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The Commoner.
February 21, 190a
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Home Department
(Continued from Page Eight.)
poise, mental and physical, which
comes of looking life and its capabili
ties, its duties, its delights, square in
the face.
She has discarded tlie petty measures
of vanity and self-seeking and learns
to love her race, her country, and the
humanity which she helps to adorn.
She is glad to live while she can
serve, and she will continue to serve
with dignity and grace until the final,
sweet dismissal".
We will take it for granted that by
this time she has come into that best
dowry that a woman can have, mar
riage and maternity. One awakens,
transforms, elevates. The other
teaches all lessons and especially un
selfishness. Laura B. Allan, in the
Brown Book.
Irish Lullaby.
(Alfred Percival Graves.)
I'd rock my own sweet childie to rest
in a cradle of gold on a bough of
the willow,
To the shoheen ho of the wind of the
west and the lulla lo of the salt
sea billow.
' Sleep, baby dear,
Sleep without fear;
Mother is here beside your pilldw.
I'd put my own sweet childie to sleep
in a silver boat on the beautiful
river,
.Where a shoheen whisper the white
cascades, and a lulla lo the green
flags shiver,
Sleep, bahy dear,
Sleep without fear;
Mother Is here with you for ever.
Lulla lo! to the rise and fall of
mother's bosom 'tis sleep has
bound you,
And, oh, my child, what cosier nest
for rosier rest could love have
found you?
Sleep, baby dear,
. Sleep without fear;
Mother's two arms are clasped around
you.
A STEADY WORKER
Coffee Works Slow But Sure
Many people use coffee day after day
"without an Idea of the serious work it
does with' nerves, stomach, bowels,
and sometimes with the eyes, heart
and kidneys. Its work is done grad
ually, that is, the poison affects the
nerve centers a little today and a lit
tle tomorrow and so on, and finally
the nerve cells are slowly broken
down . and then Nature begins the
call for help.
It is a safe proposition that if a
man or woman has headache, stomach
trouble, or any such ailments come on
at intervals, something is wrong with
the food or drink, and this question
should be investigated carefully, !or
health is the best capital anyone can
possess and willfully breaking it down
is a piece of childish folly.
It is easy to leave off coffee if one
will take Postum Food Coffee, properly
made, for Postum has a 'delicious cof
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which changes to a golden hrown when
cream is added, and it -satisfies the
coffee drinker without any of the bad
effects of coffee; on the contrary, the
result of using Postum Is the rebuild
ing of the broken down nerve centers
by the food elements contained in it.
Postum Is a pure food beverage
made by scientific food makers and
can be depended upon absolutely for
its purity and tL.3. good results that
follow its use. V
To bring out the fluyor and food
Talue Postum must be boiled at least
15 minutes after the boiling: begins.
One Woman's Work.
Mrs. Fanny Carpenter of New York
city has shown it Is a good thing for
a woman to study a profession. Seventy-five
thousand dollars for win
ning a single case is what she re
ceived recently. It is the largest fee
ever paid to a woman lawyer. Mrs.
Carpenter took up the study of law
in 1896. t She entered the law school
of New York university and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1897, since which
she has practiced more or less as
siduously. Kingston (N. Y.) Leader.
Another Vampire.
A woman there was, and she wrote for
the pres3,
(As you or I might do);
She told how to cut and fit a dress,
And how to 3tew many a savory moss,
But she never had done it herself, 1
guess,
(Which none of her readers know.)
Oh, the hour we spent and the flour we
spent,
And the sugar we wasted like sand,
At the best of a woman who never had
cooked,
(And now we know that she never
could cook)
And did not understand.
A woman there- was, and she wrote
right fair,
(As you or I might do),
How out of a barrel to make a chair,
To be covered with chintz and stuffed
with hair,
'Twould adorn any parlor and give It
an air!
(And we thought the tale was true).
0, the days we worked and the ways
we worked.
To hammer and saw and hack,
In making a chair in which no one
could sit
Without a crick In his back.
A woman there was and she had her
fun
(Better than you or I)
She wrote out receipts and she never
tried one;
She wrote about children of course,
she had none
She told us to do what she never had
done
(And never intended to try).
And it isn't to toil and it isn't to spoil
That brims the cup of disgrace
It's to allow a woman who didn't know
beans
(A woman who never had cooked any
beans),
But wrote and was paid to fill space.
"The Spoiler," in Congregationalist.
False Calves.
The necessity of wearing knee
breeches at the coronation ceremonies
has called the attention of many of
those who will participate to the fact
that their nether limbs are not as full
as could be desired, and steps have
been taken to remedy this fault. It is
learned that extensive orders for arti
ficial calves for human legs have been
placed in France in view of the cere
monies. Now that the United States
has decided to send representatives to
the coronation the dealers who are
making the artificial calves are expect
ing orders from the other side of tho
water as well. London Dispatch.
Is There a Difference?
Do we stop to think that for what
we have spent in the Philippines we
might have bought the isthmus and
dug the canal? Is there a difference of
opinion as to which investment would
have been the wiser? Florida Times-Union.
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