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Show ( THE E E E 6 REVIEW OF AFTER HER DEATH. Wonj&o'? Pepirtipeot. 1VANOEUNU 5. POWERS, EDITOR Addrm all ('ommoolcation for the Woman I. O. Ho Department to Sir. 1'owera, 4U PASTE THIS IN YOUR HUSBANDS HAT. How many thousand pities to Insert the following In a womans department, when It is th unregenerato men who iuhmI to tako its truth home. Hut paste it in his hat. A man works for tangiblo results pecuniary or professional, and these act as an incentive. A womans work in her household savors of tho treadmill. A kindly word of appreciation is tho only reward sho can hope for; and how often does sho get It? Comforts aro taken for granted, her best efforts aro ignored, and too often the only comment upon all her labors is a complaint that tho bills aro too high. If a woman had tho handling of all necessary moneys, tho bills would doubtless not bo so high. A man requires a certain capital to carry on his business, and would be annoyed beyond endurance were it controlled by another; but tho average woman has little or no money she can call her own, and consequently rarely knows how to control her expenditures. With a definite sum at her disposal, a woman will learn to adapt her expenses to her income; and only by seeing tho result of small economies, and reaping tho benefit of them, can she be taught thrift and tho value of money. Tho habit of charging to her husband everything she purchases robs her of the responsibility of paying, and leads to carelessness and extravagance. A man Is placing a woman In an undignified position, to say tho least, when he will not trust her with some of his worldly goods after endowing her so freely with them all. This is from an article by Louise Griswold entitled The Way to d Solve the Servant Question, and the reads, Train the Mistresses. Another quotation that women will generally agree with, but that as a theory has not yet borne much actual fruit, is this: Our women of tho leisure class, who are singularly devoted in their efforts to aid the suffering and the needy, and to bring some brightness Into their lives, can in no way so well further the wellbeing and happiness of the whole race as in teaching women and girls d food and cleanly to take a different view of housework. homes are the best weapons with which to fight the attractions of the saloon, and habits of order and thrift will do more to raise the material welfare of the poor than almsgiving. sub-hea- Well-cooke- If he A man was at the bottom of the first Dont Worry club. knows the rate at which these clubs are multiplying, we winder if his If all the conscience at times does not rise up and call him rash. jiners in the country, whose home duties are already flying at loose ends, do not rush in breathlessly to join such an organization, and if the very class that should be reached through it, do not pass by contemptuously on the other side, it will be strange. For, let a teacher, to secure accuracy, give the general direction to a class to work slowly, but not too slowly, and immediately the painstaking members will hear nothing but the first injunction, while the little rogues who are already going headlong, leaving a trail of mistakes in their wake, will instantly resolve to avoid the extremity of being too slow. The difficulty with patent medicines is to get them to fit individual cases. i I , Ily Mrs. Ada Lull Gray. If you once feel the universal power of vibrations you will nevor ro back. Thrt is no such thing as going from light to darkness. When the ancients pictured their god of day as making music with the strings of a musical Instrument, it was but a prefiguring of what is coming now to every one who has taken possession of his birthright as Son of God. When tho heart alono Is sending forth its vibrating waves we receive iuto ur innermost being tho very essence of life. As the desire goes ferth on the unseen wires, reaching out for God, there will meet it tho return wavo of divine melody, and thus interpenetrating, we aro fed by God and nourished into the real life." In all hw boks Lilian Whiting endeavors to impress upon her readers tho force of the truth that man Is first of all a spiritual being; that the body, the environment, aro but instruments through which the spirit manifests. That, while often the objective soul is tho master, yet as tho spiritual nature unfolds tho material becomes merely an Instrument to be made use of to the best of our ability, but only as a means to an end. "To live in the spirit and control tho conditions of life. Spirituality is the practical power of daily living. Tho force that achieves, the force that succeeds. To do ones best at each moment is under discouraging, aggravating conall there is of life, the ditions, tho putting oneself in anothers place before judging cultivating a divine insight; showing a smiling fact, and so sometimes forgetting ones own broken heart in lightening anothers sorrow, speaking the loving, gentle word. Little things? Oh yes, self-contr- ol It is the little things, oh, gracious soul, Make up lifes great, lifes wondrous whole. In this way we may put ourselves in such a condition that we shal.: not only give out these vibrations of love and sympathy and spirituality, but from all the air we may receive as well. Telepathy is the language of tho spirit; audible speech is the language of physical powers. Kate Field, to whom the book entitled After her Death is dedicated, I look to see science prove immortality. That once remarked: The probscience must prove immortality is the message of today. lem of communion with those who have passed into the unseen lies with us rather than with them. It lies in our own purification and exaltation of life; for this alone offers the atomsphere, the aura, into which the higher, purer spirits can enter. The phenomena of spiritism are very greatly not to be depended on as to their truth. There are so many influences to be considered in our selves and about us that it is almost impossible to discriminate between the true and the untrue, but why is it not reasonable to suppose that spirits that have been so near, so one in love, sympathy and knowledge that they have been able to communicate with each other though separated by a great distance, as has been proved again and again; I say, why may those souls, one still screened, imprisoned by the body, and the other free, not still speak to each other? Star to star vibrates light; may soul to soul Strike through a finer element of her own? Telepathy is as natural, as subject to the orderly workings of law, as is the development of electricity. Is it visionary to talk of it? Columbus was a visionary. Cyrus Field was a visionary. Visions, say George Eliot, are the creators and feeders of mankind. The book so full of spiritual uplifting, comforting thoughts, is the story of one summer after the death of Kate Field, a summer filled with incidents of commiitrion soul with soul. Still, words go for very little. The evidence of immortality and of sweet, swift communion between the visible and invisible wolds, is in ones own soul. The witness is as Brooks us: The untells Whittier truly says. Phillips within, known is not by any necessity the unknowable. If we can come to a realizing sense of these truths Death will be no more a going into mourning, if we believe the spirit world around this world of sense We may be a communer with the world floats like an atmosphere. of spirit and be comforted. Get but the truth once uttered, and tis like in Ontario, San BerThe San Francisco Call tells of a street-ca- r elecnardino county, California, that is drawn neither by steam-powe- r, tricity, or cable, yet it goes. The principal street of Ontario is a wide, beautiful thoroughfare, Euclid avenue, lined upon each side by palm and pepper trees, being also a true grade with its head fourteen hundred feet higher than its foot. Two mules pull this car, a wide, double-seateroomy affair, up to the top of the grade. There the conductor A star that drops into its place, halts, pulls out at the rear end of the car a platform, mounts the mules And onec which, circling in the placid round, upon this, unlocks the brake and lets gravity do the rest. The rate is Not all the tumults of the earth can shake. said to be exactly right a pleasant, uniform speed, at all times under May the presence in the seen or the unseen of those souls that are perfect control. And the mules! Well, they are said to be simply in harmony with ours make for us all a world Beautiful. steeped in satisfaction to the very ears. d, nexv-bor- n, |