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Show Woman's Worfd. . Specially Prepared tor Our Feminine Evaders. A CHILD'S PROMISE "I'LL BE GOOD." (By Mary l,o ke.) Till me: How could 1 help you to be pool? In what way could I rescue your soul from ruin? Could vou ever give up for home solitude The slare and the din oi the gTand a loon? ' "Woman's love sometimes is a potent lever In uplifting man's sipirit from Satan's swav. Yt it pi-idom assuages the hell-like fever And thirsi that's consuming your soul today. Tell me; How could I help you to be Kot'd ? In what vyy could I bring you to better things, ; How uplight you from being: in despon dent mood. ' A lave in the Devil's dire leading strainss? O, curse of drink, leaving woman lonely. I A cold world to face, countless ills endure, en-dure, 'Tho her liie's dvotion be jriven one only Yet the sacrifice fail to effect a cure. "When you said on the sidewalk "I'll be K'od." "Twag the voice come back of a deaf i lost child And a frail, fond sire, and I understood What such promise meant to be reconciled recon-ciled For another while so same on the "Reaper. M And the shoulders drooping foretold his fate; . And the shadow of doom grew daily deeper, ' And his last "I'll be good" was spoken too late. 1 CHILDREN AND EESPECT. Drtji't let your children make a slave of you. They soon lose their respect for anyone Mho bows down before ; them. You want 5;our grown-up sons and daughters to reverence you in. later years, to come to you as a final court i of appeal. Above all. you want their love and trust and friendship. Nothing, is more pitiful than to . see., the. way some grown-up children treat their" mothers, mothers who have cheerfully ; given up everything for them when they were little, and the saddest thing of all is that such mothers have generally gen-erally only themselves to blame for this deplorable state of things, says the , Washington Star. ; Don't teach them yourself if it can be arranged otherwise. Let them understand un-derstand that they must not break in upon you at all hours of the day. . Above all, be very just, very careful ; of sensitive ittle feelings. A child finds It difficult to understand why it may hug mother with impunity one day and be scolded for the same caress the next. Explain gently it was just because mother happened to have a smart frock on which she didn't want f crumpled, not because she didn't want to be loved, and the child won't feel direfully hurt and aggrieved. Always appreciate children's little of ferings and never leave a handful of ; even the shortest stocked, -stickiest 1 ' dandelions out of water. 1 have known a very big lump rise to a little throat I because mother didn't, care for baby's j flowers. f THE ETHICS OF DRESS. Imprimis The first instinct about a new fashion is the true one. Don't wait until your eye ha-s lost its accuracy ac-curacy and your judgment its edge. Subject the thing at once to the general gen-eral rule, and bow to the decision. Second What suits one person does not suit another. Know thyself. Third Dress should supplement good points and correct bad . ones. Thick and thin, long and short are not all to be subjected to que Procrustean 1 style. Fourth Colors should be harmonious, harmoni-ous, should be massed should be be- coming. Many little points or blotches of color sprinkled over a costume pro- ' (luce a disagreeable pied and speckled effect. One tint should prevail, relieved re-lieved by a contrasting tint. No amount of fashionable prestige can make an unbecoming color becoming. . . "Nile green" will turn some people into I oranges, though twenty empresses or- ' dor its adoption. Fifth Lines should be continuous, graceful and feminine. It is better to 1 look like a woman (if you happen to ? . i be one) than like anything else even i : 1 a fashion plate. i , Sixth Ornaments must be subordin ate. Nature, with all her profusion, never forgets this fundamental law. Seventh Above all things, be neat. ' Dainty precision and freshness is es- ; . sential to a woman as a flower. ' ' ; , Eighth Indnviduallty is the rarest and the cheapest thing in the world. Ninth and lastly "Stylish" is of all the words in the English language the ! most deadly. It has slain its thou sands. A MAN. L Has a fondness for telling other men what they should or should not do. i . With a "perpetual grumble" is the -last to confess that he stands in his own light. Wants women to understand that he s not of the sort to e easily cajoled or deceived. Always tries to make' it appear that the preponderance of lve is on the woman's side. Who has set opinions on all ques- tions rarely exhibits clear judgment on ,'. involved problems. Never feels that he has shown ill- temper w ithout cause therefor. Will insist that he dislikes a crowded . ' flining room and then grows cross . when he is left alone. BAD SPELLING. An Evanston, Ills., professor gives, In the Chicago Record-Herald, the following fol-lowing analysis of the causes of bad spelling: Let me say that, in a long struggle 6 gainst bad spelling by college students stu-dents and others, we have never made use of a "spelling book." 1 do not believe be-lieve that such a book should ever be ! used above, say, the fourth grammar crade. I am fully convinced that at least 00 per cent of our prevalent bad spelling comes from an unwise use of v - i he "visual" method. It has been demonstrated by recent experiments I. .n our psychological laboratory that nn an average a person does not see at :ne glance more than four consecutive 'tiers of any word. The prevalent ' idea of, taking a long word at a single (Uilp, so to speak, is, therefore, psy- ihologically unsound. In our efforts ': to improve the spelling of candidates ' Tor admission to our English courses we have found three or four methods effective. U) A careful drill in etymology, Fhowing the obvious relation of Latin 3 clensions and conjugations to the Fl-elling if a vast number of common ! words. Such a drill generally helps i :he student to avoid misspelling such ivoids as "arable," "divisible," "movable" and hundreds of other words where a sliffht recollection of the declension or conjugation involved will have the speller from blundering. (2) A careful drill in the application applica-tion of the half-dozen well established tules for doubling letters, eliding the final, etc. Jt is amazing how generally I rhj mmar school and high school lea.cn- ' fry ignore these ruels. Yet these rules ; me as free from exceptions as the or- i j di!iary rules of Latin syntax. '. 3; The determination .of tne beset- j ing orthographical sins of each indi vidual pupil. Except in the fase of a (iy few incorrigibly bail, spellers f and the number of these is infinitesi- f .1 mal, comparatively it- is found that persons habitually misspell each a few common words. It is for tho earnest teacher to determine patiently, in each individual case, what these besetting orthographical ; sins are, an I to drill the pupil accordingly. Such words can easily be determined by means of dictation exercises If the drill in etymology and i i spelling rules doe not remedy the case, it is not difficult to suggest some fantastic association, by means of which applying the well known psychological law of remembering re-membering by association the pupil may forever avoid his tendency to blunder on a particular word. For example, ex-ample, who need again misspell the olttn misspelled word "separate" after Le har, been reminded that that word is always "at par" that is, contains the sequence p-a-r? (4) A thorough and continuous drill in syllabication. The neglect of syllabication syl-labication in our grammar and high schools is amazing. As I have already s-aid, this is the root of the matter. The "visual" method is of the very greatest value in teaching a young pupil pu-pil to read, but it is, I repeat, responsible respon-sible for most of our bad spelling, in so far as it is used to the exclusion of the analytic method. MAKING CHILDREN HAPPY. Our quiet hours with our children should first of all be cheerful hours. Sydney Smith has said: "If you make cljldren happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the mem ory of it." I believe this to be quite true. We should make the hours with cur children full of joy, then twenty-years twenty-years from now we, too, can recall how-happy how-happy they were, how Ave heard their merry voices and watched them play, and we can look with pride on oiir children chil-dren whom we loved and. who went to "Grown-up land." Then, too, the quiet I hours, with our-children, should be loving lov-ing hours. How much the small touches of a mother's love mean to the child-: Even if it is only a whisper "to your son as he starts to school, "Remember, mother is thinking about you all day and expecting you to be a god boy," how much better the effect of such a farewell than to hurry him away with some sharp and nervous rebuke. Exchange. |