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September 18, 1912] THE P
er verses, with the renewed warning of the first
verse, "Lest any man fall after the same example
of unbelief" given in chapter 3. of
Israel's exclusion from Canaan for forty years,
and the perishing of the rebellious in the wilderness.
IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.
"Will vnil Ifinfllv rpmnve vr?n*> foot f?nni tlui
scat!"
The voice was severe, I looked at the speaker.
and remarked the English scorn for his fellow
American-passenger on the Midland Express.
There were three of us in the carriage; the
silent one, a clergyman engrossed in the Spectator,
while his vis-a-vis sat stiffly eyeing me
as 1 sat at ease, my feet resting on the unoccupied
seat opposite.
"My dear sir!" I exclaimed, "1 have trod
the sacred floor of Mohammedan Mosques, my
shoes inclosed in red slippers that protected
the pavement from the touch of my sacreligious
feet, but here no sacred carpet needs protection,
and the soles of my shoes are clean,
and free from the dust which a few hearty
strokes would bring to the surface of the cushions
beneath them.
The clergyman looked up from the engrossing
page. "You have traveled? You have
been in the Eastern Mosques!"
Turning toward him I replied: "Yes, I
have visited St. Sophia, and Ahrmed, in Constantinople
; the Alabaster Mosque in Cairo;
and the White Mosque of Algiers. I have
walked through the lofty pillared aisles of
Karnak, and Luxor, and stood before the coffined
Amenophis, in his mortuary chamber
amid the Tombs of the Kings?those wonderful
tombs hewn out of the rock in the heart
o? the Egyptian M'ountains. I have wandered
through the historical halls of the Alhambra,
and the ruins of the Acropolis; I have stood,
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Jerusalem, and the place of the Manger, in
Bethlehem; have stood on Mars Hill, and gazed
into the prison of Socrates; have walked the
silent streets of Pompeii, and floated on the
lake in the Blue Grotto. Have gazed into the
face of the Sphynx, and wonderingly looked
at the lofty statues of Mennon; have stood
amid the fortresses at Malta, and under the
frowning heights of Gibraltar; have listened
to the voice of praise in St. Paul's, and lingered
in the Choir of St. Peter's; witnessed the
pomp of the service in St. Mark's, and joined in
the simple worship of the American Chapel in
'oris. Have watched the avalanche as it hurtled
down the heights of the Alps in Switzerland,
and listened to the roar of the breakers
on the rocks at Land's End. To-day I turn my
face homeward, for tomorrow I sail for that
heaven-blessed land, than which there is no better
or more beautiful on the face of the earth?
America.
"You have seen much, my friend, much, but
what have you in America to compare with
this side of the Atlantic?"
1 replied: "We have a seacoast which exceeds
in length any other country on the footstool.
We have the Hudson River, which,
"I'Hrt trom the old castles, is more beautiful
tl>au the Rhine. We have Niagara, the falls
which roar out their own song of triumph
(>t pre-eminence; cornfields which feed the
world ; a brotherhood which meets the call for
h<dp no matter where?North, South, East,
^ est-?and a flag, respected wherever it meets
'he eye, and against which no human hand ?s
r*i8ed. A land which welcomes the poor and
?PPressed from every corner of the gfobe!"
' he two gentlemen raised their hats, and the
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clergyman exclaimed: "We salute the representative
of such a country 1"
And, raising mine, I added, "We arc
brothers!"?H. C. Taylor, in The Intelligencer.
HOME HAPPINESS.
.messea are tnose nomes wiiere the inmates
are at their best?in good nature, in sunshine,
in courtesy! A fine keen and uptimistic observer
is a widow obliged to go daily to her office
work, but who for years has made it a
practice at the supper table to tell her small
son one interesting or helpful happening of
the day. "And some days it took lively
scratching to find something really good," was
her merry opinion. Another young woman ascribes
her literary start to the fact that for
over four years she wrote a daily letter, filled
with the brightest or funniest news, an interesting
story, or cheerful verse. The letter was
written generally on train or car, on her way
to or from work. "One was finished even in
the dentist'8 chair," she said, laughing; but it
was ready each morning to tuck under the pillow
of the dear invalid at home. "He setteth
the solitary in families," must be to fulfill a
wise and far-reaching purpose of the Creator's,
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so lei us Degin to neip carry it out. Suppose
you spring on the family tonight some good
story you've heard; see if a hearty laugh won't
smooth a wrinkle out of father's tired forehead.
Put a plant or a spray of berries on the
table, and see if the dinner doesn't taste better.
Real "company manners" are nothing but
being cordial and interested and sympathetic,
and the more we practice these things, the more
our homes will become a real rallying ground
for the family, a heaven of rest for a passing
visitor. One boy said, recently, that for his
part he couldn't see why boys wanted to go
out at night; he always has a better time at
home?with nicest games and the jolliest fun?
It pays to spend a little more in time and
thought and money on the family, if by so doing
home ties are strengthened and the home
made a center of bright and helpful influence.?Elizabeth
Webb ITpham, in the Watchman.
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" ? U1A1J wnu IS JNfiKVUUS.
The Woman's Home Companion had this to
say recently about our dear American girls:
"The American girl, generally speaking, is a
nervous girl. This nervousness in one form
or another, seems to crop up in all classes.
I happened to be in a train the other day
with fifteen young girls who, with two chaperons,
were going to New York City for a
matinee. They were from one of the wellknown
fashionable schools on the outskirts of
the city; the average fashionable boardingschool
type?daughters, doubtless, of the
wealthy.
"Some of them wnre helmot-Qtinrko/t
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that would have frightened Launcelot himself;
others appeared from certain views to be neckless,
the brims of their hats literally resting
on their shoulders; some seemed to have borrowed
for headgear the hats or stewing-kettles
of Og, Gog and Magog; one had a quite
flower-like beauty, seen full face but only a
huge hatcrown and a little bit of chin in profile;
and so on and on. Around their shoulders
were draped whole foxskins, or other animal
skins with dangling claws and open or
snarling mouths."
"But noticeable as was the fashion of their
nress, tnere was something even more uniformly
noticeable about them; their nervousness.
It was manifested in many different ways;
their voices, first of all. These were high or
loud, or hurried or uncontrolled, not a really
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fine or beautiful modulation in one of them.
Their language, too, was clipped and cut and
illy pronounced; and their conversation full of
'very,' 'awful,' 'perfectly stunning,' 'perfectly
adorable,' 'heavenly,' etc. All this with a
smattering now and then of the most exeD
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cittuiu rrcucn, aiuveniy pronouncea, too; ana
little snatches of affected laughter."
"One girl twisted her gold chain; another
tapped her foot; another had a little jerky way
of sitting up straight and giggling, and prefixing
almost every speech with, 'Oh, girls,
lemme tell you!' another bit her lips at little
intervals; another had a nervous trick of frowning
and then raising her eyebrows; another, as
she talked, played with some bangles she wore;
another would give her huge muff a little
shake and then smooth it with a long stroking
motion; another looked out of the window
with what seemed a certain quietness, but when
anyne spoke to her, she gave a little start."
WHEN PREJUDICED.
Prejudice, or pre-judgment, has little power
for harm when all the facts that it is prejudging
are fully faced. "When people once lay
aside their prejudices, said some one recently.
"they have little difficulty in getting together."
True enough; but this remedy overlooks the
fact that it is very difficult to get people, by
sheer will power, to lay aside their prejudices.
What we need rather to bear in mind is that
when people get together they are likely to
find that they have no prejudices left to lay
aside. It is the getting together that dispels
the prejudice; for when people come close
enough to look each other in the face and see
each one as he is, not as he was unfairly pre*
judiced to be, the bugbear of imaginative prejudice
vanishes like all other ghosts. When we
find ourselves feeling bitter or intolerant or
contemptuous toward any one, let us remember
that this is sure evidence, not that he deserves
this feeling, but that we need to know
mm oetter. it we are so situated that we cannot
know him better, then the least that we can
do is to acknowledge the onesidedness of our
view, and drop it for a fairer one.?Sunday
School Times.
HOW TO LIVE A CENTURY.
Sir James Sawyer, an English physician, has
formulated the following nineteen rules for
prolonging life to one hundred years:
1. Eights hours sleep.
2. Sleep on your right side.
3. Keep your bedroom window open all
night.
4. Have a mat to your bedroom door.
5. Do not have your bedstead against the
wall.
6. No cold tub in the morning, but a bath
at the temperature of the body.
7. Exercise before breakfast.
8. Eat little meat, and see that it is well
cooked.
9. (For adults.) Drink no milk.
10. Eat plenty of fat, to feed the cells which
destroy disease germs.
11. Avoid intoxicants, which destroy those
cells.
12. Daily exercise in the open air.
13. Allow no pet animals in your living
rooms. They are apt to carry about disease
germs.
14. Live in the country if you can.
15. Watch the three D's?drinking water,
damp and drains.
16. Have a change of occupation.
17. Take frequent and short holidays.
18. Limit your ambitions; and
10. Keep your temper.