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The Commoner.
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Vol. a, No. U.
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The Home Department.
The Boy Who Succeeds.
Tlioro is always a way to rise, my boy,
always a way to advanco;
Yet the road that leads to Mount
. ' Succoss
Does not pass by tlio way of Chance,
But goes through the stations of Work
and Strlvo,
Through the valloy of persevere,
And tho man that succeeds, while
others fail,
Must bo willing to pay most dear.
For thoro's always a way to fall, my
boy,
Always a way to slido,
And tho men that you find at the foot
of tho hill
All sought for an easy ride.
So on and up, though the road be
rough
And the storms come thick and fast,
Thoro is room at tho top for the man
who tries,
And victory comes at last.
The Christian Commonwealth,
London.
Recipe For LoW Spirit.
Take one ounce of seed of resolu
tion properly mixed with the oil of
good conscionco; into it infuse a largo
spoonful of the salts of patience. Dis
till very carefully a composing plant
"other's woes," which you will And in
every part of tho garden of life, grow
ing undor tho broad leaves of dls
guiso; add a small quantity, as it
will much assist tho salts of patience
in their operation.
'..Gather a handful of tho fair blos
soms of hope; then sweeten them prop
orly with d syrup made of tho balm
of providence; and if you can get any
of tho seed of truo friendship you will
Lave tho most valuable remedy that
can be compounded or administered
for this disorder. But bo careful to
get tho Beed of truo friendship, as
thoro is a seed that very much resem
bles it called self-interest, but -which
will spoil the whole composition. Exchange.
The Good Old Tunes.
In a paper that drifted into my sanc
tum tho other day, there was a bit of
verse, a stanza of which lingers in
my memory:
'Twas many, many years ago,
But still there comes to me,
Tho memory sweet of tho old hymns
They sang in Genesoo.
Perhaps, some of us, in reminiscent
moods, love to recall the old hymns
and the old tunes of our childhood.
Not long ago I was in a largo congre
gation, whore a hymn, most appro
priate in its phrasing and thought was
given out, sot to an unfamiliar mol
ody. Tho congregation tried to sing,
but could not. Thinner and thinner
grew the Btrain, hero and there a
straggling voice keeping it up. Pres
ently tho .loader, stopped. "Let us
all sing together," he said. "Corona
tion," and "All hail tho power of Jes
us' name," was lifted high, and went
ringing and vibrating in the waves of
triumphant harmony to the vaulted
roof of tho church. A good old tuno
that everybody knows, is just like
a good staunch frlond that everybody
trusts.
"When I am grown to man's estate,
I shall be very proud and great.
And toll tho other girls and boys
Not to meddle with my toys.
Robert Louis Stevenson showed a
good deal of insight when he wrote
that little quatrain. Most lads, look
ing with scrutinizing childish eyes
on tne conduct of their elders, or lls-
that grown people's first care is to
warn others from their possessions.
"No trespassers," most of us, in one
way or another, write over our front
gates. Nations, like individuals, are
always cautioning others not to med
dle with their toys. Hence tho arm
ies and navies of tho world, bristling
and defiant, that peace may bo pre
served. Hence tho jealous vigilance
about rights of way and frontiers.
Honco tho noed of forts and fleets.
May there not yot bo found a more
excellent way? Shall we not bring
up our children in the spirit of Chris
tian altruism by oxample and pre
cept? Christian Herald.
Isolation of Women on Farms.
It is generally thought that women
on farms have a life very much apart
from other women. This is not alto
gether the fault of their husbands.
Women are apt to get In tho habit of
staying at home and the more they
do so, the harder it becomes to "get
started." Many a farmer's wife Is
using stre,gth and time to secure an
extreme neatness in her home, to pre
pare olaborato dishes, to trim her chil
dren's clothes unnecessarily or to ex
cel her neighbors in tho number of
patchwork quilts or carpet-rag balls,
who hasn't time to drive or walk to
a neighbor's. That neighbor, as well
as herself, may be hungry for woman
companionship.
The farmer's wife need not think
she Is working, for her husband and
her children alono, working from "sun
to sun," for by so doing sho.may be
bringing on a sickness and perhaps
a fatal one.
Tho farmer's wife needs as much
time, if not more, for recreation, than
the hired girl, who has part of Bun
day, part of Thursday and her even
ings to use as she wishes. The for
mer should consider it her duty to know
more than she can possibly learn at
home and by mingling with others
she will at least learn that she is not
tho only burden-bearer, nor has she
a monopoly of life's blessings.
Of course, there is always some wo
man who "goes" leaving work undone
and children uncared for, but there is
no need of going to the other ex
treme. Wo can "do for'' our famil
ies In other ways than in manual labor.
Tho mother who never takes drives
or walks with her growing boys and
girls regret it when they are gone
from her arms forever.
Then, too, sho ought to go out alono
at times, that sho may commune with
nature and with human souls as she
herself needs. Many women never
learn to drive, or if thoy do, have to
wait for a man to harness the hors?.
There is scarcely a woman who can
not have a horse to use if she is rea
sonable about it and can drive and
harness it herself.
Then to learn to walk. Take walks
tho days you have sitting down to do.
Have a stool and use it while Ironing
plain pieces, wiping dishes or paring
vegetables or fruit, and when your
work Is completed, change your apron
and take a brisk walk.
A woman who goes out seldom is
apt to notice what others are wearing,
and in return to feel that she is the
'observed of all observed" In that
connection, advice is hero given for
women to get styles in millinery and
wraps and dresses that are not very
pronounced and that are not liable to
change, or if they do will not be so
noticeable. Extremes in fashion are
quick to go outof style and the far
mer's wife who buys "tho latest" crazo.
who goes out seldom and does not want
garments old-fashioned before worn
out. m , ,
It is well for those who have long
drives in dust, sunshine, wind and
rain, to avoid flowers, feathers and
much trimming, as such things soon
look faded and old. Remember money
put into good materials, especially
good gloves and shoes, makes a pleas
ant appearance much more than shod
dy goods do, however up-to-date in
stylo.
With an all-wool walking skirt,
plain jacket or capo, close-fitting hat.
with a neat glove and shoe, the farmer
women need never feel she is conspic
uous by hor clothes. If she is very
stylish sho should let that bent ex
haust itself in fashionable wrappers
and tea gowns and in house decora
tions. These will be worn out when
t'-ie style passes away.
Provided with a good umbrella,
mackintosh and rubbers, she should,
bo able to get away from home to
church on Sunday and once thro' the
week to visit the school, friends or
club. Tes, I think tho farmer's wife
can bo a club woman.
By making our lives attractive for
ourselves we make it attractive to
others, and who does not know of
many men who would gladly "go
to farming" but for the opposition of
tho wives who dread its drudgery and
isolation? If we find a way or make
one to get away from home occasion
ally, who knows but others will be
benefitted thereby?
"How does she manage to go so
much and get her work done?" How
often have we heard that-said of some
energetic woman, and have you not
said, while faithfully hugging the
hearthstone, "I work all day and ac
complish nothing?" Try going out
more and see if you do not return to
work with renewed interest. J. J. G.
in Farm, Field and Fireside.
I Will Cure You of
Rheumatism
No pay until you know it.
After 2,000 experiments, I hart
learned how to euro Rheumatism. Not
to turn bony joints into flesh again;
that Is impossible. But I can cure dia
disease always, at any state, and for
ever. I ask for no money. Simply writa
mo a postal and I will send you an
order on your nearest druggist for six
bottlas of Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic Cure,
for every druggist keeps it. Use it for
a. month, and if it does what I claim
pay your druggist $5.50 for it. If it
doesn't I will pay him myself.
I have no samples. Any medicine
that can affect Rheumatism with but
a few doses must be drugged to the
verge of danger. I use no such drugs.
it is roily to take them. You must get
the disease out of the blood.
My remedy does that, even in tho
most difficult, obstinate cases. No
matter how impossible this seems to
you, I know it and I take the risk. I
have cured tens of thousands of cases
in this way, and my records show that
39 out cf 40 who get those six bottles
pay, and pay gladly. I have learned
that people in general are honest with,
a physician who cures them. That Is
all I ask. If I fail I don't expect a
penny from you.
Simply write me a postal card or
letter. Let me send you an order for
the medicine. Take it for a month,
for it won't harm you anyway. If it
cures, pay $5.60. I leave that entirely
to you. I will mail you a book that
tells how I do it. Address Dr. Shooo,
Box 515, Racine, Wis.
Mild cases, not chronic, are often
cured by one or two bottles. At' all
druggists.
mother of Benjamin Franklin or of
William Penn would be well worthy
of a conspicuous place in Philadel
phia. Let Chicago build a monument to
Nancy Lincoln. Richmond would do
herself credit by remembering in like
manner the mother of Thomas Jef
ferson. Let Cincinnati honor the memory
of tho mother of Grant.
And, If I could have my way, in
every great city of America, begin
ning with Washington and New York,
there would be a beautiful monument
of Mary, the mother of Washington.
Which of all our greatest and gener
ous cities will be the first to dedicate
a monument to the honor of an Amer
ican woman whose distinction is
that as a mother she bore and trained
and gave to her country a great man
a history-making genius or hero?
Mrs. John A. Logan, in Chicago American.
tening wit- thoughtful ears to their
conversation, must bo of tho opinion to always wear her best, finds her
Monuments to American Women.
The patriotism of the American peo
ple has very worthily expressed itself
in building monuments to perpetuate
the fame of our heroes, and thereby
to keep alive the nation's gratitude
for the distinguished services of her
illustrious dead.
We may be justly proud of the mon
ument on the Hudson which domes
the ashes of Grant. Chicago has
shown her public spirit and artistic
feeling in building fine monuments to
the memory of Douglas and Lincoln,
Logan and Grant. Our national cap
itol is replete with monuments bear
ing the names of our great military
and naval heroes; and here, too, pierces
tne slcy tho highest and most im
posing shaft in all the world, in hon
or of the immortal Washington.
Such expressions of national grat
itude are most fitting and praisworthy.
Moreover, these monuments are ed
ucational and Inspirational; they ed
ucate the rising generations In tho
history of American heroism and stim
ulate the patriotism of our youth.
But why is there such a lack of ap
preciation of America's great woman
hood as is manifest in the dearth of
monuments to her memory? A vis
itor from another planet, after study
ing the monuments of ancient and
modern times, would be justified in
concluding that the pagan Greeks
and Romans placed a higher esti
mate upon the genius and virtues of
woman than does our so-called Christ
Ian civilization.
Why does not England have the
c.valry and good taste to adorn
Westminster Abbey with tho statutes
of some of England's great mothers?
And may we not ask still more sig
nificantly in this free and democratic
Am-rica, where are the monumental
evidences of this republic's Kratefnl
recognition of the services of Amer
ican motherhood? With what propri
ety might Boston adorn her Common to cumja coid tn-otstw tuv
With a statue Of tho mother Of Sam- ,Taka Laxative Bromo Quinino Tableta. All
uel Adams! A monument of the vvFhr, UfWtb? mo?8y itfailato cure.
mc j,, Wt Urove'a siguaturo is on each box, 25c.
Books Rceived.
Good Cheer Nuggets, quotations
from Moeterllnck, Le Conte, Hugo,
and Dresser, gathered by Jeanne G.
Pennington; published by Fords, How
ard . Hulbert, New York.
Toasts and Forms of Public Ad
dresses, by William Pittenger; pub
lished by The Penn Publishing Co.,
Philadelphia.
The Debater's Treasury, comprising
a list of over two hundred questions
for debate, with arguments both af
firmative and negative, by William
Pittenger; published by The Penn
Publishing Co., Philadelphia.
Law, and How to Keep Out of It,
by Paschal XI. Coggins, Esq.; pub
lished by The Penn Publishing Co.,
Philadelphia.
A Paradise Valley Girl, by Susanna
D. Fry; published by The Abbey Press)
New York.
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