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Our Women and Children Conducted by Lucille Skagge Edwards. A THANKSGIVING THOUGHT As we recount life, health, liberty, prosperity and the many, many things for which we may be thankful, there comes to us the thought—thankfulness for the richness that poverty has brought to the world. The accumulation of wealth is com mendable but we are astonished at how small a part wealth has played in the fundamentals of the progress and development of races. Science, liter ature and art are rich in contributions from the poor. Jesus, choosing the station in which He might accomplish His great work, came to this world a lowly carpenter with toil hardened hands though the wealth of the world might have been His. All the rich men of the ancients could not do for the world what the barefoot Socrates did. Literature is pathetic with poverty from Homer to Poe. The greatest of American schools was Lincoln studying Euclid by the light of his “tallow dip.” Toussaint L’Ouverture, Frederick Douglas and Booker T. Washington contributed to the world, not the wealth and power of material acquisitions, but of the richness of great thought and of the power of great action. L. S. E. WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A TURKEY? By Edna Erie Wilson in The Designer “Would you like to be a turkey, Sister Ann?" asked Brother Joe; “Just a-strutting round the barnyard; And a-gobble-gobbling—so! “Never have to learn a lesson, Never have to go to school, Never have to wear a necktie Or obey a horrid rule. “ ’Twould be ’bout the finest ever, Sister Ann, I think—don’t ycu? We could do just what we wanted And eat lots of good com, too!” Sister Ann, when asked this question. Stopped quite gravely from her play, Thought a moment; then remem bered— Soon ’twould be Thanksgiving Day! “No, I wouldn’t be a turkey In November, Joe,” she said, “ ’Cause I’d rather be a LIVE girl Than a gobbling turkey—DEAD!” The Capitalist. The word “capitalist” is a favorite one today. To many boys it means power and influence. They would like to be capitalists when they grow up. But meanwhile they are not laying up capital at all. Even the poorest boy can start a capital account today, if he chooses. “No money to put in it”—that may be, but a boy's capital is not in coin or notes. It is not in what he has. It is what he is as a boy and, therefore, will be as a man. Safe Capital. Character is capital laid up. Honor ia capital. Religion is capital, the capital that counts most of all. A bank may break; a burglar may steal every penny that has been saved and hoarded. But character, honor, and religion cannot thus be taken away. They are safely part of their pos sessor, and no one can steal them. The Best Riches. Every boy who is laying up these things in his life is a capitalist on the road to the only enduring riches of human existence.—Youth’s World. FASHION NOTES. By Miss Sturgeon. Old Man Winter is here and so are the new skating togs. Warm knitted throws and caps to match will keep you nice and "cumfy.” Party, boudoir and clipper bags made of gayly colored ribbons make very acceptable gifts. Bath towels in any combination of colors may be had to carry out your color scheme in the bathroom. Crocheted coaster sets are the very .atest in table appointments. Jewel cloth, all ready hemstitched and stamped with attractive designs are finding favor with lovers of pret ty embroidery work. It will soon be an every day sight to see Mi Lady going “a-knitting.” Pretty taffeta, messaline and satin oags made especially for this purpose are being shown. Hot roll and sandwich holders of fine linen to be embroidered make attractive as well as useful gifts to the busy housewife. Although France is in the midst of war, they nevertheless have managed to create some wonderful pieces :n vory. Dressing table sets, toilet .ater holders, card holders and the like. NEGRO VOCALIST SINGS IN JEWISH TEMPLE CHOIR .Musical Editors and Comedians ot Race Gain World Wide Fame. A few earnest Negro-music stu dents have studied the man so broad, genial and human—carefully and .horoughly. Some Negroes have real musical acocmplishments. Harry T. Burleigh, a pupil of Dvorak, is bari tone soloist at St. George’s church, New York City, sings in the choir of the Jewish temple, and is musical editor at Ricordi’s. Mr. Burleigh’s songs are published by Ricordi Co., G. Schirmer. leading publisher of America, and Presser of Philadelphia. Nathaniel Dett, a very young man, recently from Oberlin School of Music, and now director at Hampton, has in his developed “Listen to the Lambs/” published by Schirmer, proved his right to be taken serious ly by his musical public. Carl Diton, a graduate of the University of Penn sylvania, a student for two years in Germany, now teacher in Atlanta, Ga., is a thorough master of temperament and technique, is considered as rank ing with the first organists of New York City.—New York Sui. NEW BOOK ON BOOKER T. WASHINGTON A work entitled “Booker T. Wash ington, Builder of Civilization,” which is to be published this month by Doubleday, Page and Co., is written by Emmett J. Scott (who was for eighteen years secretary to Dr. Wash ington, and later his associate at Tus kegee) in collaboration with Lyman Beecher Stowe, a grandson of the author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and a grand-nephew of Henry Ward Beecher. 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