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Show I . Of Interest to Ladfdm i CURRENT VERSES. Not the Only One of His Kind. When I was In my blooming teens I thought my father slow; When I left school I'd illustrate how business ought to go. . Ills ancient-fogy notions were so prosy and absurd, I'd teach him money-making tricks ot which he had not heard. j I Quite believed progression was our fam ily's natural law, And wondered then if every boy was . smarter than his pa. For while 1 thought my father clever, yet to me it seemed I had such brilliant business plans of which he never dreamed. My time arrived and I began in business for mvself. And thought that speedily I'd lay the fogies on the shelf. I'd touch the mystic springs that yield their gracious gilts of gold , And pile uj. mighty stacks of wealth of ' . value quite untold. The years have fled, the money given me with which to start Has vanished quite, and now I'm broke t.ii v"nd ,sick and pad at heart. 1 11 beg a stamp from some one and a letter write to ma. And ask her if she can't secure for me a "ten" from pa. HOPE ONV , By Hufus Mel. Filed.) J hough black and angry clouds may rise lo hide the blue of the summer skies 1-rom strained and weary waiting eyes, j I he sun will shine when the clouds are . gone; j 4"13 ,v,,'hrn God's hand dispels the gloom : ine birds will sing, the -flowers bloom-cheer bloom-cheer up, faint heart, hope on! Though steep the way and dark the night,' VVUh neer a. friendly ray of light, 4 A"ddlm anl feeble be the sight btill happiness waits in the dawn; There, just beyond the darkness, lies Love s sweet, sunlighted paradise-lie paradise-lie brave, poor heart, hope on! For every heartache, every tear, ;or every patient, struggling year, F"r.. every sacrifice made here, "W hen heaven's mystic veil is drawn, A rich reward, ten thousand fold, ill come with happiness untold ' Hope on, dear heart, hope on! 0 GOD, MY SPIRIT LOVES BUT THEE." JVhen gilds the sky the eastern beam, a hen twilight sheds Its farewell gieam, The burden of my song shall be, O God, my spirit loves but Thee! Methinks 'tis wafted on the air. All nature breathes it soft and clear. O er mount, thro' vale, o'er land and sea O God, my spirit loves but Thet! "Ulien at Thine altar bowed in praver-"Mid praver-"Mid hosts of angels guarding there, He this my note of jubilee, O God, my spirit loves but Thee! When Earth displays her brighest side. .And pleasure's handmaids round me glide From hidden dangers let me flee, O God, my spirit loves but Thee! "vVhen sorrows come with scathing power To blight the soul's most cherished flowers flow-ers Sweet Sacred Heart my solace be j O God, my spirit loves but Thee! When exiled, and sad and lone The chforless heart sends forth its moan Speak Thou of home Eternity O God, my spirit loves but Thef.I Fast gliding down the stream of Time -Ah! bid me come, for I am Thine Thou are my All Great "One in Three" O God, my spirit loves but Thee! When Death awaits with pain and fear, . To calm the last sad parting tear. Sweet Heart of Jesus! shelter me O God, my spirit loves but Thee! - THE GOLDEN TEMPER. This Is the Philosopher's Stone of a Woman's Domestic Life. The art of being companionable is a l secret worth finding out, even if it ! takes time and patience to learn it, affirms Mary Stuart MoKinney when i . writing of "The Companionable Per- I pon" in the March Woman's Home ( Companion. Some people are b;rn with J the happy knack. There is a spon- taneous gaiety that you expect women I to have, just aa you expect the birds to f ins and the gun to shine. Many a very bad quarter of an hour has been averted in the domestic circle by a bright laugh or a gay rejoinder. The j lauph may be saucy and the rejoinder ! a bit of verbal buffet, but if it is only i done good-naturedly it will be all the I more effective. It used basely to be 1 said of men that the only way to make them happy was to feed them well. E That could only have applied to a small I and commonplace minority. Of course, no one wants an uninterrupted round j. cf even the most brilliant smiles- any l liiore than he would wish to make three ; meals a day of meringues and biscuits r glaces, but it is safe to say that counts' count-s' less numbers of willing and del'ghted masculine captives may be led Ijy the j lightest chains that gaiety and good-' good-' humor can forge. One result of a great j deal of the imperfect education that j is dealt out by the handful nowadays Is that some women are apt to set un-' un-' due value on mere book learning and the gift of controversy. This kind of a person looks upon your little joke as beneath her dignity, and she treats you to a comber harangue on th? neces- j pity of having serious views of life at the moment when you are striving to look at things cheerfully in an effort to forget cares and anxieties. It is a woman's privilege to lighten the shad-I shad-I ows and lw? all that is gracious and ! bright on the ornamental side of life. It is a good plan to let much learning eit as lightly as possible and to get I into the habit of making "little trou- ! V.les pass like little ripples in a sunny liver." The Art of Forgetting. We all know and equally desrise that ever-present horror, the woman with a memory so keen that it glosses over the good that we may have at some time in our life accomplished, ana brings out like the scintillating points of a first water diamond, tust those very things that we would be so happy to forget. There are men. too, with these disagreeable dis-agreeable active memories, as many a politician has learned to his cost. If he remains a quiet, every-day citizen, his record appears clean, his character blameless, and his Integrity unimpeachable, unim-peachable, but just let that poor deluded de-luded masculine think cf running for ! office and things will be dragged forth ' from the dim past that he hirnself had practically forgotten. They may have occurred when he was a mere boy and he is now a man verging on the three ecore and ten line. The great lapse of time between makes no difference to the man of vindictive memory, and his victim finds out to his sorrow that a man to enter public life has a thorny path ahead of him. And with men, so with women. Take my lady with the social bee in her pocket. She and he are possessed of all the evidences of refinement. She is a charming hostess, and thoroughly well skilled in the art of refined bandinage that has won for her the reputation of being a wit as well as : beauty. She Is getting on famously. But h.r friends oh, misapplied term you iiave met them, dear reader, have you not? Listen Lis-ten to what they say: "Mrs. S is certainl , but I remember when " Dear reaQer, you can fill out that dash. It stands for some incident of bvgone days, which every one had probably forgotten except this delightful delight-ful (?) person of remarkable memory. Ilemarkable, too, because the fact re-j re-j membered is not generally calculated to raise in esteem thef ne about whom I told. I Now, why need people busy them- I eelves dragging up a lot of things that f - i' - - j - . do not concern them in the least? Unless Un-less they wish to announce themselves social blackmailers, of what good i3 their superior knowledge? The pleasant people are those with excellent for- i geteries, not those of such marvelous , mental mirrors that they can call up at a minute's notice an. exact copy of j something that occurred dozens of years ago. j It is a good scheme to cultivate the art of letting the unpleasant things of life slip , out of one's mind, allowing only the praiseworthy and the good to remain. Think no evil and existence I will be ever so much more serene than j if you are continually busy digging in J the rag bag of the past, hoping to unearth un-earth some treasure that can be used to the discomfiture of a fellow-being. Recipes. Fz-icasse of Lobster. Take one three- j pouna lobster and remove the meat. Cut meat into fairly good-sized pieces. ! Then take two tablespoonfuls of butter and one of flour and put into a saucepan. sauce-pan. Mix thoroughly, then add a half pint of verygood milk and stir until , it just reaches boiling point. Now add ; libster and stand over hot water fivo minutes. Beat yolks of two eggs, add tablespoonful of cream, then add hastily has-tily to lobster. Take from fire and add one-half teaspoonful of salt, one-quarter of pepper and not more than eight to ten drops of onion juice, turn into dish and serve. Oyster Salad. Take twenty-five oysters oys-ters and drain the water off. Have good, fat oysters and have ready a kettle of hot water, about a quart. Take half teaspoonful of salt, place six oysters in the pot at one time; when they reach the boiling point take them out. Stand outside until cold, cover salad bowl with lettuce leaves; one cup of finely chopped parsley, and at serving serv-ing time pour over the whole just one-half one-half cup of French dressing. To make French dressing: One-half teaspoonful of salt, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of black pepper, then add gradually, stirring stir-ring all the time, six tablespoonfuls of olive oil; add two tablespoonfuls of Torogan vinegar, pour at once over "iu "iu garnisn aisn witn onves. This makes a nice dish for Sunday night. Eggs Baked in Tomatoes. Have some bread crumbs; this dish will serve for a vegetable and meat dish. Cut the stem end from the tomato and do not take out all the fleshy part. Leave as much of the body of the tomato as you can. Put about a tablespoonful of bread crumbs into each tomato. Use a little celery or celery seed, one-eighth of a teaspoonful of salt, stand in oven until fairly heated, drop into it one raw egg and cook for at least eight minutes. Have ready a plate of nicely buttered toast, dish the tomatoes and serve at once. Sardine Sandwiches. These are made of brown bread. Take a tin of the best sardines, bone them and lay them on a fiat dish. Sprinkle with pepper and salt and Torogan vinegar and let them lie for two hours. Garnish with cut cucumbers or watercress. Tapioca Cream. Pour one-half cup boiling water over two tablespoons pearl tapioca and let it stand in top of double boiler until water is absorbed. Add one pint of milk and cook over boiling water until transparent. Beat yolks of two eggs, add one-third cup sugar, one-fourth teaspoon salt, and part of the boiling mixture. When mixed, return to the boiler and cook two or three minutes. When smooth like custard remove from the fire and add whites of two eggs beaten stiff. Cool, flavor with half teaspoon vanilla, and serve very cold. "Woman's Influence. So grea is the influence of a sweet-mimled sweet-mimled woman on those around her that it is almost boundless. It is to her that friends come in seasons of sorrow and sickness for help and comfort. One soothing touch of her kindly hand works wonders in the feverish child: a few words let fall from her lips in the ear of a sorrowing sister do much to raise the load of grief that Is bowing its victim down to the dust in anguish. The husband cornea home worn out with the pressure of business and feeling feel-ing irritable with the world in general, but when he enters the cosy sitting room and see.a the blnze of the bright fire, and meets his wife's smiling face, he succumbs in a moment to the soothing sooth-ing influences which act as a balm of Gilead to his wounded spirit. We all are wearied with combating with the stern realities of life. The rough schoolboy flies in a rage from the taunts of his companions to find solace in his mother's smile: the little one. full of grief with its own large troubles, finds a haven of rest on its mother's breast; and so one might go on with instances of the influence that a sweet-minded sweet-minded woman has in the social life with which she is connected. Beauty if an insignificant power when compared com-pared with hers. Women as Talkers. Talk is popularly supposed to be a gift with which the gentler sex is extravagantly ex-travagantly endowed. Yet how few women talk well! Some of them were forgotten when the "gift of gab" was passed around; many more have a great flow of words of which the substance sub-stance is nothing. There 5s no reason in nature why women should he leas amusing than men; but the inferiority is obvious. Take the simplest instance. Thirty or forty men will meet at 7 o'clock, dine together a.nd pass the evening very agreeably till midnight. Everybody likes to be asked to such functions. Imagine thirty or forty women called upon to do the same; would they be able to amuse themselves? If they would, why do they not do it? The fact is that the vice of talking-to talking-to make talk, and not to interest or be iterested, has entered into their very ?ouls. and onlv the careful and intelli- j gent among them eradicate the taint. Women have learned to be talked to, but not to originate talk. They have been taught by their mothers from childhood that thev must never talk about themselves; that discretion is the better part of conversation, and that the one thing essential is to be insignificant, in-significant, because if you mean nothing noth-ing you never will be misunderstood; whereas if you get into the habit of exciting yourself over talk, you may hurt somebody's feelings or shock somebody's nerves, and you may not remember re-member to go away at the end of twenty minutes. All this formality it; Pimply fatal to talk; because, in order to talk so that you will interest or in order to show that you are interested you must produce something of your bwn personality." Woman's Greatest Power. How can woman advance the interest inter-est of her sex and the interest of humanity hu-manity to the greatest degree? So it by the force of her eloquence and logic from the rustrum? Is it as an Amazon in advance of an army? Is it as a diva before the footlights? No, her greatest power and influence is as the ideal wife and mother. As euch she woulds the charaster and ambitions of the child, and has more influence on its after life than all educational means combined. com-bined. Even though she is unconscious of this power, she places the indelible impress and shapes the mould in which the future life of a child is cast: "No coward mother bears a valiant son." If she is self-sacrificing, frugal, patient, pa-tient, perserverlng, ambitious, these will be the dominant offspring, as certain cer-tain as the inherited peculiarities of her race. Circumstances may cause the adult to deviate from this rule, but on the whole it is true. The mother, there fore, is the architect of the destiny of the individual, of society, of the nation, na-tion, and of mankind in general, is it not better to be the architect than the machine? There is no grander or more noble position. Women and the Ssnsa of Humor. At last we are beginning to find a really good reason for women lacking a sense of humor. They are too good for it. Mary Wilkins gives the reason indirectly in a short story, "Susan," which has recently appeared. Susan was a good and noble woman; and one of her peculiarities, when one came to analyze her, was that .she never laughed, though she had a wonderful smiie. She was one of those rarely sympathetic, sym-pathetic, clear sighted, well balanced people who keep themselves and to a great extent the world around th straight. She never laughed, because, as Miss Wilkins says, "people, in order or-der to laugh at anything, inv the face of the misery upon this earth, have to have a streak of bitterness and rebellion rebel-lion in them." That's it. There is more or hess cruelty in so called humor, and women are too tender-hearted and sympathetic for it. . ) HOME READING. Cold Slaw. One-half head -of cabbage, cab-bage, chopped fine. Take one cup of vinegar, two tablespoons of sugar, salt and pepper to taste, and one tablespoon of butter. Let the dressing heat thoroughly, thor-oughly, and just before it sea!di3 add one beaten egg. Pour the dressing over the cabbage and let it stand a few milnutes before serving. Very nice with meats of any kind. Curry Sauce. One small onion chopped and fried brown in butter, two tablespoons flour, one teaspoon curry powder wet with one cup hot water, one cup tomatoes etrained, little red pepper, half teasDoon ealt and half teaspoon (scant) sugar; add one cup cream or milk and cook together until hot and smooth. This is very fine. 'Moonshines. Into one quart of sifted n our rub two tablespoonfuls of butter, one tablespoonful of lard and one-half a tcasiKKHiful of ealt; ;-add gradually sufficient cold water to mix a stiff dough. Turn out on a floured board and beat with the roiling pin for twenty minutes, turning the dough roun 1 and round and doubling it over when it grows thin. When well beaten roll it out very thin and cut into wide strips with a pastry jagger. Bake in a quick oven. Drinking With ea?.f Is. Nature does not intend that a very large quantity of liquid shall be ued with meals, as she has provided an abundant flow of secretions to uphold the digestive processes. pro-cesses. Liquid hinders the work of di-"gestin di-"gestin rather than aids it, as it dilutes the fluids and Irae a tendency to bring the food into the stomach without its being properly masticated and mixed with the saliva. Not over one glass of liquid should be taken as a general rule, and there are a great many cases irf which absorption in the stomach is very slow, where it is best not to take any liquid at all. There are cases where there is much heaviness about the stomach after meals, and oftentimes of-tentimes liquid can be felt in the stomach stom-ach by making a sudden pressure upon the organ. Children's Beauty, permitting free movements, for, if she permitting free movements, for. if the clr'd cannot play freely and happily, it I will rot develop muscularity as nature would have it. Do not force the child to wslk too early. If it is strong enough it will be willing to go, but forced the result will be weak knees. Lazy children child-ren are generally weak children. As the child grows it needs rest more than an adult. It is well to insist upon a child sitting up straight, but to give it stools to sit on instead of chairs, so as to force obedience, is a sin which the child revenges re-venges by forming a hollow tack. Nour ishing food, fresh air and plenty of sleep are to the lungs and nerves what loose garments and free movements are to the bones and muscles. Care for the skin, by a free use of soap and water every day, without any of the feminine children powders and cosmetics too early forced upon children. It is true that dirty children child-ren may look prettv at times, but the functions of the skin are so important that unless it is cared for beauty must soon fade. The Ideal Father. "Of all relations among individuals in all combinations which life offers in this world there is none that is more wonderful wonder-ful than motherhood, and fatherhood comes next," writes Bametta Brown in Ladies' Home Journal. "The mother may I be represented as a dove, with love and gentle care brooding over the young, the father as an eaerle, strong, eager to defend de-fend and help. The mother should be an embodiment of sweetness and gentleness, gentle-ness, the father a citadel of strength. A father, then, to avoid his failures, must be of fine, larye quality, strong, sane and loving a self forgetful, pleasant guide, a chum for his boys, a lover for his sirls. a comprfhpnding husband, a comfortable man. With a rather like this and a mother moth-er such as we have sometimes seen and often dreamed of, the pathway of childhood child-hood bpcomes not one of thorns, but one besprinkled with flowers, and life is changed from a dreary round of mistakes , and failures into a comfortable, successful success-ful and beautiful journey, brightened by cheerfulness, gladdened by comradship, sweetened by Jove and enjoyed alike by mother, father and children." If You Would Be Good Looking Eat fruit for luncheon. Avoid pastry. Eat graham and whole wheat toast. Deny yourself sausages at breakfast. Take omelettes or chops instead. Refuse rich puddings. Decline potatoes if they are served more than once a day. i Do not become a tea or coffee fiend. Walk four miles every day. 'Wash the face every night in warm water. Sleep eight hours at night. Think more about making other people happy than of making yourself comfortable, comfort-able, but Don't worry about either. |