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ay iy woma comais mais as sphere by one of the sox sex FOR THE CHILDREN some mothers are asking for particular information about the stories I 1 suggested as the amusement and instruction of childish ands A good way to begin is to tell first the story of adam and eve and so on down to the reign of king zedekiah then take up the book of mormon and go on with that down to the book of nephi take up the testament next and the stories of the life of the savior then after his crucifixion come back to this continent and finish the book of mormon aw from there come down to the prophet joseph and in easy stories tell the history of the church I 1 know a little boy quite a little fellow who has heard many stories but his favorite one is of the ex peri neri ence of the youthful youth fur fut prophet joseph and his first vision the child has seen president joseph F smith and in some vague but firm way he has fastened the story to the living prophet and so BO he persistently asks and believes the whole story to be the story of the prophet joseph h F jose me we will bifi take up these stories stones and see what can be made of them if you are talking to many children watch each pair of eyes see the effect of your talk and learn how to best proceed never let the attention of your listener wander for a moment do not accomplish by force else you are undoing all your good work but the key note for your labors is to excite interest interest the child interest yourself let us begin with the she story of ADAM AND EVE once upon a time now that a delightful beginning dear children for all the nicest stories you ou know very t egin begin once upon a time well then once upon a time and do you know it was really and truly the first time on this great big earth there annb anybody ay live here on this earth and shall I 1 tell you why y well our dear heavenly father ind and our dear Heave heavenly tily mother had a large and beautiful family of spirits away up there in heaven and the they wanted a place where those spirits coul could go and get bodies just mst like your bodies and mine you know dears these bodies would die if our spirits were out of them see my arm move mova look at mamma wink her eyes and hear mammas voice the spirit in in me that makes me do that well now our heavenly parents thought come down from heaven and make a big beautiful earth as a home for their spirit children the stary of the creation can be told if the children are old enough to understand and appreciate it that is if they will be interested in it so they came down and found a lot of materials in space and fashioned this earth and there were oh such beautiful flowers and trees and singing birds and great big beast scant you tell me some names of them yes there were roses and lillies and apple trees and orange trees and spar sparrows jows and nightingales and meadowlarks meadow larks and horses and abd dogs and lions all those were here and there a man or a woman anywhere on the earth and so our father wanted a lovely garden in a place calle dEden and then he brought a man and a woman down and put them here in this beautiful garden to be continued the of our people there is a wide and constantly growing interest manifested by our communities in the school and the educational training of our youth this must be pleasing to god to the angels and to the prophets dead and living who have taught and always teach the truth that everything learned here is that much capital with which to begin the life eternal but some errors of ju judgment vis ment which characterize our actions in this regard can well receive some thought and attention there are parents who attempt to settle the destiny of their children they want thomas to be a doctor when nature designed him to be a good carpenter and joiner and while the carpentering might have been done by thomas in in a good and workmanlike manner the doctoring will certainly be a i botch it is the same with a girl many a mother scrimp and saves to give her daughter the lessons in musk music which she fondly hop hopes will make the girl airl a first class musician musician when the girl has no talent at all for the divine art to be sure there is such a thing as implanting traits and gifts more or less strongly upon succeeding generations by centuries of cultivation but is it worth the while the lily is no less beautiful because it is utterly unlike the rose and the song of the nightingale could never be leama by the parrot no matter how assiduously he might be trained As sensible parents it behoves behaves us to study the dispositions of our children closely and seek to develop the natural talents and gifts ats implanted in the nature by the S ivine divine parents before the individual had ever an existence upon earth not forgetting to instill love and reverence for all the arts and sciences as a whole if I 1 we have got a musician musi tian or a writer dont try to compel him to become a sadler sad ler or a housemaid let the talents we have brought with us from eternity have a chance to blossom bloom out and bear fruit for our eternal glory A new faw club of women thirty ladies of salt lake city have been invited to join a literary club and are already organized ted and in full running order the name of this club is the appropriate one of the gleaners cleaners Glea ners and they are busily thrusting their scythes into the field of knowledge and history A subject interesting and timely tim I 1 is written upon by one member athe of the clu band afterwards the whole club takes up this discussion and adds such tits bits of information as may have been gleaned through the week after the chosen sub subjects subject a spirited and free dis cassionis cuss ionis held upon the current topics of the day no recreation could be more delightful to those who have the privilege of attending when such names as s mrs zina D young mrs E B wells mrs M I 1 horne home mrs F S taylor mrs mattie paul hughes mrs lillie freeze mrs M Y dougall mrs P Y beatie and other of the best known names in utah are mentioned as members of the club something of the wide scope and deep purposes of the organization can be surmised it is whispered s among some however that the exclusiveness of the club has the least tiny flavor of selfishness about it for thirty is the limit of members and ana that has been reached A number of good souls are wishing they had been chosen as part of the privileged few greet benefit might be felt in all our settlements if such a movement could in someway some way be inaugurated as a part of or an adjunct to the relief society very far reaching would ble be the good effects of a movement in this direction let us have a weekly literary meeting of the members of the relief society I 1 woman club of provo proto in addition to the literary societies andl clubs in provo city exists a club which has no special feature of womans comans interest to further but deals with the whole subject of womans comans develop development Writ lectures on anatomy physiology and nd alti alternate mate with papers on club life suffrage household topics dress ana and the care of children the club have fine rooms prettily furnished in union block they mee meet twice wice a week on tuesdays to discuss and hear papers and lectures and on fridays to avail themselves of the efficient teachings of the young harvard disciple of physical culture miss M M babcock tile the ladies are very enthusiastic in their work and much good is being done As a very old fashioned person I 1 have sometimes wondered if all these good things and topics could not in some way be incorporated and made a part of our relief society and young ladies associations why not ban blaines clover clever pen to be one of M mrs rs blaines correspondents spon dents is toe the desire of all who know her writes frank woodberry in the december ladies home journal her letters are remarkable for their beauty of expression cleverness and originality not the least of her accomplishments with the pen is her rare facility of expression ex assion through the medi medium of telegraph gr blanks her dispatches des patches of condolence or congratulations are unusual examples of brevity and meaning an Jl oale in giving a successful evening mu musicale gicale there are almost as many things to be avoided as there are to be accomplished and it would seem almost that it might be wise to voice the suggestions which it is purposed to give here in the form writes mrs hamilton mott in an exhaustive paper telling how to conduct one of these popular affairs in the december ladies home journal there are in any case a few important por tant if general bonts don ts that may well preface the more detailed suggestions w which aich will be found below and these are addressed to those contemplating the holding of a musical evening either large or small dont invite people isyou cannot make them comfortable remember that their homes are places of rest and ease and I 1 that unless you can give to them entertainment tain ment and comfort they will grudge the hours spent away from their own vines and fig trees do dont alt include mediocre talent among your performers on such an occasion occasion avoid your best friend if he or she thinks without proper foundation for the belief that musical ability is hisor hers the wife of et jules vo arne rue she was married at the age of twenty four her maiden name was duara dufrayne Du frayse y se writes lucy hamilton hooper in a sketch of the comelia hom elife and persona personality lity of the wife of the clever novelist in in the december ladies home journal her father was an army officer of an ancient family of per jford her marriage has proved an exceptionally happy one she is the mother of two daughters and of a son michel verne who is the youngest of her children and is just thirty years of age her oldest eldest dau daughter guter is thirty thirty eight and her younger one is thirty six all are married and madame verne veme is the happy ancestress of six little grandchildren it has been reported that jules verne has been largely aided in the preparation of some of his novels by his and devoted wife she herself has hastened to deny the rumor rumor declaring that she has never taken part in any fashion in the literary labors of her husband while fully appreciating I 1 1 I quote her own words on tae subject s the happiness I 1 enjoy in being the life companion of an intellectual tel man to whose career success has not been lacking I 1 have shar shared ed therefore the joys and fatigues of his existence as an author 1 the vice pre iden ts wife living in france under equal conditions dit ions mrs levi parsons morton wife of vice president morton would take her place at the head of the highest in rank ot dt political salons writes alice graham mccollin in an interesting sketch of mrs marton in the december ladies home journal gifted with beauty dignity wealth social standing and an appreciation of political an and governmental methods and practices almost mas masculine cuine in its quickness of perception and sureness of grasp she would have found there a society ready to 10 receive her and to accord her the rank to which these qualities entitle her har but as the wife of an american their possession secures to her only the position of a social leader though of one whose abilities and natural rig rights ats to precedence ore re unquestioned her training or experience at the head of the french embassy during mr mortons Mor tons long ministry has given her the charm and ele elegance kance ot of manner bred only of such life and invaluable to a woman of her station the girls here A french girl feels that there is just one companion as delight delightful fol as her mother just J one confidant as sympathetic and ta that at is her father writes henrietta C dana in an attractive paper on the french girl and her father in the december ladies H home journal he is her hero and the knight of her dreams often and often have I 1 seen the girls at sab school ool hiding their fathers photograph in the leaves of their school books kissing it enthusiastically on the sly pressing it to their hearts when they go to chapel to sy say their prayers sewing his last letter in in their dresses treasuring some little keepsake in their pockets and when they meet one can see bow the father returns his daugh daughters lers fea feeling na by his tender clasp of her pure young and and the adoring affection with ahia which ire he looks down into her eyes he allows nothing to keep him back from meeting her as she comes from school an and d giving i vi ing her his arm for every French gentleman extends this mark of protection protection and respect to the woman af eis his family they start off on their long happy walk and many a merry romp many a tender confidence do they have in the short evening that follows til her her early bedtime ai eight flowers and the tb toilet the use of natural flowers as an addition to the toilet of a girl ah to forswear this seems a case of lese majeste to nature writes mr burton harrison in the decemver december ladies AV isome 0 me journal and yet there is reason in the reform that has of late years almost banished the fair blossoms of a fruitful tree kom from wear by their human prototypes the heroine of the old song who wore a wreath of roses the night when first she met the gentleman whose muse had made her famous probably left the ball ballroom room under a wilted mass of vegetable matter anything but attractive to thee the eye y e or nosi no siri ri corsage bouquets in d dancing acing become an earl early y ru ruin in worn in the street they have be been en imitated by cheap artificial flowers till fill the more fastidious have quite dropped them carried in the hand at a dance they are speedily tossed aside upon the nearest point of refuge or left in in the lap of the chaperone until the heavy heads of peerless roses droop in shame at such treatment and drop from their stems to be ignominiously kicked aside by the dancers Is it for this 19 thinks the rose or the lily of the valley or the or orchid or the violet 1 I have come into being Is it for tast perhaps ruefully echoes the poor young maa man who has wasted his substance upon paying for the bouquet the real flow flower erlow lover treasures her trophy of this kind at home watches eagerly for its first symptom of wilt wilting ilig wraps it in folds of wet tissue paper and consigns it to a cool spot over night and halls hails with delight its refresh ened beauty in the morning she is satisfied to accept the present edict of fashion which decrees that flowers shall be used in decoration of rooms not V of people but there is une one exception to this general banishment of blossoms from rom dress and that i is s in favor of violets purple or white which are always worn at all times and seasons with all toilets before the toy shop window I 1 knows its mighty weak of me to cry N blubber like a baby sit sir but I 1 faint help them tears im old enough I 1 spose to put away such childish things ive known the light 0 day clay some sixty years its this way sir bout thirty years ago I 1 had Is little baby home danied name dJoe joe named after me for joes mamma afore she came to di die ast me to name him that ar way and I 1 just did you see small joe well lie he was three weeks old that day when she she kind 0 0 sighed n passed away N me and joe was left to help each other on for meto keep the little follow fellow goin he to soothe my woe he hd did it too joe did he did a heap mighty comforting com eom fortin to watch him sleep N coo and smile I 1 seemed to see her smile when joe looked glad N then I 1 kind 0 feel so sad A little while N then joe went gentl I 1 had to go to to town wn 1 N joe while I 1 was gone crept off to drown I fell in a dam dain N down in town id bought a little toy to bring it home y know to 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