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The Diet of Children.
Initting children to sit at table
their elders is the cause of a good
of mischief and injury to their
if ul digestions. A variety of
res should never be permitted, and
attempt at wastefulness should be
died at once. Economy and self-
ial can be taught at the children’s
far more easily than at school.
[he diet of children dhn hardly be too
k If they require to be encouraged
pit bv the administration of dainties,
^re must be ’ something radically
long somewhere. It is unlikely that
kit something is constitutional; more
fobably insufficient exercise is taken,
Jaken at wrong times, or the nursery
stuffy, or the bedroom badly ventil-
or the parents have forgotten that
Ishine and fresh air are as necessary
the healthy life of a child as whole-
jme food is.
le want of cleanliness, or frequent
fof the bath, is many times the
[of indifferent appetite in children,
out cleanliness of clothes and
ftliness of person you cannot have
[by children. Without this the
blood seems poisoned, the child
Either buoyancy nor heart, appetite
The Church Temporal. .
Short Rules for Young Christians.
1. Never neglect daily private prayer
and when you pray remember that God
is present, and that he hears your
prayers. (Heb. 11: 6.)
2. Never neglect daily private Bible-
reading ; and when you read remember
that God is speaking to you, and that
you are to believe and act upon what he
says. I believe all backsliding begins
with the neglect of these two rules.
(Tohii ). >..) j for them, and went down to the edge of
3. Never, profess to ask God tor any- I ■ ’ 6
take care of the hut, and to cook the
meals for the men when they returned,
Tie spent the nights alone in the cabin,
for most of the fishing was done between 1
sunset and sunrise. One day as the dawn
was beginning across the water, the
men stopped their fishing and began to
row home with their load as usual. As
they rowed along they met the body of
a drowned man going, out to sea with
the tide. They picked the body up and
laid it on the prow, the head resting
upon the arm, and rowed on slowly to
the hut. The little boy was watching
thing you do not want. Tell him the
truth about yourself, however bad it
makes you ; and then ask him, for
Christ’s sake, to forgive you what you
are, arid to make you what you ought
tube. (John 4: 24.)
‘ 4. Never let a day pass without try-
the canal to meet them. lie saw the
body of the seventh man lying on the
prow, but thought he was asleep.
, So when the boat came near, lie cried
to his father, “Breakfast is ready; come
along!” and with that he turned and
went back to the hut. The men fol
lowed the boy, and left the dead man
mg to do something for Jesus. Every , , . ,, ,, , ,
...... . . . . . - lying on the prow. \\ hen they had sat
night reflect on what Jesus has done for ' ,
you, and then ask yourself, What have
1 done to-day for him ? (Matt. 5 :13-16.)
5. If ever you are in doubt as to a
thing being right or wrong, go to your j
room, aryl kneel down and ask God’s !
blessing upon it. (Col. 2 : 17.) If you ;
cannot do this, it is wrong, (ltom. 14 : |
23.)
6. Never take your Christianity from
raved or absent, and lie grows up j Christians, or argue -that, because suclr
and such people do so and so, therefore
you may. (2 Cor. 10 : 12.) You are to
ask yourself,' “How would Christ act
in my place?” and strive to follow him.
Ipale and poor as a sickly plant.
Injudicious clothing is another cause
kf dyspepsia. It is bad enough to en-
e the body which has attained its
development in a tight dress, but it
unions for a child to be clothed in
itly-titting garments. Every organ
i child’s body requires room to grow
expand ; if it be in any way com-
sed, the circulation through it be
lies lessened, and it is therefore sick-
1 and rendered weak.
’’ightness, therefore, of any portion
a child’s clothing ruins not only the
directly underneath the constric-
ut indirectly those at a distance
t, for no damming up of the cir-
ition can be tolerated by nature.
^Tightness found the waist in children
tftmi young people is the cause of many
iscsof dyspepsia, and in a lesser degree
is tightness of the neckerchief, by
etjumng the blood in t the brain. Have
qur children’s clothing loose, then, if
on would see them healthy and happy.
[ See, too, that at night they sleep not on
eather beds, and that though warmly
they are not heavily clothed.
Children should be fed with great
regularity day by day. The parents,
having chosen the hours for dinner,
breakfast and tea, ought to see that the
times are strictly adhered to.
Irregularity in meal hours, and tim»s
of getting up in v the morning ami retir
ing to bed at night, is not only prejudi
cial to the present health of a child,
►but it teaches him habits which are
greatly against his chances of success
in after-lift.
need hardly speak here about the
quality of the food that is placed before
<\child ; against indigestible or too rich
1. against sauces and spices of all
Is, including curries ; against heavy
ds of the pancake, dough and dunip-
r»,g kind, against unripe fruits, against
hot soup, against strong tea and
or beer, or against over-much
tprs' meat.
hray, mothers do not forget that an
linterval of rest sl'M^Hkfcuc between
[the meals you give your children, and
do not ruin their young digestions by
[’cramming them with cake, or buns, or
.-sweets of any kind. To do so is worse
than cruel, it is a sin, and a sin you are
but little likely to commit if you truly
love them, and really wish to sec them
germinate into strong and healthy men
ami women. Tarts and sweets and
confectionery would he bail enough in
ali conscience for children, even if
they were always pure and unadulter
ated. But they are too often positively
Intisonous. Feed on plain and whole
food regularly from day to day,
jmitting no stalling between meals,
ribii not forgetting the benefits which
a< < rue from frequent changes of diet
more tspiJ-ially as regards dinner. Do
this, and your children will live to bless
you; do otherwise, and expect to see
them sickly, with veins and arteries
jKissessing no resiliency, with mucous
membranes pale, flabby pipes of lungs
that the accident of a slight cold is
sufficient to close, muscles of limbs so
weak that Exercise is a penance instead
of a pleasure, and flesh s<» unwholesome
that a pin’s prick may effuse a fester,
all this because the blood is impov-
jod through errors in diet.
(John 10 : 27.)
7. Never believe what you feel if it
contradicts God’s Word. Ask yourself,
Can what I feel he true if God’s Word
is true ? and if both cannot be true,
believe God, and make your own heart
the liar. (Rom. 3:4; i John 5: 10, 11.)
—Broumlow North.
Modern Skepticism.
Dr. Schaff, in his first volume of
Church History, devotes sortie pages to
the direct consideration of mbdern
skepticism. The following extract will
show the author’s views as to the man
ner and spirit with which honest skep
tics ought to be treated. He says :
There are two kinds of skepticism:
one represented by Thomas—honest,
earnest, seeking, and at last finding the
truth ; the other is represented by the
Sadducees and Pontius Pilate—superfi
cial, worldly, frivolous, indifferent to
truth, and ending in despair. With the
latter “even the gods reason in vain.”
. . . . But lamest, truth-loving
skepticism always deserves regard and
sympathy, and demands a patient in
vestigation of the real or imaginary
difficulties which are involved in the
problem of the origin of Christianity.
It may be more useful to the Church
than an unthinking and unreasoning
orthodoxy. One of the ablest and
purest skeptical critics of the century
(De Wette) made the sad but honorable
confession—
"I lived in times <>f doubt and strife,
When childlike faith was forced to yield ;
I struggled to the end of life,
Alas 1 I did not gain the field.”
But he did “gain the Held” at last,
for a few months before his death he
wrote and published this significant sen
tence : “I know that in no other name
can salvation be found than in the name
of Jesus Christ, the crucified ; and there
is nothing loftier for mankind than the
divine humanity realized in him, and
the kingdom of God planted by him.”
Blessed are those who seek the truth,
for they shall find it.
sTiake Hands.
Shake luywls with somebody as you
go out of church. The more of it the
better, if it is expressive of real interest
and feeling. There may be a great deal
of the spirit of the gospel put into a
hearty shake of the hand. Think of
St. Paul’s four times repeated request,
“Greet one another”—after the custom
then in common use, and one which is
expressive of even warmer feeling than
our common one of handshaking. Why
not give your neighbors the benefit of
the warm Christian feeling that fills you
to your finger tips, and receive the like
from them in return V You will both be
benefited by it; and the stranger will go
away feeling that the church is not,
after all, so cold as he had thought it to
he. ;
Seven DeadMen.
A Strange Legend of Venice,
'lliore is a story current among the
gondoliers and fishermen of Venice.
Thoye were six men fishing once in this
“Valle” of the Seven Dead. They had
with them a little boy, the son of one of
their band. The boy did not go fishing
down the boy looked round and said:
j” “Where is the other man? Why
! don’t you bring him in to breakfast,
j too ? ”
“Oh ! isn’t he here ?” cried one ; and
then added with a laugh, “You had
better go and call him, he must he
asleep.”
The hoy went down to the canal and
shouted :
“Why don’t you come to breakfast?
it is all ready for you.”
But the man on the prow never moved
nor answered a word. So the boy re
turned to the hut, and said’:
A “What is the matter with the man?
he won’t answer.”
’ “Oh ! said they “lie’s a deaf old fool.
You must shout loud, and swear at
him.”
A The boy went back again, and cried :
J “Come along, you fool; the others,
aie waiting for you.”
* But the man on the prow never moved
nor answered a word,
y Then the boy ran back to the hut and
sfeiil :
js “Come one of you, for I can’t wake
him up.”
'• But they laughed, and answered :
“Go out again and shake him by the
lag ; tell him we can’t' wait till dooms
day for him.”
t The boy went down to the water once
H)ore. lie got into the boat and shook
the man by the leg. Then the man
turned and sat up on the prow, and said
to the boy:
“What do you want ?”
“Why on earth don’t you come ? Are
they all to wait till doomsday for you ?”
“Go back and tell them that I am
coming.”
So the boy went hack to the hut an l
found the men laughing and joking.
“Well! what did he say ?” they cried;
“14 is all right,” answered the boy,
he says he is coming.”
The men turned pale and looked at
one another, and sat very still and
laughed no more. Then outside they
heard footsteps coming slowly up the
path. The door was pushed open, and
the dead man came in and sat down in
the boy’s place, the seventh.at the table.
But each sat with his eyes fixed upon
the seventh, their guest. They could
^iot move or speak. Their gaze was
fastened on the dead man’s face. Their
blood flows chiller and chiller in their
veins, till, as the sun rose and flashed
along the lagoon, there were seven dead
men sitting round the table in the
room.
Kisses on Interests.
A father talking to his careless ;
daughter said : “I want to speak to 1
you of your mother. It may be that
you have noticed a careworn look upon
her face lately. Of course it has not
been brought there by any act of yours, I
still it is your duty to chase it away. I
want you to get up to-morrow morning
and get breakfast, and when your i
mother begins to express her surprise, I
go right up and kiss her on the mouth. I
You can’t imagine how it would |
brighten her dear face. Besides, yon 1
owe her a kiss or two. Away back l
when you were a little girl she kissed |
you when no one else was tempted by !
your fever-tainted breath and swollen j
face. You were not as attractive then i
as you are now, and through years of j
childish sunshine and shadows she was
always ready to cure, by the magic of a.
mother’s kiss, the little chubby hands
whenever they were injured in those
first skirmishes with the rough old
world. And then the midnight kiss
with which she routed so many ba 1
dreams as she leaned over your restless
pillow have all been on interest these
long, long years. Of course she is not
so pretty and kissable as you are, but if
you had done your share of the work
during the last ten years the contrast
would not be so marked. Her face has
more wrinkles than yours, far more,
and yet if you were sick that face would
appear more beautiful than an angel’s
as it hovered over you, watching every
.opportunity to minister to your comfort,
and every one of those wrinkles would
seem to he bright wavelets of sunshine
'chasing each other over the dear face.
She will.leave you some of these days.
These burdens, if not lifted from her
shoulders, will break her down. Those
rough, hard hands that have done so
many unnecessary things for you will
be crossed upon her lifeless breast
Those neglected lips that gave you
your first baby kiss will be forever
closed, and those sad, tired eyes will
have opened in eternity, and then you
will appreciate your mother, but it will
be too late.”
Something to Live For.
It lias been asserted by scientific sur-r
germs that the will-power of a sick man '
has a great deal’ to do with his dying,
and the ease of Charles O’Conner is
cited as evidence. A still stronger case
occurred in Michigan the past summer.
An old man, living in tl e .northern
part of the State, got out a lot of tim
ber many years ago for a toll-road com
pany, but the company failed and left
him in the lurch. For years and years
he tried to sell the timber to this one or
that, but no one wanted it, and at last
time and decay rendered the beams al
most worthless. Last summer the Su
pervisors of that county advertised for
proposals to build a bridge, and the old
man put in a hi l. While waiting to
see what would be done he was taken
very sick 1 , and he grew worse so rapidly
that a council of doctors was called.
After due deliberation he was informed
that he was approaching his end.
“When will I know about that
bridge ?” he coolly asked.
“The bids will he opened to-day.”
“Well, I’ll send John over to see who
gets the job, and my living or dying
will depend on his news.”
At five o’clock in the afternoon the
the son and the family physician
arrived in company. The old man was
neither better nor worse.
“Well 1” be asked as John approach
ed.
“Our bid was accepted, father.”
“And we’ve got the job ?”
“Yes, but the doctor cays you can’t
live.”
“I can’t, eh ? I’m not only going
live to build that bridge, but I’m going
to work that square timber into it xij
to the last foot, or my name isn’t Jolni
Rodgers !”
It is a, fact, vouched for by a dozer
good men, that he was off that dying
bed in a week, and in less than u g
night he was at work on the bridg
to;
How Texas Cattle are Utilized.
There are beef-packing establish
ments at Rock port and Fulton, Texas,
both of which places are in the centre
of cattle ranges, in which at least 100,-
000 beeves are slaughtered every year.
Every part of the beef is utilized, even
to the tufts of the tails, which are pre
served and sold for the making of ladies’
frizzettes. The blood Hows into tanks
and is pressed, and is sold at two cents
a pound for the making of fertilizers.
The tongue anil lean beef are boiled
and canned. The hides are salted and
sold again. The fatty matter, is ex
tracted and goes to tallow. The hones
are boiled to a pulp to extract this fatty
matter, and the dry hones, mainly phos
phate of lime, are sold at one cent a
pound for fertilizing. The feet aie cut
off, and from the hoofs neats-foot oil is
extracted. The horny part of the foot,
tho shin-bone and the knuckle-hones,
are sold for the manufacture of domes-
ti^lVory. The horns are piled up until
the pith become loose, and this is adde l
to the fertilizers, aud the horns are sold
for manufacture. Every atom of the
Scraps.
' “How is business ?” asked a man of
a glazier. “Putty good,” was the re
ply.
There is a limit.—First young lady,
“I could sit here forever. ” Second ditto:
“And I till lunch time.”
A Michigan man dreamed recently
that his aunt was dead. The dream
proved true. lie tried the same dream
on his mother-in-law, but it didn’t
work.
A celebrated poet advertised that he
would supply “lines for any occasion.”
A fisherman sought him soon after and
wanted “a line strong enough to catch
a porpoise.”
A correspondent inquires what we
will pay for “original stories—such for
instance, as we publish in the Sunday
Republican.''' Three cents a pound.
One of the saddest moments in life is
when a man is looking through an old
vest, and thinks he has found a ten
cent piece, which when brought to
sight,turns out to be a cough lozenge.
Lubock still insists that bees are not
of a sympathetic nature. And yet this
gentle insect, with the buff mainsail
and red-hot rudder, has frequently
brought tears of sentiment to our eyes.
A carpenter in Newport, R. I., who
had put on a pair of house doors with
the glass portion at the bottom, said to
the indignant and protesting wife of
the owner, “that is the very latest
Queen Anne style, ma’am.”
A gentleman who is no longer young,
and who never was handsome, asked
his son’s child what he thought of him.
The boy’s parents were present. The
youngster made no reply. “Well, so
you won’t tell me what you think of
me ? * Why won’t you ?” “ ’Cause I
don’t want to get licked,” replied the
sprig of a rising generation.
Even idiotic brains have been some
times very clever at repartee. It was a
celebrated Edinburgh professor who ac
cused one of these unfortunate ones,
rather unfeelingly, saying, “Weel, Jock
tell me how long a person can live with
out brains?” “Ah!” said the idiot,
“1 dinna weel ken, sir, hut how laug
have ye lived yorsel ?”
Pawnbrokers have never been de
scribed as the pioneers of progress, al
though it must be admitted they are
always ready to make an advance.
Clips.
A South End woman keeps only
■ servant to do her work, instead of Q
She says help are always leaving,
when you are left alone it’s much ea.“
to do the work of one servant tiian
two.— r Boston Rost.
A Kansas hotel has the following
notice displayed in the bedrooms:
“Gentlemen wishing to commit suicide
will please take the centre of the room,
to avoid staining the beil-linen, walls
and furniture with”bli|od. ”
The National SunUay ■School Teacher
tells the story of a scholar who, when
asked in the lesson of “ David sparing
Saul,” why David compared - himself to
a flea, replied that he guessed “ it xyajj
because Saul couldn’t catch him.”-
It is the opinion of a Kingston latij
that dog carts were invented by somti
rascally husband to keep the wome?
from talking. It is next to impossible]
for a woman to talk while riding ini
them without biting her tongue.—New 1
Tb?-A- Graphic.
. A grumbling old bachelor, after lis
tening to the following, “She was her
muver’s ownJjtle darlin’ wopsv, popsy,
deary ducky,Wo she was, an’ she mus 1
keep still,” asks, “Why don’t women
talk some decent kind of. English to
their children. ” '•
A had spell. —.“Thomas,,
weather,” said a school-master tc
of his pupils. “W i e a t h if
weather.” “Well, Thomas, yoi
sit down,” said the teacher,
the worst spell of weather we
since Christmas.”
“You advertise that there is
stream of water on the place, bl
don’t see it,” remarked a stranger
wanted to rent the place. The landlil
slid: “Just work that pump hand if
little and yon will see a fine stream
water. You don’t expect to have
Niagara Falls on the place for fifteen
dollars a month, ilo you?”
his father, but stayed behind to I animal i s piybably used.
“Landlady,” said he, “the eoffie
isn’t settled.” “No,” she replied ; “but
it comes as near it its your last month's
bill for board is.
Large quantities of hay have been
shipped on the Union Pacific Railroad to
feed the herds of cattle upon t hi* Blattc
Valley ranges and in Western Wyom
ing, where the grass is snowed under.
The trains on the Denver short line ai
compelled to run slowly by the liumbe
of cattle who take to the track on
way to find watei
January
all kinds ^
!gai
ill
nit that State,
the wh^P
mute