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For Woman’s Work. INFLUENCE. Dear girls, do you, the young ladies of to-day, realize, amid the hurry and bustle of the gay life you lead, the weight of re sponsibility that rests upon you ? Do you stop to think that there is some one easily swayed by your influence, standing with watchful eyes for your example? Now girls, give your earnest attention for one moment. Whither is that influence tend ing? Are you not treading the path which you would blush to have your little broth ers and sisters tread ? Are your lives and examples as chaste as you would have theirs to be? How does the new slang ex pression which you took up because it was so funny, sound upon infant lips? And yet it is all right to them because “sister said it.” How do you like to hear some cross, selfish word which you did not half mean at the time, and would never re member again, repeated by the same in fant lips when some other girl’s brother drops in to spend the evening ? Then set a watch upon ypur lips and really be what you would seem. Have you not a feeling akin<o loneliness when your stalwart young brother begins to be restless and ill at ease, and is gradu ally drawn from your side ? Where does he go? Whom does he choose for his com panions? Ah! girls, too often do your brothers choose for associates those with whom we would not be seen in company; and all too late you begin to ask why it is. Perhaps if home had been more attractive, all would have been well. If, instead of calling him a great awkward boy, and telling him to get out of your sight, you would show a deference for his wishes, and try only half as hard to make home pleas ant to him as you do to chain that “other fellow” to your side, what a difference— what an entirely different boy he might be. It is just for the girls to say whether or not they have brothers to be proud of, and whether or not their brothers respect and are proud of them. A good daughter and sister seldom fails to make a good wife. Neither does a duti ful son and affectionate brother fail to make a good husband. And how about the young man who has fttrsaken home, amusements, companions— everything, for a place at your pide? There is no doubt about your influence over him- He will shun what you shun; ridicule what you ridicule; respect that which you respect, and enjoy what you enjoy. Do you always make the most of your influence? Do you try, with gentle, win ning hand, to strengthen morals, heighten {irinciples and point them to nobler and oftier aspirations ? You should strive earnestly and prayer fully to make every one with whom you come in contact, in some way the better for having known you. A helping hand, a bright smile, a kind word, are little things, but for the want of them, many have fallen in the struggle of life. Though you can do or grand, the little things of,life, demand our energies, and so many fcist, so aCTe at oqr hand. Come, girls, lay h use- less frivolity. Life is too before the mirror and in Bravely take on the armor of Christ and work for Him, knowing that in His own good time you shall have your reward. A Friend. THE MAN’S FEELINGS. Don’t think that because a man happens to be big and brawny and healthy he has no feelings. Such men are sometimes re garded as if made of door-hinges and levi athan hide, with sash cords for nerves. It may be a mistake. There are men whose spiritual and physical make- ip r this fashion, and some of them are big men. But the big men are not all so. There are some who are as tender as girls, as sensi tive as the mimosa, and as quick to receive an impression as the down-covered skin of a ripe peach. It is worth while to be gen tle with such men. Kindness is not thrown away on them. They may be growing old, but as they advance they retain much of the boyish feeling they had when they weighed fewer pounds tjian they do now. If they are not trodden on they may make happy old men when they are a little fur ther on in years. But it is easy to sour them, and crush them, and make them dis agreeable. Don’t do it. Few people ever think of a big man as one who has any feelings worth considering, and yet, many are as tender-hearted as babes. k In sewing and winding carpet rags, double them with the right side up. To have poached eggs look very nice cool- each egg in a muffin-ring placed in the bottom of a sauce-pan of boiling water For Woman’s Work. THE HIGHEST MISSION. The highest words of praise that can be said of a woman are that she is a good mother. It is an imperial crown more peerless than any which ever shown on the brow of Queen Sheba. What sphere can be higher and nobler than that of a mother? She has the plastic mould of her own creation to round out and form into a human soul. What greater glory could she achieve than that of properly fashion ing a mind for a future destiny? But no woman can fill that mission as the creator intended, unless she has the true mother’s love, which brings out all the loftier senti ments of her soul—the one great all ab sorbing determination—to give her best efforts to her child. Much evil results from the idea that marriage is.the end and aim of a woman’s life. Desperately afraid of being scorned as an “old maid,” a girl will accept a man without the slightest thought as to suita bility of temperament—sometimes a man she positively dislikes. Qan any one tell me how any woman under such bans can be a true wife and mother, in a marriage which her whole soul loathes ? Better be an “old maid” to the end if you can’t form a union where there is perfect love, a suitability of tem perament, and congeniality of mental en dowments. It is then, and only then, that woman can find pleasure in wifely duties. Woman’s cultivation of the higher sensi bilities of her soul, has largely to do with her fitness in determining the government of the family life. Until we have a loftier conception of marriage than as a question of dollars and cents and some one to support and care for woman, we cannot expect her to receive the highest praise which lips can utter—she is a true mother. Minnie L. Armstrong. St. Paul, Minn. r For Woman’s Work. SOME HELPS. I wonder if any of you have ever used a “bottle on a stick” to wash with. I learned it first from an old ’49er out here in far away California. He had washed his own clothes in that way for years, never using a wash-board, and had succeeded in getting them—well, fairly clean. He was perfectly satisfied, but L prefer using the. board with help from the bottle. Perhaps if I describe it, I may help some one whose back, like mine, cannot bear very heavy work. My “gude mon ” brought me home a large champagne bottle and fitted an old broom handle firmly into the neck. The bottle must be one of the kind that has the bottom well blown in—do I make myself plain?—so that, as you pound the clothes, the water sucks up into the hollow. After the clothes have soaked a tittle while in warm, strong soapsuds, sit down by the tub, or pounding barrel, if you have one—an empty mackerel keg makes a good one for a small family, and your grocer will surely save one for you—and as you sit comfortably at your work, pound the clothes with the same motion you would use in pounding a blanket.' It is not hard work, but if one of the children, or the “gude mon ” himself can do ft for you, so much the better. I think you will be sur prised to see how it loosens the dirt if you try it. If they can be pounded for you while you are getting breakfast out of the way, you can then wring them out into fresh, warm water, rub them on the board where they need it, scald them, (I do not like to boil my clothes) and rinse well in blueing water. There is no reason why your clothes shouldn’t be pure and white without boiling, for the most of the dirt is pounded out. We boil vegetables to make them tender, and I can’t say I admire that quality in my clothes. Another one of my ways for saving strength is to use a carpet sweeper instead of a bfllom. Aline was a present from my thoughtful husband, but if necessary, I would curtail the household expenses till I could save the needed two dollars and a half I just con dn’t sweep my carpeted rooms without it. I was very strong until two years ago, and the months of pain have taught me to save what little strength that illness has left me. The carpet sweeper raises very littlejdust. but Ido like to use a slightly dampened duster. You will need several, so as to be able to have them washed frequently. My windows are still clean, yet have not been washed since last spring. A few yards of mosquito netting tacked over the whole outside of the window has paid for itself twice in lessened work. Some other time I would like t<* tell you of my easy way of making bread. I raise it but once, so aside from kneading, it is no more trouble than biscuit. With best wishes for the continued suc cess of our bright home paper. Maud 8. Peaslee Grass Valley, Cal, THE CREAM OF ALL BOOKS OF ADVENTURE Condensed Into One Volume. PIONEER . . DARING HEROES! DEEDS. The thrilling adventures of all the hero ex plorers and frontier fighters with Indians, outlaws and wild beasts, over our whole country, from the earliest times to the present. Lives and famous exploits of DeSoto, LaSalle, Standish, Boone, Kenton. Brady, Crockett, Bowie. 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