Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1891 — Page 9

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SUNDAY THOUGHTSt

ON MORALS MANNERS There tre two conditions which are universally connected with human life, viz., birth and death. The one marks its advent, the other its exit. In eo far as thi3 world is concerned, the experience of mankind is that death ia final. That which the queen says to Hamlet, in the play, voices the fact: "Thou knowst 'tis common, all that live must die, passing through nature to eternity." The bible teaches that there have been tome exceptions to this world-embracing law. In the old testament Enoch passed from earth to heaven without dying. Elijah restored to life the dead son of the Shunammitc. In the new testament Christ raised the daughter of Jairus, reanimated the widow of Xain's son and called Lazarus back from the crave. When Jesus gave up the ehost on Calvary many of the departed reappeared and went accusingly into Jerusalem. And, flnall', on that first Easter Sunday Jesus came forth from the "sepulcber that was hewn out of a rock," and made eleven separate and distinct appearances durinjr an interval of forty days and convinced those who knew Him best and loved Him most that it was indeed Himself. These eye and ear witnesses of the resurrection were so absolutely confident of this that they went eTery whitber testifying to it, and many of them sealed this testifying w ith their martyr blood. Because the resurrection transcends ordinary experience, many doubt it and tome deny. Both doubt and denial involve certain absurdities. The absurdity, for instance, of supposing that the beat men that ever lived were guilty of the grossest imposition ever practiced, and the further absurdity of believing that such men submitted to martyrdom in order to substantiate their fraud. If it be said that they might have been honestiy mistaken might have imagined they saw what they did not see, as old Dr. Johnson believed in ghosts, we reply: This could not have been true in the case of Christ, because he professed to raise the dead. He was not a mere spectator, but the actual doer of the deed. If He did not raise the dead He was an intentional deceiver, which 3 inconsistent with tho universal acknowledgment of His supreme wisdom and goodness. 'Tis easier to believe that He raised the dead and that He rose Himself, than it is to believe that He whom Jean Paul Kichter calls "the purest of the mighty, and the mightiest of the pure," was a vulgar importer. Between two difficulties a wise man chooses the least. For the believer in Christ's divinity these difficulties do not exist. 'Tis as easy for God to re-create as to pro-create. "Were it not for its commonness birth is as wonderful as resurrection. Natural laws are only God's ordinary ways of doing tilings. Why may He nothave extraordinary ways? Can not He who made tho laws of nature vary them, or so play them sfF against one another as to produce new iffects? Otherwise nature would be more powerful than its Maker another ibsurdity. To say that God never does vary His laws is to bejr the question. This ia precisely what the scriptures tell us He does. A miracle is a deviation from the usual course another divine way of doinr things. We call it a miracle on that account. But to God it is no miraclo at all, but only a reaort to a law new to us. In heaven they do not wonder at Christ's resurrection. 'Tis Hi condescension in veiling His divinity in humanity that atirs the amazement ol the skies. ' The miracle which perplexes the aneels in the incarnationthe mangcr-cradlo, not the empty lepulcher. Ce'lain thinkers are never tired of striving to evaporate the supernatural out of the bible. They rniht as well undertake !" evaporate the oxygen from the air. For a oxygen is the vital portion of the atmosphere, eo the supernatural is the vital element in the scriptures. Success in either case would devitalize tho residum. Thebible is a literary chef tC autre. But it is more. 'Tin a divine revelation. As ' such, the superhuman element is to be expected. Its absence would discredit its allege t authorship. If it were history, merely, or poetry, or ethics, what we call the miraculous would be an impertinence. But since it is God's book, and speaking of Htm, telling us whom He is, and what, and where, and throwing a flood of light upon human origin, destiny and immediate duty supernaturalism is demanded. Naturalism is not sufficient for these things. A pastor writes as follows ancnt his best parishioner: I once had an elder whose eat was near the door after church, and who always had a handshake and a kind word for any new-comer who might drop in. It was his custom to invito such to come again, or to ask strangers if they would like an introduction to the pastor, and to secure their address with a view to Eastcral visitation. In this way he helped is minister more and did more to build up his church than all the other members put together. In the Ilomiletie Review for March Dr. Arthur T. Pierson appeals to theological seminaries and colleges "to establish a chair of the English bible from among the most able and successful of all our biblical preachers. We need the moat alert and quickening men of the pulpit and pastorate in chairs of the English bible. And to euch men no other chair would bo so attractive. Preachers whom co other call could draw from their beloved surroundings would resign all charms of a pastoral life for the sake of training a new generation of preachers who would be able to handle the word of God as a whole as a foremost lawyer handles Biackstonc or an accomplished artisan Lis tools." In England and in Canada there are regularly incorporated coffee house companies. Three pat philanthropy on a business basis and make it pay good dividends. One company was formed in Liverpool in 1S75 with a chare capital of 200.000. It has now sixty-three houses and has saw paid leas than 10 per cent.

In Birmingham a similar company was formed in 1S77 with a capital of f 100,000. This pays from 10 to 15 per cent. Here is a hint for home imitation. 'Tis not easy nowadays to pet 15 per cent, dividends. Liquor "gets it. If tempernnco also can, who would not become a shareholder in a coffee hou.se company? The best way to light the falobn is by competition. When sobriety w completely sober it will offer to inebriety counterattractions. A coffee houe with nil the accommodations and allurements of a saloon, save tho liquor, would be found, and where tried has been found, a successful and blessed rival. To all my fellow-sufferers who are trending their way through the tunnels of trial I would say: Tighten your loins with the promises and keep the strong staff of faith well in hand. T. L. Cuykr. I have a pledge from Christ have his note of hand, which is my SUpportCi risojfom. Promises are like bonds which depend altogether upon tho sufficiency cf tho surety. If a begsar seal an instrument for the payment of 10,00.), who esteems it to be any better than a blank? But if a man of estate do bind himself to pay such a sum it is looked upon an so much money; and men value themselves by such bills and bonds as well as by what is in their possession. God who hath made rich promises to believers, is able to perform what Ho hath spoken. Spurxow. The ant is a type of Fe! Ugliness, in that it works wholly for itself; the bee is a type of beneficence, because it works for the good of others. Hate. If we will stand boggling at imaginary evils, let us never blame a horse for starting at a shadow. L. 1 Entrann,'mmml Anxiety is the poison of life, the parent of many gins and more miseries. Why, then, allow it, when we know that all the future is guided by a Father's hand? llvjh IHa 'tr. It is n dull and obtuse mind that must divide in order to distinguish; but it is a still worsj thai distinguishes in order to divide. In the former we may contemplate the source of superstition and idolatry ; in the latter of schism, heresy, and a Beditious and sectarian spirit. CoUridje. Not long ago the statistics of the various occupations in Germany were tabulated. From these tables it appeare that less than 20,000 persons make literature a profession in exact numbers, ltyioO. Considering the intense literary activity of Germany and the facilities afforded, the number is surprisingly small. Evidently woman's recognition is still scant over there, for in the guild of letters the fair eex is represented by but 3."0 ladies ! lu 1S0O. books were published in Germany. In 188-3 the number had risen to J6.:ii)" five times as many, though the population had not quite doubled. In 1S00 the department of belles letters occupied the tirst place and theology the pecond. In 18X5 pedajjojrics stands first and theology ranks fourth. In lrfOu every thirtieth book was philosophical, nowonly every one hundred ana twentieth. The coutempiative departments have been pushed more and more into the background, while the practical becomes increasingly prominent. And this, too, is tho tendency the world over. But it is more noticeable in a country like iermany, studious by habit and speculative in its very genius. An eminent scholar, writing from Berlin, comments in an American magazine upon science and philosophy. Formerly, he says, the two were connected, philosophy including all that was known of tho science of nature. This was true of Greek philosophy and of that of the middle ages. Only in modern times have the natural sciences and mathematics been separated from philosophy. Even now the term philosophv is used in 1'ngland for science, soc.eties and journals being called philosophical which are devoted to physics and chemistry. As the terms philosophy and science are sometimes used for entirely different spheres of thought, while at other times they are used synonymously, the result is the most perplexing and pernicious confusion. Thin science is lauded as exact in its methods and linal in its conclusions; yet scientific works teem with hypotheses and theories which are purely speculative and aro constantly changing, and yet are dubbed scientific. Positivism, agnosticism, materialism, Darwinism Bre all philosophical and speculative. The fewest punnanental datann whic h they are founded dwindle into insignificance compared with the amount of speculation they involve. Gur ignorance of matter is ho great that we cannot even define matter, yet men are found to have the effrontery to pronounce materialism tho scientific, explanation of the universe! This effort to give to mere hypotheses and philosophical speculations tho absoluteness and finality of real science, is tho bane of science. There is need of a careful distinction between science and philosophy, showing what they have in common and wherein they differ. Not long ago, in tho U. S. senate chamber, some amazing statistics were given as by authority, and their accuracy has not since been question. These relate to the wealth of the country and tho distribution thereof. During the double decade from 100 to 1SS0 the national wealth increased at the rate of $-'.V),000 for every hour. With every outstanding claim paid, wo have a balance in our favor of between pixty and seventy thousand millions of dollars. This is a fine showing. But it is shadowed onirnously bv the increasing tendency on the part of this wealth to gravitato from the many to the few. In the United States 2')0 persons have an aggregate of more than $20,000,000 each ; and one man, w ithin less than an average life time, acquired out of the aggregate national wealth an amount which exceeds the assessed valuation of four of the smallest states in the union. Consider: 401) persons possess $10,000,(K)3 each ; 1,000 persons f 5,000,000 each ; ti.000 persons $1,000,000 each, and 15,000 persons $500,000 each; making a total of 31,000 persons who possets f 345,000,000,000, more than half of the accumulated wealth of the country I Less than a two thousandth part of our population are richer than all the rest of our 03,000,000 of people. And this process is going on with fright ful and accelerating rapidity. Before long the whole industry of America will be dominated by organized and confederated capital The senator who sounded this alarm says: "More than fifty of the necessaries of life have passed absolutely under the control of syndicates and trusts, and corporations, controlled by peculators, and by means of these combinations competition is destroyed ; email dealings are rendered impossible; competition can.no longer be required, for it is unnecessary to say that If under a system where the accumulations distributed per capita would bo less than $1,000, 31,000

persons obtain possession of more than one-half of the accumulated wealth of the country, it is impossible that others should have a competence. So it happens that society is becoming rapidly stratified, hopelessly stratified, into the' condition of the superfluously rich and the helplessly poor." This is the origin of the industrial question. That there should be a bitter quarrel between labor, which produces, and capital, which absorbs, everything, goes without the saying. And this contest is wasteful. The estimate is that during the past year alone the actual loss to labor, without estimating capital's loss, arising from etrikes and interruptions of traffic has been at least $100,000,000. It is a great thing to have public attention directed to this vast subject. With information will come light. The keen American mind w ill find or invent some remedy for the present tendency toward national pauperization on one hand and unlimited individual accumulation on the other hand. We are not going to allow a few thousand mushroom families to appropriate the United States. Meanwhile, it is the duty of tho church, not in the demagogue spirit, but after the fashion of the divine carpenter of Jerusalem, to identify itself with nnd properly champion the toiling millions. Tho preachers should make it clear that they are not the chaplains of the millionairs. The text for the times is the golden rule. THE PARIS OF AMERICA.

San Francisco as Observed by the Eyas of a Ilooaier Maiden. Sax Francisco, Cal., March 24. Special. The tourist in California who has not yet visited San Francisco cannot expect to cut much of a figure among the Californians. San Francisco is their darling. With her magnificent residences, built by the Stanfords, the Fairs and the Crockers; her spacious Palace hotel; her unrivaled Golden Gate park; the Cliff house, commanding an unobstructed view of the deep blue sea; her cable car system, unequaled in the world. All these aro the delight of the proud hearts of native sons and daughters. Xot to have visited this great metropolis is to be ignorant of the magnitude of western enterprise. We my mother, who is my traveling companion and I came from Santa Barbara to San Francisco by water. A very delightful voyage it proved to le. We were one day and two nights upon the peaceful Pacific. Early in the morning of the second day all was hustlo and ei citement on board. Had we been out at sea for wetks the passengers could not have seemed more interested in landing-. Inarticulate murmurings about the "liar," "Golden Gate," etc., were wafted to me as I lay muzlv tucked up in my berth. It gradually dawned upon me that something interesting was taking place outside and I wns not in it. So I descended to the floor of my state room (I had gained my berth by mounting the stationary wash-stand ), made a hasty toilet and joined my mother on d'ck. We were rapidly nearing Golden Gate bar. The city lay beforo us, enveloped in a dense fog. Two peninsulas, ten miles apart, extending far out into the ocean form the magnificent entrance into San Francisco bay, known as the Golden Gate. San Francisco has the great advantage of having no rivals. Neighboring cities do not attempt to compete with her. To be sure, Los Angeles, sweet city of the angels, sometimes eo forgets her angelic name as to make scathing remarks about "those disagreeable trade winds in San Francisco," but San Francisco has but to capually refer to its "delightfully cool summers" and the intolerable heat of Ixs Angeles to silence that little southern city, which is eighteen miles inland and secretly wishes she was on the coast. San Francisco is the great metropolis of tho golden West; the queen of the coast ; the peerless city of tho Golden Gate the Paris of America! The tourist is immediately impressed with tho immense number of millinery shops. Such lavish display of head-gear" I have never seen in in any other city. I wonder if this profusion of woman's delight is why the city is called the "l'aria of America." Thero is a marked contrast between this busy, wealthy, independent western city and" the cities of the East. New York ladies carry dugs on Broadway and Fifth avenue, but they draw tho line at little human beings nurses carry their children. I have not seen a San Francisco lady with a dog, but they carry in their arms proud mothers their own little babies. Baby-carriages seem to bo held at a high premium in San Francisco. 1 do not not know why so few are used, unless it is on account of the hills. It is quite common to see ladies elegantly attired going shopping with a pink-cheeked cherub in their arms. I was told of an eastern woman, very big, blonde and self-important, who took a morning constitutional down Marketst the principal thoroughfare, leading by a chain a weak-eyed poodle. Goden Gate boys aro not accustomed to any such nonjease, and the story further goes that they made It so lively for poodle by making him a target for exercising their skill iu throwing stones and other available weaima that Mrs. Big-Blonde-Self-important was only thankful to get Iter charge homo sound in limb, and she never exposed him more to rude, uncultured street arabs. There is a strong resemblenco between San Francisco and New vork. The buildings aro as tall, the stre ss wider and just as many people on them as there are on the streets of Gotham. Kearney-st., the fashionable promenade, ia as crowded every day from 2 p. m. until 0 as Broadway on Saturday afternoons. Sunday is a regular gala day. Church in the morning, concert at Golden Gate park in the afternoon, and at night the theater. Think of it, ye puritans It is the one day in the week in which care is laid aside. Everybody is out on dreps parade. Everybody feels that complacent satisfaction that only comes with having on your best clothes and know ing you have a fetching look. So everybody is happy and the preplexities of lite are for a time forgotten. It was on one of these afternoons that I stood on one of San Francisco's high hills as the sun was sinking. I watched it slowly sink into the sea, leaving behind a crimson sky with pale pink darts shooting up into amber-tinted clouds. Gradually the rich coloring faded, leaving soft white fleecy clouds with gray borders. An artist might have painted it as the gateway to heaven. Minnie Tcrpex. Voder Suspicion. Puck. J "Somebody has picked my pocket," cried the Fat Woman, "Whom do von suspect?" asked the J Midget. "That Sneaking Armless Wonder over I there has a conscious look on his face. I . believe it is him."

TALKS OYER THE TEA-CUPS.

A NEW CUSTOM BEING INTRODUCED. The Pharli of Today What to Do with One's Idkenesa How to Select WnllPaper Hot Water Cures Let Dinners. Eastern cities have what are called visitors' bureaus and ladies' guides, which are very successful. They are pleasant parlors where friends can meet who wish to shop and enjoy luncheon. Women in the city on business who do not wish to go to a hotel can have a room for a day or two. Guides are furnished strange ladies visiting the city and everything is arranged for their comfort. The business is in the hands of a stock company with a long list of influential stockholders. Something of the eort in our city would be appreciated by many ladies. It is often a puzzling question where to meet the friend who wishes to shop with you. One bates to stand on a corner. If you undertake to wait in a store tho floorwalker will ask what you are looking for, and you will sav: "Waiting for a friend." "Oh, yes, excuse me." Then a clerk will repeat the question. Another clerk seeing you sitting before the counter asks you your wishes, and it continues until the whole force has been informed that you are waiting for a friend and you have the embarrassing feeling that they wonder at your audacity in selecting their place of business as a wait-ing-room. If you wait at a restaurant the head waiter and sixteen other waiters will come up and ask you for your order, then they will stand off in a row and watch you to see that you don't carry off the triple-plate castors. There should be some place where ladies living in opposite parts of the city could meet without iny feeling of infringing on some one else's property. HOT WATER CURE. A Simple Panacea for Domestic Ills and Easily Obtained. A poor woman writes to the New York World in great distress. She wishes to know what to do with a husband who will not allow her to have any company or to go out for relaxation. She states that she does all the house work and sewing for a family of seven, and that if gho or her children desire any pleasure or company the dovoted husband and father abuses them, fiehts and uses all sorts of undesirable language. She begs advice from some kindly disposed person. Here is a question for this poor woman. Have you, madam, ever tried pure boilinz water? It is really tho only remedy which at present suggests itself. If a man who has sworn to love and protect a woman and who rewards her faithful devotion to him and her caro of their children with curses, abuses and brawla can in any way be moved to a sense of his total lack of decency it would be this hot water treatment and no other. The remedy may nt first seem a trifle severe. There are, to be sure, arguments which might be advanced in favor of a tufled club. This has teen known to work wonders, and it is the opinion of many experts that no family should be without one. There is this objection to a club it is an unwieldly affair for a woman to use unless she be a veritable Amazon. Then there is the broomstick panacea. This is an old wives' cure-all, having been in favor for many years. There is no question about its cllicacy if properly handled. A dexterous and nimble woman can sweep a quarreling spouse out of the house, along with other refuse matter, in very quick time. Heaping coals of fire is often suggested. This course might avail in certain domestic maladies, especially where the patient is not too thick-headed. But when all the perceptive faculties are on a par with those of a finely developed hog, coals of fire would have' but little effect. In this case tho husband appears to be suffering from an acut attack of mental rabies, or in plain, homely phrase, "pure cussedness." He needs to be brought out of it by the quickest procepjj known. A severe shock will often cause a marvelous cure, and nothing occurs which is liable to produce a greater shock than the remedy suggested. It will doubtless act as a counter irritant, and will draw tho inward fever to the outside. Moreover, it will demonstrate tho truth of tho somewhat trite saying: "CourUhip ia bliss, mnrriago is blister." Hot water is singularly cleansing and purifying, but tho greatest inducement this treatment oilers is the fact that it will not lo necessary to repeat it ninny times. As a rule, one dose is considered suflicient. A few stubborn cases require two and even three, but the most virulent attack id bound to succumb to the third. There is a certain penetration nbout this treatment which is simply irresistible. The after effects the reflex action as it were sometimes are a trills painful, but petting, curving and a plentiful use of bandages and soft soap will smooth tho war to reconciliation and a better understanding between the physician and the patient. ARTISTIC WALLS. How to Select Wall-Paper Thetis Cheerful and Effeotlt e. The highest art is now displayed in the designs for wall-papers, says the New York World, and there is no discounting the magnificent appearances of 6ome of these latest patterns when properly placed on the sides of the room. Largo figures in old gold, especially scroll work in borders, are usod. In selecting wall-paper it should be chosen in accordance with good taste, and the moat important question to decide is whether it is to form a decoration for itself or whether it is to become a mere back ground for pictures. In either case tho colors should be Biibdued in tone, and two shades of light drab or silver-gray will be found the most appropriate for this purose. Where water-color drawings aro iung in a drawing room paper of cmbossed white or cream color, with very small spots of gold, will not be amiss. The patterns should'. also be selected with reference to the place. Vhero a largo part of the wall is to bo presented to the eye a greater play of line in the patterns may be attractive, but in all other situations the patterns should be comparatively simple. It is a mistake to make the wallfaper decorations of the same celor of the urniture. Instead of repeating the color of the furniture and, hangings it should

oppose it Contrast is as essential as simplicity to good taste in household decoration. In selecting papers for the walls one should not trust simply to the patternbooks. A paper that has been ordered will often look darker or lighter after it is hung than it did in the pattern-book. In order to avoid disappointment in this respect it is advisable to take several lengths of the paper and suspend them side by side on the wall and notice carefully the general effect it has upon the eye and the room. The leaves of certain plants, conventionally treated, are very elective decorative forms. The ivy, maple, oak and fig leaves are beautifully adapted to this purpose, and they come in large and Email designs on wall paper. Where two shades of the same co or arc employed, and quietness of effect is especially desired, the overlaid tint should be but very little darker than the ground; and if drawings and other things are to be hung upon it, the pattern should be hardly discernible from a little distance. The most dreary method of decorating the wall of a sittine-room ia to cover it all over with an unrelieved pattern of monotonous design. Yet many housewives who are careless about euch matters, or probably do not know the secret of the art, will do this every spring that their paper is changed. Taper-hanging should in no case be allowed to cover the whole space of a wall from skirting to ceiling. A plinth space of plain color, either in paper or distemper, should be left to a hight of two or three feet from the floor. A light wood moulding, stained or gilded, should separate this from the paper above. A second space of frieze, left just below the ceiling and filled with arabesque ornament, is always effective, but, of course, always involves more expense. Gold, when judiciously introduced, is always a valuable adjunct in the design of paper hangings, but it frequently doubles and sometimes trebles the price of a piece. THE PHARISEE OF TODAY.

IlutH Athmnrt'a SugtcatlT Letter to a, Girl on Christian Charity. In her side talks w ith girls in the Ladies1 Home Journal, Kuth Ashmore says: "She's not of my religion," very emphatically said a young woman standing behind the counter of a big shop. I stopped and listened and then I said: "Will you tell uic what your religion is?" Very quickly she answered : "I am a Christian, and the girl on the other side of me is a catholic, while the one on my right is a Jewess, and of course they aro both different from me." I sat down there and looked at that girl and wondered who had taught her Christianity, and then I asked her if she would give me her name and address as I wanted to write her a little letter, and this i3 what 1 wrote: You are yet a very young woman; you call yourself a Christian and you act as a heathen never would. You forget the first element of Chriatianitr. which should be respect for Jiflaiam, because Chriat himself wu a Jew. You forget the first tcacbinsr of Christianity, which ia resneot for a church that it older than any other except the Jewish, and which, in Kivinif it great eharitie, does not ak, "What church ii your religion?" You think you are a Christian you are not. You will not be until you learn that an ng greaei-e position ia nerer taken by the follower! of Christ, iave when it ia necessary to keep shame from His name; and you, by your lack of consideration for your coworkers; you, by your marvelous display of ignorance, have shamed the name of Christian and stand a sell-confessed barbarian. What do you suppose each of these girls thinks of your faith? It is very difficult to belief that figs grow from thistles. And how can your col laborers imagine that good aotiona will reault from bigoted worda? Your words picture your soulwhat do they mike it seem? Suppose you ask the girl on your right fo tell you aoruethinif of the beautiful ritual in which Chriit Himself was born and educated. Suppose you get the girl on yonr right to tell you a little bit about some of the wonderful works of charity d ine in tha eatbolio church. Suppose you tell them of the work you art doing, though 1 fear you are not doing any. And suppose you three girls, each believing differently, eae-h having a faith that it worthy of respect, should work together for good, each giving the helping hind to the other, each having the proper respect for the other, and each being glad at tha other's time of gladness and sorrowful when unhappy days come. WHAT TO DO WITH ONE'S LIKENESS. Tha Women Are Ilarlnf Their Pictures Falntsd Instil of Watch Cot era. The ladies of Gotham aro very good to tho gentlemen of this place, saya the New York World. They are presenting them with miniatures of themselves exquisitely painted on ivory. Time was when a simple photo card eizo was good enough for anybody' best fellow. Then a cabinet muat be bought for him, or a panel nearly as largo as life and aa natural as the camera could luuko it. Now itcostaSC.") to give one's likeneM to one's divinity, for it iiiuxt be upon the lhu-st of polished ivory and so beautifully tinted that none but a real arti.it can do the work. Tho most approved ivory likenesses ore no larger thun the pictures of (icorgo Washington upon our postago stamps. And they are designed to ho fitted withiu a locket w hich is to be worn upon the watch-chain. Twenty-live dollars ia the very cheapest sum for which the ivory likenefl can bo obtained. They used to cost $"0, but an artist recently imported who makes a specialty of them eays: "They cost no more than twenty-flvo in l;unnon." And so one munt pay no moro than that in this country. Another dainlv personal gift in a likeness of one's self painted upon a coffeecup which is to ndorn the bachelor quarters of one's best love. If painted by an artist who understands china painting, the colors do not change in the firing and the ell'ect is as lovely as could be desired. Still another way of giving one'fl likeness to one's best boy is by having it painted mon the inside of the caso of his watch. This method possesses one advantage over those previously mentioned, namely, that of endurance. Seasons may wax and wane. Time may corao and time may go, but as long as the ticking of that particular watch goes on, just so long will the dainty, smiling features look out from the insido of the golden cover. Nothing can erase it and nothing can cover it up pave another picture painted over it. And shame be upon tho artist who could be prevailed upon to do so ruthless a deed. I,ate Dinners Stylish. Dinners are being given later and later in the evening. There was a time w hen nearly all people dined at 6 or 6:30. The hour was moved along by halves, and even quarters, until a year or eo ago 7:30 was the proper time. This has now been brought down to 8, and a fdw nights since one of the largest parties given this seaBon in New York began at 8:l0, the guests rising from the table shortly before 1 in the morning. The strupglo between the early rising habits of business n en and the customs of the Anglomaniacs goes on unceasingly, and tho latter are unquestionably guining at all points. Perhaps this accounts somewhat for the haggard, sleepless look of the arcrage Kew York zuaa.

"BAB'S"' EASTER GREETING.

A WOMAN, A NEW BONNET AND A MAN. Different Ideaa of av Good Time Women Whom Men X.lke New Yrk Bleu Who Ought to Be Framed Faster Itrldea. New York, Marcn 27. Special. There Is sunshine somewhere and music and flowers for tomorrow, and as a natural Eequence, there is the Easter bonnet. I think a woman with a becoming Taster bonnet on, walking with a man of whom she is fond, is about as happy a creature as there is in the world; and for that reason one of the few rights I claim for womankind is the Easter bonnet. Give it to her, fathers and husbands, even if you do have to forego a little supper or a box of cigars for yourself. Don't laugh at her when she has it on, but take her face in your hands and greet her as they do ia Russia on Easter day, with a loving kis and a happy annonceinent that "Christ has arisen T You haven't a right not a little bit of a one to keep an innocent pleasure from a woman; and the woman to whom innocent pleasure is given is not the one who ia apt to look for any other kind. Though, by the bye, what a queer word pleasure is! There are people who think it is pleasure to make a great deal of noise, to laugh very loud, to tire themselves almost to death, and to shout theinaelves hoarse in an effort to Bing "We won't go home UDtil morning." There are people who think it is a pleasure to pose for the multitude and to utter inano nothings, finding satisfaction in vanity. Queer, isn't it? There are people who think it is a pleasure to be in their best bibs and tuckers, and to sit s titfiy and formally at a dinner table, utter etilted remarks to their neighbors, and come away announcing what a beautiful time they have had. That's queer, too. Now, what'a your idea of a pleasant time? Mine is to be with the people I like, to hear some good music, some pleasant talk, to say '"how do you do" with pleasure and "good by" with regret. Not to have a crowd, not to have a noiso, not to have men behave like educated donkeys and women like circus riders. Perhaps my good time is a quiet one, but it is the sort that strengthens you mentally and phyicaliy. You won't have a pood time on Easter if the new bonnet is unbecoming and the gown doesn't fit. The week before the) average woman has looked aa if ehe were in a bad temper. That's not a pretty look, for it makes the wrinkles come, shrivels tho akin about the eyes, changrs tho mouth into a hideons," shape, with the compression of the lips that givc.f' it an air of severity. Now, every blessed woman has had plenty of time to get her F.aster jrown and bonnet, lut the general one has lust concluded whatahe will do the week before, and the most obliging dressmaker in the world hasn't learned yet how, when ehe has five hundred frocks on hand, to make the five hundred and first in a few hours, not only becoming, but well fitting. The sweetest milliner you ever talked to can't tosa up a bonnet like an omelet ; and the consequence is tho disappointed women are complaining of dressmaker! nnd milliners, ana callingthem everything that is disagreeable, covering the alphabet of unpleasant words from Alpha to Omega. A disappointed woman is always agreat mistake ; that in, the one who shows her disappointment. Hie will cry ergo, her luse will be red. Sho w ill be cross ergo, her digestion will get out of order, .he will sulk ergo, the man unto whom her heart goeth out will denert her for another woman whose face is wreathed with emiles, even if it is framed in a winter bonnet. Men do liko women prettily dressed, but above all thing they prefer that the should bo pleasant. So that when it comes to a question of sulky women in new clothes or pleasant ones and old clothes they are certain to choose the latter.Men count it astbeirown prerogative. Personally I have come to the conclusion that what a man really likes is a thoroughly good, healthy, violent temper that wears itelf out in words, and is ready to be sorry afterward. Thero is a typo of man who likes dishes thrown at him, but he is special rather than general. There is another kind that is best governed by a violent attack of hysteria, but with this sort of man the gamo is not worth the candle. Hut anything throwing plates or hyRtcria is better than the sulks. Tho orchid show has been and gone. It was interesting and curious at the samo time. The curious part was to see how the womon naturally drifted to the iuott expensive orchids, and theso were by no means the mont beautiful. Do you know that the first bunch of orchid ever carried in New York City was borne by that most perfect of gentlewomen, Mrs. Thomas Francis Meagher, on her wedding-day? Mrs. Meagher was one of the three sisters of whom Thackeray spoko in his lett';rsns being not only the "prettiest, but the most charming and nstur.il in their manners of any among the American women he had met. Two of this triuity of beauties are dead Mr. lUrlow and Mrs. Crawfordhut Mrs. Meagher is as lovely and as charming today as when Thackery 'saw her, and ia that best type ot the flower garden of American women, gentle, dignified, and considerate, the orchid among women, the gentlewoman. The Easter weddings are going to bo many in number, but all of a kind. The bride just now is after the French style, bhe looks as if her wildest dissipation had been a view of the zoological gardens, and tho only books she had ever read had been those illustrated by Kate Hreenaway. ISha is married in a gown high in the neck, and with sleeves that come, in Yalois fashion, down over her hands. 8he carries a white ivory or kid prayer-book framed in silver, and ehe loons if ehe were frightened to death-not becauP she was getting married, but because ahe is among so many people for tho iirst time in her lite. As a picture nothing could be more absolutely delightful, und it has the effect of causing the wicked old men about town to weep bitterly, presumably for their lost innocence. It has usually been the right and pleasure of fair woman to cry at weddings, but elderly men are also now craving thia privilego, and they look very paternal. When the blase gentleman begins to regret, he is worth putting in a gilt frame and in a picture gallery, to 'point a moral for young men. There are several in N"er York who, if they had a backirround of scarlet and black cloth combined the devii's own colors and in a broad frame of gilt (I would like to Epell this with a

"u" in it), would come out verj effectively, and would answer better by their personal appearance than a thousand sermons. But, after all, these are not the peopla one wants to look at on Faster day. The air is full of flowers and every lily seems to ring out the chime that '"death is no more." Fvery rosebud seems to tell it was put there among all the Cowers as a prayer for somebody. Every tiny violet looks up with an air of great joybecauso it wss thought worthy to be among tha Easter emblems. Everything in the wide world is telling again and again the beautiful s'ory of the resurrection, and what is there lor you to ask me, my friend? Last week we buried the wickedness and tha sin, the small vices and the petty meannesses; today we are going to arise and go forth wearing the clean garb of hopo and faith and with a blessed determination of charity and good-will to all the world. That's what we ought to try and do, and it is half the battle if we try. You closo your eyes for the minute, and the very air seems full of the tidings of great joy, and unconscious ly, you repeat, again and again, "Christ has arisen, death ia no more," and every time you say it you hear echoed back to you "Glory be to God 1" And you feel that if you were cot one of the whiterobed ones to greet Him who came into the world a little child to sava it, that you are here today one of the sinners for whom He died, for n horn He has arisen and proven Ilia divinity. The rest ia for you; and Easter morning, amid the flowers and the music and the great joy, conclude that death is no more, that there is going to be a resurrection ol virtues, a sweet flower from the sin that has been buried. God bless each and every one of you, who is my friend all the country over, and give you a happy Eastertide. Bab. 'KITTY" ON HER METTLE.

Til Unwritten Demand of Her Sex aa to th) Lai! Word. To the Editor Sir: As I have always)' had the last word in every discussion in which I became involved, I am sure you will allow me that privilege in thia one. Now, "Sage Brush," please be kind? enough to tell me who began tbs pereonalities and insults? Of course, I understand that it waa not "personality and an insult" you need when you told me that I might "have) stirred the passions of his heart, but won the love of his heart never." Yet I be.ievo you will be juet enough to acknowledge that you began the "insult." Notwithstanding the fact, you whine like a whipped cur when your own weapons aro turned upon you. Yoi say you are glad that the editor refused me your address. So am I ; moro than glad for I don't believe it would be any credit to me to correspond with any one who will run at the first enow of fizht from a woman. Now, pray do try your rage to smother, and stop ucing personalities. "Dick," I feel like shaking hands with yon, as I admire brave men, even if they are enemies. I read the article referred to and didn't even "jump." As for my knowing about the immodesty" ia that paragraph, I murt acknowledge that I didn't know it waa immodest until "ca0 Brush" informed me that such was the case. Then I asked mamma what he meant, and ehe explained. The acid was only of use to me as a means of cleaning my hands of tha stains made by answering the pereon alities" of "Sage Brush." Undoubtedly I will be obliged to use some more this week. It would never do for you and I to attempt to discuss the merits of the American and Engliah people, for wo would be sure to quarrel. Don I you think you had better put on that "diamond breast-pin?" Y'ou advise me not to "pour acid oh the puppies, as they become ol J dogs with teeth." Let mo say that "barking dogs never bite," therefore I am nob frightened. Now let me give yon some advice: Don'a criticise "Bab, even if she isn't a "learned woman," and above all, don't quarrel with me. For yoo nerd to leira a ! ton, Though four nature U ao hatnaa Take thia oounael and n7 blsulog, er quarrel with a woman. Tipton, Ind., March 24. "Kittt.' A MODERN LOVE SCENE. Dlaag reeable. Impolite, Selfish ant Craal, She Married Him Oat ef Hand. Madeline S. Bridges la Life Ho (with dignified composure) "Why are you so disagreeable, Helen?" Fhe (artlessly surprised) "Disagree able? Ami?" He (as before) "Always to me." She (carelessly) "Indeed? Cut, luckily, it is a grievance you are not obliged to bear." He (resignedly) "You certainly eeemv anything but kind and polite." She "Thank you, very much." He (restlessly) "Oh, I don't know that it is your fault. Of course, people fpoii you ; they flatter your vanity." 8he "Am I vain, too?" He (warming to the eubfect)--"Ar yon? llow could you be otherwise; in the frivolous, worldly life you live the poor little round of dancing and dressing you have no choice but to be vain and worldly." She (emilicR slightly) "Dear met" He (throwing prudence to tho winds)"Yes, jest, that is right. Y'ou are too self isb, too cruel, to care whom you hurt. Go on, Helen." She (suddenly serious) "But If I hnrt you so, why do you seek thia pain? "Why iid you come np tonight, for instance?" He (impetuously) "I came because Helen, you well know why because I can't stay away I And I love you so. (1'leadingly) Dearest, 1 am willing to wail but, give me hope just a little." She (opening her eyes on him) "Hopa of what?" He (desperately) 'That you will iom time be my wife?" She (thoughtfully) "Dieajrreeable, impolite, unkind, vain, worldly, aelfish and cruel." (With tenderness) "You poor boy, is that the sort of a woman you would like to marry? Do you mean it, Arthur?" He (clutching her hand) "Yes, O, yea! Mav I hope, Helen?" Sjhe "I am afraid, dear, I could never live up, that is, down, to your ideal, but if you like to take me, hampered with virtues you don't dream of, perhaps I can acquire, by degrees, the faults you love me for." He (rapturously) "Oh, Helen, dear, you are quite bad enough I mean I am quite good enough I mean " t'he (consolingly)"! know you do, dearest. I knew it from the first. An Awful Fate. WbeeliDf Pan Picture. J "Such a dreadful thing has happened to the Hrowns." "Oh, what is it?" "Mr. Brown baa been sent, "To the penitentiary?" "No ; to the state legislature,"