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there really was room for not another
thing—but you opened the door and
there was room for the light to come
in; and it shone in as soon as you
opened, the door? If your mind is so
full of the rubbish of worldliness that
you think there is no room for another
thing, you just open the door to the
spiritual light and see how it shines
in—and it is so beautiful it makes
things look so nigh and cheery that
you feel inclined to clear out some of
the rubbish and give more room for
tne light. As you clear out one piece
and get nd of the dust of it and note
the fresh clean space brightened by
...e light, you will want to clear out
more of it, and let in more and more
light, until after a while the whole
space will be cleared of rubbish and
the white glowing radiant Tight of
God’s Christian grace will fill all the
dark corners and illumine and'purify,
and you exult in the beauty and the
puuity of it and wonder how you ever
lived amid that dark and crowded and
dusty rubbish of worldliness.
O, open your natures and let it in—
this beautiful light of God’s truth —this
radiant glow of God’s grace—and when
you nave felt the richness —the grand
eur—me splendid strength of it, you
will never close your mind and nature
against it again. Let our prayer be
continually, “Create in me a clean
heart, O God, and renew a right spirit
within me.”
TESSA W. RODDEY.
THE INDEPENDENT GIRL.
Well, I see that Saul W. Glenn has
come out strongly in praise of a cer
tain high type of society girl, and
comes out so strongly as to say he’d
prefer his wife never to know a thing
of business. As long as a man’s money
lasts, as long as his income comes in,
and his earning capacity measures up
to the requirements of modern living.
It is all right for his wife to be secure
ly sheltered from business storms and
stress —but I hold the opinion that a
man should marry a woman who can,
if necessary, breast the storm and
strife of business with courage and
intelligence.
Like Saul, I have only contempt for
the weak girl whose desire for the
brightness and color and ‘'‘outside”
lead them to the extremes of cheap
restaurants, gaudy clothes, cheap men
and cheap excursions—but 1 am well
aware that this condition has arisen
from poverty and long repression of
high ideals. A girl naturally loves
and longs for color and brightness and
beauty and cheerful surroundings. She
has a craving for it—-and this longing
and craving should be satisfied and
guided by wise parents —but in many,
many instances, parents are too over
worked and too ignorant to recognize
this need of their children —and so in
mis particular the children are ne
glected, and this neglect shows in
their going, when able to do so, to the
extremes mentioned. It results from
a general poverty of conditions —moral
poverty, financial poverty, and intel
lectual poverty —and we can’t sympa
thize too deeply with the victims of
such poverty-stricken conditions. A
(father too burdened with work to
think intelligently, a mother too weak
ened by work and worry to think of
anything higher than her children’s
bodies; hence the child is hampered
in proper development, and the “cheap
girl who loves, or indulges in cheap
rnings,” is the result. The same re
sult shows in the cheap .boy who exults
in a store-bought suit, cheap jewelry,
cheap music—and is fond of cheap
girls. It is largely caused by general
poverty.
I have known but few of the high
type of society girl Saul W. Glenn
mentions, who patronize art, music
and literature, and keep up our higher
civilization by appealing to a man’s
Knighthood and chivalry. The other
type appeals to all in me, I want'?ns
mend conditions, I want to help. The
society girl who is a patroness of
the different arts is just as much a
product—and a helpless product—of
circumstances and environment, as is
tne cheap girl who tosses her inde
pendent little head at circumstances,
and lives her life as it has been pre
pared for her. We are all creatures
of circumstances. When 1 get ready
to marry it will be when I fall des
perately in love with some girl—and as
cupid is no respector of persons and
conditions I have no way of telling
just whether that girl will be society
or business or what —but I do know,
no matter what the type, if I love her
111 marry her if she will have me, and
take all the consequences.
DEANE SWIFT.
GRATEFUL PRAISE.
It is said that every child found
begging or going about uncared for
in the streets of Munich is arrested,
and placed in an institution where
it can be cared for and provided with
opportunities for education. After
being brought into the home, before
he has been washed, or his filthy and
ragged clothing removed, a painting
is made of him just as he was when
found begging. ( Years afterwards,
when he has completed his education
in the institution, he is shown the
picture. He promises by an oath to
keep it the remainder of his life that
he may be reminded of the wretched
condition from which he was rescued,
and remembp- his obligations to the
institution which saved him from his
misery and showed him how to avoid
it in the future. All through life as
he views 'that picture, his heart fills
with gratitude to the ones who cared
for him.
A parallel may be found in the
lives of Christians. Paul was able
to rejoice while in the stocks at
Rome, and Silas to sing in prison,
because they knew they were free
in Christ. They had reason to praise
him. When wandering in the paths
of sin which lead to death, they had
been saved by the hand of God, and
for their clothes of sin they were
given garments of righteousness.
They contrast their present happy
condition with what they once were,
and praise can not help flowing from
their lips. Should not you and I do
likewise?
E. C. JAEGER.
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work upon Saturday the Sunday
dinner can be achieved, and need not
keep the housewife from church
unless* her help is very inefficient.
Have pea soup, new potatoes, stewed
tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, and for
desert pineapple pudding and ice
cream.
For supper, cold sliced ham, thin
bread and butter, orange tarts, cream
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For supper, muffins, sliced tomatoes,
canned spiced mackerel or sardines,
raspberries. „
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