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Show t Romc Circle IIY WORK. Let me but do mv work from day to day, In field or forest, at the desk or loom, in roaring market-place, or tranquil room: I-et me but find it In mv heart. to say, "When vagrant wishes beckon me astray "This is my work; my blessing, not ray doom: Of all who live. I am the one bv whom This work can best be done in the right way." Then shall. I see it not too great, r.or small. To suit my spirit and to prove my powers; Then shall I cheerful greet the laboring hours. And cheerful torn when the long shadows fall . At eventide to play and love and rest. Because I know for me my work is best. v Henry Van Dyke, in the Outlook. Concerning the Bath. "Few- persons pay proper attention to the rules which should govern the bath," said the doctor. "Many bathe too much: others surrender themselves to the saving influence of water too seldom. "One important rule which is most often violated is that of rubbing down after indulging 'in exercise. ThouT sands of persons go cycling every day; or take other vigorous exercise, after which they wilfully or thoughtlessly neglect to remove their underclothes and energetically rub down with a coarse towel and a trifle of wood al- cohol. More than half the pleasure in exercise is in the sensation of revivification revivi-fication obtained from this dry bath, for when damp underwear is replaced with that which is dry one feels like a new. or newly made person, so refreshed re-freshed and invigorated has he become. be-come. Catching cold is frequently the result of neglect to properly care for yourself after exercising. "From the ages of 10 to 15 years children should not-bathe more than twice a week, nlthough, of course, a sponge bath mould be taken daily. A good, lingering plunge bath once a week is sufficient for cleanliness, but less than that certainly is not. The temperature of the water should be about 90 degrees Fahrenheit, and the best time for the bath is just before tumbling into bed. although this is not absolutely essential. If taken at any other time it should be subsequented by a cold or cool shower. "From 16 to' 21 years the baths for cleanliness are the same. A tub bath, with the temperature of the water varying between 60 degrees and 70 degrees Fahrenheit, may be taken every day on rising from bed. In place of it a shower bath for about three minutes, with the water at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, may be substituted, but when this shower bath is used the tub bath at 90 degrees Fahrenheit should never be indulged in more often than once a week. To all adults in good health these rules apply until the first effects of age are manifested. "Never take a bath within two hours of a hearty meal. The first effect of immersion In either warm or cold water is grave derangement of the digestive di-gestive process. A subsequent physiological physio-logical effect is the derangement of the entire nervous system, something which is extremely dangerous to the bather. There are countnless instances of severe illness and even of death caused by bathing while the stomach was full." A Unitarian on Mixed Marriage. I would like to say here just a word .-.liina. Ih m.iltni. nf rolio-irm There are happy marriages of people who are wide as the poles apart in their religious relig-ious faith, but they are exceedingly rare, and it seems to me a very dangerous dan-gerous experiment to try. I know eases, and they are always pitiful, where the man, who has no religion at all, has a wife who is very religious. He is tolerant tol-erant toward it; he engages her a pew in the church she prefers to attend; he does not go. He may not say much about it, he looks upon her as a sort of half-developed child because she cares for those things: there is a looking look-ing down it with a supercilious kind of tolerance. There is no sympathy, there is no heart-to-heart contact, union of purpose and ideal concerning these things, that, if they mean anything, any-thing, mean the deepest and highest things in human life. It seems to me that, other things being equal, ' it is worth very serious consideration, on the part of people who are thinking of getting married as to whether they have at least sympathy and mutual respect concerning the religious attitude. atti-tude. Rev. Minot J. Savage, D. D. v Saintly Faces. Sometimes, in passing through a crowd, we see a face that attracts us by its sweetness of expression. Perhaps Per-haps it is an old face, crowned with a glory of hoary hairs; yet love, joy and peace shine out of every dot and wrinkle wrin-kle in it. Sometimes it is a young face that beams with health and purity and beauty. But, whether old or young, when we see that unmistakable soul-light soul-light in a face, we know that the heart behind it is pure, the life is good and that the body thus illuminated is the temple of the Holy Spirit, To keep the mind occupied with good, pure, useful, use-ful, beautiful and divine thoughts precludes pre-cludes the possibility of thinking about, and thus being tempted by things sinful, sin-ful, low or gross. It is because St. Paul knew this that he says so earnest ly . rinauj, oreinren, wnatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are of good report think of these things." In the well-formed habit of thinking pure thoughts lies the secret of being pure in heart: and in the daily and nightly meditation in the law of the Lord is a safeguard against many of the sins which defile the carnal heart and debase and blacken black-en the countenance. How to Cure a Fit of the Blues. A large volume might be written upon the various methods employed by different men and women to help banish melancholy. There are few of us who, like Mark Tapley, find it easy to be jolly under adverse circumstances, circum-stances, and so the subject of "cheerV ing up" receives more or less consideration consid-eration from those who are subject to vapors. With masculinity the cure is almost always the same, and this page hesitates hesi-tates to mention what it is. At all events, it is not a thing that cheers without inebriating. There are masculines, however, who find a solace for the ups and downs Of this Wicked world in an rM anil extremely unpreposesslng pipe, in a Kipling story, a favorite newspaper or a Turkish bath. The average lord of creation doesn't care for feminine society so-ciety when the world is all deep blue to him. He wants to shake off dull care by himself, or in the siciety of a few choice spirits. It's very unflattering unflatter-ing to me to think of it, but I have care by himself, or in the society of a silly fox terrier was more welcomed by a misanthropic individual in a smoking jacket than the loveliest of his sisters. The average feminine, to the contrary, con-trary, cheers up best, generally speaking, speak-ing, in a crowd. There are exceptions to this rule, of course. There -was one Mrs. Josephine, for instance, who invariably in-variably sat on a certain round-topped and uncomfortable trunk, with her face buried beneath an enormous old-fashioned bonnet when she felt dismal. She never even looked at this trunk at other times, and the bonnet was buried in oblivion and a bandbox until an extreme ex-treme case of lowness of mind necessitated necessi-tated its disinterment, when out it came, to give the observers the chills i with its ugliness. There was another lady who read Fox's "Book of Martyrs" as a chaser of the blues, if one may speak so inelegantly, in-elegantly, and, finding her lot delightful, delight-ful, contrasted with some of the boiled and beheaded people described in that volume, gradually came out of her lachrymose state and into a cheerful one in plenty of time to put on her prettiest frock for dinner. The matinee is prescribed by certain maids for those who feel that there Is nothing worth living for; a long, brisk walk by others, a cup of tea, a hair shampoo or brushing, a welsh rarebit, a new diamond ring, a dinner party, a spring hat, a blowing up of the servants serv-ants and a good cry by others. Each feminine creature has a prescription pre-scription of her owp, all of more or less value to the medical profession, which is nothing if not callous in the matter of melancholia. There are few men or women, however, why try to rise superior su-perior to a disordered mind and "come out strong" under adverse circumstances. circum-stances. The possibility of doing so doesn't even seem to occur to the afflicted af-flicted ones. Shoes. Never wear a shoe that pinches the heel. Never wear a shoe or boot tight anywhere. any-where. ' Never come from high heels to low heels at one jump. Never wear a shoe that will not allow the great toe , to lie in a straight line. Never wear; leather sole linings to stand upon. White, cotton drilling or linen is hcalthiev. ; : Never wear a fclioe with .a sole -nax : - ' . Vs rower than the outline of the foot traed with a pencil close under the rounding edge. ! Never wear a shoe with a sole turning turn-ing up very much at the toes, as this causes the cords on the upper part of the foot to contract. Never have the top of the boots tight, f& it interferes with the action of the calf muscles, makes one walk badly and spoils the shape of the ankle. Never think that the feet will grow large from wearing proper shoes. Pinching and distorting make them grow not only large, but unsightly. A proper natural use of all the muscles makes them compact and attractive. |