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Show '7 Woman's World I COMPENSATION. i j pit nw with my hoart tonight Where I lie Klo"in is dark and deep, I .., n.ss the portals the shadows fall, i ' And here with my grief I weep; I Put over my sad. heart's darkness Sieal? a radiance rich and rare, I Ft l'1'1" aS when a child at play, ) 1 hi J a sunbeam there. I jyf harp is silent, the chords are dead YN'hope music was all too fleet. , ) And 1 listen in vain for the silver strain "f Tli.it made my life complete; But lone afro, when a care-free child, f With no thought of saddfr things, I 1 iM-siled a song bird to my breast, I And there it sings and sings. I The garlands are faded and old and ; sear. I And the laurels that came with the J years ' I Have gone with the dreams and the I jierished hopes I I buried them all with tears; j.ut out in the garden of my soul j TJK- roses bloom so fair. z I'.T l'ng ago. when a little child, i 1 planted a rose tree there. j Muriel Strode. THE GIRL WHO STOPS AT HOME often the fate of stopping at home 'I!" 011 the niflst domestic girl of the I family, the one who loves her own fire-and fire-and possess the simple womanlv s in.vtm.-ts for , home, ties and the life of I ii" affections. If this be so, all is well i for the present. For she will settle d.:i ,0 somewhat monotonous ' and though the domestic and j homely sometimes long for the glamour rnd bustle of a wider life, on the whole s will be satisfied with the common cnod the trivial task. Rut circum- ftanees sometimes force the most am- j '.itious. the most worldly, and the one l"'-Kt fiUf-d for public and self-support - in? life, to be the girl that stops at home. This is very hard lines, for she J will fret and chafe, and long to soar J nut into the big world which looks so i much more attractive in the distance I than it proves in reality. Thev drew I Jnis for it as girls often do and she drew the blank piece, and to her I st long, independent nature the stop- i ping at home means that she had j .'rawn the blank for life, and that her , t future was spoiled. But these small t j tragedies are the law- of life. The ques-'' ques-'' tinn is which has the best of it? the f daughters who go forth and carve a i i.ay for themselves, or those who stop at home in a more natural and woman-; woman-; lv environment. The answer depends f !" much on tastes and temperament. i But there is one cruel side to the life j ff the girl who stops at home which j cannot be overlooked. She often finds; j herself, at the death of her father the breadwinner almost penniless and without any sort of training to fit her I for a salary-earning life. At 33 per- ! haps the loss ef -the father leaves his widow and. the daughter who stopped x at home with a small income, certainly 5 t not enough for two. The elderly wo- ' man with no special training for something some-thing to do Jh helpless, and this is too ; frequently the ultimate fate of the git 1 who stopped .a,f home. . Perhaps Fhe was too unselfish. Maybe ehe was j what her sisters called "too timid and I unenterprising for this life." But the fact remains that she stopped at home i rnd devoted herself unselfishly to her parents.. Towards middle age she finds 5 herself out adrift, homeless, and with : a tiny income perhaps not enough to ; leally keep soul and body together. How can such a girl of a family with-J with-J cut means guard against being left in life's lurch when the inevitable event i of the breadwinner's death comes? f Fathers and mothers should make it iear that when the family property is divided the daughter who strfps at ; Lome should receive a larger share in 1 consideration of having sacrificed her t ihances of a self-supporting career. I The Monitor. , . ILLUSTRATION OF RACE SUICIDE (From the Lutheran.) 1i It has long been a well known fact j that the so-called better classes in New England are doing less and less to pro- vide a .succession. Considering them Hie fittest specimens of humanity, it would f-m that the doctrine of "the survival of the fittest" were in dancer dan-cer of being set at naught. While it is generally known that the most useful use-ful elements of society in church and siat are being recruited from a race r.f siock different from what was in the CFiendancy in New England several generations ago. a concrete example is furnished by the "Independent," which makes clear what is generally known r to 1 the case. It furnishes the record of the 4is legislators of the state of N"-w Hampshire and gives the follow ing figures: "A vast majority of these men are t a tive born, more than two-thirds of ill" m being descended from a long line ot New Englandi ancestors. Of these men the state has a right to expect ft i.-ast S.",6 children, bing two apiece. Tin- actual number, however, is 684, or p !i tie more than a child and a half for f!i man. Of the whole number 355 married. 275 are fathers. 80 are 'idldl'-ss and 63 are unmarried or wid-ew-i. Of the 275 fathers. 94 have one ? -Viii l each, 73 have two. 47 have three, have four. IS have five, 6 have six, " have seven, 2 have eight. 3 have nine, .fir! 2 have ten each. Of the fathers of fix hiUJren or more each nearly 'two-ihii-ds an- ,,f foreign birth, chiefly Pi eneh-( 'anadian. If these foreign-': foreign-': nrn representatives, therefore, were f-liiiiiiMied from the list, the showing uould be still leSs favorable." HINTS FOR SHORT WOMEN. "The short woman always eats too lo'le. and she eats the wrong kind of food." This is the declaration of an AmenVan institution called the Little Ladies' dull, the object of which is to mop-aso tilf. inches of Its members, flu- method adopted is a combination 'f gymnastic exercises, massage with "mutton tallow thinned with almond !.' and a proper diet. "The little Ionian who is trying to increase her v isht must eat mashed turnips, she must ( at squash, she must take hashes "od kinds of creamed vegetables. !-!'jsh is a little difficult to obtain in ;bis country, but vegetable marrows 'nay be taken as a substitute." The following advice seems a little dan-terous; dan-terous; "The little woman must drink with her meals, sh must drink between me;is. she must take something whenever when-ever she feels faint." At the table she i mst try and eat as much as her stout s-stcr. More generally acceptable is ihe following: "Throw back your shoulders, lift your chin, take the f-t retching lessons, and 'you will increase in-crease your height." ' , Only wealthy ladies are eligible for membership of the club. The apparatus Is dear, and the instructor lucky man gets a fee of $25 every afternoon. ! "Besides these things there must be j maids and rubbers, and there must be .1 fine supply of the best massage oils, j cold creams, and all things that will i.iump out -the body. "The idea Is that to increase the height a wee bit the bodv must be provided with the i.ecessary fuel. This includes massage oils containing all the elements which are provided for a growing child. The girls who want to grow taller must take a great deal of moist food. Moisture Mois-ture makes the body grow." MUST HIDE HER EMOTIONS. 1 The woman of today has no nerves, ' r, if she has. she sjeks to hide them. The popular woman is the woman of Unveramerit. but without m nervous shock?. She learns to subdue herself and her petulance, and such emotions as she has she keeps hidden from the vorld and from herself. You can tell the nervous woman v. hen you meet her. She taps her foot ppon the floor, she fidgets, her fingers loosely work upon a chain which hangs from her neck; she twitches the buttons but-tons upon her gown; she trites her lips: she winks repeatedly; she hitches about and is uneasy; she sighs; she is the embodiment of unrest. But the popuular girl does not do any of these things. If naturally nervous fche has learned to control her nerves. She has taken a course in nerve cloture, clo-ture, and she does not let her nerves manifest themselves. One of her exercises is to place both feet upon the fioor and keep them there. Of course, her shoes are comfortable, com-fortable, and her feet are in good condition. con-dition. She has no aching joints, bunions, corns nor rheumatism. Too often the twitching feet of a woman mean twinges of pain, and the feet must twitch because of their smarting. smart-ing. But there is no excuse for aching feet, and the girl who wants to be pretty and popular will rid herself of them. So also w ill the girl w ho wants to be a "society leader," for all the popular qualities are embraced in leadership. Unless a woman understands under-stands how to be popular she will never be a leader. And if she is nervous ner-vous she cannot lead society. That much is certain. Nervousness often comes from lack of exercise, and on that account the popular girl will take sufficient exercise exer-cise so that she will not be nervous. Catholic Transcript. ORCHESTRA OF CONVENT GIRLS. The Miuwaukee Sentinel publishes the following- special correspondence from Sparta, Wis.: "The Cecllian orchestra of this city is a remarkable organization. It originated orig-inated in the Catholic convent, being formed of a class of pupils who were receiving musical instruction from the Sisters. One of the Sisters conducted its reharsals for some time, but finally .the demands for the appearance of the orchestra at public entertainments became be-came so numerous and insistent that the Sister conductress decided to procure pro-cure a leader who would be able to appeftr at these functions, and "V. M. Givler accepted the place. For the last two years Mr. Givler has conducted the weekly rehearsals, and the orchestra orches-tra now renders arrangements of the most difficult of the classics as well as the popular airs of the hour. The reputation re-putation of this unique musical organization or-ganization has extended throughout southern and western "Wisconsin until not only is its appearance on the programme pro-gramme indispensable at every successful suc-cessful local entertainment, but it repeatedly re-peatedly receives invitations to participate partici-pate in the concerts and musicales given in the neighboring cities. CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAYS. Do the mothers keep their children's birthdays by making them" an occasion for a holiday? The years of childhood pass so quickly and ere we are aware the little boys an4 girls become men and women, and it Is well to let children chil-dren feel they are of some consequence in the family circle, for at least one day in the year. Not only in childhood, child-hood, but after they have grown up and other love than "father's and mother's has attracted them, and they have left the old home for their own new ones, mothers should still keep their children's birthdays by writing a letter to eah one. I have done this for several years past, and found it a pleasant task; and I know that it gives pleasure to my children to know that the day of their birth -is remembered remem-bered at their old home. I have written writ-ten ten birthday letters "since January last, and have two more to write in the fall. Methinks I hear some one say: "What a big family." Well, it is pretty large, yet not one could I ever spare, and happily I've not lost one. They are not all my own. however. The four eldest daughters are my step-children still, they are mine, by-rights of loving care for theih in their early childhood, and they, too, look for a birthday letter from mother each year, and are not disappointed. The sons and daughters will never become wholly estranged from the old home and its associations, if a yearly reminder re-minder in the shape of a birthday letter let-ter from a loving mother reaches them, for it will serve to draw closer the family ties which have seeemingly been sundered or transferred in another an-other direction. Father's and mother's birthdays are kept in remembrance by our children and many little tokens of affection besides be-sides letters reach us from the absent ones, which cheer and gladden, our hearts. I -sincerely hope that mothers who have read this article will write birthday letters to each of their absent ab-sent children, and. my word for it, they will derive a. great deal of pleasure pleas-ure from . the practice, besides giving the same to their sons and "daughters. Mary E. Miller in the Catholic News. Forming Character. What we should care to form and preserve in ourselves is the Catholic character a character as distinct as it beautiful, and which is entirely built upon the foundation of the Catholic faith. By this Catholic character, remember. re-member. I do not in the least mean the character of a recluse or a devotee. You see some of its very finest examples exam-ples in the world and in those filling worldly positions. Take, for instance, blessed Thomas Moore, while he remained re-mained the chancellor of the realm. Witness his loyalty to his sovereign, vet openely putting God first on all occasions: his sterling integrity: his conscientious fulfillment of all the duties du-ties of his state of life. No wonder when God called him higher to be a confessor and martyr he was so ready, to happy to obey the call. This Christian character consists in: 1) Fidelity to duty giving to all their due: (2) freedom from human respect readiness to confess the truth, to practice religion openly; 3) love of the loor. self-denying alms deeds: and (4) good habits. It is quite a distinctive feature, contrasting with the fits and starts and whims and moods good moods and bad moods all things by turnp and nothing for long, which we see in the unformed character. I mean good habits stuck t6; morning and night prayers: the regular frequenta-t:on frequenta-t:on of the sacraments: the daily mass. We heard only yesterday of a gentleman gentle-man who regularly walked eight miles on a wek day to hear mass. It was his habit, and he never broke it. When Woman Envies Man. When he gives his hair a neat brush and his coif fur? is complete. When he doesn't have to kiss his sworn enemy and tell him how sweet he looks. When he can wear his best hat in the rain without getting the curl out ot the feathers. . When the children cry and he can . whistle a tune, get his hat, bang the door and so out. ! When he trips up the street ahead of J her on a rainy day with his trousers . jauntily turned up and no skirts to ca rry. When lie doesn't have to twist his arms to hook his bodice up the back on drag: six superfluous y.-trds of dress goods behind him and do it gracefully. COOKING OLD FOWLS. Dishes For Which They Are Better! Adapted Than Young Birds. Almost every housekeeper has been mortified and annoyed by a fine, plump fowl turning out so tough that the carver car-ver has found it next to impossible to serve it in the usual way, but not so many of them have discovered that if properly cooked an old bird is much better in some dishes than a young one. For soup, croquettes, timbales, rissoles, fricassee, pie or pates an old fowl, having hav-ing more flavor and substance, is much better than a chicken. For curried fowl, too. the bird no longer in its tender days is to be preferred, but the meat should be very slowly stewed until tender before using it in any of these dishes. Occasionally one prefers to serve the fowl whole, and even in this way it is quite possible to make a toothsome dish of it if it is cooked with judgment. Have it trussed as for roasting, put it into a saucepan and cover with cold water, let.it come slow-Ij slow-Ij to the boiling point, skim well and let it cook very slowly for an hour and a. quarter or an hour and a half. Take i; out of the water and let it cool a little, lit-tle, and then stuff it in the crop with any preferred forement. Boston Cooking Cook-ing Magazine. Plain Clothes Best. A college woman had occasion last summer to spend a few weeks in a factory fac-tory town boarding house where lived three young women who from their childhood had been employed in the mills. Tlu:-e girls represented the more prosperous element of the community. One, who was fond of fine raiment and personal adornment, afterward asked Miss McCracken, who tells the story, for some information about Schumann, adding that she was learning to play a little of his music. Miss McCracken hastened to comply, and drew out the reason for the request. The mill operatives opera-tives had always liked music. Well, iast summer a lady boarder at our house who said she had always liked German, and wanted to study it. wore real plain clothes because she was saving sav-ing up money to go to Germany to study. And it came into my head that I could save up money and take music lessons, so I am doing it; and I believe be-lieve after all I like plain clothes best. Wait. Keep still. When trouble is brewing, keep still. When slander Is getting on his legs, keep still. When your feelings feel-ings afe hurt, keep still till you recover recov-er from your excitement' at any rate. Things look differently thrdugh an un-agitated un-agitated eye. In a commotion once I wrote a letter and sent it. and I wished I had not. In many later years I had another commotion, and wrote a long letter; but life rubbed a little sense into me, and I kept that letter in my pocket against the day when I could look it over without agitation and without tears. I was glad I did. Less and less it seemed necessary to send it. I was not sure it would do any hurt, but in my doubtfulnsss I learned reticence, and eventually it was destroyed. Time works wonders. Wait till you speak calmly, and then you will not need to speak, maybe. Silence is the most massive thing conceivable, con-ceivable, sometimes. It is strength in very grandeur. 1 The Last Hour of Childhood. (By Grace Keon, in Donahoe's for February.) Gradually the stitches grew slower and still more slow, the dark head drooped until it rested on her bosom. She shook herself impatiently," and continued con-tinued the uninteresting task, rising once to replenish the fire as before. The hours wore on. They were not peaceful hours. Outside the rain had ceased, and the moon was shining. The street was filled with discordant noises; with, cat-calls and the loud mouthing of a harmonica; the swift patter of feet: the scoldings of a wakeful wife greeting her liege lord; the sound of opening windows and many voices in expostulation, as the liege lord objected object-ed strenuously to his wife's welcome: derisive words of advice. But even these ceased'at last, and silence reigned. The seek fell from the little girl's hand, hung on her knee a moment, fell then to the floor. Only a child in years, she slept as healthy children do heavily, heav-ily, profoundly, without dreams or forebodings. fore-bodings. The coal burned up red, exhausted, ex-hausted, its vitality, died away to gray ashes. Mollie moved and muttered a little as the room grew chilly. And the moonlight, the tender moonlight, moon-light, streamed in through the window on the rough floor. It crept around until un-til it touched her hair, and then her face, and her hands, and her whole figure, enveloping her like a benediction. benedic-tion. Her breath was soft and regular as the infant's. The' worried gravity its habitual expression had left her face. Nothing disturbed her. She did not hear heavy footsteps on the stairs out side, nor the joyous scream with which Mrs. JMcCabe welcomed back her lost offspring; nor did the loud-voiced explanations ex-planations of the finding of the little one trolble, for an instant, the quiet of her repose. But a pleasant dream stooped down to her out of the Shad-owland Shad-owland of slumbers. She thought she was holding the little Nonie in her arms. . . . The little hands were about her neck. . . . Tht little lips were kissing her. . . . She smiled and the smile lighted up the dark face to a gentle peace that was almost beautiful. beau-tiful. And so the last hour of Mollie Far-rell's Far-rell's childhood passed away. Massage For Crow's Feet. Those depressions which mar the inner in-ner angle of the eye, hollowing the eye's cavity and running toward the ear, are entirely induced by illness or impoverishment of the nervous system. sys-tem. Massage for these is an absolute abso-lute necessity. Here is a recipe for their treatment which, carefully and ratiently followed, is unfailing as a remedy. It is known as wrinkle cream. Spermaceti, one ounce: white wax, one ounce: oil of almonds, four ounces: rosewater, four ounces. As the mixture melts beat very thoroughly and pour into jars. Massage into the skin night and morning with an upward movement move-ment of thumb and fingers. Do not pinch, but with a gradual, gentle fingering fin-gering induce warmth of the muscles and tissue. They respond by absorbing absorb-ing the nourishing cream, the oil in which feeds the skin, while the wax I gives it firmness and hardens the re- j laxed tissues. Wet a fine sponge., in ! warm milk mixed with as much rose-water. rose-water. Press the sponge to the crow's feet five minutes, Remoistsn and press again, letting the mixture dry on the skin. Lint soaked in hot milk and rosewater and bound on the tracks or on the entire face will lessen the wrinkles, wrin-kles, take out impressions of weariness weari-ness and freshen up the skin wonderfully. wonder-fully. Books. Books are true friends. Wc can always al-ways have them with us. As a clearsighted clear-sighted writer says, they never take offense, ' they never betray our confidence, confi-dence, they are ready to counsel, to interest in-terest us at any moment. They have no moods. A word from them often falls into our minds like a stone into a clear pool. It makes ripples that reflect re-flect in prismatic hues the face and the sun of heaven. No; we must not underrate un-derrate the influence of books. And in these days when it is truer than it was in Solomon's time, that of the making of books there is no end we must be careful how we choose our books. Bad books have mined as many men as bad whisky, and sentimental love stories have made as many women useless and unworthy of their high destiny as evil Companions. The mission of women is the. highest mlssK'n on earth. When God sent His Son on earth he intrusted him to the care of her the Virgin-blessed Virgin-blessed among women. Women, as mothers, as teachers, by precept, by example, ex-ample, rule the world. Therefore, they owe to themselves, tp society, to God, to make themselves worthy of their vocation. vo-cation. There have been wosnen. like George Eliot and George Sand, who held literature liter-ature to be the best thing in life. There is a woman writing today who holds the same opinion. Her name is Vernon Lee, and all her knowledge and all her literary liter-ary skill are wielded against God. The life of George Eliot shows that genius and the finest literary skill cannot compensate com-pensate for the loss of God as revealed by himself. Her life was sad. as you can see by the letters which her husband, hus-band, Mr. Cross, has left us. Practically Practical-ly rejecting Christianity, she committed commit-ted a breach cf morality for which her greatest admirers dare not apologize. You see that literature without God does not make men and women virtuous. virtu-ous. For without God it is only part of itself. Cardinal Newman well says that, a university without a chair of theology, is incomplete. It is so with literature. Literature without Christ is futile. So futile is it, that all poets since the time of Augustus are. in spite of themselves. Christian in their best moments. The Republic. Old Time Doctoring. When the country was young and doctors were few and far between no plant or herb seemed to have been made in vain. It behooved the head of a family to know the medicinal value of every shrub and weed. Now, when the average person sends for a physician physi-cian at the faintest premonitory symptom symp-tom it is interesting to know what our forefather."! did when, say, little Jimmie had. the colic. For the colia catnip tea was given. Blackberry juice and blackberry root tea were given for dysentery. Pokeberry juice and plasters were said to do wonders at curing cancer. Burdock leaves, applied to the feet, allayed fever, while tea from the root cleansed the blood. Sassafras root and flowers served to'' thin and pirfy the blood. Tonics were made of the inner bark of the oak and the wild cherry. Elderberries served as purges. Our elders sat over steaming mullein leaves to relieve bowel disease. Cedar tree berries strengthened a weak spine. Consumption and agues were relieved by boneset. Colds were sweated off after a dose of pennyroyal tea. Grape vine sap was believed to make the hair grow. Beech leaves were supposed to add to the value of hot foot baths. Jimson (Jamestown) weed was smoked in a pipe by way of relieving the asthma. Besides these numerous plants and herbs were cultivated in gardens for the sole purpose of relieving suffering. A Home Shampoo. Washing the hair is a task most women wo-men dislike,' and even the girl who can least afford the dollar a month necessary neces-sary to a professional shampoo prefers to pay it at a sacrifice rather than bother to wash her own hair. Yet if the work is gone about in the right manner at home it need not be difficult at all. The first thing is to prepare a shampoo liquid. ...Take a square inch of some good soap, shave it fine and dissolve it in half a cup of hot water. Then add a teaspoonful of violet ammonia am-monia and the raw white of an egg. Beat these thoroughly and strain through a wire sieve. Now stand with the head over a basin, pour a little of the shampoo over the scalp and rub briskly with both hands. Use all the liquid in this' way, rubbing it thoroughly thor-oughly on the scalp. After this wash Ihe scalp with several basins of waTin water and then .wash, the long hair in the basin of watr. !Kinse by holdiui; the head over fheibathtub and pouring over it a stream of warm water, keeping keep-ing this up until the water that drips from the hair is perfectly clean. Then dash with cold water to. close the pores and prevent taking cold. You are now ready to dry the hair. First wrap it in a thick towel and wring thoroughly. Then spread a dry towel across the i back, throw the hair back and rub the scalp well and dry. It may take some time, but it is the best possible means of drying, acting as a massage, too. Call in the aid of the sun if possible, but never use steam. Do not brush the hair until it is thoroughly dry. Then, as you brush, raise the hair, that the straids may be separated. After this combing will not be difficult, and when the hair is ready to go up it will be soft and fluffy. A Step Nearer. Every kindness done to others in our daily walk, every attempt to make others happy, every prejudice overcome, over-come, every truth more clearly perceived, per-ceived, every difficulty subdued, every sin left behind, every temptation trampled tram-pled under foot, every step forward in the cause of what is good, is a sep nearer the cause of Christ, through which only death can be really a gain to us. In order that you may view the sunshine sun-shine in life link your sou-l to God. You can never be permeated with real joy unless he is your companion and guide. Make these truths a pari of yourself. Let them ever remain fresh in your memory, so that, granted the enjoyment of untold blessings -here and there interrupted in-terrupted by the endurance of a displeasure, dis-pleasure, you shall become more and more unlike the first man who trou this earth, and be of those who respond lo the law-giver's command: "Thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee: thou and the Levite and the stranger that is among you." Calendar. A Humble Niche. She was a plain, quiet little woman, neither young nor old. an adherent of the household rather than an inherent : part -of it. a distant relative, but having hav-ing herself no nearer relatives. Hers was an anomalous position, difficult to fill, but she filled it so perfectly that no one ever thought to question what it was. She never helped to select a new carpet car-pet or curtains, or decide on their purchase, pur-chase, but when they began to wear or fray they seemed to fall to her naturally. nat-urally. Her deft needle darned and changed and rearranged, and kept them neat and fresh-looking as long as they would hold together. It was the same with the family wardrobe. No one dreamed of consnilt-ing consnilt-ing Aunt Nina as to style or fabric when new garments were to be procured, pro-cured, but when they were past their first freshness she saw in them endless possibilities undiscoverable by other eyes, and her patient lingers turned and refashioned and "made them do a little longer." "It will go a little longer," was usually usual-ly her modest comment on her accomplished accom-plished task, but not until her hands were folded in endless quiet did her real work appear. It was not her needle alone that had healed rents and smoothed edges. Her sweet, unselfish spirit, her tact and gentleness, had helped to lighten every strain, to soften all asperities, and to make every grace "go a little longer." |