PREDECESSOR
/ornen-ar>cC the F(ojne
tu res since she left .an Ohio farm at
the age of 16 and went to Chicago^
Forty ypars ago she had a brokerage
office in New York and made her own.
fortune.
The Elmira College Club of New
York, Mrs. William R. Bross, presi-
Of Those Who Walk Alone.
dent, celebrated the ninetieth zirthday
Women there are on earth, most sweet of the Rev. Augustus W. Cowles, pres­
and high,
ident emeritus of Elmira College, late­
Who lose their own, and walk bereft ly, by sending roses to the number of
and lonely,
Loving that one lost heart until they the years of Dr. Cowles, supplemented
by some word of greeting from
die
members of the New York club.
Loving it only.
4.nd so they never see beside them
grow
Children, whose coming
breath of flowers;
Consoled by subtler loves the angels
know
Through childless hours.
For Home and Street.
Stood deeds they do; they comfort and
they bless
In duties others put off till the mor­
row;
Their look is balm, their touch is ten­
derness
To all sorrow.
Betimes the world smiles at them, as
’twere shame,
This maiden guise, long after) youth’s
departed;
But in God’s Book they bear another
name—
“The faithful-hearted.”
Faithful in life, and faithful unto
death,
Such souls, in sooth, illume with
luster, splendid
That glimpsed, glad land wherein,
Vision salth,
Earth’s wrongs are ended.
»—Richard Burton in “The Book
Long straight lines are much in evl-
Life.”
dence, although there is greater full­
Hlgh Trimmed Hats.
ness, in this season’s modes. The two
figures in the sketch show handsome
designs in this style for these two
types of costume.
Worth of Good Manners.
Close hats of shirred velvet, moire,
satin and lace are very popular with
the younger followers of fashion, The
brim rolls high, either at the back,
front, left or right side, and the trim-
ming is piled high. A touch of soft­
ness is lent this otherwise severe hat,
by the addition of an aigret or soma
kind of soft fluffy feather.
To Put on a Corset.
No woman is so young or so old,
so powerful or so inconspicuous, that
she can afford to grow careless in her
manners. There is no bigger asset in
life than manners that win friends—
and keep them.
A pleasant “good morning” costs
nothing, yet it is as rare in many
families as if manners were of radium
scarcity.
Some people’s manners are like bats
—they only come out at night. To be
courteous in the morning may oil the
household machinery for the day.
Surface manners are not the most
desirable, but are much better than
none. Like painting the outside of an
old house, they at least please the
casual beholder.
The true good manners are a mat-
ter of the heart. They carry a friend-
Iy smile for all, a kindly interest in
the small affairs of others—that great
breeder of patience—and a courtesy
that is not limited by feelings or
favor.
Many women let down their man­
ners through indifference; they are
self-absorbed and forget the rights of
others. These are the women who
would be horrified to know their repu­
tation for rudeness.
There is less conscious rudeness
than most of us credit. Occasionally
the snob appears who thinks position
is shown by snubs; more often our
lapses in politeness are due to over­
work, worry, hurry or ill health.
There is a rudeness that springs
forth from absent-mindedness. Oddly
enough this lack of manners is more
openly resented than most, though the
offender is generally gentle at heart
and would never wound intentionally.
Whatever the cause, mind your man­
ners. It will pay you a, big interest
in good-will.
Much depends on the way in which
a corset is put on. I The following
hints may be useful:
Fasten, the abdominal hooks first,
lifting the body, with a long breath,
at the same time and holding the head
well back. After the top of the front,
is hooked draw the looped laces from
the eyelets slightly .below the waist,
pulling the bottom of the corset much
tighter than the top. Through this
simple means healthy breathing is
New Missiles for Weddings.
permitted, for bodices are so loose that
It Is quite singular how of late
It is only at the waist and hips the years a decided objection to the an­
figure needs to be held taut.
cient custom of rice and slipper throw-
after the bride and bridegroom
sprung up, so much so that sev-
comparatively new ideas have of
come ’ almost universally into
vogue.
Instead of the hard rice pellets,
which occasionally are thrown with too
much vehemence to be pleasant, some
brides go in for substituting the tin­
iest ladies’ slippers as well as horse­
The “Widow Taft,” an ancestress of shoes made entirely of soft silver
the President, was the only woman in papers. These resemble a sparkling
shower of silver. Other brides lean
Massachusetts allowed to vote in colon­
to providing their friends with dried
ial days.
rose or other sweet smelling leaves to
In the Calvin celebrations the re­ be thrown after them.—The Gentle­
former’s wife has not been altogether woman.
forgotten. There is a portrait of her
In the museum at Donay, and the
townspeople propose to have a replica
made for presentation to Liege, her
native town.
A new feature of commencement
was the “class will” at Barnard Col­
lege. One young woman was deputed
Smoother zibeline and camel’s hair
to read the will of the departing class
and it was great fun. The unpaid dues are the ideal materials for a somewhat
were willed to the sophomore class, to dressy type of tailored suite.
. For smart traveling wraps soft black
be paid in “cents.”
Mrs. F. A. Walke, of Norfolk, Va., taffeta chiffon is being used, often lin­
has been interested in the old light­ ed with delicately colored silk or crepe
house at Cape Henry, and through her de chine.
Watered silks are the novelty both
Influence a committee of the Colonial
Dames of .that State has been appoint­ for day and evening gowns In various
ed to approach Congress with a re­ shades, gnay, prune and lea/ther tints
quest that they be allowed to preserve being highly favored.
. The three-cornered hat for fall wear
it.
Lady Cook, who was Tennessee is a good street hat shape, and can be
Claflin, was writing her autobiography, filled out with the season’s trimmings
and it will no doubt be very interest­ In a becoming manner.
Muffs will be worn this season in
ing. as hqr life has been full of adven-
•the evening. Of course they will not
be like the ordinary winter muffs; they
will be huge creations of chiffon, lace
and ribbon, very light and flimsy.
Bands of fur appear on house
dresses. The bands pass over the
shoulders, meet at the waist line and
fall to the edge of the skirt. A nar­
row fur band encircles the yoke line.
Oorded materials are much in vogue.
In silks and wools and combinations
they lead at the present time. The
cord may be anything from a faint
narrow line to a broad, well-defined
whipcord.
On many of the long sealskin coats
big black jet buttons appear, but the
criticism is heard that they are not
nearly so artistic or effective as but-
tons of dull black passementerie, silk
thread or fine braid.
The London preference for tailored
Suit materials includes camel’s-hair
cloth, coarse diagonal tweeds and
serges, but for dressy wear suede-
faced cloths and fine diagonal serges
will be much in evidence.
Bengaline hats with lower portions
finished in velvet are most effective
when the plumes match the velvet, if
not the silk. Bengalines of every de­
scription, in wide and narrow stripes,
are used for the very smartest crea­
tions.
A fashion hint from Paris says that
trimmings will be used lavishly. The
list Includes ribbon in abundance,
beads, velvet in every possible form,
fur, stiff, old-fashioned ruching, lace
and some embroidery and braid, but
no buttons.
Crepes of every variety of crinkli-
ness, from those that resemble cepe
de chine, to some as rough as the
heaviest mourning crepe, come in an
infinite number of good colors, and
are destined to be favorites for dress
materials during the winter.
An attractive and rather uncommon
scarf seen lately was entirely formed
of Irish crochet, the ends and border
of the., heavier guipure/ the body of
the scarf Itself of fine bebe crochet.
Another was of chalk-white tulle with
ends and border of Irish guipure.
New “Wrapped” Hairdressing-.
Not only is the pompadour out of
style, but in direct contrast, the hair
is now banded as flatly as passible
around the head. The wrapped hair-
dressing—or “mop,” as it is some­
times called—requires a deal of hair,
and if nature has not been generous,
two switches, each at least three quar­
ters of a yard long, must be provided.
These switches are wrapped around
the head, starting at the back, and are
pulled out on top of the head and
fastened with a multitude of tiny hair­
pins. The natural hair is rolled in to
several loose puffs at the back.
Flectric Dressmaking.
A dressmaking establishment in
Boston almost entirely operated by
electricity, has an electric cutter’ capa­
ble of cutting out 250 thicknesses of
cloth at once, a button-sewing ma­
chine which puts on 3,0'00 buttons a
day, a buttonhole machine making 400
per hour, sleeve sewers, tucking ma­
chines, waist and skirt machines mak­
ing 1,800 to 3,500 stitches a minute.
To Keep Down Weight.
It is the fad of women who fear
flesh to walk or stand for twenty min­
uteS or so after eating and many af-
firm that it really keeps down the
weight, On that principle thip worn-
en should rest after meals and at
other times during the day. Diluted
cream is said to be a better flesh
former than milk and does not dis­
agree with the bilious temperament.
Which Was the Head of the House?
Willie’s grandmother had come to
visit them.
“Are you mamma’s mother?” asked
Willie by way of conversation.
“No, dear. I’m your grandmother
on your father’s side.”
“Well,” said Willie, decidedly (he
was an observing little fellow), all I
got to say is you’re op the wrong
side.”—Everybody’s Magazine.
Keeps
Them
Busy.
It keeps the women pretty busy say­
ing “Don’t” to the children, and re­
marking to each other, “Now, Isn’t
that just like a man?”—Boston Tran­
script
OF
DELMONICO.
Ft ft li Avenue to Lose a Little Frame
House That Once Had Monopoly.
“You may say for me,” said she,
“that Mrs. Sarah Jane Wyatt, of 525
Fifth avenue, has decided to move.
I don’t know where, but wherever it
is the dining-room furniture and
Dewey, the cat, go with me.”
Mrs. Sarah Jane for thirty-four
years has lived in a two-story house
half concealed by an extension store,
while her neighbors reared palaces of
brown stone all about her. Exclusive
restaurants are her nearest neighbors,
and the plot of ground at Forty-fifth
street on which now stands her home
is shortly to be covered with a pile
of white marble.
She had thirty days to move, and,
looking up and down the avenue, Mrs.
Sarah Jane finds that rents have in­
creased since she first brought her
household goods, to the place where
she has lived in happiness for more
than three decades. She paid $25 a
month for her Fifth avenue house,
which was a pretty high figure, of
course, yet it included the conserva­
tory and the summer garden.
Her husband, Robert Wyatt, was for
many years business agent for the late
Paran Stevens, and that accounts for
the fact that they for many years have
lived in the house on Fifth avenue,
near Forty-seventh street, for a nom­
inal rent, for it was until recently
part of the Stevens estate. Her hus­
band died sixteen years ago, and Mrs.
Wyatt devised several means for earn­
ing a livelihood.
•The old place was once a prosperous
roadhouse, which had its beginning
more than a century ago. Stage coach­
es stopped before it and mine host
had excellent cakes of his own bak­
ing.
Mrs. Wyatt converted the pavilion
into a greenhouse, and for several
years she did a thriving flower busi­
ness. Then nose-gays went out of style
and variegated blooms done up in
paper funnels were no longer popu­
lar. Mrs. Sarah Jane roofed over the
greenhouse and started a restaurant
and candy store.
Part of the lower floor was given to
her restaurant, wher^ for 25 cents one
might acquire “a regular dinner.”
Clerks, teamsters and workmen are
her principal customers. The candy
counter still does a flourishing busi­
ness, for the youthful population re­
main true to Mrs. Sarah Jane.
Before Delmonlco’s and Sherry’s
were built the establishment at 525
Fifth avenue had a monopoly of all the
local trade in dinners, pastry and con­
fections.—New York Herald.
If Christ Were Here.
if Christ were here! Ah, faithless soul
and weak,
Is not the Master ever close to thee?
Deaf is thine ear, that canst not hear
Him speak;
Dim is thine eye, His face that can­
not see.
t*hy Christ is here, and never far
away;
He entered with thee when thou
earnest in;
Çîs strength was thine through all the
busy day; y
He knew thy need, He kept thee
pure from sin,
the blessed Christ is in' thy little
room,
Nay,, more, the Christ Himself is in
thy heart;
Pear riot, the dawn will scatter dark­
est gloom,
And heaven will be of thy rich life
a part.
^-Margaret E. Sangster.
Freely Give.
Each one of us is the daily benefi­
ciary of a fund of blessing coming
to us from other men and other days,
and to which we have in no measure
contributed. We are thus laid under
a heavy obligation of debt which is
growing day by day, and which de­
mands some measure of discharge on
our part. We cannot repay those of
other days who have sacrificed for
us; we can seldom repay even the
living to whom we are in debt. There
Is only one way in which we can dis­
charge the obligation, and that is to
render unto others even as it has been
rendered unto Us. “Freely ye have
received, freely give,” is the message
of Jesus. Nor should we leave till a
future time a debt that can be paid
to-day. We must pay as we go, or
the end may overtake us with our ob­
ligations unfulfilled.
Facts About the Bible.
The King James Bible contains six­
ty-six books, says an exchange.
The first Biblical illustrative art con­
sisted in the symbolic frescoes of the
catacombs.
The Bible chapters number 1,189, of
which 929 are in the Old Testament
and 260 in the New.
The total number of letters in the
Bible is computed by the- same au­
thority to be 3,566,480.
The first printed Greek Testaments
were those of Erasmus, published at
Basel by Froben in 1516.
The earliest Bible pictures were
painted on the church walls instead of
being bound between the book cov­
-An unseasonable snow storm, which ers.
fell in northern Wisconsin last April,
caused a good deal of discomfort, but A Bible printed in 1810 had a line
incidentally demonstrated the parental of semi-cockney dialect in Matthew
devotion of the ground-sparrow, and 13:43: “Who hath ears to ear let him
the humanity of the laborers at the hear.”
Superior ooal-docks. The story is told There are 41,173 verses in the King
by a writer in the Superior Telegram. James edition of thé Bible, 33,214 in
The sparrows appeared in March, the old and 7,959 in the new Tesla­
and built •their nest in an open field merit.
adjoining the ooal-dociks. Four eggs There are 774,746 words in the Bible,
wdre laid, and four young sparrows according to the figures of Horne, a
shortly afterward made their appear­ Scotch student, who spent three years
ance.
counting them.
There was, of course, no shelter for The “Placemakers’ Bible” is so called
the nest, and when the snow came from a typographical error which*
down in big flakes one night, the moth­ made Matt. 5:9 read “Blessed are the
er bird refused to leave the young placemakers,” instead of peacemakers.:
ones, and the whole family was snowed
The bug Bible is so called because
under.
Some of the men on the dock had of its rendering of Psalm 91:5: “Afraid
found the nest several days before, of bugs by night.” Our present ver­
and watched the progress of the pros-: sion (A. D. 1551 ) reads “Terror by
pective family with much interest.i night.”
When they crossed the fields to go to I Hellenistic Greek, the language of
Work Wednesday morning, they no- I the New Testament, -is the simplified
ticed that the snow completely covered dialect of Attic Greek used by the Se­
the ground in the vicinity of the nest, mitic people Hellenized as a result of
and . immediately hastened to the spot the conquests of Alexander.
to see what had 'happened to the birds.
To celebrate the advance of the
Seven inches of snow covered the printers’ art, particularly its increase
nest, and when the men reached down in speed, a Gaxton Memorial Bible was
through the mantle to see if the birds wholly printed and bound in twelve
were still alive, the mother flew out hqurs in 1877. Only 100 copies were
and watched the excavating operations struck off.
with much interest, but from a safe
The Treacle Bible got its name from
distance.
its rendering of Jeremiah 8:22: “Is
When the nest had been cleared of
snow she returned, and the next day,, there no treacle in Gilead?” instead of
when they had to dig her out again, balm in Gilead. It was printed in
she, was quite tame and obviously 1568. The same text was rendered in
the Douai version, 1609: “Is there no
thankful.
The little fellows, with their thick, rosin in Gilead?” This Bible was
warm coats of down, appeared not in called the Rosin Bible.
Almost every form of literature is
the least distressed, and opened their
mouths for food when the show was represented in the Bible, from the war
song, the lament and the lyric, to the
removed.
rhapsody and the philosophical drama.
Not So Bad for Him.
Parables, enigmas, proVerbs, stories,
’“Yes, I used to be in the insurance biographies, epistles, orations and
business. I once got a man to take prayers are all found in this library
put a $50,000 policy only about a week of the literary activity of the Israel-
before" he happened to be killed. He Itish racé.
Was a mighty hard chap to land, too. I
The Geneva 'version is sometimes
had to talk to him for. nearly six called the “Breeches Bible,” from its
months before I got him.’
rendering of Genesis 3:7: “Making
“That was tough on the company. themselves breeches out of fig leaves.”
I suppose you regretted after it was This translation, done by the English
all over that your persuasive powers exiles at Geneva, was the English fam­
were so good.”
ily Bible during the reign of Elizabeth
“Um—no, I never felt sorry about it. and was supplanted by the version of
I married the widow.”—Chicago Rec­ ing James in 1561.
ord.
The first Bible printed from mova­
ble metal types was issued by Guten­
Where She Had Him.
Mr. Dobbs—Hang it, Maria, why berg at Mainz in 1452. It is sometimes
don’t you get busy with your needle. called.the “Mazarin Bible,” because the
Not a blessed thing I own has a but­ copy that first attracted the attention
of bibliographers was found some 300
ton on it.
Mrs. Dobbs—Henry, what a fibber years later among the books of Car­
you are. There’s your kodak.—Boston dinal Mazarin. It was • discovered by
Depure a hundred years after the
Transcript.
death of Mazarin, which occurred in
We are told that two heads are bet­ 1661.
ter than one, but we believe one is bet
Aramaic, one of the languages which
ter than a dozen of some brands.
U used in the Old Testament, was the
Semitic dialect spoken by the people
north, of Canaan when the Israelites
took that country. From the days of
the Babylonian exile Aramaic was
Used as the medium of communication
betweeen Jews and other Semitic peo­
ple and gradually supplanted Hebrew
even in Palestine, where it became the
common language about B. C. 200.
The word Bible is derived from the
Latin name biblia, which was treated
as a singular, although it comes from
the Greek neuter plural, meaning “lit­
tle books.” This Greek diminutive
was derived from byblus or papyrus,
the famous material on which ancient
books were written. The title “Bible”
was first used about the middle .of the
second Christian century in the so-
called second epistle of Clement
(14:2).
The original languages of the Bible
are Hebrew, Aramaic and Hellenistic
Greek. Hebrew is the Semitic dia­
lect of the Inhabitants of Canaan,
adopted by the Israelites when they
entered that territory. It has no ex­
pressive conjunctions or participles.
This renders it impossible to express
in Hebrew delicate shades of logical
or philosophic thought. However, Its
idioms are most picturesque and paint
vivid mental pictures.
The period in which the Old Testa­
ment was being written covers 1,000
years, while the period of the composi­
tion of the New Testament covers
about 100 years. The oldest poems in
the Old Testament date back to about
the year B. C. 1200, while some of the
Psalms and Book of Daniel are placed
at the year B. C. 200. The. earliest
part of the New Testament was writ­
ten about the year A. D. 50 and the
latest part about A. D. 150.
|
CHINESE ETIQUETTE.
«1»
I
*•*
There is one thing in China that
travelers, and especially ladies, find it
hard to bear with complacence. That
is the Chinese stare. The aimless, im­
becile look that .meets one at every
turn annoys sensitive people, but to
become annoyed only adds to the dis­
comfort.
On our wupan whatever we did was
an object of engrossing interest to the
whole ship’s company, writes a recent
visitor to China. Dressing or washing
was especially an opportunity for a
good long stare. At meals the mem­
bers of the crew hardly ever took
their eyes off us, and probably if you
had asked what they were looking at
they would have been at a loss for an
answer.
Privacy to the ordinary Chinaman
is an unknown thing. Everything that
can be done in full view of the public
is so carried on, and instead, of feeling
embarrassed by the situation, he seems
to enjoy the curious gaze of the multi­
tude.
Fanilliarity is another trait that
strikes a traveler on a wupan, butthat
the Chinese mean nothing rude is
quite apparent. They examine care­
fully your books, writing, pencils or
other things you may leave about, and
feel the texture of your garments. If
we could speak Chinese they would
ask us our ages, are we married, our
income and various other questions,
which, according to Chinese etiquette,
are quite proper and In order.
We have already learned that to
take, off your, hat when you enter a
room is bad manners; that if you wear
glasses, no matter how short-sighted
you may be, they must be removed,
even at risk of falling over the furni­
ture; that you must not stand at ease
in the presence of dignitaries, but at
attention, although not necessarily
with your heels together, nor sit down
until permitted; that the correct thing
is to shake hands with yourself, and
if you wish to be very polite, raise
them to your forehead; that tea is riot
to be taken until the host wishes you
to leave, when he merely, touches the
rim of the cup; then you sip and de­
part; that even the smallest article at
table must be handed with two hands
—one is exceedingly rude—because if
a thing is worth doing at all it is
worth doing well, and so on.
The Chinese code of etiquette is most
elaborate, and all a foreigner can hope
to do is to observe the little every«
day courtesies of life.
Folks in
Riits.
The world is full o’ ruts, my boy, sorin.
shaller an’ some deep;
An’ ev’ry rut is full o’ folks, as high
as. they, can heap.,
Each one that’s grovelin’ in th’ ditch
is growlin’ at his fate,
An’ wishin’ he had got his chance be­
fore it was too late.
They lay it all on some one else or
say ’twas just their luck—
They never onct consider that ’twas
caused by lack o’ pluck.
But here’s th’ Word of one that’s lived
clean through, from soup t’ nuts:
Th’ Lord don’t sent rip derricks ’round
t* h’ist folks out o’ ruts.
Some folks has stayed in ruts untix
they didn’t like th’ place,
Then scrambled bravely to th’ road an*
'entered in th’ race.
Sich ones has always found a hand
held out for them t’ grab
An’ cling to till they’d lost the move
peculiar to a crab.
But only them that helps themselves
an’ tries fer better things
Will ever see th’ helpin’ hand t’ which
each climber clings.
This here’s the hard, plain, solemn
facks, without no ifs or buts:
Th’ Lord don’t send no derricks ’round
t’ h’ist folks out o’ ruts.
—Baltimore American.
Fourteen apocryphal books of the
Bible are recorded.