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Jan : of thy youth, and walk in the ways of 'eyes; bul know thou that for all these "thin 1... weary, he said: «8b the throne of David, . Spread half the slice wilh jam, cover % with | the ~ other half, form into neat ~ water, Flavor wilh vanilla. "layers 'of "warm cake. Ice the lop and "'of "a> dolar -from. - slightly. .underdone ' out the inBide and' ¢ (his'ps "fob polato Soutlo. Rell i ps pho) in n si 7 Aried crisp and, Tolled; * "long enough for the ~-qnay be rolled while hot: but if left until} A iT Regrets cf Old Age a Warning] te. ASE to.the Young ice, O young man, in thy youth, t thy heart cheer thee in the days thine heart, and in the sight of thine gs God will bring thee into judg- ment --Eccl, xi; 9... | So said Solomon--Sslomon (he "great, "the wise, the magnificent. He had drunk to the full of all the "pleasures" thal the world could give him and at the last in his old age he could find no pleasure in them, Sated, worn, "Yanily, vanity, all is vanity." Very likely he was thinking of the Solomon that then was and the Solo- . mon er might - have been--recalling his _Superhagifis, his magnificent oppor- ' tunities, Perhaps ho had been thinking oi the lime when as _p<BPy- he ascend- of "the time when God appearedo him in a Fi by night, saying: "Ask what I shall give thee," Who &or had such an offer? And yet, with all the world lo choose from, the young Solomon said: "Give thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern belween good and bad." Well would it haye been for him had he remained of that mind. Bul even Solomon was not always wise. With luxury came templation; with success came sin; WITH SIN CAME SORROW. In the end came weariness and a dreary gir of years when he could only say, | have no pleasure in them." Looking from his roof garden wall he saw the young men go trooping by and, thinking of the time when he, too, was young and full of the joy of life, he "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee in the days ol thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judg- ment." God had brought Solomon into judg- ment. In his old age he was paying the penalty that always comes soon or late. The sins of his youlh, of middle age, had found him out at the last. As jt was--with--him--i-witt -be-withai that walk in wicked ways. What wonder that he said: "Know that for all these thin, God will bring thee into judgment." Sp said Solomon. He found it to be so 'n the days of his sin-darkened old age: '| THe flower, the fruits ol love are gone. Yes, for wasled oportunities and sin- ful self-indulgence God was bringing him into judgment. All literature is full of such confessions. i On his thirty-third birthday--a time when a man should be at his best, thg very age when the ltedeemer gave h like* for us all--Lord Byron.said: Through life's dull road, so dim and dirty, I have dragged on lo {hree-and-thirty. And what have these years left to me? Nothing, except three-and thirty. He had sown to the wind." He was reaping the whirlwind. What wonder that still later in his short life he should say: oe My days are in the yellow leaf, The worm,. ibe. cankér and the grief Are mine alone. a . Ah, how many, when it was too late, have regretted vainly the sins of their youth. Hartley Coleridge was the gift- ea son of a gifted father. He was young, brilliant, highly educated, with every prospect for a great future, but ke wast. e1 his epportunities, and little by lille became A SLAVE TO STRONG DRINK. While yet young he wrote on the fly-leal cf his Bible, his dead mother's gift: When 1 received this volume small My days were barely 17, When it was hoped I should be all Which once, alas, I might have been. And now my years are 25, And cvery mother hopes her lamb, And every happy boy alive, May never be what now I am. Let us think, however, of the injunc- tion of the text as an incentive lo noble purpose and high hopes. "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth." You may. You should. Know that in doing it you have the sympathe- tic interest of all good men and good angels, yes, and of your Lord and Sa- viour, Christ, who said: "I am come that ye might have life and have it more abundantly." He would not rob yo any real true joy in life. Rather Ho would™add_ to every pure pleasure the crowning joy of #ll--the knowledge ¢f God and the peace of God which passeth all understanding. \ HOME, & 3 Meee N de dN DOMESTIC RECIPES, A Use for Stale Bread and Butler.-- "pieces, 'dip into baller, and [ry in deep boiling fat. Egg Pancakes.--One quart butter, milk, add 1 teaspoon salt and 1, large "teaspoon 'soda. " Sf in wheat flour to make a rather stiff batter. Bake on a hot griddle, and serve hot wilh plenty of corn cob molasses. Chocolate Caramels.--Boil together 2 ms. granulated sugar, ¥ I. grated chocolate, 3; pint:milk and % Ib. butler. Cook until a little of the mixture will harden 'when itis dropped into cold y Pour into a bultered pan and mark into sguares. Almond, Filling for" Gake. -- Chop enoligh blanched almonds to make-two- thirds ofa cup, ddd the same amount of! chopped raisins, mix and spread between cover with blanched "almonds cut in' na Sock Jike pins' all slantin i Kh JAA - Stuffed Potatoes.--Cut a. piece the size baked potatoes of a uniforin size; scoop bacon set in the oven polato soullle to puff and color a light brown. The bacon the top of each a very use of ft... toasted bread, put the whites of four eggs into one bowl and yolks in another. Add salt to the whites, and beat until stilf enough to turn the bowl upside down without spilling the eggs. Pile the beaten whites on the toasted bread, leaving a hole in the cenire of each piece. Into this carefully place the yolk of an egg, put a wee bit of butler on it and bake at once lo suit the laste. Serve hat. Dutch Brisket of Beef. -- Take some thin slices of bacon and cover the bot- tom of the slewpan, place a piece of brisket of beef weighing about seven pounds on these, and pula few more slices of bacon on the lop. Add two onions, one large carrot, a bunch of herbs, five cloves, half a dozen allspice, some peppercorns, a blade of mace, and two teaspoonfuls of salt. Always cover the meat with water or slock, close the pan, and let its conlents just simmer for four hours. Strain off the liquor, thicken and flavor some of it to taste for sauce, place {he meal in a roasting tin, keep it basted with a litlle of -the liquor, then boil the remainder rapidly till very much reduced, and pour it over the meat after it is placed on-a hol.dish. Garnish with small" heads: of ¢auliflowers and the vegelables which wer® stewed with the meat. : ,..- QLD NEWSPAPER USES. = / 1t 18 'not easy, fo think of anything ap- parently more ot an old news- paper, torn, crumpled, and looking only: fit for the fire; but as a matler of fact there dre several ways in which to. make When sweeping day obmes, and ite is no supply of moist lea leaves ready, an 'old newspaper. forn up ihlo 'shreds and sprinkled with water will prove an excellent - substitule for. collecting the hen darpets are liffed and. beaten it] 'plan to lay several vi underneath, +2] est and somewhat, sca * When the feet are fired throu standing or Walking there i as a warm fool-bath solved. With a spon, bathe the: and legs for a few Tint y dry' r towel, rubbing well; = a an hair. brushes are a of {he neat woman, Besides the regular wash- brushes clean by wiping off' the with tissue paper. Lacking that, news- paper is next best, REV RL 'To Make a Linseed Poultice.--Take of fine-ground linseed meal four parts, and of boiling water ten parts; Mix (he lin- seed meal with the waler gradually, stirring constantly. . The 'poultice should be h. thisks andi very he eck rinsed, with newspaper. This- answers much better than wiping them with a cloth. If much stained, you will find that if torn-up pieces of newspaper are put into the decanters with plenty of hot water, and then well shaken up, the glass will be as pure as the proverbial crystal. Glass windows always. look better when cleaned in this way than when done by the more usual method. - nnn po penises THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTCRNATIONAL LESSON, JAN. 20. Lescon IH. Man's Sin and God's Pro- misc. Golden Text: I Cor. 15. 22, THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. Das on the text of the Revised Ver- sion. . Gradual Development of Hebrew Liler- ature.--One more premise we must lay down for our guidance'in the Old Testa- ment studies upon which we have en- tered. The law of oiderly development 'to which we referred in our first Intro- duclory Note as a fundamental law of the universe, is found to be operative also in the separate stages of God's larger efernal creation there mentioned. In the onward march of the world's his- { tory there are no arbitrary cataclysms, 1ho- sudden and "tomplete breaks with 'the past, no ushering in of méw- dispensa- tions for which adequate preparation has not been made in preceding dispen- salions. Men have sometimes been dis- posed lo regard the coming of Christ, for example, as such an abrupt beginning of a new era. Jesus was indeed born at Bethlehem at a stated time, and from the year of his birth all other events in the world's history are now reckoned, for- ward and backward. But for that event the whole sacred history ol a chosen nation, and more; was a necessary pre- paration. Likewise for the creation of man an age-long preparatory crealive process was necessary." The Bible, too, God's special gift to. man, was not handed down intact from heaven... It grew on the soil of Judaism and Chris- fianity, and this soil had fo bc prepared. As written manuscripts preceded prinled books, so oral tradition preceded written narratives and history. "In the pictur- esque, concrete form of 'popular tradi tions were {transplanted the thoughis, the beliefs, the fancies, and the experi- ences of preceding generalions" -for 'many centuries before writing became common. Then gradually, when politi- cdl 'and social conditions ibec more stable and favorshier } man, * to! down. the. choicest: {feasures | their peculiar raglal and national ir tions, thus giving fo these a more fected and enduring fo Thes es in turn. furnished to ! writers. the , needed source-material for: more elaborate and: connected nar: tives; To this rule ol gradual devel merit {he literature of the Hebréw people; preserved for us in the Old Testan while in a very definite and exall sense inspired of God,will be found to form no: exceplion, Bul. as Professor Charles Foster Kent has pointed out in the first volume of His 'Studen Testament," "lested by. intrinsic merit, he stories preserved - in...the opening 'possess a unique value; for they reflect "SE ry Bin Al embody God's personal ins Israelites which elation thio! sli good Prono good 'handful of sea salt has been id bining the ge She word ings in ammonia or borax waler, keep |. bristles each time the brushes are used, |gaj books of the Old Testament are found ta {'man Ful io, : 7&n aceurate' it only by itself, and that he, in distinc! to non-existent heathen deities, 1 does exist; and this, not simply in an abstract sonse, but" aclively, expressing himselt contnually in' action and thus maniftsting himself %o the world. * Said unio the woman---The serpent be- gins by addressing the woman who had not herse. actually heard the prohibi- tion which had been given lo Adam' alone (compare Gen. 2, 16). 'This prohi- bition the serpent therefore first dis- torts, 'Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not| eal of any tree [Marg., all the trees] of the garden? and then feigns surprise at the prohibition as thus distorted. Doubts and suspicions are sown in the heart of the woman, and she is ready a little later to hear without protest the bold genial of God's command by: the: temp- or. Ni 2. The woman said--She, corrects the serpent and shows that she is [fully pare of the strictness of the prohibi- n. The garden--Apart from the account given in the preceding chapter (Gen, 2 8-17 we have no data concerning the location of Paradise as pictured by the Hebrew narralor. The cradle of human- ity was believed by the Hebrews lo be somewhere east of Palestine, probably in or near Babylonia; and there, some- whege -in the well-walered region be- tween (he greatest. two rivers which they knew, the Tigris and the Euphrates, and two others, the course of which it is im- possible at present lo determine consis- tently with actual geography, the author localed Eden, . 3. Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall yo touch it--Eve could have known of this prohibition only through Adam who, "like a good husband; had exag- gerated the command to her and made it stricter than it really was," The com- mand as given lo Adam said nothing about not touching the. fruit. Lest ye die--The common explanation of Jehovah's word "for in the day that die" (Gen, 2. 17) i§ "thal lhis expression is intended: to mean "become mortal"; perhaps in the sense of not being per- mitted after his transgression to eat of "the tree of life," There is a real diffi- cully here, however, which it is nol casy to solve. In the Talmud the explanation given is that with God.one day is as a thousand years, and that since Adam actually did die when he was only 'nine hundred and thirty years old the threat was carried out' consistently with ils in- tended 'meaning. » 4. Ye.shall not surely die--The temp- ter's flat denial of God's word. .5. Your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God {Marg., Gods], knswing good and evil--The 'tempter holds out the hope of a, great boon 10: be secured by disobedience. "The immediale re- ward, adroitly though fallaciously ' put forward, thus sels out of sight' the re- moter. penalty." We 'note also the sug- gestion of jealousy or envy on the part of God contined in the templer's words. A similar suggestion is found in the story of the Tower of Babel. There seems 10 'have-been' among 'all ancient peoples a motion that there was a real danger of greal men and heroes becom- ing like gods. Hence jealousy and envy of 'man is 'a quality yery often - to the gods. (compare especially On oF The veh 'universe or the infinitide: d 'hence in thir hed 'desired--Or;' desirable 1d look upon. Perhaps the profoundest touch 2 the entire narrative is given in verse. "And the eyes of 'them "beth . wi opened, and they knew thai they wi "Verses 7-12.should be. treated as part of the' is 13.1 'What. thou ealest thereof hp). shall. surely} really) then he dignified, and. hy 8 roy J Somment which ialis io, Bis | y 3 green turban, wl 5 ol dark, forceful clean-shaven: face. flashing complimentary name of "The Mahatma." © sae TWO 'MAD NATIONS. He has the marvellous faculty of being able to simulate death at will, He can check. instantly the beating of his heart, 80 dead, and he can also revivily his body at will. He often goes days without eaf- ing any food, and as a rule he takes only one simple meal & day. hen he was last in England three years ago he formed a very poor pinion of the English. "They are as mad as|© March hares," he said, "not so mad as the Americans, perhaps, but sill: very mad." A London Express representative who visited the mahatma at 70 Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, found that he had not materially allered this view. "In this country," he said, "I find few indeed who are worthy, but there are many, very many who are ungrateful, ignorant and 'impossible to teach. ""Some time ago an Englishwoman camé to- Bombay wilh letters of intro- duclion to me, and told me, 'I have come to learn from your philosophy.' "I made her welcome, saw to her com- fort everywhere in India, and instructed her, but still' she wes not confented. Then she commitled a great fault in my philosophy, an I told her to return to England. DIE RATHER THAN LIE. © "Fhree - years cago I was in London, and I have returned to see if some may be yet found who sought out the truth. For them I will establish. if they come to me and are not found lacking, 'The Par, Jdiament of Truth! ~~ = WE "I would teach your societies, which are. full' of. lies, the truth. .1 want (he zeal .of men and peace among the whole world. i : "What are your 'political leaders, teachers and governors who chatter {o the - whole earth doing? India~my country--is robbed by ill-goverance and officialdom. My people are half-starv- ing, and they can no longer live on the land, 'which 'has been stripped' stark naked. by the greed and ignorant. ones, "Where. are your social 'reformers? Do, they not feel ashamed when they see India and your colonies? A "The old men of your learned circles eal and waste time. i does not satisfy me. Are .they content lo see this land- 'grabbing? How. can I seek for their welfare when all are accused in the Su- 'preme Court of Divinity? ss "Already. I' have seen sixly-two years, and I have known and realized much. 11 is better 1o die than {o tell what is un- true, whoever compels, = I must Speak {rank If vy ¥ 5! 80° in India yet. wish' fo 'learn T will His eyes have won for him the Tiger that . physicians 'believe<him. to be! Ely the, unkown - thi hie ! , and: the, unknown : things: ! _ have brought from the Source of All Salis Wil ke bagk mo I little place. redyeing ] or an avin a | ard colors--brow! blue, | There is gray, 8. known by the mi which Bo pie and a gray, and harmon with the London smoke Jowns, 3 Tua new Solors Jn 'hal plumage are finding great favor in feminine are the Bordeaux, which 'shade of garnet, and an exqu blue, which is called "ciel." "en hat is sometimes, built of one of {| colors, but with the woman whose {ast are conventional a black hat with touch of either meels with greater fa r. Fog Iridescent breasts, wings and bird heads - are very Lals. Indeed, 1 y son when the sombre in millinery Flowers, especially 1 are combined conslanily with feathers, One very stunning black velvet hal was crowned with black ostrich plumes and had red velvet roses under the brim rest upon the wearer's: hair. " Coque' plumes increase in popularily és the season advances. They are prelly, chic, durable and 'not overly expensive, They come in every possible color -- What is known as the bronze or nafups a! lint is new this year and very. much iked, "Quills: still; hold 'their own for the simple hals, and no wonder! Thers is a well-deserved popularity. The turkey contributes many a quill to (he millin- er's store, and his confribulions are dyed almost any -color. " > Breasts have 'an important place in present-day millicery. © Entire toques are made of them, or the foque has a velvet crown in a harmonizing color and the breasts are built all round this. Pheasant breasts are - charming n used this wi ud oat woman doe not know 'the ~ql possessing a littfe feather OTe? a EB, Guerla is a new aigrette feathér | is among he 'season's showings. ) soft needle-like veins ending in a feather, tip, is frequently seen in and can be spangled with crysial.de 'All:black hats' draped in black: ostiie plumes are 'much: liked, All-white hall will never lose their popularily with sonic women for special occasions, snd the 'combination of a plack hat wi white 'wings, flaring high at one si 'will meet witly'the: Snproval of her likes that touch of bl Nothing seems 100 hat of the 'Parisicnné, She wi ) bine a bunch of leathers--one bro «ne purple and one