New York City. Thre is a peculiar
charm and daintiness about the waist
utilized for the finer cotton and linen
materials which are in no sense washa-
that allows of wearing with a chem
isette that is apparent at a glance and
that is largely accountable for its
marked popularity. No model of the
fl LTHL DEIQN BT MAY HINTON.
spring is better liked and none is better
suited to the fashionable soft materials.
The one illustrated is most graceful and
attractive, and is adapted to many com
binations.,. As shown, the material is
chiffon veiling, hydrangea blue in color,
combined with cream lace over chiffon,
but it would be equally effective made
of any other soft wool, or from the
many fashionable thin silks, either
with lace or contrasting silk for the
chemisette and cuffs. Also it can be
ble, ebabroidery or lace, as preferred,
being used for chemisette and cuffs.
The lining is smoothly fitted and
closes at the centre front. The chemi
sette is arranged over it, and can be
rendered transparent by cutting away
beneath when that effect Ss desired.
The waist itself is full, shirred to give
the band effect. Theleeves are pe
culiarly graceful ana shirred to form
three puffs, but can be varied by being
left without the shirrings, forming sin
gle puffs. At the waist is a shaped
belt.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size is five and three
fourth yards twenty-one, five yards
twenty-seven, or three and one-fourth
yards forty-four inches wide, with one
ahd three-eighth yards of all-over lace,
and five-eighth yard of silk for belt.
La Gowns.'
Among the very latest creations are
lace gowns trimmed with velvet. A
Silk Softness.
Never were Liberty weaves more fas
cinating. Even the erstwhile ordinary
summer silks have become exquisitely
soft and satiny. The crepe weaves are
of extraordinary richness.
A CUarjninjj Parasol.
A charming pink parasol had a foun
dation of flowered Pompadour silk, the
'lower-part being composed of white
cbiffon-and lace with little disks of the
Pompadour fsilk applied.
model of heavy Irish lace has a skirl
trimmed with three rows of cords cov
ered with emerald green velvet, head
ing the lace flounce. On the bodice the
velvet faces little revers that frame a
chemisette of tucked white muil, and
the cording is used again to trim the
big sleeves.
Blouse or shirt Waist.
No matter how many fancy shirt
waists a woman may have, she always
finds a place for an additional plain
one, and this model is so exceptionally
attractive as to be sure of being includ
ed in the list. As illustrated, the ma
terial is white dotted Madras, but the
waist is one well adapted to almost all
waistings, and can be made up effect
ively in any of the cotton and linen
materials of the present season, in the
wash flannels that are so popular for
cooler days, and in the simpler" silk
waistings.
The model is an eminently simple
one. and can be made either with or
without the applied yoke at the back.
The back is plain, simply drawn down
in gathers at the waist line, but the
fronts are laid in three narrow pleats
at the top of each four at the waist
line, but if preferred they can be left
free at the waist line and adjusted to
suit the individual. The sleeves axe
the favorite ones of the season that
are in shirt waist style, but full at the
shoulders, and mushed witn straigni
cuffs.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size is four yards twenty-
one, three and five-eighth yards twenty
seven, or two and one-eighth yards foi
ty-four inches wide.
Adjusting Veils.
It is hard to tell how veils are to be
adjusted over so much hair and such
impossible hats, but we are informed
that veils to match the general coloi
scheme are among the essentials oj
good dressing.
A Simple Gown,
A very simple gown of mignonette
green louisine, a very soft and clinging
fabric, had a skirt shirred in a deep dir.
yoke, the shirring heavily corded.
IN PICTURESQUE GUAM,
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NATIVES WITH CAKABAO AND CART.
With these vehicles the natives tra vel all over Guam, often traversing
deep wallows and rough jungle paths'. The present race of Chamoros, of
which these two young men ai'e good examples, is a mixture of the aborig
inal with Spanish or Filipino Jlood. They are docile, intelligent, and invari
ably devout Roman Catholics. From the Booklovers' Magazine.
.M UKDEN.
Mukden, the ancient capital of the
Manchu dynasty of China, is a city
of 250,000 people. The Leighboring
tombs of the Emperor's ancestors are
the most revered shrines of the im
perial family, and their safety is re-
Soldiers of Japan's Modern Army.
From Harper's Weekly.
garded in the Chinese court with much
more anxiety than that of the whole
population of Manchuria. Like Port
Arthur, Mukden has been captured
twice by the Japanese once in the war
with China and again in the present
war. It is the second of the three
great strategic points in the interior
of Manchuria, the first being Liao
Yang and the third -Harbin.
Estimated--Russian forces at the bat-
pfle of Mukden infantry, 300,000; cav-
THEY BOTH
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Scenes Police court during dispute
Magistrate "I award the clock to
Defendant "Then what do I get?"
Magistrate "I'll give you the eight
A "War With Field Mice.
French farmers have suffered so
much from the depredations of field
mice that the parliament has made an
appropriation to aid in the suppression
of the pests. The mice are estimated
to number from 500 to 2000 per acre in
some parts of Central and Western
France, and each mouse consumes from
sixteeri to twenty-four poundsof vege
table matter in a year. Almost all
kinds of plants are attacked by them.
The method adopted in the effort to
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airy, 26,700; guns, 1308. Japanese
forces supposed to number from 500,
000 to 700,000.
First battle lines one hundred miles
long.
Fighting began February 19; Mukden
evacuated,- March 10, after the battle
had lasted nearly three weeks.
Russian losses to March 13 estimated
at 200,000 men, killed, wounded and
prisoners, sixty guns, 25,000,000 rounds
of small-arm ammunition and im
mense quantities of stores.
Japanese casualties to March 12, 41,
222. This battle lasted longer than any
other authentically recorded in history,
covered more ground, and involved
more men.
SQUAB RAISING.
Squab raising is having a boom at
present. Considerable has been writ
ten about the business, much of which
should be "taken with a grain of ' salt."
We believe there is a profit in squab
raiding, but not the huge amounts
st.': ted by writers who are working in
th interests of the sale of pigeons
ai d supplies. An average of six pairs
THE FANTAIL THIS DUUK OF P.G : KDOM.
of young a year from a pair of old
birds, is doing remarkably well.
If you have a nearby market you
can make a good profit with that
yield. We believe, that one man can
take care of 500 pairs of pigeons, but
the flock should not be crowded. Flocks
should not contain over 100 pairs
fifty pairs would be better. Farm
Journal. t
GOT TIME.
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over and eight-day clock.
the plaintiff."
days." The Tatler.
exterminate them is that of inoculat
ing them with a destructive microbe;
but the mice are described as "great
travelers," for they disappear suddenly
and reappear in another place, -wlrere
they breed with' astonishing rapidity.
The Argentine Republic will spend,
in the uext five years, $40,000,000 on
new railways and branch lines.
An apple-eating wager took place at
Avignon, France, recently.
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THE PULPIT.
h BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON
BY
THE REV. ALFRED H- A. MORS
Subject: Secret of Happiness.
Brooklyn, N. Y. In the Strong Place
Baptist Church the pastor, the Rev.
Alfred H. A. Morse, spoke Sunday on
"The Secret of Happiness." He said:
There are two hidden hands, con
trolled by the same intelligence, which
are constantly working ,upon the hu
man heart. And these are pain and
pleasure. Man was made to be happy.
If sometimes he must eat the bread of
sorrow it is because, as Mr. Beecher
said, "Sorrow is medicine." Joy is
mere divine than sorrow, and does not
belong only to these passing days, but
shall remain with us when all tears
are dried and sorrow Is swept forever
from the universe.
Now, joy may be divided into three
classes. There Is the joy of appetite, a
merely animal condition. It comes
from the fitting of a goodly organism
into circumstances which are suited to
supply Its need. This is the joy that
makes the child skip and play and fill
the home with laughter. It Is the joy
of the singing bird. It is simply pleas
ure. But we are not always children. We
grow and come into the place ot work
and responsibility. And here also is
joy, and this we may call happiness.
An earnest man finds joy in his em
ployment. The lawyer and doctor and
teacher enjoy their professions. The
minister enjoys to preach. The mer
chant enjoys his .business, and the me
chanic his shop in spite of all its toil.
This is joy, but it is the joy of the bee
that gathers the honey and stores it
away against the needs of a hungry
winter.
There is the joy of living, and there
is the joy of working. ; These are all
that many a man attains. But it takes
a higher joy than these to fill the soul
of man, as the sunlight fills the sky, or
the ocean fills the deep. There is a joy
that is known as "blessedness," which
arches' these as the heavens span the
sea. It is the joy of love, the joy of
faith, the joy of a good conscience, the
joy of doing right for the sake of right,
the joy of sacrifice and of service.
These are so far above the others that
they belong to another kingdom whose
law is pbedience, whose joy is right
eousness, whose fellowship is with
God, and whose entrance is by means
of a birth from above. And into this
kingdom there are certain well defined
steps.
"Happy," said Jesus, "are the poor in
spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven." And poverty of spirit is na
kedness of soul before God. He is
happy who throws aside his own rags
of righteousness and going to God says,
"Clothe me, for I am naked; feed me,
for I am hungry; guide me, for I am
ignorant; put Thine arms under me,
for I am weak." As in the mountain
passes of the West the traveler holds
up his hands before the bandit, so in
the presence of God's righteousness the
soul must throw up its hands and sur
render to God. Blessed are the poor in
spirit, the consciously bankrupt in the
presence of God. So long as the young
er son remained in the far off land, so
long as he was satisfied with the husks
from the troughs of the swine, so long
as he wanted nothjng, the father might
mourn, but there was nothing for him
to do. But when that son threw him
self upon his father's love and said, "I
have sinned, and you see my want,"
then the father could clothe and feed
and kiss; place sandals upon his feet
and give him the place of the son.
Does a prodigal soul wish for happi
ness? I know of no chance for him till
he fling away his sin and standing in
his naked need acknowledges his pov
erty of soul. The happfest moment in
the prodigal's experience was when he
buried his face in his father's shoulder
and said, "I have sinned." The hap
piest man at the temple gate was he
who smote his breast and without so
much as lifting his eyes, said, "God be
merciful to me the sinner."
Happy are they who mourn for . sin.
It is not enough to be ashamed of it,
but there must be an actual sorrow
therefor. This does not mean to mourn
for its consequences, nor for its pub
licity, nor for the misery it entails.
Sin is more than a blunder which one
may regret. It is more than a mistake
which one would try to repair. It is
open and flagrant and defiant rebellion.
When a man mourns this, then God
flings above him His smile as the rain
bow spanned the flood, and he "shall
be comforted."
Happy ace the meek, for they shall
inherit the earth. But who are the
meek? They who obey the law. Moses
has passed into history as the meekest
of men. But Moses bent the neck of
his manhood to law, and maybe that is
the reason that to this day our best in
stitutions are all to be traced to the
legislation in the wilderness, Only
once did Moses lose his meekness, when
with an angry frown he smote the
rock. That shattered his meekness'
into a thousand pieces, and he lost the
promised land. He did not inherit the
earth. Jesus was the meekest man,
and He has flung out His challenge for
the world to come to Him. He was
meek, for He was obedient, even to the
place of death.
Happy are the hungry. Hunger and
thifst are spurs which are driven. into
men to drive ahead. When men are
hungry they struggle, and there is
hope for a nation when times are hard.
But when men and nations are filled!
they lie down to sleep and rise up to
play. When a man is idle his arm
grows weak with disuse. Hunger and
thirst are spurs to activity.' But the
noblest hunger is the hunger for Tight
ness, for that is the meaning of "right
eousness." To -seek God and His
righteousness is to seek for God and
His. Tightness. A man whose soul is
famished with this consuming desire
may well be happy, "for he shall be
filled." . .
Happy are the merciful. But mercy
does not always mean leniency. When
a man is convicted of some gross crime
it is no mercy to let him go to do the
same crime, again. Mercy sometimes
exacts an awful penalty, for mercy is
a prerogative of righteousness, and
mercy belongs to God: The man stand
ing beside God, poor in spirit, mourn
ing his sin, hungry for righteousness,
is merciful, and mercy comes also to
him. "He shall receive mercy."
Happy are the pure in heart.. But
5-hat does this mean? Who of us is
. .
pure? It means to be single in, pup
pose. The diamond must be of "the
first water" if it is to flash the light.
The man must be single in purpose if
he is to see God. The double-minded
man can never see the vision of Him
whose countenance is as the sun shin
ing in his strength; for his vision is
broken and disturbed, like the waves
of the sea driven hy the wind and
tossed. Ah! I love the sea. I've
watched it on a windy day, and heard
it weep and moan and sob, and breathe
out its anger in an awful curse. I've
seen the waves rise buffeted and beat
en, now backwai'd, now forward, till
its face was white with rage, but its
heart was black as death. I've seen it
reel and toss, till at last sobbing as
though its heart would break, it would
burst into a myriad briny tears upon
the shore and pour from its wretched,
bosom the seaweed and driftwood and
filth it has gathered in the journey.
That wave never saw the sun. But
I've looked again. The sea was like a
mirror, as clear as crystal.' I could see
the pearly pebbles, and there in its
heart I could see the sun. The pure
hearted .waters lay all day long and
looked into the face of the sun. Hap
py, blessed are the pure, the single in
heart, "for they shall see God."
The man who has a supreme desire
to please God, he is pure. He may
have temptation, he may stumble,-he'
may fall, but he rises again, and he is
farther ahead. - I shame to confess it,
but I once played football, the barbar
ism of college. I've seen a man fall
andlslide four times as far as he could
go without falling. He's a pure man,
though his clothes are covered with,
grime. The man who is pure in heart
shall see Him that is invisible. The
man who serves God shall see Him.
Happy are the peacemakers, for they
shall be called the children of God.
God is a peacemaker, and hath recon
ciled all things unto Himself. And
now the man who4 makes, peace shall
be called His son. He has passed
through the 'school, and has learned
poverty and mourning and mercy and
singleness of heart, and now he is
taken into the family of God as Moses
was taken into the family of Pharaoh's
daughter.
There is one other "blessed" spoken
by Jesus. It is found in the compara
tive form. "It is more blessed to give
than to. receive It makes more for
happiness to give than to get. When
self is the Centre there is no happiness.
But when self is forgotten there is hap
piness at its height. When a man
knows he has nerves he cannot be
happy. Mr. Rockefeller thinks that
happiness can be ruined by a sensitive
stomach. The happy man is he who
nuunmg mat. us una uerves ut.
stomach cares for the other man. f
This is the call to self-sacrifice. How
utterly intolerable this world would be
if every one lived for himself. Happily
this cannot be, and the altruism lies at
the bottom of family and social life.
But there are different kinds of sacri
fice. There is the sacrifice of self to
self, of the lower to the higher, of the
paTssion to principle. There is the sac-'
rifice of self for others, and there is
the highest sacrifice, that is, of self to
God. Do we talk of joy in these
things? Most people think of them as
a disagreeable sort of necessity. May
be we see that this necessity serves a;
useful end. But to rejoice in them!
To take up our sacrifice with a song,
that seems out of the question. That
is the dream of the poet.
Giving is blessed, because it is most
like God. He has need of nothing but
just to give. The glory of the gospel
is a happy God, but He gave His Son.
He might have stripped heaven of its
angels and it would not have impover
ished Him. The only gift that He
could feel was the gift of His Son.
And that was what made Him happy.
God Himself could not be happy if He
had withholden this greatest gift.
That was the law which Jesus de
clared. It makes moreKfor happiness
to give than to get. TheW hole life of
Jesus was giving, but the happiest mo
ment was that last, when He said:
"Father, into Thy hands I commend
My spirit," and He had giten His life'
for a ransom.
In these simple words, then, I find
ine wnoie pmiosophy of salvation, of
happiness and of heaven. If a man
mourn for his sin, he shall be com
forted and an infinite peace shall dry
his tears. If a man hunger for Tight
ness, he shall be filled. If he strive to
serve God with a single heart, he shall
see Him. If He do the work, of God
and hve at peace, he shall be called
the child of God, and if he seek for.
ehances to pour out his life in service,
he. shall find heaven "about him on
every side. And this is the secret of
happiness.
A life of Self-Abnegation.
JFhe.?ev- Dr- Josiah Strong draws
KLUlh Picture ot tne blessedness of S'elf-
fcuennce. e says: "The life of self
abnegation does not attract you A'
cathedral window seen from without
is dull and meaningless. But enter,
and the light of Heaven, streaming
through it, glorifies it with every"
beauty of form and color. Consecra
tion to God for service may seem dull
enough when seen from without; hut
enter into that experience, and the
light of the divine love,: streaming
through it, shall glorify your life with
beauty and blessedness which are
Heaven's own."
The Way We Do Tnicffg.
F' B. Meyer says: "Knitting
needles are cheap and common enough!
but on them may be wrought the fair
est designe in the richest wools. So
the incidents of daily life may be com
monplace in the extreme, but on them
the material foundation we may
bund the unseen but everlasting fab
ric of a noble and beautiful character.
ul 80 much matter What we
do but the way in which we do it
matters greatly." - ,
Fpur Good Kales.
General Gordon, the hero of China
and likewise of Khartum, based his
life upon four rules: Forgetfulness of
self, absolute sincerity, indifference to
the world's judgments, absorption in
the will of God. These four rules abide
as guide-posts on the path to great
ness, but the greatest of these is sur
render to the .will of God.-Pacific
Baptist.
Not the Attitude.
Reverent attitudes are necessary in
worship, but it is- the reverence and
not the attitude in which the virtue
resides. Our hearts? must Ha
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