The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-10-07
The Influence OF Home.

The Influence OK Home.
When the gates of youth close be-
hind a man, and he is about to go out
alone into the battle of life, he should
be rich in all the wisdom that father
and mother have to give, for if they
have been true to him, his whole life
thus far has been spent in gathering
from the rich fields that their great love
has opened. He has stood upon the
mountain tops of their lifelong expert
ence, while they have been pointing out
the winding way in all their added years
of wisdom. His pilgrim scrip is filled
with kindly words of counsel and adj
vice, and hopes and prayers shed their
fragrance upon him, and when the part
ing hand is given he feels in his par
ents', anxious hearts the words that may
be unspoken. my son, if You fall,
even among the thieves of temptation,
and in the ways of sin, and if in the
darkness you cannot find your way,
arise and come back to your fathers
house," This young man cannot waste
in sinful ways all the best years of man.
hood, cannot do anything that is not no.
BILE, true and manly, for wherever he
may be he can see the home-lights and
the loved faces pressing against the
windows looking ont toward him.
The daughter needs yet more Of the
home influence, for in her heart must
an ideal home he reared to be wrought
out in all the years of her life-and she
is always daughter, though her chill
dren come with her to visit the old
home that grows more beautiful in
memory's golden light as the years go
on. How often must the young girl go
to strangers, or go alone, when word.
an hour, a step, may change the destiny
of a life forever! How the cries of the
lost come up to us because home was
not home to their hearts hungry yearn-
ing and the young souls deepest needs!
Homeless might be written on the rec
ord of every sinner, rs the cause of the
shame that curses it. More than all,
should children have in their tenderest
years the sweet influence that can only
be found within the sacred walls of
Monochrome in its deep and broadcast
meaning. Without it the buds will
never come to fruitage, even if there
should be flowers, and Knight have
been" must I've the judgement.
This home power is mighty in its in
fluence for the worlds good, yet faith
crs and mothers stand careless and in
different as day after day waits before
them full of grand and glorious oppor-
tunities that reach down to generations
and ages yet unborn; toying with the
gilded trappings of an outward life.
they do not see the gates closing up to
be sealed forever.
How TO BEG1N.-Girls, you can learn
how to be thoroughly neat and clean by
attending properly to your own rooms,
if your sphere of usefulness is confined
to a small space. Keep everything in
perfect order, in the first place; neatness
is one great principle of beauty. Cher
ish your instincts of taste and fitness in
every little thing that you have about
you. Let it grow impossible to you to
put down SO much rs pin-box where it
will disturb the orderly and pleasant
grouping upon your dressing-table, or
to stick your pins in your cushion even,
Mt all sorts of tipsy and uncomfortable
inclinations. Take upon yourself grad
ually-for the sake of getting them in
hand in like manner, if for no other
need-all the cares that belong to your
own small territory at home. Get to-
gether things for use in these cases.
Have your little wash-cloths and your
sponges for bits of cleaning; your furni-
ture brush and your feather duster and
your light little broom and your whisk
and pan; your bottle of sweet oil and
spirits of turpentine, and q piece OF
flannel to preserve the polish or restore
the gloss, where dark wood grows dim
or gets spotted. Find out, by fol.
lowing your surely growing sense Of
thoroughness and niceness, the best and
readiest ways of keeping all fresh about
you. If You are of an inventive turn
Of mind, processes will readily come to
you. When you have made yourself
wholly mistress of what you can learn
and do in your own apartment, SO that
it is easier and more natural for you to
do it than to let it alone, taking q real
interest in all your small improvements,
then you have learned enough to keep
whole house in order.
A FORGERY TEsr.-When light is
passed through liquid and then
through a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES certain
bands of colOrs are absorbed, and by
the comparison of solutions Of known
substances it is found that the particu-
lar position on the spectrum where the
absorption takes place, is constant for
the same substance. In this way 1t ia
possible to say that human blood is con.
famed in LIQUID; also to poirt out col