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THE FAMILY TABLE
Mrs. M. H. Tuxford
THE attractiveness of the home is the
greatest moral and refining influence. A
well-set dinner table, with perhaps a
flower to make it pretty, will do much to
keep the home happiness ever bright.
Many of the children of the poor never
know what it means to sit down to a fam-
ily table; they eat in corners, a bite here
and a bite there, when they happen to be
hungry. Felix Adler says, “ There are
two lamps that should burn in every home
— the lamp of love and the lamp of sci-
ence — and women must be the torch-
bearers.” The movement in household
economies is no petty effort to make the
home attractive, and food more palatable,
but a movement of safe-guarding the in-
tegrity of the home.
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THERE are certain great angels which
Pain is one;
Pain looks
meet us in the way of life.
failure is one; shame is one.
us full in the eyes, and we must wrestle
with him before he blesses us. Failure
brings in his stern hand the peace of re-
nunciation. Shame bears to us the sense
of sin, which is the knowledge of God.
His hidden face shines with the mercy of
heaven — and well for us if we may look
into it.
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EATING AND DRINKING IN
SUMMER
M. E. Kern
Tur Kansas City Journal some time
ago published the report of an interview
with Dr. Harvey Wiley, chemist for the
department of agriculture, and one of the
greatest food experts in the world. On
the above subject Dr. Wiley said, in
part .—
“ Good bread should be the real foun-
dation of every meal, and too much care
cannot be given to its preparation.
“ Bread should be at least one day old
before it is eaten, if not more.
“If poor people, and in fact every one,
would eat more cereal food and less meat,
they would be better off physically and
financially. You get more nourishment
from the one cent’s worth of wheat than
from the fifteen cents’ worth of beef.
THE WATCHMAN
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“ Never mind bad things you heard,
Don’t repeat a single word;
Let them pass, forget them.
Do not mind them — they are not
Worthy of a moment's thought;
They have now much mischief wrought;
Let them pass, forget them.
“Never mind what some have said,—
They were words by malice fed —
Let them pass, forget them.
They were unkind and untrue,
And deserve no thought from you;
Be among the very few
Who will never mind them.
“ Summer drinks are snares of the
devil, and the custom of constantly dos-
ing the stomach on ice cold drinks in
summer is simply suicidal, and turns one’s
stomach into a refrigerator.
“A glass of cool, not cold, water will
. have the effect of quenching the thirst,
and children can easily be taught the
danger of the soda fountain at a saving
of both purse and constitution.”
It is an easy matter to drift into bad
habits of eating and drinking, and follow
the world in this as in other things. But
God’s people should be wise in saving
their strength and money, both of which
should be devoted to him.
SESS
OLD AGE
IT may be pretty confidently affirmed
that the chief reason for the prevalent
prejudice against old age is on account
of its infirmities. If in every case old
age could be like that of certain hale
and hearty octogenarians such as we
often meet, we should hear little of its
terrors.
But is not one pretty sure to become
deaf, or blind, or to be knotted up with
rheumatism, or choking with asthma, bv
the time one reaches threescore and ten?
One surely is; but if people were,
taught how to take care of themselves,
or even lived up to what they know,
they would probably, barring accidents,
have a healthy and normal old age.
Thus a distinguished Brooklyn woman,
long a victim of neuralgia, confesses
that she first acquired it from getting up
at night to read, usually becoming chilled
through and through, after her parents
thought she was in bed.
“Tet the other people say
Words unkind, from day to day —
Let them pass, forget them.
Balance matters with them; give
Kind words for unkind ones; live
As you know you ought; forgive;
Let them pass, forget them.
“But if you have said a word,
Harsh, unkind, and some one heard,
Pass it not; but mind it.
Sow another kind of seed, —
Do another kind of deed, —
Maybe some one’s heart will bleed
If you do not mind it.”
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Another of our most prominent women
became a wreck from nervous prostra-
tion. She had a passion for sitting up
at night. If she wished to finish a gown
or a book, she would simply sit up “ un-
til she was ready to drop” with fatigue.
She deserved the fate which came to her.
The profoundest philosophers insist
that we were meant to grow happier and
happier, until the end of life, and would:
so develop, except that we have “ sought;
out many inventions.” ‘The human ma-
chine, intelligently cared for, should
move on comfortably, accidents aside,
until it is quite worn out, and fails at
last, as many actually do, from sheer old
age. Good health and some sort of
sound religion should support a brave
soul from one decade to another, with
ever-increasing calmness and thankful-
ness, to the very end, with never a wish
to return to the foolish gayety of raw and
undisciplined youth.— Kate Upson Clark.
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GRACE is beauty. God is beautiful.
Charles Kingsley, when dying, was heard
by his daughter to whisper, “ How beau-
tiful God is!” An Old Testament
prayer runs: “Let the beauty of the
Lord our God be upon us.” We read of
strength and beauty in God’s sanctuary.
St. Paul enjoins that, among other qual-
ities, “whatsoever things are lovely”
shall be in the vision of life into which
we aim to fashion our character.— Se-
lected.
Sok
WE sleep, but the loom of life never
stops; and the pattern which was weav-
ing when the sun went down is weaving
when it comes up to-morrow.— H. WW.
Beecher.