loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA
Should Men Talk Business at Home?
One of the real reasons of divorce
of interest between men and women of
this country is that women do not take
an interest in their husband's business.
Business bores most American women.
We are too idealistic and too intellec
tual to care for its sordid details. Busi
ness does more than bore us; sooner
or later the average woman grows to
dislike business, and for a good reason,
it is her rival in her husband's interest
.and affections, says the writer of an
article entitled “The Inconsequential
American wbman,” in Appleton's
America is full of sad-eved and well
dressed women who complain that
their husbands’ lives they would stare
business" that they have no interest
left for anything else. If you were to
suggest to these women that they had
once been given a chance to share in
their h usbands' lives they would stare
at you in surprise. It would be useless
to tell such a woman that she might
have been a consulting partner in her
husband's business had she wished. To
this she has the reply, “Man ought to
leave his business cares in his office.”
That is, a man's brain should be neatly
divided into two parts; he should be
able to switch off the thoughts which
have occupied his business hours the
way in which one extinguishes an elec
tric light. He should at the same mo
ment switch on the other half of his
brain where should burn brightly with
affection for his wife, love of amuse
ment and desire for that kind of relax
ation which his wife enjoys. The great
majority of men have been made to be
lieve that they should not “bring busi
ness home,” so great is the power of
reiterated suggestion. They actually
think that it would not please them to
have their wives take an intelligent in
terest in their pressing affairs.
In accordance with plans of the war
department. Surgeon General O'Reilly
has recently enlisted a large number
of the most skilful and noted surgeons
and physicians in an army medical re
serve corps. The physicians were
drawn from all over the country, a few
here and a few there, and were chosen
solely for their ability. In time of
peace they will receive no compensa
tion, although they may be called upon
for consultation or advice. In time of
war they will receive the regular pay
of their rank, which will be lieutenant,
major, lieutenant colonel and colonel.
This, however, is no temptation to men
of such a class. They have allowed
themselves to be enlisted in the re
serve corps solely as a matter of patri
otic duty, and for the purpose of
strengthening and improving the army
medical service.
The Romanes lecture which Presi
dent Roosevelt has been chosen to de
liver at Oxford university In 1910 is
given under the provisions of a bequest
of the late George John Romanes, an
eminent biologist. The lectureship was
founded in 1891 for the purpose of giv
ing the Oxford students an opportunity
each year to hear a man of general em
inence in art, literature or science, or
one who had special claims for distinc
tion in discussing some subject of high
interest at the time. The first lecture
was given by Gladstone. Among his
successors have been Holman Hunt,
Huxley, John Morley and Ambassador
Bryce. Next year Mr. Balfour, the for
mer British premier, will give the lec
ture.
Count Boni De Castellane has with
drawn his suit against his former wife
for alimony. Considering that she ob
tained the divorce, the withdrawal of a
demand for support is not altogether
magnanimous; but it may be regarded
so by himself and family, as the Ameri
can girl who had nothing in their eyes
to entitle her to the honor of an al
liance with them but her money was
given distinctly to understand that was
all she was married for. But this sor
did picture of vulgar greed is not de
terring other American heiresses from
tempting the same fate.
One of the little tragedies of the
Boxer uprising In China has just come
*.o light. The young American woman
who painted the portrait of the late em
oress dowager wrote recently of the
sittings, and mentions the long finger
tails of her distinguished subject. In
:he hurried flight from Peking they
were injured, and had to be cut, and
the artist remarks in a tone which sug
gests a sigh, “They were only about
three inphes long when I painted the
picture.”
Tragedy in New Jersey. A woman
going from one room to another in her
house met the harmless, necessary cat
carrying a mouse; whereupon the wom
an screamed and fell dead. The story,
however, is imperfect. The scream
must have startled and surprised the
cat, and what we are really curious to
know is whether the mouse escaped?
The National Good Hoads association
was organized by delegates from 38
states in national convention in Chi
cago, November 21, 1900.
Mme. Curie, co-discoverer with her
husband of radium, has been promoted
to full professorship in the University
of Paris- A woman who can discover
new truth is certainly qualified, to
teach it, and the young men in the
university can afford to sit with re
spect at tfco feet of this remarkable
woman of science.
England thinks freedom wculd be
fery bad for India, and also thinks
that India would like to risk the conse
uuences.
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« Invitation to the President from the Methodist Mis- %
$ sionary Society Brings Forth a Surprising Expo- £
♦ sition of Missionary Conditions in Africa Which ♦
May Ee Improved Greatly Through the Coming ♦
% of the Great White Chief “Pesheya.” |
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Wr ASHIXGTOX. — The
heroes of the dark
continent are not all
mighty hunters and ex
plorers. The hardest
fight that is waged for
the opening of the continent is not a
fight in the open with wild beasts or
howling savages while the world looks
on and applauds. Rather it is a grap
pling in the dark with shadows, the
shadows of spiritual gloom that loom
so black and yet are so elusive to the
grasp. It is a figh,t for the spread of
light in dark places waged by men and
women unused to physical hardships
and with a breeding that renders them
peculiarly sensitive to the spiritual
wear and tear of their work. It is a
fight without faqfare, without an audi
ence. and too often without immediate
results.
If President Roosevelt accepts the
invitation of the Methodist Missionary
society to take part in missionary work
while traveling through Africa he will
have thrown the weight of his influ
ence in the scales for a cause particu
larly in need of such heip. in the same
way as the president's declamations
against race suicide unquestionably
have helped domestic life, so perhaps
he can throw some light on a phase
of civilizing work peculiarly misunder
stood by the majority of white people
at home and abroad. It requires no
great stretch of the imagination to get
a vision of the president preaching a
common-sense religion to a black au
dience, just as he has preached do
mesticity, fearlessness, strenuousness
and a great many kindred virtues to
the people in America. Hut it requires
an intimate knowledge of the African
character, its keen sense of authority
and position, its veneration for “big
chiefs” of whatever country, to gauge
the tremendous influence his words
would carry.
Great Aid to Missionaries.
Even if the president should not
take an active part in the work, he un
doubtedly will visit the mission sta
tions, and the mere fact that a chief
of such bigness that the full scope of
the African imagination hardly can
take in his orbit visits familiarly with
the missionaries will give a very help
ful prestige to them in the eyes of the
natives. Respect, for his own chief is
the bone and sinew of the African's
code of morals and is, in fact, one with
his religion. Combined with this is a
surprising penetration into the “who's
who” of other nations. It takes an
African native something less than
five minutes to know who is the “real
thing” and who merely masquerades
in the borrowed feathers of authority.
The hostile attitude toward missions
sometimes taken by individual white
magistrates often has done incalcul
able harm to the work of the mission
ary, because these magistrates in the
native eye are invested with dignity
as the representatives of the great
white chiefs "pesheya” (on the other
side—meaning of the ocean). The
coming in person of one of the great
est of these chief to the house of their
own “umfundisi” (teacher) will neu
tralize the unfriendliness of any resi
dent magistrate.
On the other hand, President Roose
velt in his writings certainly will
touch on the practical side of a work
of such significance as that of the
Christian missions. The question of
the capacity of the African native for
civilization must be answered at the
mission stations if it is answered at
all
Missionaries have opened the coun
try to white men, and the chief high
ways penetrating the African conti
nent still are called "missionary
roads." When Livingstone's house
was sacked, his books torn and scat
tered to the winds and his medicine
bottles broken in revenge for his
championship of the natives against
the aggressions of the border ruffians,
this disaster was the impetus that
drove him to his real work as an ex
plorer. No one ever has accomplished
more with fewer resources. To the
last he remained always the mission
ary, traveling among the natives as
one who sought only their good and
had nothing to fear from them. All
the world knows how Livingstone's
work became the Inspiration of Stan
ley's career and resulted ultimately in
the real opening of the dark continent.
Even before Livingstone's time his
father-in-law, Robert Moffat, traveled
with his wife and babies through
South Africa when no one else dared
venture outside of the white settle
ments, and no one thought of molest
ing him. He was the only man who
had any influence over Moselikatse,
the most bloodthirsty chief in South
Africa.
The great Norwegian missionary,
Bishop Schreuder, held a similar posi
tion in the regard of the fierce Zulu
chief Cetewayo. and it was Schreuder’s
presence in the English camp that
gave the natives courage to surrender
themselves to the British when they
had been vanquished in the last Zulu
war in 1870. His house was the pnly
white man's dwelling that was left
standing in Zululand. Tne savage
army, drunk with temporary victory,
split in two, one division passed over
the hills to the north of Schreuder’s
station, the other over the hills on the
south, for the chiefs knew that in the
frenzy of battle their braves could not
be restrained from destroying what
ever came in their way.
Missionary work in most parts of
Africa has lost much of its spectacular
features. It now is mostly a matter
of hard, grinding, monotonous work.
The popular conception of missionaries
includes two figures. One is that of a
spiritual fanatic bent mainly on teach
ing the savages to sing hymns instead
of howling war songs, the dupe usual
ly of wily savages who feign "conver
sion" while laughing in their new mis
sionary gingham sleeves. The other
is that of a cleyer self-seeker exploit
ing ihe childish native to his own ad
vantage.
The True Missionary.
There is a third figure, very different
from either. Kipling has written with
sympathetic insight the story of the
obscure official or non-commissioned
officer in his struggle to beat civiliza
tion into the savage "half devil and
half child." The "Sergeant What's-'Is
Name” of the mission field has yet to
find his interpreter—or her interpreter,
for the sergeant is just as often a
woman.
Lite at an African mission station is
very much the same throughout the
continent. The day begins usually
with the call of the bell at sunrise in
the summer and an hour or two before
that time in the winter, for in the mat
ter of early rising it is the white man
who must adapt himself to the native
habit. After a brief sunrise prayer the
boys and girls of the school are mus
tered indhe courtyard; they shoulder
their hoes, and it is away to the corn
field or the sweet potato patch. Stand
ing in a row at the bottom of the field,
they lift their heavy hoes far above
their heads and bring them down with
a force that sends the iron blado far
Into the ground, lift them again and
let them fail with rhythmic regularity.
As they do so they chant in a slow,
heavy monotone, which is their near
est approach to singing, any incidents
in their life that may be uppermost
in their minds—the ripening of the
corn, the marriage of the chief’s
daughter or any of the happenings of
the day. Sometimes the work lags and
needs the constant impatient "She
shani” (hurry) of the white teacher.
The African holds a theory quite the
opposite of Darwin’s; he believes that
monkeys were evolved from a race of
lazy people that loafed leaning on the
handles of their hoes, until the useful
implements grew into tails, to the
everlasting shame of the loafers.
Breakfast consists of one of the three
staples, sweet potatoes, squash or corn,
either as mush or on the cob. It is
eaten from platters at a bare table
with a quick lunch effect, rather a test
of discipline, for the native loves to
squat on a straw mat and take his
time about chewing. No greater dis
courtesy can be offered a native than
to interrupt his meal. But the school
bell is inexorable.
Bible Images Familiar.
Classes and recitations and more
particularly lessons to be prepared of
fer more violence to the native preju
dices. He likes to hear the Bible
stories or stories of other countries and
to read them for himself when he has
mastered the combination of letters in
to familiar sounds. The oriental images
of the Bible are perfectly familiar to
him. The idea of the patriarchs of the
Old Testament living in tents as cattle
men and yet being really kings, which
is such a puzzle to city bred white
children. Is no puzzle at all to them. It
was thus their own kings lived when
they were in their glory. In the same
way the agricultural figures of speech
in the parables of Christ fit right into
their own speech. Their favorite books
in the Bible are those that abound in
a picturesque imagery such as the
Apocalypse, the Book of Job and—
best of all—The Song of Solomon.
It is a very different thing when it
comes to learning a foreign language
and mastering the intricacies of gram
mar. arithmetic and geography. Gram
mar might as well be relegated to the
outer darkness at once. When you
have taught an African native the dif
ference between a verb and a noun
you have taught him about as much as
his mind can grasp. On the other
hand, the children learn easily foreign
words and expressions in a parrot-like
way. A young native who has worked
for a white man for a month or two
has no difficulty in calling his breth
ren "black devil" and "damn nigger.”
Harsh Language an Obstacle.
As for arithmetic, it is not easy to
learn the multiplication table, when to
say “nine times eight" you have to
let out the following mouthful of
sound: "Tata isishiyangalolonye pinda
nge sishangalombili.” But the natives
have an adjunct to difficult enuncia
tion, a sort of first aid, in the language
of the fingers. Beginning from right to
left, the little finger means one, the
left thumb means six. the left forefin
ger seven, and so on. If time or energy
fail you, you simply wag a finger, or if
the number goes into the tens, you
wag two fingers, and the deed is done.
Your breath is saved.
The white .woman teacher in a
school of eighty or a hundred natives
is likely to find, even if she has one or
two native assistants, that her position
as the motor nerve of this too, too
solid mass of African flesh is wearing,
to say the least. The industrial part
of the work is not so difficult as the
purely intellectual. It is not so hope
less a task to make the African native
fashion something with his hands as
to make him grasp anything with his
brain. The women have learned in
their native handicrafts such as straw
plaiting a deftness of touch that make
them fairly apt in the acquisition of
the domestic arts of sewing, cooking,
baking, washing, ironing and cleaning.
Missionary's Garden Necessary.
Meantime the boys are engaged in
the work of the farm or in building or
carpentry. The pastor of the station
is fortunate if he has a white man to
assist him in superintending these
branches of the work. More likely he,
in addition to his cares as pastor, is
physician and magistrate, his own
farmer, gardener, builder, architect
and furniture maker. The farm must
provide food for the boys and girls of
the school. The garden must supply
fruit and vegetables for the mission
ary's table, for he soon learns that he
cannot keep his strength long if he at
tempts to live as a native. He must
have a variety of food and. incidental
ly, tablecloths and napkins. A noted
African traveler has said that white
men die in the tropics not for want
of the necessities of life but for want
of the luxuries. Besides, his house and
garden must be an object lesson in
civilized living quite as important as
his preaching.
Must Build His Own House.
Shelter must be provided for teach
ers and pupils, and also for horses,
calves, pigs and chickens. Brick is a
favorite material, for the African
woods usually are too hard to be
worked easily. The minister fresh
from a theological seminary may find
that building a brick kiln with noth
ing but African labor is quite as diffi
cult as to construct Greek sentences.
And that is the beginning. He prefers
not to think of the masonry, the put
ting in of doors and windows and the
thatching of the roof. At least he does
not need to worry about the floors.
The native girls take that part of the
building into their own hands. They
simply fill it up with an even layer of
red soil taken from an ant heap. They
rub it and pound it and sprinkle it,
and rub it again till it shines like
black polished marble, and there is
the floor. Healthy? Well, no; but it
is cheap. When night, comes the na
tives gather around the fire in the
kitchen or the schoolhouse to sing.
They pick up tunes with surprising
readiness, and repeating them with
trills and “variations” is an amuse
ment that never palls on them.
It gives the missionary respite for
his letters home or to fall asleep over
a book or to go out and look at the
stars and wonder how it would seem
to talk to a man of his own kind or to
hear good music or merely to see elec
tric lights, to feel hard pavements un
der his feet and hear the clanging of
street cars. Or he may wonder how
in all the petty worries that sap his
strength he is to keep the freshness of
mind that will enable him to present
spiritual ideals in the guise to appeal
to a savage people. But in this re
spect he often feels that he is past
praying for.
HOW TO DESTROY EXPLOSIVES.
Precautions to Be Taken with Gun
powder and Nitroglycerine.
The best way to destroy ordinary
black gunpowder is to throw it into a
stream under conditions that prevent
any harm coming to human beings or
animals through the dissolving of the
saltpeter. If no suitable stream is
available the gunpowder may be
stirred with water in tubs, or the dry
gunpowder may be poured out on the
ground in a long thin line and ignited
With a fuse at one end.
To destroy dynamite cartridges the
paper wrappings should he carefully
removed, the bare cartridges laid in
a row with their ends in contact and
the first cartridge ignited with a fuse
without a cap. Even with these pre
cautions a simultaneous explosion of
the entire mass may occur, so that it
is wise to retire to a safe distance.
The row of cartridges should be laid
parallel with the wind and ignited at
the leeward end so that the flame will
be driven away from the mass.
Frozen dynamite should be handled
with special care, as its combustion is
peculiarly liable to assume an explo
sive character. A small quantity of
dynamite may be destroyed by throw
ing it in very small bits into an open
fire, or the cartridges may be ex
ploded one by one in the open air
with fuses and caps.
Dynamite should never be thrown
into water, as the nitroglycerine
which it contains remains undissoived
and capable of doing mischief. Other
explosives which contain nitroglycer
ine should be treated in the same way
as dynamite.
Ammonium nitrate explosives may
be thrown in small fragments into an
open fire, or if they do not contain
nitroglycerine may be destroyed by
means of water. Explosive cans
should be exploded singly with pieces
of fuse.—Scientific American.
DUST EXPERT IN A WAY.
One Man Who Is Constantly Conscious
of the Presence cf Dust in the Air.
“No matter where you live and how
ever high in the air you always find
dust settling on everything every
where, but,” said the near-sighted
man. “if you want to realize this fact
as you never did before you want, to
wear spectacles and work at some
employment that requires constant
bending over.
"Fourteen times a day, or as much
oftener as you look, you will find
your glasses covered with fine par
ticles of dust. Maybe you don’t look,
and then maybe some bigger particle,
some speck that is by comparison a
veritable bowlder of dust, settles
there square in your line of vision,
where it may not obstruct your sight
but where it cannot fail to arrest your
attention. Then when you take them
off to remove that bowlder you find
your glasses covered with dust in
finer particles, as you would find
them, indeed, however often you
might look.
"Over such an area as that of New
York, for instance, there are tons of
dust floating in the air. as though,
perhaps without figuring out its
weight, many people, such as house
wives and storekeepers, are aWare;
but perhaps nobody is reminded of
this so constantly as the man who
wears spectacles and who bends over
at his work, and on whose glasses,
where it is ever before him, dust is
constantly settling.”
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HAVE FORMED LAZY CLUB.
Plan of English Workmen to Discour
age the Habit of 8eing Tardy.
One of the best assets of a manu
facturing plant is the interest of em
ployes, and when this develops into
friendly rivalry its value is many
times increased. Frequently work
men will adopt methods spontaneous
ly that are of great assistance to the
firm.
In the engineering shops of a cer
tain English firm the workmen a year
or two ago originated what they called
the Lazy club. It was entirely their
own idea, which for obvious reasons
has received neither recognition nor
financial support from the manage
ment, but has been a most excellent
means of reducing the number of late
comers.
Whenever a workman is more than
five minutes late after time he finds
the gate locked and he is not allowed
to enter until the half hour is up.
This half hour *s deducted from his
wages, but in addition he has also to
pay to the treasurer of the Lazy club
about five cents for coming late.
If he is late more than once or so
during a week everybody is aware of
the fact, and the second or third time
he makes his appearance after start
ing time he is greeted with a terrific
combination of noises produced on
any available material by his fellow
workmen.
At certain periods the accumulated
funds of the Lazy club are divided,
not among those who have produced
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them, it should be noted, but among
the entire staff equally. Thus the late
workman is made to pay the early
comers for his laziness. The last dis
tribution was just prior to a "bean
feast," and funds accumulated during
12 months were distributed, amount
ing to over seven shillings a head.—
System.
Many a girl who is looking for a
husband may discover that even after
she gets him'she may spend most of
her time looking for him.
j TO APPEAL TO VARIOUS RACES.
Missionaries Provide “Ho y Families"
of Different Aspects.
A colporteur, delivering a New Year
address before a Sunday school, dis
played a number of pictures and
images of the Holy Family.
“Here is a Holy Family for export to
China,” he said.
The children laughed, for the Mary
of the group was a China woman, with
dwarfed feet and slanting eyes; Jo
seph was an old Chinaman with a
long, thin mustache and a queue; the
sacred infant had the flat nose and
oblique eyes of China.
“Here,” said the colporteur, “is a
Holy Family for the Congo people.”
The children laughed again. Mary
was now fat and black, with woolly
hair; Joseph was a stalwart black war
rior, a spear in his band, a girdle of
feathers about his waist; '.he infant,
too, was black.
“Our Holy Families for missionary
use,” the colporteur explained, “are
always made in the likeness of the
people they are to go among.
Those simple and childlike people
would be estranged by a white Holy
Family. Only this sort shows them
the Deity’s real kinship with them
selves.”
TOLD TO USE CUTICURA.
After Specialist Failed to Cure Her In
tense Itching Eczema—Had Been
Tortured and Disfigured But
Was Soon Cured of Dread Humor.
“I contracted eczema and suffered
intensely for about ten months. At
times I thought I would scratch my
self to pieces. My face and arms were
covered with large red patches, so
that I was ashamed to go out. I was
advised to go to a doctor who was
a specialist in skin diseases, but I
received very little relief. I tried
every known remedy, with the same
-esults. I thought I would never get bet
ter until a friend of mine told me to try
‘.he Cuticura Remedies. So I tried them,
and after four or five applications of
Cuticura Ointment I was relieved of
my unbearable itching. I used two
sets of the Cuticura Remedies, and I
am completely cured. Miss Barbara
Krai, Highlandtown, Md., Jan. 9, ’08.”
Potter Drcs & Chetr- Corn.. Sola Props;, Boston.
A SPEEDY ONE.
Miss Tapps—Of course, some type
writers are extremely expert.
Clerk—Oh, yes. I know of ore who
married a rich employer in less than
three months.
A Running Broad Jump.
"One day,” related Denny to his
friend Jerry, “when Oi had wandered
too far inland on me shore leave Oi
suddenly found thot there w’as a great
big haythen, tin feet tall, chasin’ me
wid a knife as long as ver ar-rni. Oi
took to me heels an' for 50 miles along
the road we had it nip an' tuck. Thin
Oi turned into the woods an’ we run
for one hundred an' twinty miles more,
wid him gainin' on me steadily, owin'
to his knowledge of the courithry.
Finally, just as Oi could feel his hot
breath burnin’ on the back of me neck,
we came to a big lake. Wid one great
leap Oi landed safe on the opposite
shore, leavin' me pursuer confounded
and impotent wid rage.”
"Faith an' thot was no great jump,”
commented Jerry, "considerin’ the
runnin' start ye had."—Everybody’s
Magazine.
How to Know the Trees.
There is an auctioneer whose ‘gift
of gab" and native wit draw many
purchasers to his sales, but some
times he Is the subject rather than
the cause of amusement.
The man's name is O. A. Kelley. Not
long ago he had to sell, among other
things, a lot of pine logs, and the day
before the^ale he wont over them
and marked the end of each log with
his initials.
On the day of the auction an Irish
man came along and immediately no
ticed the logs with the letters on them.
"O. A. K.," he read, loud enough
for all round to hear. “Begorra. if ’tis
not just like Kelley to deceive us into
belaving thim pine logs are oak! ’—
Springfield Republican.
HER MOTHER-IN-LAW
Proved a Wise, Good Friend.
A young woman out in la. found a
wise, good friend in her mother-in-law,
jokes notwithstanding. She writes:
"It is two years since we began us
ing Postum in our house. *1 was great
ly troubled with my stomach, complex
ion was blotchy and yellow. After
meals I often suffered sharp pains and i
would have to lie down. My mother
often told me it was the coffee I drank
at meals. But when I'd quit coffee I'd
have a severe headache.
“While visiting my mother-in-law I
remarked that she always made such
good coffee, and asked her to tell me
how. She laughed and told me it was.
easy to make good 'coffee' when you
Use Postum.
"I began to use Postum as soon as I
got home, and now we have the same
good 'coffee' (Postum) every day, and
I have no more trouble. Indigestion is
a thing of the past, and my complex
ion has cleared up beautifully.
“My grandmother suffered a great
deal with her stomach. Her doctor
told her to leave off coffee. She then
took tea but thr«, was just as bad.
“She finally was induced to try
Postum which she has used for over a
year. She traveled during the winter
over the greater part of Iowa, visiting, i
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A New Omaha Author.
The winter season always produce
an active demand for little story
books whose ttuthors aimed to inter
est and instruct the children. Sever.:
Nebraska writers have essayed the
task of producing such books and
their efforts have met with uncon
nion success. One of these is Mrs
Anna Taggart Clark of Omaha whi
has just received from the printer a
charming little story styled “The Leg
acy of Little Blessing." Without was’.'
of words and in good English. Mrs
Clark produced a chronicle of tin
daily life of a family of children, re
citing their joys and sorrows, their
triumphs and vicissitudes—portraying
the lordly traits of character of th«
little ones of the family and especially
of Little Blessing. Dark clouds now
and then put in an appearance to
drive out the domestic sunshine only
for a time, yet there is a tinge of
tragedy in the wandering away of Lit
tle Blessing, who mysteriously disap
peared, every effort to find her prov
ing abortive. The consequent gloom
in the household is told effectively,
giving evidence of literary skill upon
the part of the author. The irrepa
rable loss of the dear one led at
length to a quest among charitable in
stitutions— orphanages, for a bright
little girl whose presence in the house
hold might, perchance, enable the
heartsick mother to bear up under her
weight of woe. Obviously it was a
most difficult self-imposed task, and th<
disconsolate father and mother (Mr.
and Mrs. Sherwood) despaired of find
ing a child at ail acceptable. Finally
the matron of the institute told them
of a little girl in the invalid's room,
and with some reluctance, the visitor.
went up to see her. Opl.v a glance r<
vealed the identity of Little Blessing
The meeting is most dramatically por
trayed. As is usual in children’s story
books, everything ended happily. Tin
moral of Mrs. Clark's excellent litt! -
story is the invaluable work of rescu
ing homeless children which has been
carried on at the Child Saving inst:
tute (which, by the way. is barely men
tionedl; the author has intimat
knowledge of the grand work being
done, since her husband. Dr. A. W
Clark, has been superintendent of the
institute for many years. But the ref
erence to the institute is only inciden
tal. The book is a child's story, pos
sessing the charm of human Interest,
recited with unusual clearness and
power. Price, 25 cents a cnpy; 50 or
more copies, 25 cents each.
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