Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 28 January 1895 — Page 3
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16. MUSIC.
IMios. .T. Orr the old reliable music dealer, lias put in a stock of
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HOMEMADE DRESSES.
THE PROPER WAY TO CUT A WAIST LINING.
Direction* For Drafting: a Pattern to Salt Any Figure—Measurements Mast Be Accurate—Allow Eleven Inches at Waist
Line For Seams.
[Copyright, 1895, by American Press Association.] The system of waist cutting and fitting is always tho same and based upon the Kimo principles, though sometimes a very pronounced now style may render ccrtain changes or modifications necessary. At the present time the waist is cut in eight pieces, or at least the lining is—viz, two fronts, two side fronts, two side backs and two center back pieces. A diagram is given showing thoir form and relative positions. This gives what is called a model basque, and this is tho foundation of almost all the waists, whether plain basques, round waists, coats or princess gowns. To adapt it to the different requirements is so easy that any one can do it who knows anything at all about dressmaking.
With tho outline of tho model basque drafted, a low bodice can be made by marking off that portion to bo cut away,
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whether shaped or rounding. If tho waist is too long, it can be shortened by making a fold in the pattern at tho waist line, thereby taking out tho unnecessary length. In tho same placo—viz, at tho waist line—the basque can bo lengthened by sliding tho pattern down after tho upper portion is cut to tho proper length. To widen it allow as many inches as aro necessary and divide them, adding tho fraction to overy seam as it is cut out. In that way the proper proportion is maintained.
In those days it is so easy to purchase a reliable pattern at a nominal cost that it is scarccly necessary to give detailed di- wish rcctions as to drafting a pattern, but it may bo well to say a few words to those who cannot got exactly such a pattern as they want.
A still paper should bo laid flat, and an outline drawn as nearly like tho diagram I as possible as to form, but as largo as will I l)o required, with an inch or moro of space all around to spare. The length of the waist in front should be taken and the number of inches marked on tho paper. Three inches back from this tho shoulder measuro should bo taken and marked, then the length of the shoulder fend the length under tho arms. The width across tho bust from the top of the underarm seam to the notch should ho taken and marked across with pencil. The first dart should bo
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DIACK.VMf VOIi CUTTING SHAI'E AND LOW WAISTS. [Dott (1 line shows where to cut out to shorten waists.] length to tho back, and consequently a moro slender appearance. The back goro or side form should follow tho diagram in shape and actual measurement for length, and tho side goro or underarm piece should be as near like the shape of that in the diagram as possible, the whole to measure about 11 inches more around tho waist line than tho actual measurement, as there aro seams to be taken in. If they aro take,11 in half an inch deep, that brings the waist, to a snug fit. In cutting lining I have ^\vays found it best to allow full 113 inches for taking in. Some allow moro. When the lining is litted, that which is superfluous can be cut away, but it is not easy to add to it. When tho outline is marked on the papor, cut it out and try it against the figure, and if it is right in the neck and arm size and length of waist tho lining may bo cut. It requires 1 ]4 yards of drilling or silesia, and it must be cut on tho straight. OLIVE llAlil'EU.
I5uy Good Pictures.
Nothing so betrays a lack of culture or its possession as the character of the pictures to be seen in the homo. It is better to have one piod painting, which age will improve and the growing reputation of the •artist increase in value.', than to have your walls croword with impossible water colors in gor: 'ous frames and cheap etchings and crayons, which are simply the fad of the hour. Hy Irequenting galleries and studios, instead of blindly relying upon the stock of the so called art departments of dry goods stores, you can buy olt.cn at the same cost a picture which will boa joy forever, instead of a miserable makeshift. —Indies' Home .Journal.
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(Jrouped windows give just as much light and air as tin usual arrangement of two or three all alike evenly spaced in tho wall. They look a great deal more artistic and generally furnish a room better.— Boston Herald.
SINS OP PESSIMISM.
REV. DR. TALMAGE DEPLORES THE MODERN TENDENCY.
There la No Place In the Life of a Christian For Gloomy Forebodings—Touch
ing Incident of Gladstone—Optimism of Christianity.
NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—When Rev. Dr. Talmage came upon the stage in the Academy of Music this afternoon, he found before him an audience such as is seldom seen in any public building in America. The vast space was crowded from auditorium to topmost gallery and the aisles and corridors literally blocked, while many thousands who had come to hear him preach crowded Fourteenth street and Irving place, unable to gain admission. He took for his subject "The Dangers of Pessimism.'' the text selected being Psalm cxvi, 11, "I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Swindled, betrayed, persecuted David, in a paroxysm of petulance and rage, thus insulted tho human race. David himself falsified when he said, "All men are liars. He apologizes and says he was unusually provoked, and that he was hasty when he hurled such universal denunciation. "I said in my haste," and so on. It was in him only a momentary triumph of pessimism. There is ever and anon, and never more than now, a disposition abroad to distrust everybody, and because some bank employees defraud to distrust all bank employees, and because some polico officers have taken bribes to believe that all policemen take bribes, and becauso divorce cases are in the court to believe that most, if not all, marriage relations are unhappy.
Tliero are men who seem rapidly coming to adopt this creed: All men are liars, scoundrels, thieves, libertines. When a new ease of perfidy comes to the surface, theso people clap their hands in glee. It gives piquancy to their breakfast if tho morning newspaper discloses a new exposure or a new arrest. They grow fat on vermin. They join the devils in hell in jubilation over recreancy and pollution. If some one arrested is proved innocent, it is'to them a disappointment. They would rather believe evil than good. The3r aro vultures, preferring carrion. They would like to be on a committee to find something wrong. Thethat as eyeglasses have been invented to improvo tho sight, and ear trumpets have been invented to help the hearing, a corresponding instrument might be invented for the nose, to bring nearer a malodor.
Evils of Cynicism.
Pebsimism says of tho church, "Tho majority of tho members aro hypocrites, although it is no temporal advantage to bo a member of tho church, and therefore tliero is no temptation to hypocrisy. Pessimism says that tho influence of newspapers is only bad, and that they are corrupting tho world, when tho fact is that they are tho mightiest agency for tho arrest of crime and the spread of intelligence, and tho printing press, secular and religious, is sotting the nations freo. The wholo tendency of things is toward cynicism, and the gospel of Smashup. Wo excuse David of tho text for a paroxysm of disgust, because ho apologizes for it to all tho centuries, but it is a deplorable fact that many have taken the attitudo of perpetual distrust and anathematization. There are, we
I must admit, deplorable facts, and we
would not hide or minify them. We are not much encouraged to lind that tho great work of oflicial reform in New York city begins by a proposition to tho liquor dealers to break tho law by keeping their saloons open on Sunday from 2 in the afternoon to 11 at night.
Never since America was discovered has there been a worse insult to sobriety and decency and religion than that proposition. That proposition is equal to saying: "Let law and order and religion havo a chance 011 Sunday forenoons, but Sunday afternoons open all tho gates to gin and alcohol and Schiedam schnapps and sour mash and JerseJ lightning, and tho variegated swill of breweries and drunkenness and crime. Consecrate tho first half of the Sunday to God and tho last half to tho devil. Let tho children 011 their way to Sunday schools in New York at o'clock in tho afternoon meet tho alcoholism that does more than all other causes combined to rob chil-
strew tho land with helpless orphanago. Surely strong drink can kill enough peopie and destroy enough families and sufficiently crowd the almshouses and penitentiaries in six days of tho week without giving it an extra half day for I pauporism and assassination.
Power of Good.
Although wo aro not very jubilant over a municipal reform that opens tho exercises by a doxoiogy to rum, wo havo full faith in God and in tho gospel which will yet sink all iniquity as the Atlantic ocean melts a flake of snow What wo want, and what 1 believe wo will havo, is a great religious awakening that will moralize and Christianize our great populations and mako them superior to temptations, whether unlawful or legalized. So I seo 110 cause for dishearteniuent. Pessimism is a sin, and those who yield to it cripple themselves for tho war, 011 one side of which aro 1 all tho forces of darkness, led on by Apollyon, and on the other side of which t:ro all the forces of light, led on by the Omnipotent. I risk tho statement that tho vast majority of people are doing tho best they can. Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand of the officials of tho municipal and the United States governments aro honest.
Out of a thousand bank presidents and cashiers, nine hundred and ninety-nine aro worthy tho position they occupy, Out of a thousand merchants, mechanics and professional men, nine hundred and ninety-nine aro doing their duty as they understand it Out of one thousand engineers and conductors and switchmen, nine hundred and iiiuety-uino are true to their responsible positions. It is sel- 1 dom that people arrive at positions-of responsibility until they have been test-
ed over and over again. If the theory of tho pessimist were accurate, society would long ago have gone to pieces, and civilization would have been submerged with barbarism, and the wheel of the centnries would have turned back to the dark ages. A wrong impression is made that because two men falsify their bank accounts those two wrongdoers are blazoned before the world, while nothing is said in praise of the hundreds of bank clerks who have stood at their desks year in and year out until their health is well nigh gone, taking not a pin's worth of that which belongs to others for themselves, though with skillful stroke of pen they might have enriched themselves and built their country seats on the banks of the Hudson or the Rhine.
Blame Rather Than Praise.
It is a mean thing in human nature that men and women are not praised for doing well, but only excoriated when they do wrong. By divine arrangemeut the most of the families of the earth are at peace, and the most of those united in marriage have for each other affinity and affection. They may have occasional differences and here and there a season of pout, but the vast majority of those in the conjugal relation chose the most appropriate companionship and aro happy in that relation. You hear nothing of tho quietude and happiness of such homes, though nothing but death will them part. But one sound of marital discord makes the ears of a continent, and perhaps of a hemisphere, alert
Tho one letter that ought never to have been written printed in a newspaper makes moro talk than tho millions of letters that cro'wd tho postofiices and weigh down tho mail carriers with expressions of honest love. Tolstoi, tho great Russian author, is wrong when he prints a book for tho depreciation of marriage. If your observation has put you in an attitude of doploration for the
in regard to you. You have cither been unfortunate in your acquaintanceship, or you yourself aro morally rotten. The world, not as rapid as wo would like, but still with long strides, is on tho way to the scenes of beatitude and felicity which tho Biblo depicts. The man who cannot seo this is wrong, either in his heart or liver or spleen. Look at tho great Bible picture gallery, whero Isaiah has set up the pictures of arborescence, girdling tho world with cedar and fir and pine and boxwood and tho lion led by a child, and St. John's pictures of waters and trees, and white horse cavalry, and tears wiped away, and trumpets blown, and harps struck, and nations redeemed. While there aro 10,000 things I do not like, I have not seen any discouragement for tho cause of God for 25 years. Tho kingdom is coming. The earth is preparing to put on bridal array. We need to bo getting our anthems and grand marches ready. In our hymnology we shall havo moro use for 'Antioch" than for "Windham," for "Ariel" than for "Naomi. Let "Hark, From the Tombs a Doleful Cry!" bo submerged with "Joy to tlio World, the Lord Is Come!" Really, if I thought the human race we.ro as determined to bo bad and getting worse, as tho pessimists represent, I would think it was hardly wortli saving. If after hundreds of years of gospelization 120 improvement has bei 11 made, 1 let us give it up and go at something I else besides praying and preaching.
My opinion is that if we had enough faith in quick results and could go forth rightly equipped with the gospel cal! the battlo for God and righteousness would end with this nineteenth century, and the twentieth century, only i:ve or six years off, would begin the millennium, and Christ would reign, either 111 1 person 011 some throne set up between the Alleghanies and the Hookies or the institutions of mercy and grandeur set up by his ransomed people. Discouraged work will meet with defeat. Expectant and buoyant work will gain the victory. Start out with tho idea that all men are liars and scoundrels, and that everybody is as bad as ho can be, and that society, and tho church, and the world aro on tho way to demolition, and the only uso you will ever be to tho world will bo to increase tho valuo ot lots in a cemetery. We need a moro cheerful front in all our religious work. People havo enough trouble already and do not want to ship another cargo of trouble in tho sbapo of religiosity. If religion has boen to you a peace, a do-
dreu of their fathers and mothers and fense, an inspiration and a joy, say so. and schools than any one, except God, Say it by word of mouth, by pen in your knows. Ho has kept many a business
right hand, by face illumined with a (livino satisfaction. If this world is ever to bo taken for God, it will not bo by groans, but by halleluiahs. If wo could present tho Christian religion as it really is, in its true attractiveness, all the people would accept it, and accept it right away. The cities, the nations would cry out: "Give us that! Give it to ua in all its holy magnetism and gracious power! Put that salvo 011 our wounds! Throw back tho shutters for that morning light! Knock off theso chains with that silver hammer Give us Christ—his pardon, his peace, his comfort, his heavon! Give us Christ in song, Christ in sermon, Christ in book, Christ in living example!"
Religion Exemplified.
As a system of didactics religion has never gained 0110 inch of progress. As a technicality it befogs more than it irradiates. As a dogmatism it is an awful failure. But as a fact, as a re-enforce-ment, as a transliguration, it is the mightiest thing that ever descended I from tho heavens or touched tho earth. Exemplify it in tho lilo of a good man or a good woman, and 110 one can help but like it. A city missionary visited a house in London and found a sick and dying hoy. Thero was an orange lying 011 his bed, and tho missionary said, "Whero did you get that orange?" He I said: "A man brought it to mo. He comes hero often and reads tho Bible to I me and prays with 1110 and brings mo nico things to eat." "What is his name?" said tho city missionary. "I forgot his name," said tho sick boy, "but he makes groat speeches over in that great building," pointing to the parliament houeo of London. Tho mis-
marriage state, one of two things is true t}16 iaU( of reunion where she expects to
sionary asked, "Was his name Mr. Gladstone?" "Oh, yes," said the boy, "that is his name—Mr. Gladstone!" Do you tell mo a man can see religion like that and not like it? Thero is an old fashioned mother in a farmhouse. Perhaps she is somewhere in the seventies, perhaps 75 or 76. It is tho early evening hour. Through spectacles No. 8 she is reading a newspaper until toward bedtime, when she takes up a well worn book, called tho Bible. I know from the illumination in her face she is roading one of the thanksgiving psalms, or in Revelation the story of tho 12 pearly gates. After awhilo she closes tho book and folds her hands and thinks over the past and seems whispering tho names of her children, some of them on earth and some of them in heaven. Now a smile is on her face, and now a tear, and sometimes the smile catches tho tear. The scenes of a long life come back to her. One minuto she sees all the children smiling around her, with their toys and sports and strango questionings. Then she remembers several of them down sick with infantile disorders. Then she sees a short grave, but over it cut in marble, "Suffer them to come to me.'' Then there is tho wedding hour, and tho neighbors in, and the promise of "I will," and tho departure from the old homestead, then a scene of hard times, and scant bread and struggle. Then she thinks of a few years with gush of sunshine and flittings of dark shadows and vicissitudes.
This Is Piety.
Then she kneels down slowly, for many years have stiffened the joints, and the illnesses of a lifetime have made her less supple. Her prayer is a mixture of thanks for sustaining grace during all those years, and thanks for children good and Christian and kind, and a prayer for tho wandering boy, whom she hopes to see como home before her departure. And then her trembling lips speak of
meet her loved ones already translated, and after telling tho Lord in very simple language how much she loves him, and trusts him, and hopes to see him soon, I hear her pronounce the quiet "Amen, and she rises up—a little more difficult effort than kneeling down. And thou she puts her head 011 tho pillow for the night, and tho angels of safety and peace stand sentinel about that couch in the farmhouse, and her face ever and anon shows signs of dreams about tho heaven slio read of before retiring. In the morning the day's work has begun down stairs, and seated at the table tho remark is made, "Mother must have overslept herself." And tho grandchildren also notice that grandmother is absent from her usual place at the table. One of the grandchildren goes to the foot of the stairs and cries, "Grandmother!" But there is no answer. Fearing something is tho matter, they go up to see, and all seems right. Tho spectacles and Biblo on the stand, and tho covers of tho bed aro smooth, and the face is calm, her white hair 011 the white pillow case like snow on snow already fallen. But her soul is gone up to look upon the things that tho night before sho had been roading of in the Scriptures. What a transporting look on her dear old wrinkled face! Sho has seen the in his beauty. Sho has boen welcomed by tho "Lamb who was slain. "And her two oldest sons, having hurried up stairs, look and wnisper, Henry to George, "That is religion!" Georgo to Henry. "1'es, that is religion!" -,i
Ho Dispensed IJlosMiigs.
KH'Thero is a New York merchant who has been in business I should say 40 or 1 oO years. During an old fashioned revival of religion in boj'hood I10 gave his heart to God. Ho did not make the ghastly and inliniteand everlasting mistake of sowing "wild oats," with tho expectation of sowing good wheat later on. Ho realizod the fact that the most of those who sow "wild oats" never reap any other crop. Ho started right and has kept right. Ho went down in 1857, when the banks failed, but ho failed honestly and never lost his faith in God. Ups and downs—ho sometimes laughs over them—but whether losing or gaining ho was growing better all tho h. time. Ho has been in many business j* ventures, but ho never ventured tho ex- 1 1 1 a a a a a id if 1 a penment ot gaming tho world and losing his soul. His namo was a powrer both in tho church and in tho business world. Ho has drawn moro checks for contributions to asylums and churches I
man from failing by lending his namo on the back of a note till tho crisis was past. All heaven knows about him, for tho poor woman whoso rent ho paid in lier last days, and tho man with consumption in the hospital to whom he sent flowers and tho cordials just before 1 ascension, and the people he encouraged I in many ways, after they entered heaven kept talking about it, for tho immortals aro neither deaf nor dumb. Well, it is about timo for tho old merchant himself to quit earthly residence.
As it is toward evening, I10 shuts tho safe, puts the roll of newspapers in his pocket, thinking that tho family may liko to read them after I10 gets home. Ho folds up a $5 bill and gives it to the boy to carry to one of tho car men who got his leg broken and may bo in need of a little money puts a stamp 011 a letter to his grandson at college, a letter with good advice, and an inclosuro to make the holidays happy, then looks around tho store or office and says to tho clerks, "Good evoning, and starts for homo, stopping 011 tho way at a door to ask how his old friend, a deacon in tho samo church, is getting 011 since his last bad attack of vertigo. He enters his own home, and that is his last evening 011 earth. He does not say much. No last words are necessary. His whole life has been a testimony for (^od and righteousness. More peoplo would like to attend his obsequies than any house or church would hold. The officiating clergyman begins his remarks by quoting from the psalmist, "Help, Lord, for tho godly man ceasetli, for tho faithful fail from among tho children of men." Every hour in heaven for all tho million years of eternity tliat old merchant will soe
the results of his earthly beneficence and fidelity, while on the street where he did business, and in the orphan asylum in which he waa a director, and in tlw church of which ho waa an officer, whenever his geniality and beneficence and goodm*ss are referred to, bank director will say to bank director, and merchant to merchant, and neighbor to neighbor, and Christian to Christian: "That is religion. Yes, that is religion."
Saved From Deenulalion.
There is a man seated or standing I very near you. Do not look at him, for it might be unnecessary embarrassment.
Only a few minutes ago ho came down off the steps of as happy a home as there is in this or any other city. Fifteen years ago, by reason of his dissipated habits, his homo was a horror to wife and children. What that woman went through \fith in order to preserve respectability and hide her husband's disgrace is a tragedy which it would requiro a Shakespenro or Victor Hugo to writoout in five tremendous acts. Shall I tell it? He struck her! Yes tho one who at the altar I10 had taken with vows so solemn they made the orange blossoms tremble! He struck her! Ho made tho beautiful holidays "a reign of terror. Instead of his supporting her, she supported him. The children had often heard him speak the name of God, but never in prayer—only in profanity. It was tho saddest thing on earth that I can think of—a destroyed home! Walking along the street one day an impersonation of all wretchedness, I10 saw a sign at the door of a Young Men's Christian association, "Meoting For Men Only."
He went in, hardly knowing why he did so, and sat down by the door, and a young man was in broken voice and poor grammar telling how the Lord had saved him from a dissipated life, and the man back by the door said to himself, Why cannot I have the Lord do the same thing for me?" and ho put his hands, all a-tremble, over his bloated face and said: "O God, I want that! I must have that!" and God said, "You shall have it, and you have itnowj" And the man came out and went ho^e a changed man, and though the children at first shrank back and looked to tho mother and began to cry with fright they soon" saw that the father was a changed man. That homo has turned from "Paradise 1 Lost" to "Paradise Regained." The wife sings all day long at her work, for sho is so happy, and the children rush out into the hall at tho first rattle of the father's key in the door latch to wolcome him with caresses and questions of, "What have you brought me?" They havo family prayers. They aro altogeth-^: er on tho road to heaven, and when the journey of life is over they will live forever in each other's companionship.
Two of their darling children are there already, waiting for father and mother to come up. What changed that man? What reconstructed that home? What took that wife, who was a slave of fear and drudgei'v, and made her a queen on a throne of attVction? 1 hear a whispering all through this assemblage. I know what you are saving: "That's religion! Yes, that's religion!" My Lord and my God, give us morn of it!
Why, my hearers from all parts of tho earth, do you not get this bright and beautiful and radiant and blissful and triumphant thing lor yourselves, then go home telling ail your neighbors 011 tho Pacific, or in Nova Seotia, or in Louisiana, or Maine, or Brazil, or England, or Italy, or any part of tho round world, that they may have it too. Havo it for tho asking! Have it now! Mind you, I do not start lrom the pessimistic standpoint that David did, when he got mad and said in his haste, "All men are liars!" or from tho creed of others that every man is as bad as ho can be. I rather think from your looks that you are doing about as well as you can in the circumstances which you are placed, but I want to invite you up into heights of safety and satisfaction and holiness, as much higher than those which the world affords as Everest, tho highest mountain in all the earth, is higher than your m, front doorstep. kss
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Here he comes now. Who is it? I
not seen him before and heard his voice. I thought he would como before I got through with this sermon. Stand back and make way for him. He comes with scars all around his forehead scars in tho center of both hands stretched out to greet you scars on tho instep of both tho feet with which he advances scars 011 tho breast under which throbs tho great heart of sympathy which feels for you. I announce him. I introduce him to you Jesus of Bethlehem and Olivet and Golgotha. Whyeomest thou hither this winter day, thou of tho springtimo and summery heavens! Ho answers: To give all this audience pardon for guilt, condolence for grief, whole regiments of help for day of battle and eternal life for the dead! What response shall 1 givo him? I11 your behalf and in my own behalf I hail him with the ascription: "Unto him who hath loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen."
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Kor mi Kveninj Waist.
An effective garniture for an evening waist is made of white satin ribbon, embroidered with tiny gilt spangles, interspersed with an occasional spangle of rose huod glass. The ribbon should bo about an inch wide. Two rows servo for tho stock collar, two tor the belt, and a singlo row is brought from each sido of tho collar in front and passed around under tho arms and carried down to tho waist line in the back and tucked into the belt.—Chicago Herald.
A Likeness.
A man had his portrait taken with his children in a donkey carriage, lie standing at the animal's head. Showing it to a friend, he asked his opinion of tho likeness. "It's the very imago of you," was tho verdict, "but who is that holding your head?"