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THE CHILD AND THE BIBLE.
Writer in Appleton's Makes Sugges
tions Worth Considering.
Thf> Bible Is not a dreary book. It
Is a che. ifiil book. It is not a dull
book. It is an intensely Interesting
book. Not all parts of it are appropri
ate reading for children. Why should
they be? Some parts are not even fit
for children to read. Bible literature
must be given to children with dis
crimination, just as should any other
literature. Your boy will be just as i
much interested in Bible stories as in t
any other stories, unless you frighten j
him away from them. Also you will
find that he wants the real Bible !
stories, not somebody’s imitations. If |
he sometimes prefers “Diamond Dick j
—The Boy Pirate,’’ or its like, it
doesn't show that Bible stories do not
interest him. It shows simply that you ;
must use some tact in competing with
the author of “Diamond Dick.” The I
Bible stories do him good, and "Dia
mond Dick’’ does not. Naturally he
does not want to be done good to all
the time, any more than do the rest
of us.
Instead of making him memorize
the Hiiile for punishment, let him
memorize carefully selected passages
lu place of some other work. He may
not thank you at the time, but he will
some time. It will give him a heritage
of pleasure and profit, upon which he
may draw at will for the rest of his
life. Don’t give him the idea that
every Bible story is a moral lesson.
Some Bible stories are no more moral
than some newspaper stories. If you
confuse the moral and the historical
your hoy may grow up in doubt as to
whether an Amalecliite is a sin or a !
man. No matter what the theologians
may have said to the contrary, it is , ’
not sacrilegious to treat the Bible j
sensibly. In fact, it seems to us sac- |
rilegious to treat it any other way. !
Perhaps you were made wretched in *
your childhood by having the Bible <
unintelligently crammed down your 1
throat. Perhaps you were made to <
memorize whole chapters by way of *
punishment. That that was not the i
best way to make you fond of it, never J
occurred to your parents. They had \ 1
never heard of child psychology. Per- (
haps you were threatened with hell J
unless you believed every word in the .
Bible true in its narrowest, its most
literal sense. Perhaps you remember
family piayers where your father read
from the Bible in a dreary monotone
white the rest of you sat in awed
silence. From all this dreariness you
Wfntnet- mnr that is no;'reason for
depriving him of the real Bible.—Ap
pleton's V gazine. .
Clean Old Cloak.
It is not always necessary to send
light cloth coats or cloaks to the
cleaners whenever they appear a little
soiled by smoke and dust. A success
ful method of removing surface dirt 1
consists in rubbing the material with
equal pa-ts of oatmeal and whiting
applied with a piece of flannel. The
coat shoo'd be well shaken, and the
same application repeated once or
twice, until the cloth looks perfectly
clean. After shaking it once more, it i
should be pressed on the wrong side
with a warm iron.
Tutti Frutti for Invalids.
For invalids who are allowed to eat
fruit there is nothing more dainty and
refreshing than the following: Take 1
one box blackberries, one-half pound :
cherries, peel and cut up four bananas, !
powder with sugar to taste and mix j
thoroughly. Do this early in the
morning and set on the ice to get
cold.
. Scott’s
Emulsion
of Cod Liver Oil with Hypo
phosphites should always be
kept in the house for the
following reasons:
First—Because, if any member
of the family has a hard cold,
it will cure it.
Second— Because, if the chil
dren are delicate and sickly, it
will make them strong and well.
Third—Because, if the father
or mother is losing flesh and
becoming thin and emaciated,
it will build them up and give
then fi.Jh and strength.
Fou;i! lecause it is the
stun* ?medy in all throat
arid v,ctions.
No \. ■ should be with
out
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| THOUGHTS 1
ON BOYS l
f By J. S. KIRTLEY, D. D.
Author of the “Young
Men and Himself,” etc.
f HIS HOME |
(Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
There is a story of a boy, who hoard
hat home is a type of heaven and in
ilantly made up his mind never to go
o heaven, if it was in his power to
•scape such a calamity. He had had
•nough of that kind of heaven. The boy
las his own ideas of what a home
dtould he and they may be wrong, but
:hose who are making his home for
Him have to work with his ideas as
well as their own and even when his
ire inaccurate they indicate some of
lis real needs.
But when his home is about right
ind has gotten at him in a right way
from the start, it will be the most
fascinating place anywhere to him.
Everything is there, love and welcome
ind appreciation and understanding of
him and discipline and worship and
fun and laughter, everything but his
boy friends and the athletic grounds
ind some other such things; but
he knows that he can bring his
friends there at suitable, and
even some unsuitable, times, and
while he can't exactly bring the
hall games and the ice fields and
iuch things into the home, he can
aring the spirit of his sports with him.
He is unusually sorry when the mo
ment comes to drop the game, but
when he knows he is going hi to his
tear home, it alleviates his sorrow.
\nd when he goes out into the great
world, to try his fortunes, it is not be
muse he loves Ills home less but be
muse it has prepared him for his
•areer and he feels the power of it
ill the more. One of the noblest im
pulses he will ever cherish will he the
lesire to reflect credit on the home
hat made him. All of this Is on the
issumption that he had the fortune to
;et a good home, at the drawing, for it
leems somewhat like a lottery.
There is what we call the atmos
phere of home. It is rather startling
o Hud that the literal atmosphere
hat enwraps our earth has some of
he properties we find in the earth it
self, and we can easily Imagine that
hey -were given off by some sort of
sxhalation, whatever the scientists
nay say. TVe know that some atmos
phere around a house may take on
some other things, aqueous, gaseous,
- ulphurous, nauseous and iniquitous.
But the atmosphere of hts home is an
exhalation from the spirits of those
who make It for him and he breathes
It into his soul till It gets into all the
crevices and passages and corners and
compartments of his being. Few
boys can survive It, If they take In
moral and emotional and mental
poison coming from the spirits of their
home makers, nor does the boy ever get
over It, If he has breathed In the in
spiring and health-giving atmosphere
that was Just right.
Of course, the father and the {UoUp
er are the atmosphere makers of the
home and It takes both of them, for
either one can keep it laden with
poison. If the father is an animal and of
the hog variety, he ought to be gotten
out of the homo into a sty where they
can see him only when they take
him swill; or if he is of the bear va
riety, he should be put in a pit where
they can throw peanuts to him and
poke him with long sticks and see him
climb poles and hear him grunt and
growl. And if the mother is an insect
of the wasp or hornet variety, who
pursues the family with stings that
never get exhausted, she ought to be
plastered up in a wasp coll and
viewed through a glass door. When
the boy is welcomed home by a
grouchy and growling pa and en
tertained by the same, or by a fretting
and fault-finding and snarling ma, he
is of all hoys most pitiable.
One of the interesting occasions is
the family gathering at the table and
it can’t happen any too often to suit
him. My memory holds very few oc
casions so gratefully as the happy1
meal hours. They were social tine
and all six of us children were ready j
for joke and jest and frolic and fun.
till it often grew hilarious and some
times uproarious. But when the table
is made the place for all sorts of
snarling and reproving and correct
ing and wrangling, it is a disgrace to
any boy to belong 1o such a family
It spell3 ruin for him, unless he re
coils, in sheer disgust, the other way
There can be nothing said about his
home more to his liking than what Dr.
Peabody said in an address not long
ago. He wants to find in his home
simplicity, that is, he wants It to be
simply a home, not a dormitory or
club, but a home where all the home
ontiments arc blessed and dominant.
He also wants consistency. No decep
Pea need be tried on him. His fa
ther's appreciation of gallantry and
superior wisdom, or his mother's sud
deu transformation from a snappin;
urile to a turtle dove, when visitor
;tmie in, are efforts thrown away, s<
’nr cs he Ls concerned. According tc
fJr. Peabody, the boy also looks foi
piety in his home; and Dr. Peabody i:
•ight. for piety means that the people |
'.n the home and the boy get together |
in a most loving way with some daily !
•©cognition of that other One, whom j
hey learn to call the great Father. !
Another thing he looks for—a share
in the work, in the deeper thoughts i
and in the special honors and aia
bitions of bis home.
GIVE $23,127,762 TO COLLEGES.
Friends
IMinole
New York.—Gifts to the cause o
higher education iu the United State
within the last 12 months total $23
127.7G2. This information has beei
obtained by the general educatio:
board of this city.
Dr. Wallace Buftrick, secretary o
the board, wrote a personal letter t
the financial head of every institutioi
of collegiate grade in the Unite*
States and he has compiled a statt
ment showing by states and by inst;
tutions the various sums received
whether for endowment or for build
ings and equipment.
Illinois leads every state In th
union with $3,160,209.03 for endow
ment and $1,388,518 for buildings am
equipment. This total, out of all pre
portion to that of other states, exist
because of the gift of $4,371,220.87 t
Rheumatic
“Mv mother is a great suf
ferer from rheumatism, and Dr.
Miles Anti-Pain Pills is the only
remedy that relieves her.'’
MRS. G. DAVENPORT,
Ihe pains of rheumatism are
almost invariably relieved with
Dr. Miles’Anti-Pain Pills. They
also overcome that nervous irri
tation which prevents sleep be- '
cause they soothe the nerves. To t
chronic suffers they are invalu- 1
able. When taken as directed, ,
they relieve the distress and i
save the weakening influence of
pain, which so frequently pros
trates. Many sufferers use them <
whenever occasion requires with 1
the greatest satisfaction, whv
not your They do npt derange
the stomach nor create a habit.
Wh>’ not try them? Get a pack
age from your druggist. Take it
according to directions, and if
it does not benefit he will return
your money.
Roycefield, N. J.
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the University of Chicago. The small
est sum of Individual contributions to
higher education was made in Wash
ington state, where Whitmore college
i eeeived $10,592.66. Harvard univer
sity received $548,423.99 for endow
ment and $161,601.48 for buildings and
equipment. In the same period Yale
leceived $. <3,371.81 for endowment
and $112,336.69 for building and equip
ment Princeton university received
$148,400 for endowment and $559,
151.79 for equipment and buildings.
In nearly all of the southern states
generous gifts were made by state
governments or individuals to higher
education.
Church and State.
A young curate, who was showing
in American girl through an old Eng
ish cathedral, enjoyed her apprecia
tion of a handsome lectern. The
Sible rested on the outspread wings
jf a powerful wrought bronze eagle.
\t the bass of the lecturn, another
symbol of the Gospel was presented in
he form of a great lion.
The clergyman yielded to the
emptation to banter the fair visitor
i bit.
“We have a lion to watch the eagle,”
te remarked.
‘‘Yes,” flashed the answer, "but the
iagle stays on top.”—-Harper’s Mag
azine.
A Clever Omission.
“Did you write to papa, George?”
“Asking for your hand?”
“Of course."
“Yes. I wrote.”
“That’s strange. I supposed paps
would be terribly angry. You know
he doesn’t like you.”
“Yes, 1 kuow. Hut 1 fixed it all right
I—1 didn’t sign the letter.”
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