MAN'S PREROGATIVE
An Argument, Going to Prove
That All Good Sportsmen
Are Not Masculine. ...
By VINGIE E. ROE.
fPnnvrleht.l
They always say that women are
bardest upon their own sex, that we
never forgive, and that Jealousy knows
no Justice; and sometimes I think
they' are right. We are dreadfully
mall and mean where another woman
U concerned.
"How many women of those we know
would be able to shake hands with the
woman who had worsted them in the
love of a man, and say, 'Go ahead;
may the best woman win?" "
Mrs. Haletgh reached for another
wafer, and leaned back In her chair,
challenging the small ring of feminine
(aces on Mrs. Bobby Pclham's veranda.
There were drawn sun-blinds and
tall plants, restful In the summer heat,
luxurious rockers, dainty frills and
frou-frous, a white little table with
tinkling glasses, and seven refined and
more or less pretty women. -
The small gathering bore the' one
distinction that all seven were as
oear dependable friends as the exigen
cies of an Insignificant and isolated
army station would permit.
There were other women In the sta
tion, to be sure, but somehow these
even had drawn together by that law
of standard and requirement which
binds the nature above a certain line.
"Do you know of one?" Mis. Halcigh
went on. "Would I? Would any of
as?"
There was an appreciative silence,
while slim Angers toyed with glass and
spoon, and meditative eyes were bunt
on slippered too and rug. Then frank
miles broke out here and there.
"No," said Mrs. Carston frankly; "I
don't know of one."
"Nor I," confessed pretty little Mrs.
Oaylord.
"Do we know of one woman who,
ven knowing of a rival who had lost
to her, could ever think of that rival
without bitterness? It is the Ingrained
nature of woman to be narrow where
the love of a man Is concerned, Just as
It Is the nature of the male moose to
challenge another on sight in the mat
ing season. Mrs. Payne, what do you
think?"
All eyes turned to the newest addi
tion to the circle a tall, slim beauty
from some fur South, as attested by
the dusk of cheek and hair and glori
ous dark eyes Nan Payne, the known
friend of long standing of Mrs. Hobby
Pelham.
Only within the lust month had Cap
tain Payne been transferred to the
post of which Colonel Hobby was the
Idol, and tho two women had Impressed
the populace with the quiet Joy of their
reunion. It was a friendship that car
Tied film of mystery, so quiet was it,
o sure, so manlike In Its seeming
depth.
As she raised her face they saw,
with dismay, that the soft southern
yes were full of tears.
"No, ladles," said Nan Payne, "I
rflon't believe that way."
She looked at Mrs. Hobby.
"Tell them what we know, dear."
he said.
Mrs. Dobby Pelham was as decidedly
of the North as her friend breathed of
Dixie a golden blonde, with the glow
ing Illy and rose of the German blood,
and a very tender little mouth.
Now she looked at Nan Payne's dim
yes and put down her glass.
"No; neither Nan nor I can sanction
'that view of women being absolute
.ly true, for we know of a case which
1vea It the lie."
There waa a soft rustle of settling
throughout the veranda, for the sud
den small wave of emotion over the
outhron's speaking face had spelled a
romance and what woman doe not
love a romance?
"When I was eighteen," said Mrs.
Hobby, "my parents, who lived In
Pennsylvania, decided that the rigor of
to winters was responsible for my
tenderness and swift growth upward
without corresponding weight, and
that they could kill two birds with one
tone by sending me, since I had
reached the boarding-school age, to
some seminary In the South.
"1 accordingly was parked off, with
many tears and uxtracted promises of
weekly letters, to that dear old mother
ly refuge of girlhood, Kldd Key, the
North Texas Female cuJIego. I remem
ber dIHlnctly my first weeks of lonell-'
ness, and then the glorious South
crept Into me with Its Insidious wine,
and 1 forgot my woes.
"And It was then that I first came to
know the two young women with
whom this little tale has to do. One
waa a girl abort my own age, a stu
dent at tht seminary, a somewhat shy
and shrlnkli g young person who had,
most palpably, never been out of the
shelter of her own home before.
"She, too, was homesick those first
weeks, and often sat of evenings
those soft southern evenings, with the
prairie wind blowing free across the
level miles on the rim of the fountain,
and dipped her fingers In the water.
She was homesick very homesick.
Ana men, auer wuiie, u passed.
nd there came a hop or two, and she
got acquainted with the other girls,
and also some of the other girls' broth
ers. And altogether I think this girl
got to be quite contented.
"It was after one of the big festivi
ties of the mid term that she met the
Wan. tt was spelled with a capital to
tier I happened to know ber well by
this time, and was deep in her confi
dence, though not so well or so deov
as I was later and the dream of the
great mystery began to dim her eyes.
"She would wander for hours about
the grounds, lost In the first mazes of
that sweet dream-country, which every
woman must enter for the first time,
and I know that the whole world was
bounded for her by thnt man's face.
A handsome face It was dark and
subtly sweet, a tender, winning face,
with lips that seemed made only for
love's whispers, and eyes that spoke
only Its language.
"At the last reception before the
holidays he asked her the great ques
tion, and the glory of it took the very
light out of her eyes with Its ecstasy.
She nearly swooned, so great was the
Joy that mastered her.
"Letters passed between them while
she was home for the holidays, and
whon she came back Bite entered upon
her fairyland, Into which a woman
may only enter once the Fairyland of
the First.
"For a month the girl lived hardly
lived, I should say, for the days were
Just a golden dream with hardly be
ginning or end a long web of shim
mering gold, down whose length she
drifted, half asleep with the poppy of
love's Intoxication.
"Then came a day when she awoke
to a sickening reality. The Man was.
going away for several weeks. Ho
was a traveling man, you see-a cot
ton buyer, whom his firm sent on long
trips at all seasons of the year over
the sweet South country. There was
an agonized farewell, enthralling
kisses, tearless gasps on the part of
the girl at this first parting from her
fiance, warm embraces and tender
words, and the Man was gone.
"How many days was it three, five
before It came the telegram?
"There had been a great railroad
wreck on a southern line figures had
been drawn, crushed and brokea, from
the debris. Among them was that of a
man in whose garments had been found
letters bearing her address. In the
bevy of winged barbs of anguish that
took flight from that gruesome pluce
was the dispatch for her. ,
"The girl fainted Instantly.
"When she came to, all that was to
mako ber a woman In the years to
come had pushed through her mad
ness to the surface.
"With quiet hands she prepared her
self, and took the midnight train.
"It was gray dawn of a winter's day
when that ghastly journey brought her
Into the fateful town somewhere
within whose limits lay ber dead.
"Gray-haired, pitying Indies of the
White Ribbon had taken It upon them,
selves to meet the hapless coiners,
and she was taken into motherly arms
and cried over when she got off the
truln she was so very slim, and young
and white."
Again Mrs. Pobby paused.
"It was a little Journey then, across
the town in the dawn, up the stone
steps of an Imposing building, down
corridor, and at last Into a room where
there lay an object, long and majestic,
benenth a white cloth.
"The room blurred before the girl's
eyes, and the motherly woman held
her up.
"And then the end.
"She was standing bealdo tho long
slab, and some one had taken back
the cloth, and she was looking down
upon tho face of the Man in all Its
sculptured beauty. No brand had
burned, no beam had scarred It It
was fine in its calm sweetness, the
loving lips curved In their last smile.
"Silently she looked long and si
lently and presently a sound cut Into
her consciousness a low, persistent
sound, that came from the distance
beyond the slub and she raised bet
eyes with difficulty.
"Ileyond the face of ber dead there
knelt a woman another girl like her
self one who wept, and neither looked
up nor released the cold hand that sh
held In both ber own; a regal dark
head bowed Itself close to that white
tempi on the slab, and all anguish
moaned In ber sobs.
"Can you so, ladles? One man and
two women.. There bad been found
two addresses; two girls had been tele
graphed. Two who loved him bad
come on the wings of grief.
"And there bad been two engage
ments; two wedding days bad been
set; two were rivals in his affections
two who stood above tholr dead." '
Mrs. Hobby was looking through the
rubber plant far, far through.
In the willow rocker Mrs. Carston
was gripping her hands.
I.lttlo Mrs. Gaylord caught het
breath.
"They raised their eyes, those twe
girl who had become women in thai
ono moment, and looked deep Intc
each other's soul. Above the smlllni
face on the slab they looked.
"Then slowly the one on the (loot
lifted her arms to the swaying whltt
face of tho other, and In a moment
they were locked In each other's arms
weeping together.
"Itlvals they lifted their eyes abovi
the humiliation, each owning soruo ol
the Man's love, they forgave.
"I know, you see for I was thi
girl from Kidd-Key, and this waa th
hand that bold my beloved's."
Mrs. Hobby reached and took thi
cold fingers of Nan Payne.
"Hoth our husbands know the Halt
tragedy. It Is burled, but sometlmei
wo foel Its pathos still. And I bellevi
that, had he lived, each of we twt
could have said to the wlnnor: 0
ahead; may the best on triumph.
Eh, Nan, dear?"
There was a wistful not In Mrs
Hobby's voice, and Nan Payne' darl
head nodded.
"Ab-hl Forgive me!" breathed Mr
Ualelgh softly.
WHEN MAKING PASTRY
SOME IMPORTANT THINGS TO BE
REMEMBERED.
Ingredients to Be Used 8hould Always
Be Cold Shortening Must Not
Be Cut Too 8mall Care of
the Under Crust.
"""""'
Making good pie is the test of
good cooking; but a rich puff paste Is
not at all necessary. A well made,
flaky pie crust will, in fact, be much
better for the family than the richer
pastry, and with a little experience
and more care even Mrs. Newlywed
should be able to produce a specimen
above reproach.
Ingredients for pastry making
should always be cold. A good recipe
for family pie crust Is as follows:
Three cuptuls of flour, one of shorten
ing, and ice water to mix (aboui three
fourths of a cupful). Butter and
lard, chicken fat and lard or beet drip
pings and lard in equal quantities
make a good shortening.
Always sift the flour and also chop
the fat Into the flour. If flaky crust
Is wanted the shortening muBt not be
chopped too fine. Sprinkle the water
In a little at a time and toss about
with a fork to mix. Turn on a floured
board, dust with flour and roll back
and forth until the paste Is oblong,
and fold over in three layers. Roll
again and fold, when the paste is
ready, though it will be improved by
setting away In the Icebox for an
hour.
The reason why the Bhortenlng
should not be cut too small Is that lit
tle balls of It hardened by the ice wa
ter mixed with the flour make the
crust flaky after the folding and roll
ing. Fat rubbed Into flour until it
feels "mealy" makes a short piecrust
Three rollings are as many a this
paste will stand. To press too much
breaks the balls of fat while they really
should only be flattened. Otherwise
the paste will not rise and puff up In
the oven.
Some people use a little baking
powder in piecrust In that case less
shortening is required.
Never use a rich paste as an under
crust, because It soaks up the contents
of the pie. Always cut pastry with a
very sharp knife. If It Is Jagged at all
around the edges the pastry will not
rise so well. Cuttings and trimmings
should be used for ornamentation or
smaller dishes. Putting several pieces
together to form one large one 1 not
a success, although It will answer, of
course, for the home table.
To give a glazed appearance to a
pie, brush over with a beaten egg be
fore putting Into the oven. Usually
meat pies are glazed.
Pastry will rise better if put Ice
cold Into a hot oven. When the great
eat heat Is at the bottom the pie will
bake most successfully, because the
paste will puff up from the beat be
fore' the top has a chance to get too
brown.
In making pates roll out the past
half an Inch thick. Cut two rounds
the same size and take a small round
from the center of one. Use the ring
loft for laying on the other round.
Brush with water to make It stick.
The small round Is used for a cover
after filling the plate.
Popover.
One cupful of flour, one-fourth tea
spoonful salt, seven-eighths cupful
milk, and one egg. Mix salt with sift
ed flour, then gradually add the milk
so the mixture does not become lumpy,
then add the beaten egg and beat wltb
a Dover egg beater until the mixture
la full of bubbles. Pour Into hissing
hot iron gem pans which have been
well buttered and bake In a hot oven
between thirty and thirty-five minutes.
If the popovers become brown too
soon,' cover them with a piece of
heavy wrapping paper. Iron gem pan
must be need In place of tin one,
because the beat J more even.
Hot Weather Table Napkins.
Table napkins that can be washed
out easily and are specially desirable
In summer, can be had by using cot
ton crepe. Two yards of white cotton
crepe, costing about fifteen cent a
yard, will make a dozen napkin. Cut
these In squares, and fringe them.
They make excellent napkins to use at
the children' meal or for occasions
where the very "best" In table linen
Is not needed.
Tomatots With Okra.
Cut two dozen tender, young pod of
okra Into rounds, cook them until ten
der In two large tablespoon of butter,
add one pint of (tewed tomatoes, one
tablespoon of sugar, a dash of cayenn
pepper and salt to taste. Cook gently
for five minutes and serve on slice of
toasted bread.
Origins! Molasses Cooklt.
One-half enpful sugar, two table
spoonfuls of butter and lard, cream
together with sugar, one-half cupful
molasses, one-half cupful sweet milk,
one-halt teaspoonful ginger, one tea
spoonful soda tn flour; flour enough
to roll; roll thin and bake In bot oven
five minute.
To Make Lmon Juloy,
Before rolling or squeezing a lemon,
beat tt In a pan of water. By doing
so yon will obtain a double quantity
of Juice.
In Preserving Time.
Boll the corks before bottling
pickles, preserves, etc. While hot they
can be pressed Into the bottles, and
when cold they seal thorn tight).
FOR RESULTS IN LAUNDRY
Exercise of a Little Care Will Make
All the Difference In the Fill'
Ished Work.
Green, yellow, lavenders or pink
should not be blued.
There Is special starch prepared to
be used with black materials.
Colored wash materials must be
Ironed on the wrong aide if the color
I to be retained; and the Iron must
not be too bot
Several wash dresses of different
color should not be washed together,
for If one garment should happen to
run It might spoil the others.
-When-laundering cretonnes or tick
ings, and chintzes, use bran Instead
of soap. Cook four cupfuls of bran In
a gallon of water for 20 minutes, and
use half of It in the wash water and
half in the rinse water.
Colored wash goods should not be
soaked, nor should they be washed
in very hot water, nor boiled. To use
soap with colored materials, melt on
cake in two quart of water, and us
this Instead of rubbing soap on the
good.
When salt is used to set the color
In wash materials. It should be used
with clear, cold water, and not with
the soap, as Is sometime done.
Salt 1 best to set the color In pinks,
browns and blacks only, using a cup
ful to a gallon of water. Vinegar 1
beBt for setting the color In shades of
blue, using half a cupful to a gallon of
water.
ICE CREAM IN FANCY SHAPES
Molding Make Delicacy More Appe
tizing and Pleasing to the
Little Folk. ;
After becoming expert at making
Ice cream, the housewife naturally
longs to try her band at serving It in
fancy molds. It is well to begin on
the common brick or cylinder, and
then experiment on fancy shapes. The
triqk lies In very quick, tight packing
of the molds and the deft skillful
turning out of the shape at serving
time. Freeze the cream firm and
solid, have a rather shallow tub over
which you can bend easily, cover the
bottom to the depth of about four
Inchea with cracked ice and rock aalt
Chill the molds, pack them quickly
with the frozen cream and cover the
seams between mold and lid wltb
strips 'of cotton cloth dipped In
melted paraffin. This prevent the
entrance of salty water Into the
molds.
As fast as a mold I filled, pack It
Into the Ice and cover them all wltb
cracked Ice, three parts, and coarse
salt one part When serving, hold the
mold under running cold water, wipe
It off carefully, remove the paraffin
paper, open the mold quickly with a
cloth dipped In hot water.
8almon Croquette.
Wltb a silver fork flake the eon
tents of a can of salmon, or two
pounds of fresh salmon, Into bits re
moving all pieces of skin and bone
and season to taste with salt and
pepper and a few drops of lemon
Juice. Cook together a tablespoonful
each of butter and flour, and when
they bubble pour upon them a cup of
milk. Stir to a smooth, white sauce,
add (lowly a raw egg, then turn In
the salmon mixed wltb two table
spoonfuls of fine crumbs. When the
salmon is heated remove from the Are
and let aside to cool. When cold
form Into croquette, roll these In
the Ice box for an hour before frying
in deep boiling fat which bas been
heated gradually.
Smothered Rabbit
Soak one pair of cleaned rabbit In
salt water for two or three hours.
Wipe carefully with a dry cloth and
rub all over with a little oil. Season
well with salt and pepper and sprinkle
with flour. Put them in a pan that
bas been well greased with oil or drip
pings (oil I preferable, a It add
Savor to the rabbit). Put Into a
moderate oven, and when they com
mence to brown add a lltle boiling
water. BssU frequently and serve on
a large platter.
Pea Cake.
I will send you my original recipe
for pea cakes. I mashed and sifted
the pea and potatoes left from dinner
(about a cupful of peas and four medi
um potatoes), while warm, seasoned
with salt and pepper, floured my hands
and made Into cakes like fishcake,
and set away to cook. In the morning
I fried two slice of bacon then
browned the pea cake In the fat, and
we thought they made a tasty break
fastBoston Globe.
Carrot and Pes.
Wash and scrape the carrot, cut
them Into dice, boll In salted water un
til tender and drain. Drain a can of
pea, put them In a saucepan wltb on
tablospoon of butter, three tablespoons
Df thick cream and pepper and salt to
taste, lot stand until thoroughly heat
d, add the carrots and serve.
Fig Compote.
Wash on pound figs, cover with on
pint cold water. Soak over night In
the morning add two bay leave and
300k on bait hour. Strain gently. Boll
ilrup down to on cup and pour over
flgs. Chill, serve with sweetened
whipped cream.
Smooth Mush.
To avoid having lumps In mush first
wet the cornmeal with cold water and
itlr until a smooth baiter Is made and
add slowly to bulling water, salt to
lut.
SIMPLEST OF ALL FAITHS
Religion of Islam Make Minimum
Demand on Tntellect and
Nature of Man.
It was afternoon In a small oasts
Tillage of the Zlzans. I was seated
on a straw mat In a little garden
space Just outside the cafe, and
dreamily regarding the Intense blue
sky through the vine leave trelllsed
overhead, which flecked me with their
shadows. An old Arab was praying
Just In front Two groups, one on
each side of me, were placidly seated
on clean yellow mats young men,
whose dark, sad faces, thin-featured
and large-eyed, contrasted with their
white robes. They were smoking klf
a tranalucence of gold In their clear
bronze skin, a languor of light In
their Immobile gaze, content. The
garden made off before me, topped
with palmy distance; the silent street
to one side was out of sight, as if
It were not It waa a place of peace.
I had finished my coffee and dates.
I filled my brier-wood.. The May
heat was great, Intense; and I set
tled myself to a long smoke, and fell
Into revery and recollection.
How simple It all was! That pray
ing Arab what an Immediacy with
Oodt What a nonchalance In the
dreamy pleasures of those delicate
featured youths! What a disburden
ment wa here! I had only to lift
my Index finger to heaven dying, to
be one of the faithful; and the fact
wa symbolic, exemplary, of the sim
plicity of Islam. It make the min
imum demand on the Intellect, on the
whole nature of man. I had but
lately placed the faith In It true
perspective, historically. Moham
medanism, the Ishmael of religions,
was the elder brother of Protestant
Ism, notwithstanding profound dif
ferences of racial temperament be
tween them. The occidental mind Is
absorbent conservative, antiseptic.
It I not content, like the Moham
medan, to let things He where they
fall, disintegrate, crumble and sink
Into oblivion. Western education
fills the mind with the tangle-foot of
the past Catholicism was of this
racial strain. It had a genius for
absorption. It was the melting-pot
of the religious past, and what re
sulted after centuries wa an amal
gam, rich In dogma, ritual and In
stitution, full of inheritance, Balti
more American.
Good Argument
Leaders in the new thought femin
ist, equal suffrage and similar move
ments are pointing with pride to a wo
man of Hutchinson, Colo., as proof
positive that a woman can work at
anything a man can. This woman Is
running a 160-acre farm near Hutchin
son, raising chickens, looking out for
a herd of cows, and doing about ev
erything that a regular farmer does.
Some of ber experiences, while rath
er ungentle, show that she has plenty
of nerve. On one occasion a cow which
had fed on frozen potatoes managed to
lodge some of them In ber windpipe,
and started to choke to death. The
woman farmer rolled up her sleeve,
reached down Into that cow and
brought up the potato.
On another occasion two pigs got
loose and led the woman on a cross
country bike. She not only recovered
them, but she whaled the II fo out of
them after she got them back and
brought a fear luto their heart that
prevented them from wandering again.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Transplanting Hair to Eyelids.
Transplanting balr to the eyelids
In order to replace lost lashes 1 per
formed successfully In Germany by
Dr. Fran i F. Kruslus, who describes
hi method In the Deutche Medl
tlnlsche Wochenscbrift He clip the
hair on whatever spot be may select
to a length of a little more than an
Inch, sterilizes the region wltb ben
zine, and removes single balr wltb a
ultable trephine, taking the skin and
balr gland together In a piece of tu
sue about one and a half millimetres
In diameter. Then by a specially de
signed Instrument each balr 1 sepa
rately Inserted Into the tissue of the
eyelid so that it bas la completely
Imbedded and it free end project In
the normal manner.
Doctor Kruslu say that not more
than 20 balr should be transplanted
at one sitting. He add that these
transplanted balr tend to grow and
have to be kept trimmed to the do
sired length.
Working Out 8ound Magle,
M. Dosne has Invented a method for
recording radio-telegrams. He first
substitutes for the telephone receiver
of wireless telegraphy a sound am
plifier, and then connect thi with
the "receiver" of a Poulsen telo
graphone. In thi manner the mi
crophonic current, serving to convey
the reinforced sound, arrives, with all
It variation, to a bobbin of line wire
In the ccutor of which la a pen of
oft Iron In contact with a rotating
plat or traveling band of steel
The variation tn the magnetiza
tion of the soft Iron leave a sert of
magnetlo writing on the steel plate,
which ha the property, when It Is
afterward passed under the Iron pen
which wrot It of provoking a repe
tition of the original signals In the
connecting telephone.
8hrwd Citizenship.
"What' th wrangle about In Plunk
vlller "Some of the community want to
maintain mudholes and swell their pri
vate fortune by hauling automobile
out Other want to Improve the
highway, pinch 'em for speeding and
apply the proceed to publlo work of
ail kinds."
IN DISASTER AT SEA
TRAVELER TELLS OF ACTIONS OF
FELLOW PASSENGERS, '
Little Excitement Although All Knew
th Ship Wa Injured, and Later i
Deep Thankfulness for Preser
, vatlon From Death.
I have often wondered bow peopl
would act, bow I myself would feeLi
In the event of a disaster at sea, I
had the opportunity of finding Out, the
other night, when In the darkest hour
Just before dawn, In a dense fog, the
ship on which I bad sailed from South
ampton, the New York, was rammed
by the Pretoria, 400 miles from New
York.
I was awakened by the stopping of
our engines and the violent churning
of the screw as the ship backed wa
ter. Then, out of the Impenetrable
larkness was heard the hoarse shriek
Df another foghorn than our own,
which, at intervals of a minute, bad
been bellowing for hours. I knew that
mother vessel was approaching, and
tvery minute drawing nearer.
Then came a shock, sharp though
not very violent, and I knew we bad
been ' struck. Sailors and steward
rushed past to take up their station at
the boats, and two or three minute
later the huge bulk of the Pretoria,
lowering above our craft, glided by so
near that I could touch ber with my
band, while she tore away part of our
bulwarks In passing.
Then the passengers began to pour
ip from the cabins in scanty attire,
many with life preservers buckled on.
There were no hysterics, and surpris
ingly little evident excitement but all
quietly awaited the end which we
thought was near, until In a few min
utes the odlcers reported that the hole
In our side wa above the water line,
(t was big enough, however, to admit
two or three trolley cars abreast, and
a huge anchor of the Pretoria, weigh
ing Ave tons, was found imbedded In
our bow, while the iron plutes of our
hip were twisted up like shavings.
For nearly twenty-four hours more
the fog continued with brief Intermis
sion, and this evidently got on the
nerves of the passengers even more
than the shock of the first moment
of the collision. Some tried to throw
off their nervousness by singing rag
time tunes, others by playing cards,
nd not a few, I am glad to cay, by
looking to a higher power, and remem
bering that the father In heaven ruled
the waves.
It wa a time when many hearts
were tender, and any appeal to their
gratitude and reverence went home.
Sunday morning, the next day after
the accident. Just before reaching port
I asked permission of the purser to
hold a thanksgiving service, which
was readily granted. I never knew an
audience to bo more reaponalve. There
were few dry eyes In the crowded
music room as we voiced our gratltudo
in song and prayer and brief words of
thanksgiving. Tears streamed down
the faces of many strong men, and tho
Impressive service will never be for
gotten by any who attended. Chris
tian Herald.
New Theory About Gravity.
In an extremely interesting paper on
gravity Professor McLaren considers
the universe a possessing four di
mensions, and also retains the no
tion of time. The universe so consid
ered 1 regarded as changeless, but
not timeless, and differs in this re
spect from Minkowski's four dimen
sional universe.
Professor McLaren consider that
throughout the universe there is but
one ultimate substance. This sub
stance bas, however, two forms, "mat
ter" and "ether," which are exclusive
one of the other.
Matter Is a region where the fluid
grow or decay. This theory strong
ly resembles that proposed long ago
by Bernard Rlemann.
Professor McLaren plead for an
unprejudiced examination of these
views, revolutionary as they are, In
view of the widespread feeling that
there I something amis with the
classical mechanical theories of mat
ter. Religious Motive.
"A missionary' flrBt duty Is to learn
to "think black,' " said Bishop Maphtalt
Luccock In a uilsslonary Sunday ad
dress In Helena. "Until he learns to
think black learns to think, that Is.
as his dusky converts do be will ac
complish Utile, for he won't under
stand his flock.
"He won't understand, for example,
a man like All. All, a fat, lazy rascal,
was converted from the Mohammedan
fnlth to Christianity. A Mohammedan,
you know, can drink no alcohollo bev
erages. "Well, Mr. Goodes, All' missionary,
came on the new convert one evening
in the murkot place, drunk.
"'Why, All!' be said, reproachfully.
'Why, All, what religion have you Just
professed?1
" 'Bame religion as manna's,' All an
swered. Tlcnty rum drink,"'
Scores Modern Mother.
Dr. Gilbert Fltzpatrick of Chicago,
president of the Obstetrical Society
of the American Institute of Homeopa
thy, said recently at a convention that
th modern mother I a poor mother
and the direct cause of th high rat
of mortality. Those women, he said,
or defective and muscular degener
ate. Tbey are poor mother, weak
ling, mentally, morally, physically,
nd even socially, when the country'
welfare end wi betterment are
banging In the balance.