IX these days of much talk regard
ing progressive womanhood an J
tli higher education of the fair
It U well onc-e In awhile to pause
note what sort of Influence this
higher mental development has upon
a woman's actions, where domesticity
marriage are concerned. To one
rbo undoubtedly believes that a wora-
should know all that she possibly
store up in her pretty head, it
h evident and pleasantly so, too, that
the) higher education of women has
from the start shown a tendency to
discipline those who take college
courses toward early and imprudent
Marriages. Wisdom and precaution
apparently have come hand in hand to
take possession of the fair one's heart
and brain.
A recent canvass of college graduates
Is said to have shown that while IX) per
ut of non-college women become
wivs, only M per cent, of college grad
uates resign their lives into the keep
ing of husbands. From other sources
It is learned that those who marry do j
not swell the lists of invalid wives;
either do 50 per cent, of the children
born to them figure fn mortality tables
-as is the ghastly fact with the every-
""" woman's children. College women
are not apt to marry a man to save
him, and thus insure for children mor
ally weak or vicious fathers; neither
"Sows love (?) in a cottage translated In
ttbeae days into a cheap flat In an un
wholesome locality apiear to her finer
r more winsome than the self-respect
ing Independence of the bread-winning
ipotutions that are now within her reach.
Soars ago some conservative men had
tbe perspicacity to realize and the cour
age to state that fuller life for woman
want the lessening of her interest in
i Marriage (the only profession our fore
mothers had been permitted to consld-
r, . and that she would be harder to
scse and more deliberate in her
' choice. That the prophecies have come
- to pass Is matter for congratulation,
i r for condemnation, according to the
oliserver's point of view.
'""BepttaMe Working; Girls."
"1 read in a newwruiper this morning,"
"said a downtown business man, "that
f a tfirl who was found in the streets
1 looks 'like a respectable working girl.
"I cannot lielp but think that Is one of
'the many stereotyped phrases that are
used in writing because they come nat
Ttl rally and easily to the writer's mind.
I don't believe there is any type of re
spectable working girL The phrase
'VMBot cover the tremendous gaps be
Um the servant type, the factory
type aad the typewriter and saleswom
an type, so it does not mean anything.
Wisest I am In a hurry 1 drop into a
ssnsralng place on Fulton street and
always find it crowded by Respectable
working girls.' They are typewriters
awl saleswomen, but I can point out
wloavns who, If seen separately on the
street could not be told from the Idle
and stylish daughters of the moderate
ly well-to-do. Their hats and wraps
and skirts are of the latest fashion, and
they appear to be Just as well manner
ed a If they were all pupils in an up
town private school or a Bible class on
of the nice avenues. Why, work
not even dampened their spirits,
for they are all as merry as young girl
abould be. 'And the preference they
jrive to pastry, as well as tbe way they
twist and turn to examine one an
other's dresses, shows that combining
business and femininity has not altered
The sex much as yet" New York Sun.
Care of the Skin.
A simple and very efficacious bath for
be face for the whitenlg and soften
ing of the skin is buttermilk. First
mpoage off the face with very hot water,
as hot as the skin will bear. Then bathe
H freely In buttermilk, rubbing well
toto tbe skin. Sponge again with hot
-water in order to remove a slight greas-
lassos. Then plunge tbe face Into a
"tjasln of cold water and wipe softly
vartth a soft towel
Taat last plunge is to preserve the
tmxmm of tbe skin. Hot water is
Tfateachlng. but also softening, tending,
-alas, to produce wrinkles. Tbe cold
-Joache counteracts this and keeps tbe
"acta Arm. It takes but a few minutes
tjefore retiring to perform the little
Sites on tbe altar of vanity, but the de
wtee is amply repaid by results.
' For a Blender Figure.
Jk. coat for the slender sisters is com
oaed of black velvet. The plaits on
Che hips are each a veritable little blp,
they stand out so distinctly. The
are made of the new velvet
known as "Gismonde" chine.
Mt has n watered ground and what the
kIhMbm term a glace design on It,
which It Is easy to Imagine bow
' and mirror like Is Its rich finish.
CX the seek is a cream colored lace
I Ottt which falls to the waist, show
tsattfe exquisite effect against the re
CCrr )f chinchilla. The lining of this
CCt t pals green The linings are
O feature this year of all
Cats fa Utile dsn,
for t girls are mostly of big
13 wUes hearer aad felt are tbe
i sasMsjr awes atsrtata. Or-
ats tfUBSBed with ralret
! fl Ims, with sosaetlmes a
tar eater MM by pom
'C C3r k f feathers ar af
Tf J tw1ai Tsrrst
too, are fashionable for the little folks,
and the tots are seen with such bats
made of the cloth that is the ehlef ma
terial of their wraps. Such headgear
is trimmed with silk pompons, small
wings or velvet bows.
Wraps of wee sizes are seen trimmed
with chinchilla, fox and like light furs,
but the quantity of such trimming on
one garment is usually very small, as
the fur Is seen only in narrow stripes
that edge collars, capes, neck and
wrists. The rage for showy buttons
that prevails in women's dress extends
also to children that are ten or less
years from "coming out," and the effect
of big buttons on small bodies is often
irresistibly quaint. Lace effects for
adults' dressing, too, a re reproduced on
the little folk's gowns, and the copying
is so close that the latter look for all
the world like dwarfed Imitations of
their elders.
To Make a Gown or Coat Modl.h.
Fur Is used for vests and waists of
cloth gowns, as It was last season, and
last season's coat can be made quite
modern by facimr the coIIh
and cuffs with fur. Even tbe old-fashioned
stone marten is not to be cast
aside, and mink is extremely pretty for
this purpose. The popurr fur muff Is
round and medium large, but those who
wish to carry out the picturesque styles
of Marie Antoinette will find a giant
murr, quite flat and a yard wide, very
open at the ends, and made of the most
expensive sable. Muffs lined with fur
are one of the sensible fashions, and
runcy muffs of velvet are trimmed
with fur, Insertions of guipure, and
numerous frills of chiffon on either
side, caught up with rhinestoue brooch
es. These usually match the toque or
neck trimming or both. Home of the
fur muffs have a decoration of lace
and velvet lmws, fastened on with
small heads with beady eyes. Kevera
and cuffs of green velvet applique
traced with Jet are one of the novel
trimmings for Persian lamb coats, but
the combinations of velvet, embroider,
lace and flowers with fur garments are
the exception and not the rule.
I Mix You, Dear.
When morning's light first tints the gray
of dawn,
And sleepless eyes tell day is here.
And all the world is stirring into life,
Then is the time I mint you, dear.
When noontime comes and brings
Hi
nonr of rest
From busy toil, so full of care and fear;
When man so needs the solace of a smile.
Then is the time 1 miss yon, dear.
When twilight falls and all the world i
still.
When echoes come from far and near.
And sighing winds lull weary souls to
rest.
Then is tbe time I miss you, dear.
Through every moment of the lagging
day,
So long, without your words ot cbeer.
And when, at night, 1 kneel me down in
prayer,
Then is the time I miss you, dear.
Boycelle Divided Skirt.
Hot Bran for Fur.
Fur, after some years' wear, will look
much Improved If cleaned with new
bran previously heated In the oven.
Rub the hot bran well Into the fur with
a piece of flannel, shake tbe fur to re
move all particles and then brush thor
oughly. Tbe fur will clean wore easily
if tbe lining and wadding are first re
moved, but such removal is not abso
lutely needful. The flat, oily look which
mars the apearance of the neck portion
of furs long in use, is mostly, if not
wholly, removed by means of hot bran.
Rub the fur the wrong way, this mean
ing In this particular Instance the right
way.
Ounce of Prevention.
Wear a clean apron while Ironing or
bed-making.
To clean bamboo furniture use a
brush dipped In salt water.
Tbe eyes should be bathed every night
In cold water Just before retiring and
they will do better work the following
day.
When very tired lie on the back, al
lowing every muscle to relax, letting
the hands go any way tbey will, and
hasp the eyes closed.
If yon have to sew all day change
yoar seat occasionally and so obtain
rant Bathing the face and hands will
also stimulate and refresh.
Oil stains may be removed front wall
Baser hy applying foa roar hours pips
day, powdered and mixed wlti watsr
ts the tMrfcasss of
TALM AGE'S SERMON
THE PREACHER CHOOSES
INTERESTING TOPIC.
AN
Hla Views of the Mew Waal-plr-Itual
and Physical Health A Word
for Mothers Their Influence and
Counsel A Strong Peroration.
A Word with Women.
Rev. Dr. Talinage took for the subject
of last Sunday's sermon "A Word with
omen, the text for tbe occasion being
the following letter received by the dis
Unguished preacher:
Reverend Sir You delivered a dis
course tn answer to a letter from six
young men of Kayette, Ohio, requesting
yoa to preach a sermon on "Ad rice to
Young Men." Are we justified in asking
you to preach a sennoo on "Advice to
Young Women?"
Letter Signed by Six Young Women.
Christ, who took his text from a nock
of birds flying overhead, saying, "Behold
the fowls of the air!" and from the flow
ers in the valley, saying, "Consider the
hues of the held," aud from tbe clucking
of a barnyard fowl, saying, "As a hen
gatberetii her chickens nnder ber wing.
and from a crystal of salt picked up by tbe
roadside, aaymg, "bait is good, will
grant us a blessing, if, instead of taking
a text from the Bible, I take for niy text
this letter from Cincinnati, which is only
one of many letters which 1 have received
from young women in Mew York, New
Orleaus, San Francisco, London, Edin
burgh, and from the eulg of the earth, all
implying that, having some months ago
preached tbe sermon on "Advice to Young
Men," I could not, without neglect of
duty, refuse to preach a sermon on "Ad
vice to Young Women."
It is tbe more important that the pulpit
be heard on this subject at this time wheu
we are having such an illimitable discus
sion about what is called tbe new wo
man," as though some uew creature of
Uod had arrived on earth or were about to
arrive. One theory is that she will lie an
athlete and boxing glove and foot-ball and
pugilistic encounter will characterize her.
Another theory is that she will superin
tend ballot boxes, sit in Congressional hall
and through improved politics bring the
millennium by the evil she will extirpate
aud the good sbe will install. Another
theory is that she will adopt masculine at
tire and make sacred a vulgarism positive
ly horriflc. Another theory ia that she
will be so aesthetic that broom handle
and rolling pin and coal scuttle will lie
pietorialized with tints from soft skies
or suggestions of Rembrandt and Raphael.
The New Woman,
Heaven deliver the church and the
world from any one of these styles of new
woman! She will never come. 1 have so
much faith in the evangelistic triumph
and in the progress of all things in the
right direction that 1 prophesy that style
of new woman will never arrive. She
would hand over this world to diabolism,
and from being, as she is now, the might
iest agency for the world's uplifting she
would be the mightiest force for its down
thrust. 1 will tell you who the new wo
man will be. Sbe will be the good wo
man of ail the ages past. Here and there
a difference of attire as the temporary
custom may command, but the same-good,
honest, lovely, Christian, all influential
being that your mother and mine was.
Of that kind of woman was Christian
Eddy who, talking to a man who was so
much of an unbeliever he had named his
two children Voltaire and Tom I'aine.-
nevertheless saw him converted, he break
ing down with emotion as he ssid to her;
"I cannot stand yon. Y'ou talk like my
mother." And telling the story of his
conversion to twelve companions who had
been blatant opposers of religion they
asked her to come and see them also and
tell them of Christ, and four of them were
converted and all the others greatly
changed, and the leader of the band, de
parting for heaven, shouted; "Joyful!
Joyful! Joyful!"
If you know any better style of woman
than that, where is sbe? The world can
not Improve on that kind. The new wo
man may have more knowledge, because
she will have more books, but she nil)
have no more common sense than that
which tried to manage and discipline and
educate us and did as well a she could
with such unpromising material. She
may have more health than the woman of
other days, for the sewing machine and
the sanitary regulations and added in
telligence on the subjects of diet, ventila
tion and exercise and rescue from many
forms of drudgery may allow her more
longevity, but sbe will have th same
characteristics which Uod gave her in
paradise, with the exception of the nerv
ous shock and moral jolt of the fall she
got that day when not noticing where she
stepped ahe looked np into the branches
of the fruit tree.
But 1 must be specific. This letter be
fore me wants advice to young women.
The First Need.
Advice the first: Get your soul right
with Uod, and yon will be in the best atti
tude for everything that comes. New
ways of voyaging by sea, new ways of
traveling by land, new w ays of thrashing
the harvests, new ways of printing books
'-and the patent oflice is enough to en
chant a man who baa mechanical ingenu
ity and knowa a good deal of levers snd
wheels and we hardly do anything as it
used to be done; invention after invention.
Invention on top of invention. But in the
matter of getting right with Uod there
haa not been a invention for 0,II0 years.
It is on the same line of repentam-e that
David exercised about his sins, and the
same old style of prayer that the publican
used when he emphasized it by an inward
stroke of both hands, and the same faith
In Christ that I'aul suggested to the jailer
the night the penitentiary broke down.
Aye, that Is the reason I have more con
fidence In it. It has been tried by more
millions than I dare to state lest I come
far short of the brilliant facts. All who
through Christ earnestly tried to get right
with Uod are right and always will lie
right. That gives the yonng woman who
gets that position superiority over all
rivalries, all jealousies, all misfortune,
sll health fallings. allocial diasaters and
all the combined trooble of eight years
If she shall live to be as octogenarian. If
the world falls to appreciate her, she
says, "Ood loves me. tbe angels la beavrn
are ia sympathy with me. snd I ess afford
to be patient until tbe day wbea the Im
perial chariot shall wheel to my door to
take me np to my coronation." If health
goes, she says, "1 can eadare the present
distress, for I am ea tbe way to a climate
the Iret breath of which will make me
proof against evea the slightest discom
fort" If she be Jostled with pertabatioas
of social Ufa, she eaa say, "Well, when I
bagM my life asaong the Ureses of heaven
and the king sad
ants Uod shall
be my associates, it will sot make uiucb
difference who on earth forgot me when
the invitations to that reception were
made out" All right with Uod, yoa are
all right with everything.
Martin Lulber, writing a letter of con
dolence to one of his friends who had lost
his daughter, began by saying, "This is a
hard world for girls." It is for those who
are dependent upon their own wits and
the whims of the world and the prefer
ences of human favor, but those who take
the Eternal Uod for their portion not
later than 15 years of age, aud that is
ten vears later than it ought to be, will
find that while Martin Luther's letter of
condolence was true in regard to many
if not most, with respect to those who
have the wisdom and promptitude and the
earnestness to get right with Uod, I de
clare that thia is a good world for girls
Importance of Physical Health.
Advice the second: Make it a matter
of religion to take care of your physical
health. I do not wonder that the U reeks
deified health and hailed Hygeia as a god
dess. I rejoice that there have been so
many modes of maintaining and restoring
young womanly health invented in our
time. They may have been known a long
time back, but they have been popularized
in our day lawn tennis, croquet and golf
and the bicycle. It always seemed strange
and inscrutable that our human race
should be so slow of locomotion, when
creatures of less importance have (lowers
of velocity, wing of bird or foot of ante
lope, leaviug us far behind, and while it
seems so important that we be in many
place in a short while we were weighed
down with Incapacities, and most men, if
they run a mile, are exhausted or dead
from the exhaustion. It was left until
the last decade of the nineteenth century
to give the sjieed which we see whirling
through ail our cities and along the coun
try reads, and with that speed comes
health. The women of the net decade
will be healthier than at any time sin.e
the world w as created, w hile the invalid
ism which Iikh so often characterized wo
manhood will pass over to manhood.
which, by its posture on the wheel, is com
ing to curved spine and cramped chest
and a deformity for which another fifty
years will not have power to make rescue.
Young man, sit up straight when you ride,
Darwin says the human race is descended
from the monkey, but the bicycle will turn
hundred thousand men of the present
generation in physical condition irom
man to monkey. For good womanhood,
I thank Uod that this mode of recreation
has been invented. Use it wisely, modest
ly. Christiauly. No good woman needs
to be told what attire is proper and what
behavior is right. If anything be doubt
ful, reject it. A hoydenish, boisterous,
masculine woman is the detestation of all,
and every revolution of the wheel sbe
rides Is toward depreciation and down
fall. Take care of your health, tl woman;
of your nerves in not reading the trash
which makes op ninety-nine out of one
hundred novels, or by eating too many
cornticopiaa of confectionery. Take care
of your eyes by not reading at hours
w hen you ought to be sleeping. Take care
of your ears by stopping them apairmt the
tides of gossip that surge through every
neighborhood.
Health! Only those know its value who
ave lost it. The earth Is girdled with
pain, and a vast proportion of it is the
price paid for early recklessness. I cloe
this, though, with the salutation in Mac
beth: "Now good digestion wait on appetite
And health on both."
A Word for Mothers.
Advice the third: Appreciate your
mother while you hsve her. It is the itl
most universal testimony of young women
who have lost mother that they did not
realize Vhat she was to them until after
her exit from this life. Indeed, mother is
in the appreciation of many a young Imly
a hindrance. The maternal inspection is
often considered an obstacle. Mother has
so many notions about that which is
proper and that which is improper. It is
astounding bow much more many girls
know at IS than their mothers at 45.
With whst an elaborate argument, per
haps spiced with some temiwrr, the young
ling tries to reverse the opinion of the
oldling. The spriiigle of gray on the mn
ternsl forehead is rather an indication to
the recent graduate of the female sem
inary that the circumstances of to-day
or to-night sre not fully appreciated.
Whst a wise boarding school that would
lie if the mothers were the pupils and
the daughters the teachers! How well
the teens could chaperon the fifth's! Then
mothers do not amount to much, anyhow.
Tbey are in the way and are always ask
ing questions a Unit postage marks of let
ters snd asking, "Who is that Mary D. V
and "Where did yon get that ring, Flora 7"
snd "Where did you get that ring,"
MyraT' For mothers hsve such unpre
cedented means of knowiug everything.
They ssy "it was a bird in the air" that
told them. AIbs, for that bird in the air!
Will not some one lift his gun aud shoot
it? It would lake whole libraries to hold
the wisdow which the daughter knows
more than her mother. "Why inn not I
have this?" "Why cannot I do that?"
And the question in many a group has
been, although not plainly stated: "What
shall we do with the mothers, anyhow?
They are so far behind the times." Per
mit me to suggest that if the mother had
given more time to looking after herself
and less time to looking after you sbe
would have been as fully up to date as you
In music, in style of gait, in aesthetic
taste and in all sorts of Information. I
expect that while you were studying bot
any and chemistry and embroidery and
the new opera she was studying house
hold economics. But one day, from over
work, or sitting up of nights with a neigh
bor's sick child, or a blast of the east
wind, on which pneumonitis are horsed,
mother is sick. Yet the family think she
will soon be well, for she bss been sick
so often and always has got well, snd the
physician comes three times a day, and
there is a consultation of the doctors, and
the news is gradually broken that recov
ery is impossible, given in the words,
"While Ibere is life there is hope." And
the white pillow over which are strewn
tbe lock a little tinted with snow be
comes the point around which all the
family gather, some standing, some kneel
ing, snd the pulse beats the last lb rob,
and tbe bosom tremble with the last
breath, snd the question is asked in a
whisper by all the group, "Is she gone?"
And all is over
Maternal Supervision.
Now come I he regrets. Now the daugh
ter reviews her former criticism of mater
nal supervision. For the first time sbe
realises what it is to have s mother snd
wbst It la to lose a mother. Tell me, men
and women, young and old. did soy of us
appreriste bow much mother was to us
satll she was gone? Young woman, yon
will probably never have a more disinter
ested friend tbas yoor mother. When ah
says aaythlag is unsafe or Imprudent, yon
had better believe It ia ussaf or impru
dent When she declares It Is something
yoa ought to do, I think you had better do
it She has seen more of the world than
you have. Du you think she could have
any mercenary or contemptible motive In
whst she advises you? She would girt
her life for you If it w ere called for. Do
yoa know of any one else who would do
more than that for yon? Do you know
of any one who would do as much? Again
and again she haa already endangered
that life during six week of diphtheria or
scarlet fever, and she never once brough
up the question of whether sbe had better
stay, breathing day and night the con
tag ion.
The graveyards are full of mothers who
died taking care of their children. Better
appreciate your mother before your ap
preciation of her will be no kindness to
her, and the post mortem regrets will be
more and more of an agony as the years
pass on. Big headstone of polished Ab
erdeen and tbe best epitaphs which the
lanuiy put together could compose and a
garland of whitest roses from the con
servatory are often the attempt to atoue
lor tbe thanks we ought to have uttered
in living ears and the kind words that
would have done more good than all the
cans lilies ever piled up on the silent
mounds of the cemeteries. The world
makes appiauditory ado over the work of
mothers w ho hsve raised boys to be great
men, and 1 could turn to my bookshelves
and hud the names of fifty distinguished
men who had great mothers Cuvier's
mother, Walter Scott's mother, St. Ber
nard's mother, Benjamin West's mother.
But who praises mothers for what thev
do for daughters who make tbe homes of
America? I do not know of an Instance
of such recognition. I declare to you
that I believe I am uttering the first word
that has ever been uttered in amireeiation
of tbe self denial, of tbe fatigues and
good sense aud prayers which those
mothers go through who navigate a fain
ily of girls from the edge of the cradle to
the schoolhouse door and from the school-
hi mse dijor up to the marriage altar. '1 hat
is un achievement which the eternal Uod
celebrates high up ill the heavens, though
for it human hands so seldom dsn th-
iiiuiien appiause. .Myi aiy; hat a
time that mother had with those young
stem, and if she had relaxed rare and
work aud advice and solicitation of heav
enly help that next generation would
have lauded in the poorhouse, idiot asv-
lum or penitentiary. It Is while she Is
living, but never while she is dead, that
some girls call their mother "maternal
ancest irs" or "the old woman."
Urief and Comfort.
And if you have a grief already and
some of the keenest sorrows of a woman's
life come early roll it over on Christ, and
you will find him more sympathetic than
was Queen Victoria, w ho, when ber chil
dren, tbe princes and princesses, came out
of the school-room after the morning les
son bad been given up by their governess
and told how her voice had trembled in
the i.oniing prayer because it w as the an
niversary of ber mother's death, and that
she had put her head down on tbe dink
and sobbed, "Mother! Mother!" the queen
went in mid said to the governess: "My
poor child! I am sorry the children dis
turbed you this morning. I will hear their
lessons to-day, and to show you that 1
bave not forgotten the sad anniversary I
bring you this gift." And the Queen
clasped on the girl's wrist a mourning
bracelet w ith a lock of her mother's hair.
All you young women the world around
who mourn a like sorrow, and sometimes
in your loneliness aud sorrow and loss
burst out crying, "Mother! Mother!" put
on your wrist ibis golden clasp of divine
sympathy, "As one whom his mother
com forteth so will I comfort you."
Advice the fourth: Allow no time to
puss without brightening some one's life.
Within five minutes' walk of you there
Is some one In a tragedy compared with
which Shiikspeare's King I-ar or Victor
Hugo's Jeau Valjeao has no power, (Jo
out and brighten somebody's life with a
cheering word or smile or a flower. Take
a good book and read a chapter to that
blind man. (Jo up that dark alley and
make that invalid woman laugh with some
good story. (Jo to that house from which
that child has been taken by death and tell
the father and mother what an escape j
the child ha had from the winter of
earth Into tbe springtime of heaven. For
Uod's sake make some one happy for ten
minutes if, for no longer a time.
A young woman bound on such a mis
sion, whst might she not accomplish? Oh,
there are thousands of these manufactur
ers of sunshiue! They are King's Daugh
ters, w net ber inside or outside of that de
lightful organization. They do more good
before they are 20 year of age than sel
fish women who live 1KI, and they are so
happy just because they make others hap
py. Compare such a young woman who
feels sbe has such a mission with one who
lives a rouud of vsnities, cardcase in
baud, calling on people for whom she does
not care, except for some social advant
age, and insufferably bored when the call
is returned, and trying to look young
after sbe Is old, and living a life of Insin
cerity and hollowness and dramatization
and show. Young woman, live to make
others happy, and you will be happy! Live
for yourself, snd you will be miserable!
There never has been an exception to the
rule; there never will lie sn exception.
Plan Oat lonr Life.
Advice the fifth: 1'lnn out your life on
a big scale, whether you are farmer's
daughter, or a shepherdess among the
hills, or the flattered pet of a drawing
room filled with statuary and pictures and
bric-a-brac. Slop where you are and
make a plan for your lifetime. Y'ou cannot
lie satisfied with a life of frivolity and
giggle and indirection. Trust the world,
and it will cheat you if It does not destroy
you. Tbe Redoubtable was the name of
an enemy's ship that Ixird Nelson spared
twice from demolition, but that same ship
afterward sent the ball that killed him,
and the world un which you smile may
aim at you It deadliest weapon.
Be a Hod's womsn. Draw out and de
cide what you will be and do, Uod help
ing. Write it out in a plain hand. Pot
tbe plan on the wall of your room or write
it In the opening of a blank book or put It
w here yoa will lie compelled often to see
ft. A thousand questions of your coming
life you cannot settle now, but there Is
one question you ran settle Independent
of man, woman, angel and devil, snd
that Is that yoa will be a Uod's woman
now, henceforth and forever, Clasp bands
with tbe Almighty. Then yoa can start
out on a voysge of life, defying both calm
and cyclone, saying, with Dean Alford:
"( tne who bss knowa la storms to saii
1 base on board;
Above tbe roaring of tbe gals
1 bear the Lord.
"He holds me when tbe billows smile:
I shall sot fall;
If short 'tis sharp. If long 'tis light:
He tempers alt."
From the errors of othsm a wise
comets hla own.
A Novel Table Cover.
An attractive cover for a small stand
la always a welcome addition to the
decoration of any room. The one shown
In tbe Illustration is entirely new and
emphasizes the craze for rlblKins which
has been made apparent In so many
ways. The model shown Is In use In
a young girl's room, where all the dec
orations are pale, tender green, with
bits of pink In the same depth of color,
to give warmth to the whole. The
cover shows the two colors, three of
tbe ribbons being pink and three green.
They were all cut of the required
length, Just enough to cover the stand
with tbe woven portion, and to hang
gracefully below, and were then laced
In and out after the manner of a check-
JtOVEL TABLE COVER.
erboard or a kindergarten mat. When
all were In place and perfectly smooth
they were firmly caught in tlie under
side with stitches, which were not al
lowed to pass through. Each strip was
turned under to form a point, and was
finished with a small silk tassel of the
exact shade. Finally while violets
were painted in a group or duster in
each of the four ends, and, that done,
tbe cover was complete. In the room
for which It was designed It Is charm
ing in the extreme; with only a changu
of color It can be made eijtially appro
prlate to any you may have In mind.
White and pale heliotrope make a
charming combination. All pale blue,
with wild roses at each end, Is good.
Any one of the new brocaded ribbons,
with plain, unpalnted ends, makes a
charming effect. Dull olive green, with
gold tinsel braid. Is rich aud durable.
Almost any combination that Is liartno-
Tilon can be trusted aud only the spe
cial needs of the special room can
determine what Is best..
Potato Rnni,
To one part of mashed (iota toes allow
two pans of chopied brid, both well
soaked and thoroughly stirred together.
Use sufficient salt and pepper to taste,
and flavor with onions fried to a light
brown. Another good recipe for potato
soup says: Put two good-sized potatoes
In a saucepan in a pint of water, one
bay leaf, celery seed, a slice of onion
and a sprig of parsley. Cook until
thoroughly done, then press through a
very fine sieve, uslug the water 111
which they were boiled. Put a pint of
milk In a double boiler. Hub together
one ounce of butter aud an even table
spoonful of flour; stir Into the hot milk,
snd stir continually until It thickens;
add the potatoes to this, season with
salt and pepper and serve.
To Loosen a Olass (Hopper.
The aafest way to loosen a glass
stopper Is to wrap tightly around the
neck of the bottle a long strip of rag,
over which a stream of boiling water
should be gently poo red. Tbe rag can
be taken off In the space of two or
three mlnntea, when probably the neck
of the bottle will have sufficiently ex
panded to allow tbe stopper to be with'
drawn. Sometimes It Is necessary to
repeat the operation, which, except
In very bad cases, la almost Invariably
successful.
Teetlns Coffee.
An expert tester gives the following
directions for detecting adulterated
coffee: Rub a handful of coffee between
the Angers. If It hardens or cakes It 1
adulterated, probably with chicory.
Another test Is to place a sample of
tbe coffee on the top of a glassful of
water. If part of It floats and part
sinks It Is undoubtedly adulterated.
Pure coffee contains an oily enveloping
substance that keeps out the water, or,
at least, does not quickly absorb It.
Hint.
Wilted roses can be restored by plac
ing tbe stems In hot wster for a mln
nte. Coffee stains on white goods should be
washed In warm wster before placing
In suds.
Don't clean brass articles with acids
Tse putty powder with sweet oil. Wash
oft with soapsuds, and then dry. Tbls
will Insure brightness.
Pink and blue ginghams of a wash
able make ran be kept from fading by
washing In a weak solution of vinegar
and water. Rinse In the same way and
dry In the sbsde.
Ink stains on white goods can be re
moved by soaking In water and then
covering spot with pounded salts of
lemon. Bleach In sun for half hour,
wash In suds, rinse and dry.
Here Is a remedy for bums, particu
larly raluable for tboss who bars
etaargs of children. The borned Dart Is
to be bathed with common sastnes of
psvtmrnlnt, rach as ana nay proem
t any draggles for a few cents. Be.
)M Is almost Iminedlats, bnt the bath
tag ahoald bo ooaftased an rhs pah in
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