The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08


be published, on its completion, in Japan
ese, English, and French. The code on
mixed marriages. has been promulgated.
4 woman of foreign extraction marrying
Japanese subject becomes a naturalized
subject of Japan, but japanese woman
marrying foreigner ceases to be sub
1ect unless having obtained permission of
the government.
The hideois custom among Japanese
women OF blackening their teeth and
shaving their eyebrows on their being
married or reaching a marriageble age,
is likely to die out or become abolished,
for the Empress has set the example of
innovatlng Upon this old, fashion, dictated
by Asiatic Jealousy, and hencefoith her
teeth and eyebrows will be allowed to re-
main as nature formed them. 1t is to be
hoped that the Japanese women will in
this instance admit that the court is the
proper fount from which fashion ought to
spring.
Religious and Educational.
The Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Episcopal Church, Baltimore, is pro-
nounced the most elegant Methodist
Church edifice in the United States. 1t is
lighted by electricity. The organ cost
$4,000, and is worked by water: The cost
Of the lot and building was 100000.
Somebody asks why the front seats of
church are not regarded as desirable.
Any one of a dozen answers will do as
we'll as another; and the inquiring friend
might have found one for himself. Per
haps the reason is, that most persons 60
to church to see, rather than. to be. seem
or to hear, for the matter Of that.-lntertOr.
"A law recently enacted by the New
York Legislature requires ministers to OBJ
serve certain forms in solemnizing the
marriage ceremony. In case either of the
twain is unknown to the officiating cler-
gyman, he must examine them with re-
gard to their right to contract marriage.
He is authorized to administer ain oath,
under such circumstances, and those per
sons making false statements will be
deemed guilty of perjury.
The Rev. Mr.. Livermore, who sued
his church at Charlton, Iowa, some time
since, for unpaid salary, and who obtained
judgment, but almost extinguished the
church, recently called Council of In.
quiry. The Ledger says the Council met,
and after a rigid examination and cross.
examination of witnesses, decided, 1. That
the church did wrong in not paying its
pastor his salary. 2. That the pastor did
wrong in suing the said church. 8. That
the church should, through the Grand
Council, apologize to Mr.. Livermore. 4
That MIR. Livermore should apologize to
the church. All of which was done, and
Mr.. Livermore was reinstated as pastor
There is nothing truer than this, tina,
he who Is able to govern himself Is able
to govern school. 1t is not a question
of controlling children, but of steadying
nerves. Fidgeting, impatient tapping with
the pencil, furious jangling of the bell, ir
ritable calls to Tom to do this, to Dick to
do that, and to Harry not to do the other
thing, nervous mOtioning, violent gestures
snappishness, fault finding, Feasibility
petulance-these are the teachers mos,
disorderly pupils. Warming up with the
subject in hand prodttces good scholar
ship; keeping cool maintains good order
Purposeless commands are equally injur
ious. When teacher says, 1--WE must
have less noise!" she had better see to il
that there IS less noise before proceeding
with the exercise, if she would have hel
word regarded by the pupils. We once
knew an ox-driver who had the habit Of
saying "Haw! Buck" unmeaningly. But
Buck knew his masters weakness, and
kept on the even tenor of his way without
having or geeing. Now children arc
sharper than oxen; hence it behooves the
teacher to say only what she means and
then to see that her mandates are obeyed
-Chicn0O Teacher.