oniestic Training For Qrlsa
' By Mrs. Coulter of ike Utah Legislature.
XJR girls need domestic training at school because they bare.
with new school methods and the present social life, little time
at home. for such -work. The young man who -would fill a posi
tion of responsibility and power fits himself, for it by study and
practical training, but our daughters, who are to be the builders
and business managers of the home, the disbursers of the family
income, and the mothers of the coming generation, are per
mitted to go Into this work without a question as to their sci
entific preparation for It. If we would not sacrifice the mental
development of woman, if the school and college claim the girl
jSuring these foundation years, provision should be made by tho school for i
Instruction whicn win not only maue up for the lost opportunity at home,
put fit her to meet the increasing demand for skilled labor iii this field. Edu
cationally, the first step is found in the department of manual training now in
troduced into some of our schools. Financially and practically, we have taken
$Qie second step in considerable sums of money pledged; in interest awakened,
tend inthe earnest co-operation promised on every side.
The time is not far off when it will be considered seemly and will become
lihe province of every good woman aggressively to influence public .opinion for
ten that constitutes human well-being. Toward this the clubs are certainly
well on their way, in that they are now co-operating with leagues and societies
specially organized for reforms and ameliorative movements, while they have
slon of unfit literature, tne rener or wage-earning women ana i
practical training in the public schools, and the reign of nobler
Cfet
By CUntcn Stottard
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Oft mi&dU morn,! on Sastt? day,
X too tbc western hillside
fliODt
roirj clop to ww .TVJ
Hbove tbc woodland, eoon to b
Bannered with vernal pageantry.
H Uttle wtttd from out tb south
Breathed lyrfca from ito wooing woMtfcj !
Hnd eomewbere fatstro' Robin gavk J;jijj
Tbt Air jxnwcate witb ?
rillcfft sole tmpioy
da"htst' to clearly cborwa
War, the Gegra'
pher.
children, a more
standards.
earth was still
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By' Frank Munsey.
.-rtTkggk EFORE these troubles in Venezuela how many of us thought of
the country save as a patch of color, on the. map? How many
" were cock-sure as to the spelling of Caracas? How many knew
that Venezuela means "Little Venice," or had read that the first
invaders, after the Spanish discoverer, were the Germans, about
three centuries before- James Monroe framed his famous maxim?
Even the .Buccaneers are not associated intimately with tho
country. There is only one reference in Esquemeling's bravo
chronicle where he writes: "Hence they departed, with design
to take and pillage the city of Caracas, situated over against the
Island of Curacoa, belonging to the Hollanders."
The boy who studied geography in the sixties, when the
fcomparatively romantic and unknown, was interested in land, or sea, or town,
Ibhiefly through color or name. Blue or purple countries on the map were
aiecessarily delectable regions. No desert is as sandy as thei "Great North
American Desert" then looked. There was Van Dieman's Land, a dismal,
nspicion-exciting country; and after the boy had been persuaded that it was
iot inhabited by demons equipped with horns and hoofs and tails, he would
iievcrtheless have sworn to the truth of Hazlitt's description: ''Barren, miser
tel)le, distant; a place of exile, th,e dreary abode of savages, convicts and ad
tpenturers." , j
Bagdad, Damascus, the Galapagos, Andalusia what fascination in the
$rery names to the schoolboy who delights in the smell of tiie wharves or
tnows his Arabian Nights and Washington Irving as a clerk hisj ledger!
As the boy becomes man, names may still wield their spell; but they are
jvaguei, often imaginary localities. "War breaks out; fleets meet 'and wage bat
3Qe off some obscure fishing town; an army surrenders neait some hamlet
jiehlch had hitherto slept peacefully by day as well as by night, j The village is
tenddenly world-famous. The name of the fishing town is written on banners.
New York News.
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Lo, In tlx moes
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tut 19 tibe MusllkA "tM
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Mads stad ri4!ibirt tfcat fflontisg toot.
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So pwrc it was, to Itwoiat flaw,. .. :"
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Hnd tbm.X flfr.ed to ma tR w3ie
Of tS2 waocen2"oi the ccm!U
THE FLOWER FAIRIE.S'
STER STORV
BY JOHN H. JEWETT
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M
ney
Manhood-Higher Than
ByEdwin Markham.
f5ES&&MpB33Zl -E are mating remamabie progress in wealth-gathering, yet
-until we make manhood stand higher than money. A mere
millionaire, with his cramned and sordid life, i cuts a sorry
Il
irermissible R
g unselfish teacher, or a distinguished inventcr. j
Xr-gs5?g should be. The thing important is that we should choose the
true heroes, not the stuaed ones, not tne pompous notmngs
istnitting out their little hour upon a painted stage. Let us choose for our
Jionormg the large-hearted servants of mankind. j
Once upon a time a distinguished foreign nobleman visited our land, and
tlesired to meet a representative American family. To whom was he pointed?
ETo the family of that worthy minister of the Gospel who stands for a clean
life and -the sacred rights of the people? To the family of that conscientious
jteacher who is touching young souls with ideals and inspirations? No; the
jpobleman was pointed by well-nigh all of us to the family of a Sir Croesus,
jsvho had inherited unearned millions, and who was in no wise a representative
tT our American grit and generosity, of our democratic simplicity and fellow
feeling, to say nothing of our art and letters. I
Thomas Hughes said, iong ago, that we may not be able to hinder people
in general from being helpless and yulgar from letting themselves fall into
slavery to things about them, if they are rich, or from aping the habits and
Sices of the rich, If they are poor. I j
But, as he says, we may live simple, manly lives, ourselves, speaking our
trim thoughts, paving our own way, and doing our own work, whatever that
jnay be. We shall remain gentlemen as long as we follow thes4 rules, even
If we have to sweep a crossing for a livelihood. But we shali not remain
gentlemen, in anything but the name, if we depart from these rules, though
-jre may be set to govern a kingdom.
ecreations
and. Amusements
By Hamilton W. Mafele, Author and Critic, j
I LAY is as much a man's duty as work. Our taste for play
and the intelligent selection of proper forms of recreation
have never been sufficiently developed. I
Many people play too much and unintelligehtly, others
give no thought to recreation and do their work ixi an inferior
way because they lose the freshness that play .bring3. Work
and play should never be separated; and this is particularly
true in. the higher forms of work, where play is absolutely
essential. i'or example, in art there 13 a necessity for the
spontaneity of play. The suggestion of toil instantly destroys the 'art quality.
I believe .in all amusements that the rational, morally wholesome and
ttvillzed man can enjoy. But I do, not believe in any kind of amusement in
excess. It is a mistake for a man to give up his work and devote his time
to golf, or so to overdo with the wheel as to strain the heart. i
It seems difficult 'for the American to carry moderation into his work or
lfl play. Moderation in recreation is as essential as moderation in work.
-Everything should be done in reason. I
Again, that recreation is best which takes one further from his routine
.trnd active life. The student, the man of sedentary occupation ought to put
emphasis on out-of-dcor recreation. He needs more tramping, more horse
toack riding and less- theatre than the man whose vocation takes him con
stantly out of doors. Every man's life needs all the variety he cin possibly
crowd into it. The serious man needs to read novels, and go to the theatre;
hat is, provided he reads good stories and sees good plays. .
Half of the mistakes of the reformers, the philanthropists and the ethical
teachers arise from their lack of perspective. They are too much interested in
ne field. AH followers of earnest pursuits especially need recreation. We
fcll ought to cultivate the sense and use of humor properly to balance life.
A great many admirable people make serious blunders because they are
constantly at : work and never at play. The man of narrow and intense Inter-
Is the man of all others Who needs to look over the wall.
:Ui ,le90me' normai forms of recreation ought to.be recognized ana
legitimate. This is the first step toward making recreation rational and
It ; Is a sipificant'fact that so many of the great organizers of business en
terprises and leader3 of gigantic interests at the present time take lon vaca
Itsxms and make time for their recreation. They have discovered that tremendous
cuvlty is destructive unless the strain Is constantly relieved by intervals of
;IAy. The colossal workers of to-day almost without exception are! men who
3nrsue some form of recreation as earnestly and methodically as thev nush
tSidr work to completion. ; - ; -
And It is not too much to say that the great financial men of the future
Wxe great organizers, the students, and the leaders in the professions will bv
-jsccesslty. be grpat devfltees of some form of recreation. I "
311
NTE bright Sunday ingly up to the yellow tulip, rocking
morning in April there in the breeze as if watching over
thousands of '.ittle . the quiet brood in the sun. ,
children with their j Presently, over the golden rim" of the
fathers and mothers ! tulip, the mild, sunny face of the
and ' friends were i r!r?iiu1rnntlipr Fnirv hpnmr1 kirullv nr-
uiipngingthe city streets 0n the little cue, and a soft voicp said,
on j their way to morning "You are tardy this morning, my dear;
setyiee. On the sheltered. ! you have missed one of the most beau-
sunny siqe ot a lawn, just j tiful sights of the day, the world chil-
Ll. .1. .1
drea on their Avay to l;aster service;
but: you are in good time to hear their
music, for they will sing again and
again before the Easter songs of praise
are done."
Then suddenly every blossom In the
over the way from a state-!
Stone church, a little
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CHILDREN'S VOl CSS SINGING AN EAS
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ANTnEM. '
were beginning
welcome to the
cluster of crocuses and tulips 'had -already
pushed t leir way up through
the brown eartli, and made a charm
ing picture of bloom and color in the
morning sunlighf.
For several wbeks before the early
spring sunshine 'and the gentle south
wind had been jpleading with the lin
gering snows arid frosts, of winter to
go away and let ithe buds and flowers,
the birds and tti bees come back and
make the cold World glad once more,
Their eager pleadings had won the
victory over the;; stern, pale tyrant of
the year, for afrfeady the barren fields
to smile back their
Vpril sun.
Many of the chUrch-goers. young and
old, passing alonjg the pleasant street
of homes, noticing the early blossoms,
were gladdened tiy this first shy greet
ing of the Spring, and the listening
flowers heard them exclaim, "How
lovely the blossoms are! See, there is
one golden tulip! already in bloom!"
Not one, however, of these admirers
saw anything tlipre but the familiar
beauty of the brave little band of
crocuses, with the single yellow tulip
in the center, ntff even Imagined the
secret that was hidden there.
WTben the churbh-bells ceased rimr-
ing, and the streets were almost de-
world ! was younger, tne swine uru
to notice that nearly all tne; worm
folk thought more about their own
sJlflsh I wishes than about loving and
helping each, other, and lived as if
life here were all, and ended with the
breaf hi
These joyful songs of the children
are only the echoes of that wonderful
song begun when the morning stars
sang together, nineteen hundred years
ao, in! that far-off country of Judea.
''Then the Jesus child .was born in
a lonely wayside Inn, while the shep
herds Watched their flocks by night,
ank the star of Bethle.hem shone on
Mary, the young mother, and the beau
tlf ill' Bahe that was cradled in a man
ner
"These glad
tidings of peace on
eartli you will remember, we heard
the;se same children singing at merry.
ChHstrrias- time last year. wuea ;.we
wet-e hiding away from the cold with
- !.-. J.. Ann'AK r.r?T?fc' lltlflpV
our irienus iue
th withered leaves . and grass and
snowy robes of winter, waiting thei;e
for 'another spring.
"1 sejems strange to us fairy fohc.
very, viry strange, dearies, that the
world children should have wandered
fo iong I in darkness before that first
Chrjstmas time, and stranger still that;
they have been so many centuries
since trying to learn the beautiful les
sons of jlife and duty that we. though
only! fairies, have always known and
loved.-. ! !; .'
: " We see our lovely friends the flow
ers bloom and bless the world with
their beauty, and then fade when their
brief summer is gone, yet we know
they i are ."not dead, but living still ii?.
spirit, only waiting to bloom again;
and to greet us somewhere in our
Father's own good time, when they
shall! hear the voice through the dark
ness j calling, 'Rise now and seek the
light , '
"Tljese are the very words the chil-,
dren jsang in' their first morning carol.'
Let its listen now a moment and be
glad with them, while they are sing
ing another song of 'praise. How
sweet! their voices were; how gently
the silence falls again. They are sing
ing of an 'Elder Brother' who came to
live on earth, to minister to the weak,
the ignorant and the erring, and was
tempted l and tried even as they were;
who Mved and toiled among them, and
taught; by His lovely example and pre
cepts how dearly the heavenly Father
sunshine here has mo a
the flowers, and von .ur t
so , glad and grateful this
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"Our blossoms hero hn,.. 0fi:
1, .
bloomed in new beautv
sunlight of love has been,3
the hearts and lives of ti, J'Jlni
dren wherever the Easte ! 13
hope and cheer has been r '-l
children's voices to-rfav"
The dear
Grandmother p .
-hildren, with Easter in? J 7
of th. J
lJ in i i. '
JVip fnirv ffjros wion
- - r u u 11 Jin-)
hands, came trooping out a
church over the war
" J " ' 1 i I i l I'Tl -ftV 1
that way saw on the sunny u H 1
the smiling faces of tho o''r
the yellow tulip in thP 0'nM
never dreamed that a hnnrl ff '1
I. j i s - "I fr'.I
nau ut-eu , iiMtiiiug to tlip'r i
carols and ?harlng.' with t1 r
ioy and praise and gladr.n' i I
Kaster-mornmg story. Wonm
Companion
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A Labor Question.
"TEIiIi US a btobt, .bear grand-
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serted, the silence of the- hour was
gently broken by the sweet melody
of children's voices singing an .Easter
anthem.- ;
Among the listening flowers on the
lawn one dainty hite crocus slowly
unfolded its peta Q:. and a tiny - fairy
face peeped out and looked wonder-
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THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS.
Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640.
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The Duck "Why are yon so -Mrs.
lien?" . "
The lien "J4ist think cf I
mg overtime laying 'eggs for A
iuid some bid. rabbit getting sii
credit for it!" New York Journal
flower bed began to tremble with ex
citement, and as a chorus of fairy
voices, as soft and low as the whis
pering breeze in the lilac-bushes near
by, came up from the smiling flowers,
in every one of which a tiny fairy had
been hiding, "Tell us a story, dear
Grandmother Fairy; please tell us a
story. Why are the children so happy
and singing new carols to-day?"
The kindly Grandmother Fairy gent
ly Teplied. "To-day is Easter Sunday,
and you can all learn something of Its
meaning by listening to the children's
songs: and when they are not singing
I will tell" you, as well as I can, the
story as my fairy mother told it to
me when I was ' a wondering little
sprite like you, my dearies.
"The world children over the way,
and many others all over the land,
are singing of their 'Risen Lord,' and
rejoicing inx His double triumph over
the two great shadows that once darkened-
all their world, like the clouds
that sometimes hide the sunlight from
us, and the names of these shadows
are Sin and Death.1 T-..
"All the fairy folk know that in our
own little world of flowers the clouds
and sunshine are mingled, that storms
will come and beat fiercelyf but the
sunlight comes again, and drives the
clouds away.
"Many, many years ago, when the
loved all His children and then was
cruelly put to death by those He came
to save. 7 I, ;
"It was the first ' Easter morning
when His hejavenly Father called Him
home. Do you wonder, my dearies,
that the wjorld children are grateful
to-day, and are keeping this anniver
sary in memory of One who lived and
died, that all the world of men, and
their children's children so long as
earth shall last, might learn of Him,
to know and, feel the beauty of hum
ble goodness,; the power of unselfish
love; and to share in the blessedness
of His hope and faith as the children
of God the Father of us all?
"Let us, my dearies, be thankful,
too, that Easter keeps alive In the
world the spirit of gratitude and hope
and that even the lowliest of His litt'e
children may have some part in help
ing to banish these great twin-shadows
that darken all life here, until
the sunlight jof love and faith bas
come to dispel them from the heart
. . "I have sometimes thought the fairy
folk, who have watched and noted all
the wonderful changes wrought in the
world children since that first Easter
morning, are: the only ones who really
know how much fairer the world has
grown, how much better and kinder
and happier that message has made
His children everywhere, even as this
When is Easter Sunday?
This is a variable date and There!.--.
perplexing to those who. do not ks-
how It is fixed. Did we study lis
inanac as carefully as did our
parents we should probably known
about it, as the date is fixed accord
to the moon.
The Council of Nice promulgated!,
rule for determining Easier; fe:
should be the first Sunday which ii
lows the full moon which happta?
or next after the 21st day of Mir.
and if the full moon happens upc
Sunday, Easter Day Is the Syi
after. -
. Sometimes, as last year, the '
moon occurred so near mlclniirM t
m some places it was on oae day.:
some on the next day and hence?
people thought Easter Sunday si
be on April 15, the. moon being M
fore midnight of Saturday, th
while others held that it would-
the 22d. as the mooil was not fall k
after midnight, i. e., on April 15. Til
would be settled if the local time
Nice, where the rule was made, sk
be made standard, and the church c
endar seems to have been calculated -
this plan. . This year Easter ccsoi
April 7.
, Hoi j Coat of Trer8.
The holy coat preserved a: Trst
in Germanv. is claimed to be the ses-
less garment-worn by Christ, anil ((T
which the Roman soldiers cast w
during the Crucifixion. It is a a
about five feet long, cut narrow
shoulders and gradually wi4enins
wnrd tlit knpps "fnnv miracies ss
said to havq been performed h.v !i
robe. -
Its history for the last 700 years
clear enough, but darkness shrouds
the storv nf th( tpo nrior to
twelfth century. The Catholic Thnr
vnlloa fnr ni-nnf r ic on thPTltifitTtP'
on .1 trnditinn thnt it was one of
chestful of relics sent as a gift to the;
church at Trpvps bv the Effii1
Helena. She is said to have 'i,:EJ
i iu im r sir wnisfi iun l 1 1 i n- ill wv-
of the true cross.
A lfcrpn1 enro in thp ninth f
Iiittt ..ai .nionlpd ifClff
tho Nnrmmis in a rrrnt nf fh6
dral. There it remained forgotten un
til 1196. when it was rediscovered j
placed in the high altar.
When asked what he would be if te'
were not a ruler, the King of tne
criaris invnrinhlv ronHos-n sailor. '
his friends tell him that he would nave
m n (1 f nno nf ha hoot rnmmereiil tl".
elers of the day. As a business a
King Leopold has few superiors, t
pushfulness and enterprise --beta? fni;
. . . i.' iTifOVI-5'
remarsaDie. iis Majesty s
are almost entirely .'bound -tp v!-
traded
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