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Show 1 JDomdn,sWdrMT 1 A WOMAN. j I fiiy 1 licit you are but a woman) I w'lio'aio so very wonderful to me. tr II I"'1 ''1(''p is lutle ou can do, I tittlo iii'"'1 ,hat alh tlle wor,i can 'ce. I Vhprp 11,1 baU,CR on lhe Pen Plain JTiul! yui; i "Shi. as I, a man, can put vho shall say your life is lived in ail! u all n'.y kned dai's 'ou have kept t V.-r:" I nil li'itif 'voman-hcart, be glad, be glad I Tim i '"''' i,rc w,iat God made you! '(', I know Poh- mi hiive served me when the day vas s-nd. ,.n-1 n.u'H' me better yea, and kept m" s-: jje very S'iiJ that you, in your white jlnee. I your Hitle home, with folded hands J Sji..!!t iiiJlucnce to whose source I I The iiUle pood there ever was in' me. j jp iv a v 'in:m: Is there any more j That "'! have need to be-from dav to ?.!?' I jj0,v wcnderful to have your heart, yoi.v store. Of J in rty and goodness, and to say: I "One that 1 love is nobler since I came; on" "';it l"ves me is better for my vi.m.iv.. Oh, there is no greater name T!i;it -ver on the mortal tongue shall Charles Hanson Towne. JUST BE GLAD. Kind. "When you have said all j there is to say about life's sorrow, dis-; dis-; aj-ipoirtmcnt and pain, about the selfish!!'" self-ish!!'" .-s and wrong that sweep over the exnh like dark shadows, about the short !kss of its days and the certainty of its nights, it still remains blessedly mi. that the universe is thrilling with I the s":-:g of gladness. He glad for the 1hhu!- of the spring-time, the blue of f tin skies, the music of the birds and I the glory of the sunsets. Listen to the j laiiRiuer of the little children, answer j ti. the handclasp of friendship, grow J varni in the lovelight of countless j happy homos and be sure that some-I some-I vhi ro over and above all is a great 1 .ou that makes all these things possi-I possi-I Mo. Not the noble lives round you I fonuiionplace. it may bo, but unselfish, linve and true. Note the deeds of quiet sHf-saorifioe, the swift rush of human kindness to every place of need, the up-lising up-lising of stately walls .to shelter the weak and helpless, and believe, if you run. that the kingdom of Christ is "not (l ining in the hearts of the children of men. Oh: put away gloom and grief und complaining: Do his work, trust his promise and be glad. (BIG FAMILIES THE BEST. FUrr Deck of the Holton Recorder, lias lined up on the side of President J Kooseveit in the big-family controversy, controver-sy, and raises a new point to justify his position. "If the. opposition will in-w in-w stigate the matter just a little it will rind that nine out of ten of the great men and women of this country have been members of large families. And IT it will carry the investigation a little further, it will discover that as a rule i where the are only one or two children j in the family they become spoiled and' j selfish and seldom amount to much. iThe more education you give a spoiled, selfish boy the worse you make him, unless he can in some way overcome his selfishness. We will leave it to any of our observing, intelligent readers if among their acquaintances the best h"Vs and girls are not as a rule the ln'-'.nWrs of large families." Kansas i"i;y Journal. ON BEING CHEERFUL. ' Ky the liev. Joseph M'Sorley, C. S.'P.) "I of Good Heart." (St. Matt. We live in a world of defects and llir.-iitations. llir.-iitations. where there is no character without a flaw, and no life without its tempering of pain. Only on the farther side of the river of death can unalloyed f Miss be even hoped for here, all is rel- t ative and imperfect: thorns hide amid the roses: bitter is mixed with sweet; m il, sooner or later, the coarse, seamy Mole of men and things chafes every one of us. To be cheerful means to make little of the hardships we encounter. The cood-natured man looks on the brighter, bright-er, sunnier side of his surroundings: he aeeentuates the pleasant and beautiful features of life; he smoothes over the rousrh places of the road, and, in a gen-i gen-i f!al way. the smiling aEpect of things f attraets him more strongly than their I f Incorrigible optimist that he is, he fixes attention on the circumstances whi-h give most joy and hope to the ti-art. In memory, as in speech, he kf-ps dwelling on the inspiring, en-ronraeing en-ronraeing elements of every situation. !.d on the amiable characteristics of wery acquaintance. In a life; his presence js a rav nf sunshine; as a fri-m.1 hp is a man of men. , Few j.popie need to be told that h.-.'Mi.eos js a precious treasure; that ih- power to overlook or to smile away r of the distressing details of exis- -e is ;i necessary condition of hap- Vmes-j:; that in each life much must be I te:in.-;.(. and in each personality much I T":c ven and forgotten. There are at- i i'ln'.ii circumstances sure to impair f ''he hannony of every situation, if f 'lH(!t upon. Unless a mind is able to j lisei:agrp itseif f rom the consideration' I of iht-se. it rapidly becomes morbid and I ""i. healthy like the mind of Swift, who I s ha id to have developed so aggravated I a synirism that he could see nothing j fair without at once adverting .to its I hidden elements of ugliness.' and could j look on no beautiful face without imag- I mine the loathsome, appearance it j would present under the microscope. The man who Is thus hypercritical and I la ult-f hiding soon becomes an object 1 "f drrad to his acquaintances. Xo mat- ier how witty his mirtd and interesting j hi conversation, we quickly learn to -ear him: we run away from the sound his approaching footstep. We pre- r the ess sparkling, but more' com-r"itatile com-r"itatile Speech of the simple good the people from whom we part with a re-) re-) wed sense of trust in the innate worthiness and kindliness of human :.ature, the people who inspire conversation conver-sation that leave a good taste in the mouth. One type of his sort is de-'riltej de-'riltej in the following quotation: I alius did say." remarked Aunt Mary, 'vthat Henrietta Wood had a real royal memory." , Aunt Mary's niece looked up curiously. curious-ly. "A royal memory?" she repeated. "I don'believe I understand.' Doesn't the ever forget anything?" "That's jest the point." Aunt Mary responded promptly. "1 should say she forgets full as much as she remembers mebbe more. That's part of what 1 call a royal memory. There's folks that i limn forget anything: the way you act ed the day everything went wrong, hasty Judgment that you repented as soon as they were made, words that popped out before you knew your mouth was open there's folks that don't ever forgot one of them nor let vnu cither. I have one of those memories memor-ies in mind this minute: I alius feci like flyin out of the back door when I see it comin in the gate. Hut thev ain't the only folks in the world; there's others that never seem to remember anything except the good in people. I'll warrant there isn't a man or a woman in Lockport so shiftless shift-less or good-for-nothing that Henrietta wouldn't remember some good alout them. People alius freshen up when she tomes round. I ain't ever heard it explained, but I have my theory. I believe it's because she alius thinks folks up instead of down, an' they her no n10re imqu,ties I remem-; 'fSor?" fTheUCh I 8i" thn i most loving wor d- AnJ they ar e for aVwe l People in Uie world, too; be attraeti101 ttt, act' neither Weaknel thPe Wh0Fe faults and reckon Sn'T set,dow by us with all rose coW0lVy vhen Ave e through to love ?E,aS can we trulJ- be id to I0e. and. if we never view a soul through his medium of fond illusion. lf t c.,aS8,f those who are Diivil-eged Diivil-eged to love Vain is the intention to a,nd sympathetic, unless we hoLaI WJ0r frailities in a friend; and hopeless the attempt to develop perfection, perfec-tion, if we faithfully record each fault ot a pupil; and futile the effort -to revive re-vive a waning affection, except we find it in our power to forego our fancied light; to renroarh v,o can be won by harshness or scolded into tenderness. As in the old fabled contest con-test between the wind and the sun the buffeted traveler "wraps himself tighter '"his cloak as the blast grows stronger. The genial warmth of fault-forgetting love will always triumph over the drastic dras-tic criticism of the fastidiousness hard to rdase; only in the presence of the loving look and the execusing words, do we consent-to stand revealed in all our weakness, to humble ourselves, and to enter upon the way of amendment. Xo; he who desires to teach, or who hopes to be loved, must indeed have something of "a royal memory." Thus equipped, we thall find that people will gladly pardon us the oversights we are guilty of. when there is question of our neighbor's faults: and that our success will in the long run be none the loss for our having forgotten many of the weaknesses of men. Catholic World. NEGLECT OF THE TEETH IS CULPABLE. CUL-PABLE. Dentists tell us our teeth are rapidly deterioating. The Scotch peasants who lived and grew strong on milk and porridge por-ridge now drink tea and eat a herring for breakfast, while the rich regale themselves on soft food and made dishes of every, kind. The poorer classes pay no attention to their children's chil-dren's teeth, and while in that wise country Japan and among the Hindoos daily teeth brushing and cleansing is never omitted, it is the last thing poor people think of in England. A man or woman in. the prime of youth, but almost al-most toothless, is a common sight. They neglect their teeth, then they get toothache and have a tooth extracted, and when their teeth are gone they can neither masticate nor digest. "THE WHISPERER AND THE DOUBLE DOU-BLE TONGUED." The tattling gossip is a fruitful source of trouble in any community. Almost every parish is afflicted with a. gossip, and she is generally a woman who spends much time in (apparent) devotion. de-votion. Yet. with all her devoutness, she does not miss any happening n the parish. And the more unfortunate unfortun-ate or scandalous th happening, the more likely- she is to be aware of it. Xor is she scrupulous about giving a scandalous twist to the most harmless piece of news that may be imagined. This, it may be said, is what makes the tongue of the tattler especially dangerous danger-ous its faculty for turning the most ordinary occurrences into the most ordinary occurrences into the most extraordinary ex-traordinary and significant. There arc few things more despicable than this habit of detraction. Xo wonder the eighth commandment forbids it so emf phatically. No wonder we find iri Ecclesiasticus this mordant criticism of the gossip: "The whisperer and the double-tongued is accursed; for he hath troubled many that were at peace." And again: "The tongue of a third , person hath disquieted many, hath cast out vailant women and deprived them of their labors. He that harkeneth to it shall never have rest, neither shall he have a friend in whom he may repose." Xo wonder the inspired writer admonishes us to beware of listening to gossip, or of indulging in-dulging in it ourselves. He says: "Hedge in thy ears with thorns: hear not a wicked tongue: and make doors and bars to thy 'mouth." Sacred Heart Review. GOOD TEMPER. There are two kinds of good temper one kind is a sweet-natured. sunny, easy-going tempter that exists only under no trials. The other is a healthy, strong, helpful and sunshiny temper which exists under all trials and tribulations. tribu-lations. A maxim of one of the greatest warriors of 'ancient times was: 1 "Before a man rules, he must learn to obey." We might apply this in another manner man-ner before we criticise the temper of another, let us be sure that our own is under control." HOW SOME PARENTS REAR THEIR CHILDREN. Believing that good parentage and good home training are the most potent po-tent factors for the production of the right sort of men and women for this world and the next, we avail ourselves of this suggestive query from the Atchison Globe: "An Atchison girl of 13 gets up in the morning, eats breakfast, which her mother prepares, goes upstairs and takes care of her room, and then goes downtown. sometimes taking two hours to buy a spool of thread. She eats dinner, which her mother has prepared, pre-pared, wears clothes her mother has made, spends the afternoon reading story books or gadding with her friends, eats supper her mother has prepared, and spends the -evening with her girl friends. She has done nothing wicked all ' day, and her mother is satisfied that she is bringing her up right. But is she?" HOW SHE KEEPS YOUNG. She eats three warm meals at regular regu-lar hours. She sleeps eight hours, and as often as possible two of them before midnight. mid-night. She takes fifteen quiet minutes in a darkened room after luncheon. She begins each day With a cold bath, followed by a glass of hot or cold water. She is careful to spend at least a half-hour every day. in the open air. She never rides where she can walk the distance comfortably. She doesn't waste her vitality in superfluous su-perfluous and energetic talking. She r neither sclf-eentercd nor family-centered, but has a few fresh outside Interests to keep her alive and thoughtful.- She never lets herself moan over the past or worry about the future, but makes the best of the present and keeps tsweet and cheerful. FOR BEAUTY. Drink a glass of water when you get out of bed in the moning. Never mind the size of the glass. Let the water be cold if you will. Some people peo-ple prescribe hot water, but that isn't necessary. You may have washed face already and relished the expedience. expedi-ence. You may have taken a cold pJunge into the tub and delighted in the shock and its reaction. The brisk use of the toothbrush has left your mouth clean and the breath sweet. But you are still dirty. Drink a glass of cold water and enjoy the sensation of being clean inside. All that is luxurious luxuri-ous in the cold bath cleansing the outside out-side is artificial. That which should prompt the glass of water after sleeping sleep-ing is natural. Drink a gtess ot cold water in the name of cleanliness. It becomes one of the shortest easiest eas-iest of toilet duties. It is swallowed in a second, and in five minutes it has passed from the stomach, taking with it the clogging sections of the ailmen-tary ailmen-tary tracts. It has left behind the stimulus that goes with cold water, and by filling the arterial system to the normal, it puts a spur to the circulation cir-culation that has grown sleepish in the night. CULTIVATED HOMLINESS. Here are some of the deformities which careless women cultivate: Hollow cheeks induced by nervousness. nervous-ness. Goggles induced by straining the eyes. Stubby fingers induced by .biting the nails. Bent toes induced by wearing short shoes.- Pimples induced by- tight lacing and overeating. ' Creases between the eyebrow s induced in-duced by bad temper. I Freckles and tan induced by going hatless in the hot sun. 1 Dull eyes with hanging lids induced in-duced by apathy and indifference. Round sTroulders induced by wrong sitting and w rong reclining and failure fail-ure to take exercise. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. The best possible silver polish can be made by mixing a little whiting powder with sweet oil. fr-lii fr-lii choosing blinds for a sleeping room, dark green blinds are the best; the next best are dark blue. Wash greasy towels in lukewarm water wa-ter before plunging them into hot soapsuds, which only sets the grease. Stoning raisins, will .not be found so disagreeably stick a task . if a little butter is rubbed on the fingers: -r A good cook tells me that the secret of her light pastry is that she adds a little lemon juice to the water when mixing. f The toughest meat can be made tender ten-der by putting a tablespoonful of vinegar vine-gar into the pot while boiling. If roasting, baste with vinegar solution. fr As soon as your ' table linen shows thin places, mend it, instead of waiting wait-ing for it to wear through. A darn nicely done in time -will greatly prolong pro-long the life of a tablecloth. Pittsburg Pitts-burg Observer. RECIPES. Buttermilk Scones. Buttermilk Scones. Sift together one quart of sifted flour and one teaspoon-ful teaspoon-ful each pf salfand soda.. Rub in three tablespoonfuls of lard " and butter (mixed), then mix to a soft dough with buttermilk. Roll out about an inch thick, brush with milkcut, and bake in a quick oven. Buttermilk Biscuit. Buttermilk Biscuits. Sift two tea-spoonfuls tea-spoonfuls of bakingpowder and one teaspoonful of salt with one quart of flour. Work in two level tablespoonfuls of lard, and mix to a soft dough with one generous pint of thick buttermilk in which half a teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved. Roll half an inch thick, cut in small rounds, handling as little as possible, and bake in a hot oven. j HOUSEHOLD HINTS. j Rub tough meat with a cut. lemon. ! Use beacon fat for frying chicken or ' game. Try dipping sliced onions in mailt before fry ins. .-Sharpen all .kinds of fish sauce with lemon juice. Grape juice gives a delicious flavor j to mince Dies. i Veal is one of Ihe cheapest meats from May to October. ; Bean soup is much improved by add- ing a little mace just before serving. Add a little vinegar to the water in ' which the fish & cooked and the Htsh will be finer and w-hiter. ' ; When a teaspoonful of baking pow- : der as called, for in the rule, it means a level measurement. To the "left-over" cabbage that was stewed in milk try adding a beaten egg and baking till brown. It is said that the raw potato has an acid that not only . keeps the knif ? i blade clean, but actually preserves its ! sharpness. i Remember that when fat bubbles it j is only just melting and not at all in ; the right condition for frying. After the bubbling has subsided, a slight ,' . smoke will arise, and that is the mo- j ment the material should be put in: ' - Ink stains are entirely removed by 1 the immediate application of dry salt before the ink has dried. When the salt becomes discolored by absorbing . the ink, brush it off and apply more. wetting slightly. Continue until the ink has disappeared. i ' Salt thrown on coals w hen broiling '. steak will prevent blazing from the I . dripping fat. Whsn contents of pot j or pan boil over, or are spilled, throw ' on salt at once. It will prevent a dis- j" agreeable odor, and the stove or range ' ', may be more readily cleaned. ! . A little white smgar in the water in Which green vegetables are boiled will t -j preserve their color and is better than . the use of soda. I J Many eminent bacteriologists call I j attention to the power of fruit juices ! to kill disease germs. Lemon juice 1 and apple 3'uice are especially men- ' tionsd. . j- Common cider vinegar is said to be ' an antidote to carbolic acid poisoning. Salt and water is one of the best of remedies for sore eyes, and if applied ap-plied in time will scatter the inflammation. inflamma-tion. An effective remedy for a bone felon is an ounce of asafetida steeped in a pint of hot vinegar, the finger to be dipped in it frequently. v For vitriol burns cover the parts burned with a soft, thick paste of calcined magnesia and water. This relieves the pain very quickly, and ,th"re is seldom a scar left after this treatment. To keep oilcloth bright wash it in borax water. A little bbrax in th? wash water I makes brighter tinware. . j Unvarnished pain may be safely cleansed by a little borax. CANDY EATING. To the average child there are two delights so great that .sophisticated man ofVoman of the world can hardly comprehend the bliss they cause. One is to eat ice cream: the other, to eat candy. One woman confesses that I when site was a small girl, and was lold that heaven was a place of absolute abso-lute bliss, she instantly decided in her i own mind that in' that place there would be gallon freezers of ice cream always standing open, and that ,the trees would bear on their branches, and drop upon the ground below, thousands of candies. It is a pity that an article whose wise use gives so much pleasure and works so little harm as does good candy should have been abused until .it has become an evil. Some parents feel that to keep their children in health they must forbid them to eat candy at any time, while other parents permit it to be devoured in such quantities that their ignorance can be their only excuse for the sin of allowing such indulgence. in-dulgence. Dentists and physicians unite in the opinion that pure candy, eaten in proper quantities and at proper prop-er times, can do a well child no harm. Good candy may be now procured from many dealers, the purity of whose, bonbons bon-bons has justly won for them reputation. reputa-tion. Let the mother buy these candies, can-dies, and portion them out toher little ones, a few at a -time, and always right .- after a substantial meal. One mother calls. her boys and girls tj her room every day after their simple but hearty noon day meal and gives to each a few simple candies, such as cream peppermints, pepper-mints, chocolate creams and maple cftaras. Nut bonbons are never allowed. al-lowed. The children are satisfied with this method of taking their goodies, and teeth and digestion are not impaired by the practice. Of course if a child is not well the candy is not allowed, for this mother believes more in diet than in drugs. One morning, in the heat of summer, I was riding in a street car. when a father entered, carrying in his arms a pale, wasted girl of 3 years of age. The mother followed. Had the child's eyes been closed she would have looked as if she were already dead instead in-stead of dying of marasmus. In one birdlike claw of a hand .she clutched a bright pink cocoanut cake. When the father sat down she dropped her heavy head to his shoulder and lifted the pink atrocity to her bloodless Hps, where it slowly but steadily disappeared. The tired mother sighed anxiously. "She ain't ate a bit for breakfast this day." she complained of her husband. "Oh, well." was the hopeful reply, "she'll be all right when it gets colder weather." "By which time she will be in another anoth-er world," said I. to my indignant self, "and she is hurried there by those who would sacrifice all to save her life." Home Journal and News. HAIR CROWNS THE FACE. Constant Care is Price of Keeping the Head a Thing of Beauty. Beautiful hair is a crown of blessing for every woman who wants to look nice, and the thicker the growth, the greater the possibilities for improving its looks. Any hair may be made presentable pre-sentable providing it is heavy. Xo woman wo-man with short hair can ever hope to have as handsome a head as the woman whose hair is long. To brush the hair with sachet powder is a Parisian fad. The hair is dried and very coarse heliotrope powder is shaken into it and quickly brushed out again. It scents the hair and makes it shine if done properly. A heavy scent is never good upon the hair, but a light scent is just the thing. It destroys the oily odor which arises from the hair and takes away the dusty scent. - The newest fad is to use three diitVr-entshampoos, diitVr-entshampoos, alternating them so that the hair is always nice. One wek fie egg shampoo is used, which is made by first wetting the hair with hot water. w Into the wet hair an egg is broken, and rubbed into the scalp, after which it is washed out with plenty of tepid water. Another week a combination combina-tion shampoo is used. This is made'.fy putting a tablespoonful of shaved soap into a quart bottle. Into this there is put a teaspoonful of borax and not more than two drops of ammonia. The bottle is then half filled with water and shaken into a lather, which is used upon the head. Sometimes the Scented shampoo is used which has for a foundation an egg shaken into a pint of tepid water, into which there is put a tablespoon of soap and a teaspoon of cologne. This is rubbed into the head and is finally washed off with a great many very hot rinsing waters. The final rinse consists con-sists of cologne water and warm water, half and half, and the hair is saturated with it. ' The hair shuld.always be dried' in the sun, for this ventilates the hair aud. makes it blight. It also shades it a little and sun-dried hair makes pretty pret-ty lights. . .- i |