt was thoroughly ripe,
HEALTH.
FOR THE EYES,
Very' few people nitro foe' tltelr
eyes properly, and It le only when tail•
ing eight warns us oe the danger that
we realize the Injury that we axe dw
Log them. It is no unusual thing to
see sabildren gathered around a ditty
light, straining their eyes in an of{
font to read rte eine print in books
or paper's, or Working upon their em-
broidery or Other rangy work, When
we natioe how rapidly the number of
young people who wear glasses la in-
creasing, we wander if there will be
any in the next generation who will
have eyes ns strong and perfect as
nature intended they should be,
'.I'he simple rules for preserving the
strength of the eyes are almost uatt-
versalty, ne.gleuled. When the eyes be-
gin to ache, they need rest, and the
wiseert plan is to ohmage the oeoupe-
tian in which you have been engaged
for sometlheng that will afford them
relief.
Very Little reading, writing or sew-
ing should he done' wt night, and than
'only with a goad Light, well shaded
so that the direct rays of light will
mit shine in the eyes. When far any
reason the eyes become weak and in-
flamed, dissolve half a level Lea -
spoonful of bo.recic acid in a cupful
of warm water and bathe them with
it every two hours, during rho day.
Noted mutilate use this remedy In their
practice, and find dt reliable as well
as harmless. When the lids become red
end swollen drop a few drops of the
baraTio acid solution in the eyes with
u dropper and open and close 'thein
rapidly, so it will reaph .ell fhs:' af-
fected pains. One should be very
careful ndt to use strong or danger-
ous drugs in the eyes, for .they have
been known to do a lasting injury.
Glasses that are suited to the eyes
are a great help when they are real-
ly needed, but ane should be very aura
they are needed, and that the task of
fitting the eyes is entrusted to a
competent person. Children .should
never be allowed to wear glasses sim-
ply because Ill is a "fashion " to do
so; for alter they become accustom-
ed to them they will always have to
wear them. Allots the ryes to rest
awhile, even if the child must leave
school a few months, and if thisdoea
not have the desired effect, consult
an oculist, who will tell you if glasses
are needed. E. J•. 0,
INTEMPERATE EATING.
Volumes have bean written and mil-
lions of wards .have been spoken
against overindulgence, or any indulg.
ecce, indeed, in alcoholic beverages;
and whatever difference or 0 -pinion
there may be as to the harmfulness of
a temperate use of wine or beer, there
is none whietevetr as to the dangers of
intemperance in that direction. But
how many persuns over stop 10 think
of the fatal effects of intemperance
in eating?
Even insurance companies, which
would refuse to insure a .habitual
drunkard, makes no inquiries, as a
rule, concerning the applicant's 'hab-
its about eating. ?fret as regards
theshot+tening of life, many physiolo-
gists assert that overeating is more
destructive titan overdrinking.
The organs of the body are able to
assimlla'te only a certain amount of
nutriment, which is proportioned to a
nicety Io the daily loss of substmnee
in the different tissues.
If more food is taken than can be
utilized the liver and the kidneys are
called upon to get rid of the extra
amount." This they are perfectly able
to do .nee in awhile, especially in the
young, tend a Thauksgiving dinner,.
and even a Christmas dinner a month
later, can be disposed of with ease, if
the organs ore not hubituully afar
worked. Nut if they have to dispose
of a ;l'ha.nksgiving dinner and two
other heavy meal's every dayof the
year they will rebel, nod finally give
up, exhaueled,long bitten the proper
time.
No adult lending the average life
needs .brei full meals a day. Iud.eed,
three "solid'" meals a clay are, it is
sate to say, absolutely hurtful to nine
acutha of as.
!It is, of course, impossible to lay
down any hard and fest rule as to the
taking of food, which will apply to ev-
erybody under all ciroumvlanoes, but
ie is pretty safe to advise almost. ev-
erybody 'to eat less,
The Roman Oalholio Church pres-
cribes certain rules as to fasting dur-
ing Lent, which all Its members are
commanded to observe. According to
these directions, only one full meal
inn be eaten in the day --either at
moan or in the evening. In the morn-
ing nothing is allowed but a piece of
brad with r ata'
c oath tette lea o thenal
o, ,
for dinner there Indy be served u full
meal; then fol' luncheon or tea what
1s called a " oollation,",that is to say,
a iiglut repast, is permissible.
The hygienics exeellenoe of theee
rules is beyond disituite, end the only
quarrel alts pbyslclan has with theist
is that they, ere binding only npan the
mewbers of that church, and upon
them, for only six weeks oat of the fit.,
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