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Show j Borne Circle, j TRIED. The day is iong, and the day is hard; We are tired of the march and of keep- in? guard. Tired of the sense of a fight to be won. Of days to live through and of work to be done. Tired cf ourselves and of being alone. And all the while, did we only see, walk in the Lord's own company: W'e fighi, but 'tis He who nerves our arm. He turns the arrows which else might harm. And out of the' storm He brinrs a calm. Susan Coolidge. The Real Mrs. Grundy. Kverybody knows that "What will Mrs. Grundy say?" is a question which corresponds to "What will general gossip gos-sip say?" But few people know anything any-thing about Mrs. Grundy herself. The character of Mrs. Grundy originated orig-inated in Thomas Morton's comedy of "Speed the Plow," which was first acted in London in 1798. The garrulous garrul-ous old lady does not appear upon the scene at all, but is often mentioned by Dame Ashfield in her conversations With her husband, for she is jealous of Mrs. Grundy's good luck. Farmer Ashfield. quite exasperated, exclaims: "Be quiet, "will ye? Always dinning Mrs. Grundy into jny ears! What will Mrs. Grundy say, what will Mrs. Grundy Grun-dy think? ' Cans't thou be quiet and leave her alone?" i The audience took up the cry, "What will Mrs. Grundy say?" and the invisible invisi-ble Mrs. Grundy began to be considered consid-ered a garrulous and critical old wo- iiiu.ii, ijji.ai gurpiti ui me iowii. Oatmeal Every Morning. Many households get into a rut about ' serving cereals. They would not dream of setting corned beef and cabbage on the dinner table every day, yet for breakfast the same cereal appears 355 days in the year. There is no necessity i for it; better buy half a dozen varieties ' of wheat and rice and oats, and serve i them one by one. Some cereals are not fitted for hot weather; oatmeal ought j never to be eaten after May, it is too ! heatin? to the hlnnd T.et omnmn sense come to the aid of every mother in such questions as these. Mistakes of "Women. A mistake of women is in not knowing know-ing how to eat. .If a man is not to be fed when she is, she thinks a cup of tea and anything handy is good enough. If she needs to save money, she does it at the butcher's cost. If she is busv. she will not waste time in eating, if she is unhappy, she goes without food. A man eats if the sheriff is at the door, if his work drives, if the undertaker under-taker interrupts: and he is right. A woman will choose ice cream instead of beefsteak, and a man will not. Another of her mistakes is in not knowing how to rest. If she is tired, she may sit down, but she will darrl stockings, crochet Khawla, embroider doilies. She doesn't know that handwork hand-work tires her. If nhe is exhausted, she will write letters, figure her ac-counts ac-counts or read up for some circle or dub. She would laugh at you if you hinted that reading or writing could fail to rest her. All over the country ( women's ' hospitals flnnrkh K.o,.,n women do not know how to rest. Lines .of Suffering. The lines of suffering on almost every human countenance have been deepened, if not traced there bv unfaithfulness un-faithfulness to conscience, by departure depar-ture from duty. To do wrong is the surest way to bring suffering; no wrong deed ever failed to bring it I Those sins that are followed bv no palpable pain are yet terribly avenged even in this life. They abridge our capacity of happiness, impair our relish for innocent pleasure and increase our sensibility to suffering. No enemy can do us equal harm with what we do ourselves whenever or however we violate vio-late any religious or moral obligation. Be Jolly. Worry and hurry are women's enemies, ene-mies, and yet they hue them to tv,m.. bosoms. Women cross bridges before they come to them and even build bridges. They imagine misfortune and run out to meet it. Women are not jolly enough. They make too serious a business of life and laugh at its little humors too seldom. sel-dom. Men can stop in the midst of perplexities and have a hearty laugh. And it keeps them young. Women cannot, can-not, and that is one reason why they fade early there are other reasons, but we will pass them now. Worry not only wrinkles the face, but it wrinkles and withers the mind. Have a hearty laugh once in a while, it is a good antiseptic and will purify the mental atmosphere, drive away evil imaginings, bad tempers tem-pers and other ills. "What Every "Wife Needs. She needs a good temper, a cheerful disposition, and a knowledge of how nuoua.uu riiouiu ie treated. She needs a capability of looking on the bright side of life, and refusing to be worried by small things. She needs a secure grasp of such subjects as are of interest to men, and should not be above studying even politics in order to understand, should her husband speak of them. She needs a sympathetic nature in order that, should sorrow fall upon them, she may be able to give comfort to her huf ' -id. She needs to understand under-stand something of sick nursing: a wife with no notion of what to do in case of illness is but a useless thing. She needs considerable tact and patience. pa-tience. The one to enable her to know when to remain silent and vice versa and the other to put up with him when his temper is ruffled. Author of "Ben Bolt" Dead. I Dr- Thomas Dunn English died Monday Mon-day in Newark, X. J. Dr. English, who was a writer of some note, was widely known as the author of "Ben BoltHe was born in Philadelphia in 1S19 and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania as a doctor of medicine in 1839. Later he studied law and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar He engaged in journalism in New York from 1S44 to 3S59, when he went to Newark to practice medicine. He was an Irishman and a Catholic. What Conquered Him. William Allen was known as the "Iron Governor" of Ohio, not because he had been an iron king or anything like that, but because he had not the slightest sympathy in the world for a criminal, and whenever an annnf,'n. was made to him to pardon an erring one, he was as "iron" and could not be moved, so he was called the "iron governor." One day he was applied to for executive execu-tive clemency by the Wife of ; notori- ous horse thief, and one who was serv-i serv-i ing a third term for that. He sat at his desk, his back turned to the tear-rul tear-rul pleader, not even condescending to look at her. She talked long and earn-yJI earn-yJI ercy' ut she got no answer. She had brought with her a $-year-old girl, who had been quietly- watching Suddenly the child ment to him, and.j pulling his coattail, said: "You mean old thing. 1 want my papa." And the "iron governor" snatched her up, kissed her smack in the mouth, and said: "You shall have him." True to his word, later that day the wife and child came away from the prifon with the pardoned husband and father. |