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Show Eonie Circle. j SUNSHINE AND MUSIC. A laugh is just like sunshine It freshens all the day. It tins the peaks of life with light, And drives the clouds away; The soul grows glad that hears it. And feels its courage strong A laueh is just like sunshine For cheerinu folks along! A laugh is just like music. It lingers in the heart. And where its melodv is heard - The ills of life depart: And happy thoughts come crowding Its joyful notes to greet A laugh is just like music ' For making living sweet. Ripley D. Saunders.' Marrying on. $6 a "Week. The position of the New York priest who recently succeeded in preventing a marriage by advising one of his parishioners not to marry a man who only earned $6 a week, has been the subject of considerable " comment on the part of the secular press all over the country. Various priests have been questioned on the subject. Father McCarren, rector of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Brooklyn, does not- believe that a young man who "makes" only $6 a week should get married, and as a result of the advice that he gave her on the subject. Miss Louise Sweet, one of his parishioners, broke her engagement, engage-ment, . ' , Miss Sweet was engaged to a stylish young man who told her he was frorii Boston. He said his family was wealthy, although he admitted that his own income was only. $6 a .week. Miss Sweet went to her pastor for advice, and he did not think it advisable to perform the ceremony. Acting upon his advice she broke her engagement. In speaking, of the case, the priest said: "Six dollars a week is entirely insufficient to support a wife. Many a young woman is deceived in that way. Miss Sweet would have regretted taking tak-ing the step for all the daV of her life, but too late to remedy it." Monsignor O'Callagban "of St. Augustine's Au-gustine's church. South Boston, was interviewed in-terviewed and said that it all depends on the woman whether or not a man should marry on $6 a week. "A saving wife, you know, can make Jl go farther than some women make three," he said. . . The Rev. William Browrigg, pastor I of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Con-ception, when asked if, he thought it practicable for a man to wed on such a small salary, said: "No, of course not. It might in some cases be justifiable, ' but very seldom. Still, it would depend entirely on the parties concerned." The Rev. W. H. ' Fitzpatrick of St. Gregorys church said:; "Do I think a man ought to marry on less than flO a week?' Well, that all depends on circumstances, cir-cumstances, and very much -on the woman. If-sheiis-a good manager she can make the. $8 look, like double that amount. But," added the clergyman, "I don't. know many people who live on that amount, and I think it would be a very poor sort of a man who would ask a girl to marry him on that salary." Let "No" Mean "No." The care of an infant is always the cause of deep and anxious thought on the part of the mother, and especially so w hen the mother is a young girl who has always been free from the cares and duties which naturally devolve upon the young matron. Any mother knows how soon a habit is formed in her child, and this fact is proof that just as early in life is a child amenable to training. If a child is told that he cannot have a certain thing, he soon knows whether a little fretting will gain it for him. There are very few children who do not understand this by the time they are six months old. Let "yes" mean "yes," and just as surely let "no" mean "no" when dealing with a child as when dealing with an adult. How One Mother Managed. "Why do you always dress your two daughters alike?" queried a society woman of a friend. "It must be a great deal of trouble, and, as they are not twins, it is not necessary." "Well," answered the other, quite frankly, "it is because of the effect. My girls are rather ordinary looking not plain: in fact, rather pretty, I think and with fairly good figures, but quite unnoticeable in their appearance. If one were in brown and the other in blue on the street no one would ever give them a second glance, but dressed alike they look really distinguished. "It is the same in a ballroom. When they go together in pretty fresh gowns they accentuate each other, so to speak, and tbe simplest toilet becomes striking. A pink bow by itself is a pink j bow, and nothing else, but two pink bows become immediately an arrangement. arrange-ment. "You see that idea exemplified on the stage in a ballet. It is the repetition repeti-tion of dress that gives effect. If the dancers were in different costumes it would be lost completely. Of course, as you say, it is a bother to have everything to match, and when one, frock is ruined that renders the other useless, too. Still, I think it pays." Toothache Remedies. If the offending tooth is a hollow one, as it nearly always' is, the following is a simple remedy for the "twingey" toothache: Procure from any chemist a stick of guttapercha, which is specially spe-cially prepared for the purpose. It is a thin, white stick, about a couple of inches long, and it will cost twopence or threepence. Cut off a little bit sufficient suf-ficient to fill up the hollow of the tooth, and, having held it in hot water until it becomes quite soft and pliable, insert it quickly in the tooth. Fress it down and smooth off all rough edges, so that the tongue w-ill not be likely to dislodge it. It should be done as quickly as possible, as the substance very soon begins to get cold and loses its pliability; pliabil-ity; but at the same time care should be taken that the tooth is effectually stopped up. 1 This will at once stop the twinges, and although the tooth may ache a little at first, it will soon go off, and the trouble will practically have ceased. This guttapercha stopping is supopsed to be only temporary, but, as a matter of fact, it will last for months, and sometimes years. But suppose the pain is not of the "twingey" order, but is rather of the dull, aching, wearying kind, what is the best thing to do? A brandy poultice is good. It is made as follows: Take a piece of coarse brown paper and soak it well in brandy or in any ottter spirit; then pepper it well with the pepper caster on one side and apply it to the cneek. lie a nana-kerchief nana-kerchief a silk one is warmest round the head to keep it (the poultice, not the head) in place and go to sleep. As a rule, there will be no difficulty in following this direction, but, if the patient pa-tient cares to do so, it will do him no harm to take a "night cap" of the spirit Internally as well as externally. In the case of the internal dose he will do well to omit the pepper! The foregoing remedy is equally suitable suit-able for the day time or at night. The one about to be given is recommended when the patient is in bed; and in case there is no spirit in the house, it will be found almost equally efficacious, but it will take longer to prepare. . Put into the oven a quantity of salt and thoroughly dry it. Having made an oblong bag of fiannnel (say about nine inches by five), fill it with the hot, dry salt and sew up the end. It is to be applied behind the ear on the side which aches, and if it is as hot as it should be, the patient will find it very soothing, and he will imagine that he can feel the pain leaving his tooth and working its way out of the jaw bone into the bag of salt. There is a sort of cord of nerves which passes up the neck under the ear, and the effect of the hot flannel is almost majical. Home-made Soda Water. Vanilla, chocolate and coffee ice cream always work in well for this purpose, also the fruit ice creams, such as orange, pineapple, strawberry, red raspberry and banana. To make a choice glass of ice cream soda, put about two ounces of Vanilla syrup into a large, thin glass and add a bountiful supply of vanilla ice cream, at least half a glassful; open a cool bottle of plain soda or use a siphon, add a little lit-tle of the soda at a time and mix it in thoroughly with a long-handled soda spoon; fill the glass to the top, stirring the while to incorporate the ingredients well, then serve. All ice cream sodas are similarly made, and if the flavor syrups are not in readiness, use the plain or simple syrup. Some of the descriptions for serving soda water at home are given for one glass, but of course any num-: ber of glasses may . be prepared after the same manner as given for a single glass. The directions give the idea as to proportions. Plain soda water may be purchased in bottles or siphons, and in case there are places where it cannot be found, the following method of producing carbonated car-bonated water will be the next thing to it: Dissolve one ounce of citric acid crystals crys-tals in one gallon of water and strain it into a large bottle or stone jug for use, or into smal bottles, which can be kept in a refrigerator. To three-fourths of a glassful of this fruit-acid water add.twhen the prepared syrup is ready in another glass, about a quarter tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of bicarbonate of soda and stir it quickly into the acidified water. This will start an ebullition. Then pour it into the glass containing syrup. Citric acid sometimes called fruit acid crystals are for sale at any drug store. This is the acid found principally princi-pally in lemons, and it is harmless. Tincture of curcuma is a perfectly re- I liable vegetable yellow coloring. For I orange and lemon extracts, if they can- ! not' be purchased, procure half an I ounce of either of the oils and add it to half a pint of alcohol and shake the bottle which contains the mixture until the oil is cut. It can be colored with curcuma if a lemon or orange color is wanted. Some persons run the extract through filtering paper to make it amber am-ber clear. In this condition it is styled extract of orange or lemon, and may be used in the blood orange soda or Hubbling' lemon sour svrun. The De lineator. Notes For the Boudoir. Fever blisters can be gotten rid of by the use of powdered alum. Thick lips? may be reduced by rubbing rub-bing them with tannin. Camphorated cold cream is useful for lips that chap easily and can be ad- j vantageously used every night during the cold weather. i ..When, the lips are dry a little glycerine gly-cerine and rose water may.be applied to counteract this tendency. '.The Way Orientals Wash. The Japanese rip apart every garment gar-ment for washing. They iron their clotb.es by spreading them on a flat boards and leaning this up against the house to dry. The tub .of the Japanese Jap-anese is not more than six inches high. The hardest-worked washerwomen in the world are the Koreans. They have to wash"abo'ut a dozen dresses for their husbands and they have plenty to do. The washing is usually done in cold wa'fer and often in running run-ning streams. The clothes are pounded with- paddles until they shone like a shirt front from, a laundry. The washing in Egypt is usually done by the men. The Egyptian washerman stands on the banks of the Nile and slaps the wet clothes, with a noise like the shot of a pistol, on the smooth stones at the edge of the running water, and such women as wash pound the dirt out of their clothes in the same way. Shyness. The girl who is very shy can take the comforting fact to herself, that some of the very best people, the 'most learned as well as the most characteristically beautiful, have been sufferers of the dreadful agony of bashfulness. Indeed, as one writer says: "Bashfulness is the precursor of many excellencies." Many of our greatest men, whose names shall forever live in history, had bashful manners. Although they had brilliantly distingupished themselves as statesmen, states-men, heroes, or writers, they did not shine in society as -the beau ideals of it. Many a highly intelligent woman with a bashful way has been a failure at a social function where the woman with less brains, but having a more self-confident manner, has been a sue- cess. A graceful, easy manner affords its possessor an agreeable charm. Without a refined sense of self-confidence a woman is at a disadvantage whatever her good qualities may be. One way to overcome bashfulness is to cultivate the society of others.- A lack of social intercourse accentuates the embararssment of a too timid nature. na-ture. The Human Will. I wil live I will work I will succeedI suc-ceedI will be happy.' These thoughts unfold the great possibilities of human hu-man life. Before him who wills all gateways open a fixed purpose brings labor's sure reward. When failure, dismal and pathetic, has crowned a life of toil, know this a feeble will a hesitating step a faltering fal-tering heart has marked its vvoful way. A mighty will, like a swift current, rushes forward and sweeps all obstacles obsta-cles from its path. To succeed in life one must forever have upon his lips the magic words, "I will." With a fixed purpose a definite defi-nite point in view a goal, between which there comes no fleeting doubts, all things are .possible. The Health Reporter. If You Want to Be Loved, Don't find fault. Don't believe all the evil you hear. Don't jeer at everybody's religious beliefs. . Dont be rude to your inferiors in social so-cial position. Don't repat gossip, even if it does interest in-terest a crowd.' Don't underrate anything because you don't possess it. Don't go untidy on the plea that everybody knows you. .Don't contradict people, even if you know you are right. Don't conclude that you have never had any opportunities in life. Don't believe that everybody else in the world is happier' than you. Don't be inquisitive about the affairs of even your most intimate friends. Don't get into the habit of vulgarizing vulgar-izing life by making light of the sentiment senti-ment of it. Exchange. |