ON_THE ART OF HOSPTALIY PRINCIPLES ARE EASILY LEARNED, APPLICATION OF THEM DIFFICULT. i Cultivation of This Art Must Not Be Left to Chance--It is Not Ours to Choose, Whether We Shall Exercise It or Not. By Lina Orman Cooper. The art of hospitality' does mot come by nature; its principles are easily learned, but application of them is difficult, Hospitality means a liberal hand, a willing heart, useful- ness, thoughtfulness, refined courtesy, and a careful attention to detail. It means keeping the broader half of Christ's new commandment, doing unto others as we would be done by. Cultivation of this art must not be left to chance. It is not olirs to choose whether we shall exercise it or not, duty, and one not to be shirked. St. Paul has Jeft a wonderful injunction that makes it ob- ligatory: "Be good,.be sociable, friendly, ready to sympathize, inclined for company," he says. It is a distinctive | fear of wild Ishmaelites brooding over him, boiled broth for a stray visitor (Judges vi. 19,). Manoah and his wife made ready a kid for the Man whose name was secret (Judges viii. 15). The widow of Zarephath gave first to the man of God out of her little store (1Kings xvii, 13- 15). Whilst He Who came to leave us an example in this, as in other matters, fresh from the agonies of Golgotha, and the horrors of the nether world, could light a fire and grill fish thereon (not. forgetting to provide its ac- companiment of bread) for His weary follow- ers (John xxi.). In this we are to be imitators and copiers of the manners and actions 6f God '(Ephesians v. 1). We have all heard of the bishop who sug- gested "teaspoons" as a suitable presentation on his elevation to the bench. But it is not only bishops, with princely incomes, who are enjoined ty be hospitable. Feeble lay-women can share in the privilege of "distributing to the necessity of saints" (Romans xii. 13). The beauty of hospitality without grudging seems to be written all over the pages of the Bible, | Yet--it was once refused to a little, new-born Baby. There was no room in the inn for our Lord Jesus Christ (Luke ii. 7). No pillow pre-Y pared whereon to lay His head (Matthew viii. INTEGRITY OF PUBLIC LIFE. [ Fresh Discouragement to Good Citizenship-- Character Will Tell. ) The indubitable evidence of municipal cot- ruption and blackmail in Montreal, ending in the unseating of aldermen, and in fresh dis- closures under a committee of enquiry, added to the charges of party corruption in more than one parliamentary ciscle, has brought fresh discouragement to goodacitizenship. The root of. the evils rests in primary causes un- doubtedly. It all comes down to the single, simple ques- tion of character. There is nothing else in the problem of free govérnment, large or small. Apply the test of character as rigorously to public men and public affairs as we apply it to private men and private affairs, and popular government, city, provincial, and national, . comes a success, a blessing, and an honor to us as a people, Of course the task of securing this application is gne of the most stupendous that has ever confronted a great people, for it is nothing less than the creation among the majority of a new state of mind. Prejudices ceases to be a failure and a disgrace, and be- |" with towers which have forty-six and forty- seven storeys respectively. The building will have a tower of forty-two storeys with a main building of thirty-four storeys, and it will be over 900 feet high. This is easily a record. WHAT INTERESTS ALL CLASSES. A Lot of Notes of General Information for Busy Readers. A man named Robert, turned "out of his] § house on the outskirts of Paris in October, has camped out with his family under a bridge, and has placed the municipality in a quandary. The prefect of the department has even offered him a house, but. Robert says no. He cannot be arrested for vagrancy, because he neither begs nor moves from his position. In one of the excavated cemeteries in Egypt {the bodies of many pet dogs have been found. One of the animals had ivory bracelets round its legs, while several had collars of twisted leather, one with a leather lead attached, The teeth of ma bad conditi of the dogs were in a noticeably , the rgsult of idleness and un- healthy luxury. . ; New York is to have another "skyscraper," A poulterer in the Rue Montmarte, Paris, For thus, by help of Webster and the Revised Version, we paraphrase his strict command in 1 Timothy vi. 18. : There are two dangers to be avoided in that have been handed dowp-from father to son since the very foundatign of the govern- ment will have to be removed. What has been called the double conscience theory, one who makes a specialty of game of all kinds, is selling a dromedary and two kangaroos. He expects to see camel cutlets and kangaroo 1 steaks as items on the bill of fare of every 20). No bed provided on which He could rest at night (Luke xxi. 37). Would we not like to make it up to Him if we could? Where Christie's Biscuits hospitality--the Scylla of carelessness and the Chapybdis of over-profusion. The latter is a modern maelstrom. In fact, up-to-date enter- taining is hardly to be called hospitality. It is simply a reckless, unheedful expenditure of money. The former is a selfish disregard 'of other people's needs and expectations, How not to do it was notably shown on two special occasions. One day we were treated like schoolchildren in the house of a noted leader of fashion. From arrival to departure, we were surfeited with amusements. Amateur niggers in the barn, tableaux vivants in the hall, motoring down the avenue, fireworks to end all! How much we would have preferred a quiet game of bowls on a velvet sward under spreading cedars. All agreed with Dryden, that such "a very merry, dancing, drinking, laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time" was not comfortable hospitality! Another time a hostess of repute was "at home." Country clergy chartered cars, "abor- igines" decked themselves in their best, to pay respect to the great house. Nothing of amusement was provided. Croquet sets were locked up in their cases and tennis nets were conspicuous by their absence. What we need, is'to welcome anyone to our daily feast, without burdening them with a too lavish display of unaccustomed dainties, or displaying too much of the nakedness of the land, if it be there. Do you plead that this art is an expensive one? Pause and consider. If, by reason of pressing friends to go home with us, in the kingly fashion of old, butter flies a little faster, a pound of tea will prabably go just as far, and things better than bread and butter and tea will come back to us. If the giddy girls from over the way are sure of a cup from our pot, they will be less flighty, If the bank, clerk can reckon on a welcome to our round table; he will gad about less, and perhaps spend spare mothents in trying to undo the links of jbad habits. If the curate has a general invitation to Sunday supper, he will be cheered, and strengthened, 'and refreshed. For, remember, true hospitality is always. ¢x= tended to those-who eannot return it. Against migzardlifiess" comé many warnings from the past. " Samuel Pepys and a Greater than the old Secretary to the Admiralty have left on record protests against carelessnéss in entertaining. Living, as Samuel Pepys did, in some of the most troublous times in English bistory--accompanying the fleet which went to bring back Charles II. to his. fatherland, being an eye-witness of the Great Fire: of London, and living to see the second James fly from his throne--we should expect some- thing grand and epoch-making alone would be worthy his pen, It is far otherwise. The triv- ial occupies a:place in juxtaposition to the sublime, and, as becomes a gentleman of the old school, the divine duty of hospitality comes much to the fore. ' Even while the "miserable sight of Paule's Church with all the roofe fallen" is desolating his soul, he can comment on the way "a shoulder of mutton from the cooks" is served by one Mrs. Turner "without- a napkin, of anything, in a sad manner." The day before, "whiles Paule's .is burning in all Cheapside, with St. Faythe's," he mentions partaking "off an earthen platter of a fried breast of mutton, as good a meal, though as ugly a one, as ever T had in my life." During the same sad week of burnings and blisterings he records going to bed in the house of "a certain friend" (Sir William Penn, we gather) in a four-poster "without curtains or hangings--in fact, a naked bed." Ugly and sad meals! A naked bed! Do we ever serve and offer such to our friends? Life is strenuous, and fussy, and short. Lucinda and Dorothy and I--a small I--have little time to put flowers and fern fronds on the table. So few moments to see that savouries are garnished, the cloth spotless, and forks untarnished. Small deisure to leave particular soap, soft duvets, or enough pincushions in a guest chamber. Yet there are folk so con- stituted that they can neither enjoy nor as- similate meals off "an earthen platter," nor sleep soundly iftsa "maked" bed. Small souls, perhaps! But should we not be caraful to avoid offending such? Are we tempted to think such little things "no matter"? Hundreds of years before Mr. Pepys a Greater than he left on record similar carelessness in an entertainment-given in His honor. The Pattern Guest of NM! time is mark- ing discourteous absence of usual refinements. "I entered into thine house, thou gavest Me Most of us have read of the entertainment in an inn outside Vanity Fair for Christiana and her fellow-travellers, where crumbled milk and fruit for the children testified to the loving forethought and unselfish liberality of Gaius their host. But few are familiar with the re- cord of how the Interpreter conducted one Tender Conscience to the dining hall, when Bunyan's less well-known pilgrim arrived at his house. There he entertained him to a rich and fragrant banquet, feasting him with the est restoratives in the world, bgcause he con- sidered the weak, feeble pilgrim in need of a diet of strong nourishment. The details of that meal are not to be forgotten. For there, sitting down "in exquisite order," Temperance carved and Decency waited, whilst Frugality and Bounty handed the dishes. Could th necessary characteristics of a successful ned tainer be more aptly described? Especially when Good Resolution got ready the collation, and Obedience was one of the waiters. Selfishness lies at the root of gll inhospi- tality. We are either so comiort Sle i® our home circle that we dislike intrusion, or so un- comfortable that we dislike publicity. But over this valley we must lay the planks of self-denial, and not please ourselves. Infirm- ity should be no block to hospitality. Even the Mr. Fearings, from the town of Stupidity, who are troublesome guests, may bg welcomed. Behind each whitely look, each cast in the eye, and behind bewraying speech, dwelleth, per- chance, a choice spirit. Also Mr. Feeble-mind --that "very ignorant Christian man"--and the young woman called Dull, can'be kindly received. One word of caution. Great hostesses may be so organized that they entertain without effort; but most folk have to think of ways and means. If you have only a small staff of servants, my sisters, see to it that you do not expend so much strength on preparation that you *have none left, to "stand a-welcome" to your guests when they arrive. If stalled oxen call for undue energy, by all means serve a dinner of herbs. It will be sweetened by love and enlivened with gaiety. Some may be surprised at my raising hospi- tality to the posftion of Art with the prefix Fine. But, as its successful pursuit depends on the heart even more than on thé liberal hand, it can truly vindicate its dignified al- titude.. As the Apostle of Culture puts it, the first characteristic of -all great art is tender- ness--more especially of this fine one. An infinitude of tenderness and tact is needed as a basis for hospitality, Like the Gothic, "it is not an art for England only, but for the whole world!" Above all, it is not an art of form and tradition only "but one of vital prac- tice and perpetual renewal" = Wordsworth speaks of -- "That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love." And, beloved, we do faithfully whatever we for the brethren and strangers, if we bring them forward on their journey after a godly sort, by giving harbour and good company. So much happiness depends on small matters when cultivating this fine art. A cup of cold water given cheerfully will not lose its reward. But, when possible, bring forth milk instead of water, not forgetting the "lordly dish." Like good Mr. Mnason of old, let iis fiot forget to entertain a "goodly com- pany," for some have thus "entertained un- awares." Ruskin has well and truly said that "The woman's duty as a member of the common- wealth is to assist in the ordering, the com- forting, and in the beautiful adornment of the state." How better can we fulfil our destiny than by using aright this method of doing well? Remembering always, like Gaius, that we expect no payment during this present life. But--and it is, perhaps, a. novel thought for some--in the hereafter, judgment will be pro- nounced according to the manner in which we have exercised our duties with reference to thid finest and most ancient of the arts. Newspapers: And War. : It has always béen! supposed that Napoleon IT1. went to war with Germany with the serene belief .that he would win, and his minister, Ollivier, has endured nearly forty years of re- proach for proclaiming that the war was under- taken "with a light heart." This turns out, on the testimony of Ollivief himself to be an error of (history. In a magazine article he leaves no room for doubt that Napoleon in- stead of wanting war, exerted himself to the standard of morals for private life and another for public life, will be the hardest obstacle to overcome, for it has obtained a well-nigh uni- versal lodgment. Good government in every community, large or small, depends finally upon individual effort. The indifferent and negligent citizen is not a modern production. Batre speaking to the Athenians of their duty as citizens, said more than two thousand years ago: "If you get rid, all of you, of the spirit of evasion; if each man will show himself ready to act when- ever duty calls him, he can possibly ren- der service to the state; if you are willing to depend upon no one but yourselves, and will give up, each of you, hoping that he can re- main idle while his neighbor does everything for him, then you will come to your own; if God will, you will recover once again the po- sition which your indolence has thrown away." ,Is there a community to-day, suffering from bad government, to which these words do not apply as well as they did to Athens in the days of Philip? Is there one of them in which a complete reformation might not be achieved by following this simple counsel of Demos- thenes? His words constitute so complete an, epitome of good citizenship that they should be printed on the title-page of every citizens' manual. Get rid of the spirit of evasion and do your whole duty, without waiting for some- body else to do it for yon, That is the be- ginning and end of the whole matter. Call things by their right names, or, as Matthew Arnold puts it, "see clear and think straight." THE PROMOTION OF PEACE. $ r o Not Much in it When the Nations are Busy Increasing Armaments, Peace, held in Toronto, with Rev. Chas. S. Eby, D.D,, presiding, this address was framed calamity more destructive of all that is best in the material or moral benefits of civilization than the horrors of war. The intensest long-| © mind of every lover of the human race. To strain every energy, and devote every talent. We should be profoundly thankful that it is now nearly a century since Britain had any contest with France, or with the United States; it is more than a century and a half since the last contest between the British and the Ger- mans, and more than half a century since war between Britain and Russia. Yet it is'a deep regret that the great nations instead of regarding this long period of peace as a pledge for its perpetuity show lack of confidence in one another, and keep on year|e n Cc $ Even on this continent, where there is no}b apparent reason for great military armament, |p the United States has constructed a navy, thus|S centuries has cursed the old world. All this tends to keep alive in the minds of the people|a that there is the necessity to look for wat. |a If but a tithe of the effort now put forth to|I promulgate and 'establish the methods ofl: peace,--if pulpits, press and platforms would resound with the glorious doctrines of peacefe and good will to men, dnd if every endeavor (fi were made to substitute the peaceful methods of arbitration, or otherwise, why should we not feel confident, that just as individuals have learned to lay aside their weapons and the wickedness of the duel, even so will nations soon resort to the art of war no more? In the teaching of the schools should there not be far more emphasis placed on the tri- umphs of peace, and far more glory attached to the names of those men who, by the work of their genius, or by their noble self-sacrifice, have enriched and ennobled our: civilization, than is given to those who have triumphed in the desolation of war? There has been reck- less utterance during the last few weeks. re- specting our near kinsmen, the Germans. Whatever they have done they have merely followed the example set by our own country- men. It is feared that many utterances of the press and platform will tend only to con- firm "the growth of the spirit of militarism, rather than tend to its diminution. If ever we are to have the kingdom of peace, for which we continually pray, must we not begin to diminish military armaments? The wasteful expenditure is @ crime against humanity, a standing confession of our want of faith in the God of peace, whom we profess to trust al Vi a t i 1 posed of orange blossoms. myrtle, Italy white roses, Spain Greece vine-leaves, and Bohemia rosemary. E after year increasing implements of, warfare. }the classic of predestination. share between them. d with a psychological terminology as scienti- | * restraurant in Paris. A naturalist asserts that if the earth were birdless man could not inhabit it for more than nine years. All the sprays and poisons in the world would be quite inadequate to keep down the: insects, which would eat up eyerything. A fox can scent a man half a mile away if the wind is blowing in the animal's direction. A mouse can smell cheese 50 feet away. A deer may be sound asleep and yet he will catch the scent of a person passing 200 feet off. In Abyssinia it is the law. that the murderer be turned over to the relatives of the dead person, and they, if they please, may put him to death in the same manner in which the murdered person was killed. Three hundred Berlin streets are planted with 14,000 trees, which are said to represent a value of nearly $200,000. About 1,000 gar- deners and assistants are employed to take care of them. A bridal wreath in England is uspally com- Germany uses red roses, A pigeon used by a Manchester firm of mill- owners to carry messages from one mill to another has saved the firm $1,145 in telegrams within ten years. This public nogice was recently placarded at Thirlstane, Tasmania: "I, Sarah Fitzpatrick in fourteen days, will be married again.--Sarah Fitzpatrick." The same force which moves one ton on a mooth high-road will move eight tons on a ailway or thirty-two tons on a eanal. In Persia there are no distilleries, breweries, r public-houses, and. native wine is the only intoxicating beverage used. Germiany's colonies are five times as big as At a meeting of some of the friends of | herself, those of France eighteen times, and Britain's ninety-seven times. At the Strozzi palace in Rome is,a book for the press:--It is difficult to' think of any |made of marble, the leaves being of marvellous thinness. The cotton factories in Lancashire spin nough thread in six seconds to go round the ing for peace should ever be uppermost in the | world. the attainment of this sublime aim, we should | MAKING RELIGION MORE PRACTICAL. The Emmanuel Idea is Simplicity Itself, Says Its Advocates. Am. Review of Reviews. In the development of great religious move- ments achievement has usually preceded defi- ition, classification, and terminology. Luther rossed swords with Eck before he could.fore- ce the Protestant Reformation. Jonathan dwards heralded the Great Awakening before ver he left Northampton to write elsewhere And , Moody rought two countries to their knees in godly enitence years before William James and tarbuck, Coe and George Jackson supplied tending to introduce and develop in this new | modern evangelism with the watchwords of world the vicious militarism which for many | the new psychology. The Emmanuel movement has reversed an ge-long process. .Not three years old, it is Iready clearly defined in the public. mind. t has already found its proper place some- maintain armies and navies was utilized to|where in that hazy middle ground which re- gion and medicine are inevitably forced to It is adequately furnish- ¢ as either religion or medicine. There are, to be 'sure, problems of adjustment and of daptation still to be worked out to meet the arying conditions of one locality or another. But no well-informed and unbiased student of the Emmanuel movement is in any doybt $ to the position this work is in general to occupy among the agencies fast multiplying to make religion more practical and medicine more useful and to bring about that "team work" between the minister and doctor which Dr. Cabot is habitually emphasizing im con- nection with this subject. The Emmanuel idea is sigplicity itself. If not all physicians agree with Dr. Frank Bil- lings that "drugs, with the exception of quinine and mercury, are' valueless as-cures," few will be found to disagree with Dr. John H. Musser hat "as the present compares with twenty years ago, one can see less and less of the use of drugs." drugs are in the main to "be feplaced by sim- ple living, suitable diet, plenty of sum, and pl of Sir Frederick Treves is sure that nty of fresh air." But men like Dr. Richard Cabot are pointing ofit in steadily increas- ng numbers that besides all these aids health there is, especially in nervous ailments, large room for Psychical treatment. It is now a fact self-evident that where t 'C =f ot Not \ know just why Christie's bi hundreds visit the big factory every season. good paint, but you have to do it oftener. Divide your building into three pats and two of them go othe A pat ord to pay more for it than for paint that lasts sory y Jin made. We control the most important raw which § » many of cost more per gallon than many cheap and inferior strate their economy on the job lasting Yonger. Ask your dealer SHERWIN-WILLIAMS come from--- The cleanest factory in Canada HE Christie, Brown biscuit factory is in keeping with the international reputation of the firm. Visitors ts are the best baked--and The Christie, Brown people stake their reputation on cleanliness and quality. The raw product is the purest and best money can buy, and every ounce of it is carefully analyzed before it can enter the bake rooms. Every device and machine--making for the perfection of He product--is used in the big factory. The bright and heerful employes, all arrayed in spotlessly white uni- orms laundried on the premises, speak volumes for the sanitary conditions under which they work. You just. buy Christie's Biscuits once and you'll know why your neighbors call them "so good." The best hem and they cost no more. Christie, Brown & Co., Ltd., Toronto' grocers keep --the Bread Flour, --the Biscuit Flour --the Cake Flour --the Pastry Flour --all four in the original Ontario Blended Flour--always the same. "Beaver" Flour: 4 ; { re i At only does it take longer to put poor paint on 2 cost EF Fi ys for the paint. If you get paint that will g 1 Sherwin-Williams Paint is the highest quality and most it is manufactured, make and refine our own linseed ther ways safeguard the quality of all S-W. Products. Boing : E 5 fe E by covering more, for 1 - - - a y h - no water for My feet. Thou gavest NTS. A VARNISHES Me no kiss. J My head with oil thou a A ye TS didst not anoint" (Luke vii. 44-46). Is Simon's spirit of niggardly careledsness still ours? Christ is the unseen guest at every meal. Can He say, sorrowfully, "Inas- much as ye did it not unto the least of these My brethren, ye did it not unto Me"? When Justin Martyr was seeking the true amongst false philosophies, an aged stranger of Alexandria expressed surprise at his being content to take Plato as model, instead of nerves have been put to strain by worry, fear, or other untoward mental states, the removal of the cause relieves the strain itself and the nerves are likely to regain their tone again. Believing that it is the special province of religion to deal with the troubled mind and the restless soul, the Emmanuel worker in the spirit of the healing Christ would make his contribution, always with the doctor's approval and even under his direction if he will, to the improvement of the mental and the spiritual condition of the nerve-worn. and worship. Fighting The White Plague. The ninth annudl'convention of. the Canadian Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of tuberculosis is to be held in Hamilton, May 19th and 20th. Dr. White, of Pittsburg sanatorium, will deliver an ad- dress on the duty of municipalities in reference to tuberculosis. Dr. Adami, of Montreal, will speak on a fubject which ought to command attention, "How One Can 'Do Most Good in utmost to prevent it. Moreover, the French generals had few illusions. Le Boeuf thought the French army better thas the Prussian, but Chevandier warned the Council of War that it was useless to think bf being able to' beat Moltke at mobilising, without which there was hardly a chance to win. French diplomacy succeeded pretty well everywhere, even in the palace of the King of Prussia, who worked himself free of Bismarck, at critical mo- ments. Bismarck, however, had one resource he could rely upon. He set himself SHOE REPAIRING The Gobdyear Machine is Now Working : Successfully. ' going to the more anciently honorable writers of the Mosaic dispensation. So we can go centuries farther back than the Christian era, and study this art of hospitality as exemplified by the ancient Jews, Sarah, Rebekah, Gideon, Manoah and his wife, and the widow of Zarephath were professors of it. They gave deliberately tq enrage the French press, and when he had succeeded Napoleon had .either to fight or to abdicate. In the end he did both, There are several notable instances of newspapers having practically forced govern- ments to enter upon war, the Crimean War, the Cuban war, the Franco-German war, the Arresting Tuberculosis at the Smallest Out- lay." The topic set down for general discus- sion is "The Duty of the People Towards the Movement for the Extinction of Consumption." Hon. Adam Beck, Mt. Downey, M.P.P,, Dr. Fagan, of Victoria, B.C., Dr. Geo. D. Porter and a number of others will take part. Not i Was Given Fair Warning. Greenwaod, B.C., Ledge. A preacher had announced that he would in the near future deliver a sermon on "Hades, and Who Will Be There." Since then he has « Men's Sewed Soles and heels, $1. Men's Nailed Soles and Heels, 75¢. Ladies" Sewed Solesand Heels, 75¢. O'Sullivan's RubberHeels, 50c. received letters from one lawyer, two news- paper men, three bankers, two hotel men, two barbers, six real estate men and four druggists, threatening to withdraw their support and sue him for slander if'he dared "to mention my name in your sermon." \ the least interesting part, will be a visit to the sanatorium, when it be seen how much can be done for the treatment and cure at a mo- derate cost. The success of the Hamilton Mountain sanatorium should furnish an object ~ lesson to municipalities, Boer war and in allvof these cases the wisdom of the act has been seriously disputed, in some cases the unwisdom has been admitted. There is no record of newspaper direction of public opinion having averted war. The score is rather heavy against the fourth estate. of their best without grudging. And that is the secret of true hospitality. Sarah kneaded cakes of fine flour on the plains of Mamre for her guests (Genesis xviii). Rebekah, with «maideniy forethought, ran to prepare meat for a dusty, unknown wayfarer. Gideon, with the A. E. Herod, 286 Princess St. The House of Quality PHONE 837 - > - - *