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Our Women and Children Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards. THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN Under the foregoing title, Dr. Charles Gilmore Kerley writes a stimulating article in the Outlook and the following is one of its at tractive truths: “It is generally assumed that the benefits derived from adoption are al! on the side of the child. This is a general belief and always an error. What possible role could the adopted child or adopted children (for many adopt more than one) play in a fam ily that would accrue to the benefit of the adult members of the family? It is this: they postpone old age. The presence of young children and young people in the home means that the adults are kept young. To be men tally youthful means a postponement of physical age. Has the reader ever been in a childless home, a home that has been childless, we will say, for fifteen or twenty years? If so, you will agree with me that there are signs of age, very definite signs; that the passing years have' left their in delible footprints. Everything is painfully precise. Every chair and piece of furniture stands stiff and prim and proper. The home of these 1 old young people characterizes the oc cupants, and the occupants now de mand order, quiet, and creature com forts. Even the family pets resent intrusion or disturbances of their daily routine. Place a child in a home- as described above, and what a change takes place, not only in the home, but in the oc cupants! I have repeatedly known the advent of an adopted child in a child less home to cure neurasthenia, des pondency, and habitual grouch, par ticularly in men. I am able to give a very effective prescription against premature old age, and the prescrip tion calls for constant association with youth, which means youthful environ ment—and environment is the great determining factor in human exist ence, not excepting heredity." A MOTHER’S TEMPLE By Hattie Vose Hall A buiider builded a temple; He wrought it with care and skill— Pillars and groins and arches, All fashioned to work his will. And men said, as they saw its beauty, “It never shall know decay. Great is thy skill, O builder! Thy fame shall endure for aye " A mother builded a temple With infinite loving care, Planning each arch with patience, Laying each stone with prayer. None praised her unceasing effort, None knew of her wondrous plan, For the temple the mother builded Was unseen by the eye of man. Gone is the builder’s temple— Crumbled into the dust; Low lies each stately pillar, Food for consuming rust. But the temple the mother builded Will last while the ages roll, For that beautiful unseen temple Was a child’s immortal soul. —Zion’s Herald. Subscribe for The Monitor. ONE CERTAIN WAY OF REDUCING YOUR COST OF LIVING Why not figure out what propor tion of the present high cost of living is chargeable to the vegetables you consume during the year? You would find that they represent prob ably half of your living expense. If you cut this expense down you de prive yourself of the wholesome and necessary food provided by nature, to keep the brain healthy and the body in repair—for more and more is it apparent that the active child, the ef ficient workers, the man “young at three score" depends upon vegetables to properly “balance" his food ration, since the mineral salts contained in fresh vegetables are absolutely indis pensable to health. With garden seeds at their present perfection, a home garden is bound to be a success, and a space 25x50 feet will produce all the vegetables a fam ily of six would require. Do not put it off! Plan for your garden now, a garden for health and for saving.— People’s Home Journal. ST. JOHN’S A. M. E. CHURCH NOTES Rev. W. T. Osborne, Pastor. The Willing Workers met at the Church Friday afternoon. There were two new members, Mrs. Beatrice Na pier, and Mrs. Jessie Wright. The W'illing Workers have added a literary department to their club, and Mrs. Alice Sherwood read a splendid pa per on "Love and Kindness.” Mrs. Carrie Carter porved herself quite a dramatic reader in the rendition of “Creation.” A real dinner was served after the program. The Rev. W. T. Osborne will preach a special sermon Sunday morning. Subject, “Saints in Wrong Places.” Mr. Roy Fouts, organist of St. John, is much better and will be out soon. Mrs. L. Broomfield, daughter of Mrs. Martha Jackson, returned home last Tuesday sick. The largest audience that has at tended a literary society at St. John, was present at the opening of the Tuesday Night Forum, under the management of the Missionary Clubs. The program was par excellent. The instrumental by Miss Otis Watson, solos by Miss Darlene Duvall, Mr. Ru fus Long and Rev. F. J. Peterson, were received with hearty applause which demanded encores. The Hon. Amos P. Scruggs gave a splen did logical and practical address on “Poise,” which was full of food for thought and enjoyed by the appre ciative large audience. The captains and members gave a rising vote of thanks to the participants on pro gram and the audience for the great interest shown in their efforts for the literary, musical and financial devel opment of St. John and the cause of missions. Program for Tuesday night, January 30: Congregational singing, “My Coun try ’tis of Thee. Invocation. Vocal solo, Mrs. Ida Baker. Address, “Why We Should be Proud of Our Race,” Mr. George W. Parker. Vocal solo, Mrs. Helen Fields. Tenor solo, The Rev. W. T. Osborne. The ladies will serve a fish dinner and by request chitterlins. Dinner at 7 p. m. Dinner committee: Mesdames Queen Jackson, Maude Ray, Alice Avery, C. H. Huston, Beatrice Napier, Lulu Wheeler, Jessie Wright. Refreshment committee: Mesdames W. S. Metcalf, F. J. McCullough, Myr tle Moore, Evelyn Ray, and Miss Wil imena Watson. Entertaining committee: Mesdames Eva Walker, Lulu Rountree, Anna Burton, L. P. Robbinette. The Missionary Ladies have added a new club to their campaign, known as the Bright Star Club. The follow ing members have already joined and others are wanted: Messrs. Chas. W. Washington, Plummer Walker, E. W. Moore, E. L. Jackson, W. P. Ray, Dr. Pryor and Rev. G. D. Rivers. Mrs. C. H. Huston and Miss I. Jackson are the new members who joined the campaign club last Tuesday eve. 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