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Tho dreariest road that over wound
between
Stoop mountains, with their gorges
dark and deep,
At last will reach tho plain, and lo! a
scond
Of peaceful rest will lull each fear to
sleep.
Then wait; and let your heart still
sing,
Though every hour now dangers
bring;
Tho longest day must end at last,
And joy shall smilo o'er sorrows past.
The darkest hour of night, when not a
star
Is seen to give one ray of promise
bright,
Will .end at last in joyous morn, and
far
O'er hill and dale tho sun will send
, his light.
Then wait: nor lose all hope of dawn
Because tho hours drag slowly on;
Tho darkest night still brings tho
glow
Of golden morn o'er every woe.
Tho coldest day that winter e'er can
bring,
With sleot and snow and Ice to swell
his train,
Must yield at last to balmy smiles of
spring,
And all the earth will bloom with
flowers again.
Then wait: nor x sigh 'mid falling
snow,
For summer's warmth and summer's
glow;
Tho days will flit, and, sweetly blest,
Fair spring will smilo on winter's
palsied breast
Lift up thine eyes atune anew thy
i voice;
Catch from the skies tho hopeful,
glad refrain;
Make for thy soul new gods of hope
and love
Tho time of singing birds will come
again.
Then wait: nor chafe at long delay;
Low in the East, the sky is red.
For to the West tho shadows slink
away
Tho New Year dawns the Old is dead
Is -dead.
wound or heal tho hurt of another, wo
must have clean hands and a pure
heart, ourselves. If wo would lead
another, or point tho way to tho wan
derer, wo must have clear vision and
unblurred eyes, ourselves. If we
would inspire faith in another, wo
must have faith in ourselves.
Delieve in yourself. Set your stand
ard high, and work steadily upward,
if your path lies through the valley,
keep always in mind that the moun
tain tops are above you. If you can
not seo your pathway, look upward to
tho stars. The way is never wholly
darkened. Strength for the one step
is all you need. Pray for this. And
when your life is tossed by the tem
pest, look out upon the tossing waves,
firm In tho faith that there is Ono
walking on the waters whoso yoice
can bid the storm "Be still."
A Happy Now Year.
To each and to all of our thousands
of readers, wide-flung over many
lands, we send cordial greetings and
kindly good wishes. In the year now
dawning upon us, may they have all
tho happiness they deserve, and may
they deserve of it a measure, "Good,
pressed down, shaken together, and
Tunning over."
With tho dawn of tho Now Year, wo
instinctively feel that we should bo
gin anew; wo long to grow to new
heights, we set up now ideals, and wo
wish to mako our life in the twelve
month to come something better than
it has been in tho past. We each havo
our ambitions, our aspirations. Shall
we not strive to achieve?
"The way to do a thing Is to do It,"
and only by sturdy persistence and
patient endeavor may wo hope to ac
complish. It would bo well if each
would take down tho good old Bible
and read carefully the definition th,ere
given of Charity rendered In, the Re
vised Version, Love and mako of this
the leading law of tho new life. Lot
ua thtnjc,.the kind thought; speak tho
kind "flford; do .tho kind act;, give the
o6a gift If wo would bind up tho
Tho Aftermath.
When tho holiday dinner Is over
and tho company dispersed, the ques
tion of what to do with the remains
of the feast confronts tho economical
housekeeper, and it requires no mean
amount of skill to successfully gather
up tho fragments so they may again
appear in appetizing form on the fam
ily table. .
If it has been skillfully carved in
the first place, tho remnant of roast
should bo cut into as neat slices as
possible and laid on a small platter to
bo served at a later meal, while the
ragged scraps and pickings will mako
a nice dish of hash for breakfast.
Cold boiled sweet potatoes may be
cut into lengthwise slices, browned on
the gri'ddle and served hot. Mashed
Irish potatoes must be moistened with
a little milk, seasoned and made Into
potato cakes by frying In a little
butter.
Cooked tomatoes should be set in a
vessel of boiling water, reheated and
served as if fresh. Fragments' of plum
and other puddings may be tied in a
cloth and put in the steamer for an
hour before dinner, while the hard
sauce may be"Worked over and put in
to another dish.
Tho meat should all bo sliced or
picked from the turkey bones, and
nice slices by themselves, and tho
larger scraps, together with any left
over ceiery, made into croquets, and
if any oysters were left with their
sauce, these should be finely minced
and used to moisten the croquets in
stead of milk.
Odds and ends of dessert should bo
sorted over, the best and least broken
carefully laid on a nice dish, while
many of the smaller ones may be
made to serve as a mixed pudding,
with fresh sauce to disguise them.
Many kinds of jelly will admit of
being reheated and molded over. Cut
the blocks of cake into nice slices
and arrange on nice cake dishes, and
any not used at once should be closely
covered in a tin or earthen receptacle.
Dough nuts and crullers may be
laid in a biscuit pan, singly, and re
heated in the oven, sifting pulverized
sugar over tnem wnlle hot.
Many other ways of using up tho
odds and ends will suggest them
selves to tho wise house-wife.
through this exercise three times or
more, you aro ready to walk properly.
Keep tho chest out and be careful each
time not to lot the shoulders come
forward at the last count. They must
go down and backward at tho same
time.
As you walk, keep the chest con
tinually pushed out and the abdomen
and stomach forcibly drawn in; try
how long you can hold your breath,
and as you hold it raise the chest
higher and higher. This is what sing
ers do when they wish to sustain long
passages in one breath. When you
find you must exhaust your breath, do
not let the chest fall, but take your
breath instantly and quietly through
the nose only and by pushing out the
sides. Then instantly begin drawing
in the sides and abdomen and raise
the chest highor and higher. Keep
this exercise up for three months and
see how much you will in that time in
crease your measure from shoulder to
shoulder.
Whoro Womon Rule.
It is said that the women of Te
huantepec are the most beautiful of
all the Mexican women, and they do
ali tho labor, transact all tho business
and fill tho market places. They are
the leaders in their business world.
The men are much their inferiors, be
ing small and weak, talring little in
terest in life and jdoing very littje
work. It is claimed that their degen
eracy is due to their devotion to their
native rum, aguardiente, through gen
erations. The women aro devoted to
the market, and go thoro by the hun
dreds every day, while the men aro
seldom seen and do not frequent the
street. While the women are in evi
dence everywhere, they aro polite,
modest, intelligent and happy,
shrewd in business and careful in de
tails, and no foreigner can compete
with them. It Is difficult to account
for the strong development of the
women in comparison with the de
generacy of the men. Tho people aro
the Zapotecos Indians.
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opening; mako another cover of linen
or cotton ,to prevent tho sand leaklnc
through. When wanted to warm anv
part of tho body, fdet or hands lav
tho bag in a pan and set in the oven
until hot, .and then apply. The sand
holds tho heat a long time.
L. M. F. Ember Days are twelvo
days of fasting and prayer, three in
each of tho four seasons Wednesday
Friday and Saturday after the first
Sunday in Lent; after Whitsuntide
after September 14; and after Decem'
ber 13. They aro of old English or
Saxon origin, and not of Roman Cath
olic ordainance. Tho Church of En
gland's Book of Common Prayer
adopts them. -
Busy Bee. To clear muddy water,
throw a little powdered alum in tho
tub. If water is scarce, a little thrown
into a tub of soap-suds will cause the
soap to curdle and, with the particles
of mud, sink to tho bottom, leaving
the water comparatively clear, and
this water may be used a second time.
To remove warts, dip the end of a
stick of nitrate of silver in a little
water and touch the wart with it, a
'few applications will cause their dis
appearance; the surrounding parts
must not be touched by the silver.
G. H. T. For the sprain, put tho
part into water as hot as can he borne
for half an hour at a time, every two
hours, keeping the temperature of tho
water oven, until the pain subsides.
Tho white of an egg thickened with
flour stiff enough to handle, then
thinned down with turpentine and a
teaspoonful of salt added, made thin
enough to spread well, makes an ex
cellent application; this will make one
plaster and a fresh one should ba
made every time. Three will general
ly cure.
Bessie M. For the removal of taitar
from the teeth, the surest way is to
visit a dentist; but if that bo imprac
ticable, here aro some things which
are recommended: Powdered cuttle
fish, one ounce; precipitated chalk, 2
ounces; powdered orris root one
ouhed; otto of lemon, 45 drbps; otto of
neroli, 20 drops; mix thoroughly and
rub the teeth with a little of the
mixture every day for a fortnight;
KNOWS NOV
Developing tho Chost.
To develop the neck, and chest, try
the following exercises: As you walk
uuuut, iiuao tne snoulders quickly
throw thorn back, then down. Count
quickly as you do it, 1, 2, 3, raising
them at 1, throwing them back at 2.
dropping them, at 3. After going
Query Box.
Mrs. M. R. Answered by mall. !
Josie G. Question came too lato to
aid you.
. Alien R. Names of firms cannot be
given in the Query Box. You should
have sent your address.
Housekeeper. For damp walls',
paste over the damp place a sheeting
of common table oil cloth, as you
would wall paper; then, when dry,
paper as the rest of tho house.
Beryl. For removal of milk stains
from dress goods, paint the stain with
glycerine, then wash out the glycerine
with lukewarm soft water.
Querist. Charcoal may bo had of
your druggist usually in either pow
dered or tablet form. The powdered
form may bo taken mixed with honey.
Its effect is to absorb gases and im
purities from the, stomach and in
testines, and it acts as an internal dis
infectant. Ask your physician.
Reader. Sir Walter Scott was made
a baronet by order of the king in 1820,
in recognition of his great literary
ability. "Abbotsford" was of his own'
building, and paid for from the earn-'
ings of his pen. Ho had two sons,,
nenner or wnom left posterity, and
two daughters, who had families.
Nurse. For a hot sand bag, got
some clean, flno sand, heat in the
oven until perfeptly dry and sift but
Doctor Was Fooled, by His Own Caso
for a Time
It's easy to understand how ordi
nary people get fooled, by coffee when
doctors themselves sometimes forget
,'the facts.
A physician speaks of his own ex
perience: "I had used coffee for years and
really did not exactly believe it was
injuring me although I had palpita
tion of the heart every day.
"Finally ono day a severe and al
most fatal attack of heart trouble
frightened me and I gave up both tea.
and coffee, using Postum instead and
since that time I have had absolutely
no heart palpitation except on one or
two occasions when I tried a small
quantity of coffee which caused severe
irritation and proved to mo I must let
it alone. .
"When wo began using Postum it
seemed weak that was because we did
not make it according to "directions
but now wo put a little bit of butter
in the pot when boiling anu allow
Postum to boil full 15 minutes whlcu
gives it tho proper rich flavor and the
deep brown color.
"I havo advised a great many of my
friends and patients to leave ofEcoi
fee and drink Postum, in fact 1 aany
give this advice." Name given W
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Many thousands of physicians use
Postum in place of tea and coffee in
their own homes and prescribe it w
patients.
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