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HOW TO AID DIGESTIVE ORGANS
f p HE principle that the finer a food
I is divided and subdivided in its
- preparation the easier quicker
and better it is digested is seldom borne
in mind by either the cook or the eater
All of us are supposed to think of the
ancient adage of eating slowly and
chewing well but very few carry this
rule into practice Still fewer think of
applying the principle of comminution
in the kitchen
Thus for example a boiled onion is
usually served whole and on account
of its slippery character is apt to reach
the stomach in a large fragment If it
is cut up finely before the boiling or
stewing it is converted at most into
pulp which digests in one third or even
one fourth the time of the other way
Grated cheese upon toast macaroni
and other dishes presents no difficulty
to the digestive process When served
in pieces as New York dairy cheese al
most invariably is it is rather difficult
of digestion and in its favorite form
the Welsh rarebit it is very indigestible
to a large proportion of the community
Another principle which is too often
disregarded and which cannot be too
highly praised is that long and slow
cooking at a low temperature is far bet
ter than that in quick oven with great
beat This is the basis of the success in
many steamers cookers heaters Dutch
ovens Aladdin ovens and other con
trivances in the market Oatmeal
wheaten grits cracked barley and
crushed rye when slowly prepared for
twenty four hours are converted into
a paste or jelly which can be used by
a person with the weakest stomach If
as is generally the case they are boiled
vigorously for half an hour the cells
are imperfectly broken down and the
resulting food is often injurious to deli
cati digestions
She Carries a Big Record
Probably no lady cyclist can equal
the long distance record of Miss Ida
Greeley Ale wbo has covered 15000
miles awheel Miss Ale is a school
teacher of Trenton N J She is also
secretary and treasurer of the local
club and has recently been made local
consul for the In A W and she now
MISS IDA GKEETiEY ALE
has the distinction of being the first
Tvoman consul of New Jersey
Miss Ale is devoted to sports of al
legitimate kinds and advocates them
warmly with tongue and pen She has
probably written more about woman
and her bike than any other lady In
the land and she writes well Asa
wheel woman she is expert and tireless
t and can set a lively pace even for a
jnale scorcber
iJnles for the Summer Girl
1 Remember that one may be witty
-without being popular voluble without
being agreeable a great talker and yet
a great bore
Be frank A f rank open countenance
-and a clear cheery laugh are worth far
miore even socially than pedantry in a
tiff cravat
Be sincere One who habitually sneers
at everything will not render herself
disagreeable to others but will soon
cease to find pleasure in life
Be sensible Society never lacks for
jfools and what you may consider very
entertaining nonsense may soon be
looked upon as very tiresome folly
Be cheerful If you have no great
trouble on your mind you have no right
to render other people miserable by
your long face and dolorous tones If
you do you will be generally avoided
Above all be cordial and sympathetic
True cordiality and sympathy unite all
the other qualities enumerated and are
certain to secure the popularity so dear
to the heart of everyone
Be amiable You may hide a vindic
tive nature under a polite exterior for
a time as a cat masks its sharp claws
in velvet fur but the least provocation
brings out one as quickly as the other
and ill natured people are always dis
liked
Remember that a good voice is as es
sential to self possession as good ideas
are essential to fluent language The
voice should be carefully trained and
developed a full clear flexible voice is
one of the surest indications of good
-breeding
Keeping Qniet When Angry
There is in this city a merry little
7oman wbo never is obliged to ask
-twice when she wants anything She
4sat one of the meek women who never
dare to have an original opinion or to
Indorse one unless her husband has pre
viously indorsed it Very often things
do not go to suit her but she has the
rood sense to realize scolding or com
plaining or whining will not help mat
ters If she Is too angry to laugh she
keeps still until she can control her
self If very angry she shuts herself
up in her room alone for a few minutes
She says an angry woman seems to
her to be so repulsive an object that she
cannot bear to have those women whom
she loves best io see her in any such
character She never seems to com
mand and her husband imagines that
he always has his own way She never
disputes the point yet they who know
her best know that there are few ques
tions that are not settled to her entire
satisfaction She will appear young
when the scolding women of her age
are consdered old and she will always
have an influence for good where they
have no influence at all Chicago
Chronicle
Georjria Girl in Politics
Miss Sturgis a young woman of At
lanta has charge of the Populist head
quarters for the State of Georgia in
that city Miss Sturgis is secretary
MISS CLAIt V STURGIS
and treasurer of the Peoples Party
Publishing Company and practically
runs the Peoples party paper Miss
Sturgis says that since the nomination
of Mr Watson for Vice President she
has received hundreds of callers and
whether or not her office is the party
headquarters makes no difference for
the people think so and they continue
to flock there Miss Sturgis is a good
judge of human nature and is an edu
cated woman When her callers come
she knows whento talk books and she
knows when to talk crops but above
all eleshe knows when to discuss-politics
She has a pile of books around
her on the desk books on political econ
omy histories and poems Naturally
Miss Sturgis believes in Tom Watson
She was reared in the county in which
Mr Watson lives and has watched his
course and studied his character until
the present time
Kansas Citys Woman Machinist
Mrs H M Cooley wife of a machin
ist in Kansas City is a skilled machin
ist and works daily in her husbands
shop She served an apprenticeship of
two years and is now trusted to do the
most delicate work that requires skill
and care She handles a steam drill
with the utmost precision and has
bored 10000 holes in brass tubes in a
single day a record not attained by any
man in the shop Mrs Cooley is small
but muscular and says that she enjoys
the worts She keeps her clothing and
face clean but her hands become as
dirty and greasy as those of any other
workman Her husband says that she
is the best artisan he ever had in his
shop She has invented one or two
valuable articles and does not hesitate
to repair gasoline or steam- engines
when they are brought into the shop
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Said About Women
Womans sympathies give a tone like
the harp of Aeolus to the slightest
breach Donald G Mitchell
Among all animals from man to the
Jog the heart of a mother is always
a sublime thing Alexandre Dumas
pere
The girl who wakes the poets sigh is
a very different creature from the girl
who makes his soup Frederick Shel
don
On great occasions it is almost always
women who have given the strongest
proofs of virtue and -devotion Count
Montholon r
EDUCATIONALCOLUMN
NOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND
THEIR MANAGEMENT
A Moorish Collece Ts a Very Simple
Affair Parents Should Not Foster a
Spirit of Eebellion Against School
Knles General Educational Matters
Education in Morocco
A Moorish college Is a simple affair
no seats no desks a few books For
beginners boards about the size of
foolscap whitened on both sides with
clay take the place of book paper and
slate On these the various lessons
from the alphabet to the Koran are
plainly written in large black letters
A switch or two a sand box in lieu of
blotter and a book or two complete the
paraphernalia The dominie squats on
the ground tailor fashion as do his
pupils before him They from ten to
thirty in number imitate him as he re
peats the lesson in a sonorous sing song
voice accompanying the words by a
rocking to and fro which sometimes
enables them to keep time A sharp
aplication of the switch to bare pate
or shoulder is wonderfully effective in
recalling wandering attention and real
ly lazy boys are speedily expelled
Girls as a rule get no schooling at all
On the admission of a pupil the par
ents pay some small sum varying ac
cording to their means and every
Wednesday which is a half holiday
a payment is made of from half a cent
to five cents New moons and feast
days are made occasions for the giving
of larger sums as are also holidays
which last ten days in the case of the
greater festivals Thursdays are whole
holidays and no work is done on Fri
day mornings that day being the
Mohammedan Sabbath or at least
meeting day as it is called
After learning the letters and figures
the youngsters set about committing
the Koran to memory When the first
chapter is mastered the one which
with them corresponds to the Pater
Noster of Christendom it is custom
ary for them to be paraded round the
town on horseback with ear splitting
music and sometimes charitably dis
posed persons make small presents to
the young students by way af encour
agement After the first chapter the
last is learned then the last but one
and so on backwards to the second as
with the exception of the first the
longest chapters are at the beginning
Harpers Magazine
Obedience to Rightful Authority
A bit of candy or cake surreptiously
given to a child from whom these un
necessary articles are usually kept not
only disturbs the stomach that would
be the least part of it but suggests a
course of conduct which is unlimited in
its possibilities of evil for a luxury
harmless and even advantageous in
itself given in disregard of rightful
authority becomes an evil Reverence
for law obedience to rightful authority j
are most necessary in these days of in-
dependence and anything which dis
turbs such reverence and obedience
however harmless in itself should be
scrupulously avoided So far as an
outsider is concerned parental rules for
the child are absolutely inflexible and
obedience to his fathers and mothers
directions should be made as easy as
possible to him A similar principle
should be recognized in regard to teach
ers Parents are too careless in speak
ing disrespectfully of school rules be
fore their children A mistake in meth 1
od of discipline is not likely to be so
mischievous in its results as a spirit of
rebellion against authority nourished in
the childs heart Discussion of teach
ers and their measures should be held
in private if they are thoroughly wrong
the child should be removed from the
school if on the whole good the errors
should be excused Ladies Home
Journal
Some Teachers Not Fit
Some teachers have acquired the best
of education but are no more fit to
train or teach our children in the
schools than a hawk is to care for a
brood of chickens for as a hawk is at
all times ready to seize its prey so are
some teachers ready to give vent to
their angry passion on some little child
Children are ruled at home by loving
parents and through respect and love
they are easily controlled but when
they find that their teacher has not in
terest enough to sometimes be seen with
them on the play ground or hand in
hand with some little tot on the street
they soon begin to think they are un
der no obligation to obey I know of
teachers with twenty scholars who
dont find time to solve a problem nor
for three or four days time to teach
writing and who keep little children
sitting perfectly idle for hours at a
time because they dont have time to
waste on them Now it is the nature of
children to be busy and if not other
wise employed of course they will be
into mischief We have some noble
men and women in our schools and
with them as teachers our children soon
learn to be something more than boo
bies I believe care should be taken
to employ teachers who are adapted
to lead children into their school work
with interest and too that teachers
should be of noble characters Parents
should become acquainted with those
who teach their children and have a
true interest in the progress of educa
tion in their localities I think this is
a very important matter Parent
What May Be Expected
Book and magazine publishers pour
out a stream of literature on all the
subjects that pertain to the welfare f
the human being from the time the
child is an hour old until it is twenty
years of age There are charts publish
ed to record the weight height speech
motions consciousness etc etc of the
infant and the whole mass of such lit
erature is for the teacher written by
teachers addressed to other teachers
no word of the parent At this rate of
progress toward making the school
room the center of ail human activity
civilization and development in the
course of a few years the teacher will
be expected to be a specialist in the
field of medicine of the eye ear and
throat an adept in mental science nor
mal and abnormal a sanitary engineer
up to date on every modern appliance
of heating ventilating lighting seat
ing an authority on personal hygiene
clothing and corrective gymnastics
and a part of her daily duty will be to
issue bulletins dealing with the dispo
sition of the few hours that the child
necessarily spends at home bulletins
stating the time of eating and the kind
of food to be given with a chart show
ing the psychological condition of the
child and an analysis of the kind of
food recommended the hour for bath
ing and sleeping etc Tessa L Kelso
Onr Nations Hope
Although Im not a Senator
Yet still I think that I
Can make a speech as well as one
At least Im going to try
My teacher says Im very smart
And to my class a credit
And you bet the highest prize
Im going to try and get it
My spelling reading numbers too
My pennies and my dollars
I know as well as those who wear
Their piccadilly collars
Im getting kind of tired now
And hope you will excuse me
From talking any further
Or of nonsense youll accuse me
I see my mamma looking too
From her smiling I infer
She feels right prqud of me and I
Feel very proud of her
Uniformity Will Disappear
The last Legislature of Washington
enacted a law requiring the State
Board of Education to adopt or re
adopt text books for use in the public
schools of the State provided that the
retail prices of the books adopted
should not exceed two thirds of the re
tail prices of the books heretofore in
use No proposals were received for
high school books except in the casex
of physiologies that came within the
legal restriction hence none were
adopted except physiologies leaving
all high schools to use what they may
see fit on all other subjects Uniform
ity which has existed during the last
five years will probably disappear as
a result of the operation of this law
Educational News
Dont Stop Growing
The teacher who stops growing be
gins to lose teaching power There
are many petty annoyances which as
sail every teacher and usually some
one or more serious drawbacks to nes
intellectual vitality All these can be
more than counterbalanced by the in
spiriting effects of new intellectual ac
tivity If that is wanting the friction
becomes galling the pleasure of the
daily work is impaired the teacher
loses cheerfulness and energy and the
old measure of success The end of
the year is a good time to determine
that whatever else is unattraned in the
coming twelvemonth there must and
shall be a healthful intellectual growth
Martin Kellogg
Off for School
Oh mamma mamma its half past eightj
Where are my rubbers I shall be late
And where is my pencil I know just
where
I laid ir down but it isnt there
Oh here is my bag with my books all
right
Im glad that my lessons were learneo
last night
And now Im off heres a kiss good
bye
Torpedo for Grave Ghonls
The coffin torpedo is the latest device
to foil the grave robber
Of late years the practice of despoil
ing graves has become so widespread
that every effort has been put forth to
finu some means to end it It is be
lieved the present invention will
achieve that purpose
This new contrivance is a regulation
Doinb as deadly as any ever invented
by anarchistic genius It is placed in
the casket just previous to Interment
and after it is placed in position and
the lid of the casket screwed down it
will be an exceedingly dangerous un
dertaking to attempt to force the cas
ket open The lid of the closed coffin
presses down a spring Raising this
lid even in slight degree releases the
spring causing it to strike a percussion
cap The resulting explosion of the
cap also explodes the bomb and while
the concussion would wrench the cas
ket it is almost impossible for the per
son who is trying to open the casket to
escape instant death New York Jour
nal
Trouble Ahead
The sensitiveness of military gentle
men about their rank and titles has
been the cause of much heartburning
and many disasters Its more amusing
side is hit off by a store in Pearsons
Weekly
Corporal McCaffery was in a raging
temper and could hardly keep his for
age cap at the proper angle of forty
five on account of the wrinkles in his
forehead
Whats up Dennis Wheres the
fire asked an intimate friend
Oill just tell yez Patrick McGlynn
knows as well as inny of yez that only
last week Oi was gazitted corporal
and look yez here now the spalpeen
has sint me a litter To Dennis Mc
Caffery and marked it private the
scoundrel Oill let him know fwhat
k is to insult the honor of a non-commissioned
officer Oill show him pri
vate be jabbers if Oi dont
A Chesierville Maine couple recently
celebrated their golden wedding in the
very housa into which they moved on
their wedding day fifty years before
BELIGIOUS COLUMN
fTEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL DE
NOMINATIONS
God Speaks Through Nature Nine
Suggestions Which Will Help Make
a Happy Home Primitive House of
Worship in a Kansas Community
A Kansns Church of Sod
HE Methodists of
German Township
Smith County wor
ship in a sod
church As its name
indicates the walls
are built of sod ta
ken from the prairie
which surrounds it
The neighbors re
gardless of denom
inational belief
met decided there
ought to be a
church in the neigh
borhood and with
their own hands laid up the walls antj
from their own pockets took the money
to finish furnish and light the building
The building is twenty by thirty feer
and the walls are eight feet high It
is covered with boards and roofing pa
per the interior supports are made of
neatly smoothed posts and the inside
walls are plastered as neatly as any
walls could be comfortable home made
seats are furnished for pews the pulpit
is covered with velvet and the platform
is carpeted It is said by the Smith
Center Pioneer that when one is on the
inside everything is as neat and tidy as
the finest church could be When the
building was dedicated there was not a
dollar of indebtedness upon the church
or on any of the furniture or fixtures
The Voice of Nature
The voice of nature is none other than
the voice of- God Our Lord Himself
tried to teach us that God of whom
we speak as so far and so silent is very
near and is speaking to us all day long
We think ourselves very pious if with
narrow literalism and stupid supersti
tion we profess to worship the words
of holy books written hundreds of
years ago as though they were the
only voice in which God ever had spo
ken or could speak to us and all the
while we lose the whole significance of
our Saviors lessons from that other
book of God whose secret lies ever
open to the eyes which will read it
F W Farrar
Hints for a Christian Home
1 We may be quite sure that our will
s likely to be crossed during the day
so let us prepare for it
2 Every person in the house has an
evil nature as well as ourselves and
therefore we are not to expect tod
much
3 Look upon each member of the
family as one for whom Christ died
4 When inclined to give an angry
answer let us lift up the heart in
prayer
5 If from sickness pain or infirmity
we feel irritable let us keep a very
strict watch over ourselves
G Observe when others are suffering
and drop a word of kindness
7 Watch for little opportunities of
pleasing and put little annoyances out
of the way
8 Take a cheerful view of every
thing and encourage hope
9 Speak kindly to dependents and
servants and praise them when you
can
Eest
O Jesus merciful Bend down
In Thy compassions deep
As sleepless and alone I lie
And watch beside me keep
There is a holier sweeter rest
Than the lulling of this pain
And a deeper calm than that which sleep
Sheds over heart and brain
It is tne souls surrendered choice
The settling of the will
Lyii down gently on the cross
Gods purpose to fulfill
For this 1 need Thy presence Lord
My hand held close in Thine
Infuse now thro my spirit faint
Au energy divine
Feed me with love imprint on me
Thy restful kiss of peace
Let me be still upon Thy breast
Nor struggle for release
And sanctify my weakness Lord
Natures extreme distress
Is just the time when it may learn
Gods glory to express
Stamp in O God at any cost
The likeness of Thy Son
Filial submission to Thy will
Is hearen itself begun
The Life Hereafter
Death jwe may be assured is not the
end for these myriads of earth Neither
is It a banto redemption or to any re
covery of est ground It does not in
terfere as fin evil force to prevent the
fulfillment Cf unfulfilled lives nor to
deprive of iirther opportunity The
only satisfactory and comforting view
is that it plates the emancipated soul
amid better Surroundings and opens
wider to it thl gates of hope and prog
ressthat it j the gateway to an im
mortal land Waere life shall be begun
anew where pst opportunities shall
be restored wlWe upward paths shall
be given to wak in and where there
shall be no deft and no sorrow any
more
Quotind Scripture
An absurd idea We Christians have
Is that thej are onvery safe ground if
they can quote plmty of Scripture in
support ofl some nvorite doctrine or
theory But they stem to be ignorant
of the facttbat simpt quoting passages
of Scripture havingkome sort of ref
erence to heirsubjeeL is by no means
a divine aefense of it Some very ab
surd uses of ScMpwreVave been made
V
by those -who have set out to pi jvp Syr
practice or demonstrate a theory Bur
much worse the true meanings o
Gocis words have often been nbiwd
and dissipated by such i course Ona
eau as truly make God a liar by wrong
quoting His word as he can by flatly
misrepresenting his promises
A Vnluable Reminder
A small church ws sadly in want of
general repairs and a meeting was be
ing held in it with a view of raising
funds for that purpose
The minister having said that to ao
i he work thoroughly 500 would be re
quired a very wealthy and equally
stingy member of the congregation
rose and said he would give 1 to th
list
Just as he sat down however a lump
of plaster fell from the ceiling and hit
him on the head whereupon he rose
up hastily and called out that he had
made a mistake he would give 50
This was too much for an enthusiast
present who forgetful of everything
celled out fervently Oh Lord hit him
Little Thln s
Little things are often the hardest
things It is comparatively easy to do
a momentary deed of daring that will
startle everybody it is not so easy to
do little deeds of quiet courage from
day to day unheeded by all and un
heeding all Perhaps you are not called
to do the great deed But you are called
every day to do the little deed which
more surely wear out life and strength
in the long run Be glad that you are
called to this for this Is the harder
task and he who is faithful here will
not be unfaithful in the easier great
things
The Watchword
Each for all and all for each is the
watchword of the hour A nobler mes
sage has not gone out to the people
since the angels sang the song of
Peace on earth and good will unto
men Each for all then each shall
be saved from the sins that do beset ths
soulandslnsof self seeking selfishness
All for each then no man shall be left
to make the struggle alone and single
handed and if All for each then
each and all shall enter into the larger
nobler service that brings the kingdom
of God in the heart of the world G L
Perin D D
His Rijcrht to Demand
Christs relation to every mans life
is such and every mans life so be
longs to Christ and is so depeudent on
Him that He has a right to demand its
supreme choice and service A su
preme choice or chief end means to
choose and put Christ and His service
before every other relation of life not
excepting that to parents and wife and
children and if needs be to antagonize
these relations when they conflict with
that to Christ
To morrow
To morrow is not for us to rejoice In
or to fear It may never come to us
and if it comes its bringings may be v
very different from our thought Suf
ficient unto the day is the evil thereof
and the good thereof However trying
to day may be it can be endured for
to day and to morrow may be without
trials However joyous may be to day
to morrow may be far better
Full of Vitality
Accordingto the Philadelphia Inquirer
the popular belief that Quakerism is
declining is entirely erroneous So far
from this being the case it is said that
those hest informed on the subject in
side and outside of the organization de
clare that the Society of Friends in the
United States was never more vigorous
or full of vitality than at present
Church and Clerjjy
The Rev Dr Henry Gallaher has re
signed the pastorate of the Trinity Bap
tist Church Brooklyn
The High Street Congregational
Church Portland Me celebrated the
thirtieth anniversary of the Rev Dr
William H Fenns pastorate with elab
orate services
The Rev Dr George L Robinson
pastor of the Roxbury Mass Presby
terian Church has resigned in order to
accept the professorship of Old Testa
ment literature and exegesis In Knox
College Toronto Canada
Archbishop OReilly of Adelaide can
set type like a professional compositor
When he established the Catholic Rec
ord in West Australia he was obliged toy
set his own type and to teach the art
to other priests besides editing the
paper
The Christian Register of Boston an
nounces that it has engaged the Rev
Dr Edward Everett Hale as a regular
contributor He will write each week
a column entitled Good News deal
ing with the practical improvements
which the Christian religion is making
in the affairs of the world
Dean Hole made a scene in Rochester
Cathedral on a recent Sunday A canon
whose business it was to read the first
lesson omitted certain passages which
he thought improper The Dean was
to read the second lesson but before be
ginning he solemnly read the passage
omitted in the first lesson
A religious journal recalls some pithy
words of counsel which the late Mr
Spurgeon once gave to young candi
dates for the ministry Mind you
avoid inappropriate texts he said
One brother preached on the loss of a
ship with all hands on board from Sc
he bringeth them to their desired haj
ven and another returning from his
marriage holiday The troubles of my
heart are enlarged O bring me out oi
my distress Mind ar figures of
speech are not cracked Dont talk liki
the brother who said 4I fly from star
to star from cherry to cherry beam
Get among your people or somebody
may be saying of you as ona old ladj
said of her minister that ho was invist
ble all ihe weeli and inc oraprehensibbj
on Sundays
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