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Show PILGRIMAGE TO ROME j ;! - AND TOUR OF EUROPE. ;! Rt. Rev. Benjamin J. Keiley, D.'D.. Bishop of Savannah, .spiritual ;! director. For particulars and booklet, address MeUrane's Catholic tours, j 1ST BROADWAY. NEW YORK, X. Y- to clean up this country morally for it is within their power to do so just so long will the thoughtful woman righteously right-eously fear to assume the grave responsibility respon-sibility of maternity. When man ceases to dwarf himself on tobacco and other malignant vices; when he becomes chivalric enough to admit the justice and necessity of a "whlie tife for two' for the rearing of healthy and happy children; when he learns the economy of spending more money for bread than for abomination then will women adoringly arise and call him her blessed protector." She proceeds to express ex-press the opinion that what is wanted in this country is rather better men than more men. All the elements which go to make up healthy and moral mo-ral and happy homes exist in abundance; abund-ance; "only man is vile," as the sectarian sec-tarian hymn has it. The average man, this Indiana reformer declares, in summing sum-ming up her argument, i.s unworthy to be. mated with the average woman. But the average man has. assuredly, something to say on his side. Women of the world, in all spheres of life, are to no. small extent responsioie ror tne moral and other blemishes which disfigure dis-figure our modern life. It i.s their duly, as well as it is man's duty, to lead "white" and wholesome lives: to give up the frivolities and pastimes that enervate and demoralize; to allow sanity san-ity and common sense, instead of what is called "fashion," to regulate their style of attire, and. above all, to make the principles of Christianity the supreme su-preme influences in the conduct of their daily lives. Pitttsburg Observer. THE GRACE OF SELF CONTROL. There is no greater grace than that of self-control. They are few indeed who do not need this virtue. Some are in greater need of it than others; to all who .are aiming at perfection it is indispensable. Self-control is a spiritual brake by which we regulate our conduct. The word brake is a common mechanical device for arresting arrest-ing or retarding the motion of a car or vehicle by means of friction: a continuous con-tinuous brake with which trainmen are familiar is a series of car brakes so arranged that all can be controlled from one point on the train. Now, we all know what is likely to happen if the brakes are not working properly; or if j control of them is lost before some serious obstacle on the track; .or a broken bridge or a washout; or a train coming right against another on the same track at. a speed of forty or fifty miles, an hour. Every railroad man understands the necessity of having hav-ing the brakes all right and under perfect per-fect control. Thus only can collisions and wrecks be avoided, and passengers and property be brought in safety to the end of the run. The great business of the brakeman in the spiritual, as well as in the physical phy-sical order, is to carry out his orders, keep a clear head and alert vision, and see that the brakes are all right, in good working condition. In what state are his brakes who ignores the rules of the road, or who has begun to take them lightly: whose head is muddled with strong drink, whose eyes are misted mist-ed with passion. What is there for him but imminent disaster and disgrace, dis-grace, and the final dread accounting at the Terminal? The grace of self-control that mastery, mas-tery, spoken of by the apostle, and promised only to him who refraineth himself is the grace of 'a holy. Then the man and enually the woman self-disciplined self-disciplined by penance, prayer and almsdeeds. and strengthened by the sacraments, has the brakes in order" and able to apply them, to foresee the broken bridge, the-tmgine run amuck and every danger and obstacle which can impede its progress over the long and winding road which we call life, and to go safely through the fearsome tunnel of death, which is the only passage to the Light and Peace of God beyond. OIL FOR THE HANDS. A woman whose hands were blue and gray all colors except flesh color went, to a manicure to have her hands treated. The manicure. who was a very wise woman, took a bowl of pure oil of sweet almonds and immersed im-mersed the hands of her patient in the 1 oil. Keeping them there for some minutes, she took them out and gently massaged them until there was not a particle of oil on the surface. It is astonishing how much oil can be absorbed by the hands and amazing to see it disappear almost as fast as it is applied. If this is done patiently and intelligently and for fifteen minutes min-utes at a time the hands will begin to plump out and the skin to be pretty again. The hands should not be washed afterward, for the oil will surely sink in if well massaged. AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN QUEEN. So long as time exists Christian people peo-ple will be interested in ancient Egypt and Its people. The land to which Joseph Jo-seph was carried, to which Jacob went, and where Moses wrought, will always posn?ss a fascination for us. Explorers innumerable have delved in its sands and brought to light monuments that reveal the past to human eyes, and other oth-er savants are following in their steps with great results. One of the significant signif-icant facts in that every." discovery tends to prove the accuracy of the Scripture narrative and there is no telling tell-ing where this search may end. Now it is claimed that Theodore Davis, Da-vis, an American explorer, has recently recent-ly 'made a remarkable find at Thebes, it Is surmised by arrheologists that this find dates back S.OUO years, which would make it ante-date the time of Moses about three centuries. . According to the story told in connection con-nection with the "find." the chief queen of Amenhotep III was well known in the annals of the Pharaohs as Lady Thi. Of Syrian birth, this blue-eyed, fair-haired maiden of northern Galilee was chosen by the monarch to bind more closely the links that made the Syrian uplands one of his richest colonies, colo-nies, just as another queen, dowered by the wealth of the Euphrates, came to his court to represent his political aillar.ces with the princes of Mesopotamia. Mesopo-tamia. It was the age of the Tell el Amarna letters, and from that precious hoard were also brought a sculptured portrait of the queen, together with some stone studies cast aside by the craftsman entrusted with the task of preserving .her features in imperishable granite. Of her imtnts, Juaa and Thuaa. little was? determined, save that they held no prominent place at the kindly court, by reason of their, ignoble breeding. That the monarch esteemed his consort con-sort highly was pr:ed by the fact that, soon after his wedding, he caused -t lake to be formed in her honor in the j Arabian frontier, i.nd on the day on J which it was finished he sailed ttert u : in his state ba.ge, oeneath a gl.tu'ivljgl canopy, amid the rejoicings of his peo- . pie. He took her with him down into , j Nubia, when their children were just I entering their teens, for the festai opening open-ing of a lordly temple, and it was one of her sons, the zealous Khuenuten. who learned at her knee those foreign ideas of religious belief which caused him to introduce the worship of the solar ray. J And now we are face to face w ith the supreme act of piety which makes of Queen Thi henceforth a shining example exam-ple of filial affection. Juaa may h;ive been carri d into Egypt as a slave, and his comely daughter may have been but- I a. captive Syrian maid. Hut he was her father none the less, and Thuaa was I. her mother, and so at their death she made for thsm a lordly mausoleum, in- ; to which she poured all the lavish rich- i ; es of her love. It is this mausoleum which has been ' discovered, and whose treasures are so j amazing. It will be many a clay before : a full list of these treasures can be made, but enough is known to .show I that in this tomb, which has remained Tinfr.iir.tioH fnr h i rt V-(i i-r. Inmr ..nntni". ies, are piled an Aladdin's hoard of gold and gems, beside objects of domestic use, such as have not b.en seen wrested wrest-ed in our time from the mystic depths of the Egyptian sands. The face of one of the honored dead was covered with a mask of crape. Both the mummy cases were platvd with virgin vir-gin gold, and while one of 'them was lined with gold leaf the other was lined with silver. At one end lay huge jars of oil. and boxes in imitation ebony each containing, in a muslin cloth, a portion of cooked meat. Close by was placed the chariot, gaily painted, gold-encrusted, wherein the parents of the simple-hearted queen may have ' sped through the streets of the city. The leather work is as fresh today as i when the car first left ' its builder's hands. j Elsewhere was found a pair of good I clothes chests, paper-lined, fastened with string, and holding inside the lid a tray for. all the world as though it were a Saratoga trunk fri-i from the baggage of a girl tourist from the west, j There are big stools mounted upon j carved feet, all glittering with blue enamel and gold. There are four armchairs, arm-chairs, each choicely carved and dec orated, surpassing in artistic treatment Hint of Queer. Hnishot.?i;i herself. Two of these bear fig'ir?s of Queen Ttii's favorite fa-vorite daughter, and one may reasonably reason-ably guess that the;.- were ac offering of love front the dainty princess: to' her grandparents. Nor shouid one overlook the wigs and saiuhrls. the toilet ware and vasev. the opulent decorations;, the I gilded handle of a mirror, and the score of trifles that nrtde up the luxurious life of Pharaoh's court: Poor, old dead civilization poor, dead ciit een '. wiiat mighty changes come upon earth! We boast of cur age and its wonders: but Egypt's civilization once was equal to ours, yet it passed and became forgotten, even as outm may pass and become unknown to the vast majority r.f men. Still the story of the filial affection of this daughter- of Galilee, exhumed after all those years, shows that the ood we do lives cm and inspires others. Even the sand of the ' de.?rt could not keep hidden the nobilitv of Queen Thi. HENRI BEKRi NE. |