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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-02-24

WHAT becomes of all the cold war
horses after the campaign is over and
the President is elected? Do they 90
back to the pillow? And echo answers.
!" Neigh they go TO the trough.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-02-24
Lack of knowledge.

A pretty woman generally knows she
is pretty, and counts upon the effect her
beauty produces upon the other sex.
Isn't it strange that she never knows
when she is the other thing? We can
all put up with good deal of simpering
nonsense from pretty girl, but home
ly damsel must deport herself with
straight-laced decorum or she makes
herself ridiculous. Perhaps it is unfair,
but the world will have it SO, and it
stands an memorable law. :.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-02-24
parisian women,s Underclothes.

\ No Paris woman who is anybody ever
wears any other than silk underclothes !;
and the most fashionable color for that,
as well as many other articles of dress,
including the corset, is red. A cele-
DRAFTED modiste says : Tt would be
quite impossible to produce the same
effect on an English or American figure,
for the reason that so much and bun
Cling underclothing is worn. A French
woman has everything to fit her figure
exactly, thin and fine in material, and
regards fold or wrinkle Us device of
the arch enemy to injure her appear
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-02-24
Living in Style.

fashionable living brings many trials
upon it's victims; and the mistress of q
wel-kept house finds her fatigue greater
than her enjoyment. Take one item
alone. Have any Of ourreaders tried to
estimate the work to be done in simply
washing the dishes after well-served-
not a styish-dinner? I once had the
curiosity to count the dishes used for a
party OF six people as the servant girl
washed them. There were 116 different
articles to be handled over, each three
times-w washing, rinsing and wiping.
What an elaborate dinner! !" Not at
all. Count the soup-plates and spoons.
the meat-p1ates, knives and forks; sep
arate saucer and spoon for succotash,
tomatoes and sauce; meat-platters and
carvers; vegetable dishes, coffee-cups,
saucers and spoons, etc. To look on the
table, there do not seem so many articles;
but wash and wipe them yourself, and
count as you proceed, and after that you
will have more respect for the work
necessary to keep the dn,ing-room in
order. But the toll Of providing for the
house and table is but trifling compared
with that which is extracted by fashion
IN dress, amusements, and the prescribed
amount of "calls'' interchanged. Even
if the cares Of household are sometimes
severe and overtax the strength, vet
there is a chance for the full and health
full exercise of the whole body, and a
good amount Of it in the open air. But
what benefit can be extracted from the
selecting and making of an elaborate
dress of the day? Is it any wonder
that the fashionable woman is always
tired?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-02-24
Before and After. ].

This is agar before marriage. He is
making her a call He is at the front
door ringing for her. He has been think
ing all day of her There are his boots
newly BACKED, his collar spotless, his
form ditto outside, his gloves drawn on
for the first time, his hair newly parted
and oiled, his face newly shaver, his
heart palpitates for her, his nerves are
nervous for her, he fears she may be out
OF that her parents may object, or, worse
than that, some other fellow may be
there with her. The door opens. She
is there and alone. He is happy.
This is year after marriage. He is
ringing at the door. His face is un-
shaven, his collar much worn, his boots
unblacked. his hair unbrushed. He rings
again in exactly ten seconds. He gives
the bell strong, petuIant pull. He is,
thinking of her. He is grumbling that
she doesn't answer it sooner. He has
not all day been thinking of her. He has
gone farther, maybe, and Jared worse.
Now she opens it. He pushes past her
and remarks, Stakes you forever to an
swer that bell" His unbrushed boots:
sound sullenly as he ascends the stairs.
She follows meekly after. He thrashes
into the room and round the house and
sings out. sIsn't dinner ready yet %
She bids him be patient for moment.
But he won't. Because dinner ism tready
within one minute after he gets home.
Because this is the one year after mar
riage. Because the bloom is off the rye.
the down rubbed from the peach, and
various other considerations. Because
it's the way Of the world, of man, of
matrimony. O Temporal! o Mores O.
Matrimony
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-02-24
why Women Need Faith.

The strength OF women lies in their
heart. It shows itself in their strong
love end instructive perception of right
and wrong. Intellectual courage is rare
ly one OF their virtues. As rule, they
are inclined to be restless and excitable,
allowing their judgments and actions to
be swayed by quick emotion Of all kinds,
but, above all, it is in their hopefulness
and their endurance that they find their
chief power. Who is the last person to
give up hope in the case OF member of
the family who has apparently gone
altogether to the bad? What mother or
sister with deep and ardent love for such
will ever cease to cherish hope or endure
suffering on their account? The pa
tience Of women is proyerbial, and their
whole lives are boundsu up in their affec-
tions. Few people will deny that love
In one form or another makes ND the
beauty of life to woman. 1t enters into
all she does. Any work outside her i'm
mediate circle is undertaken most often
from pure desire to help some one else
to know something of the mysterious
happiness of love.-AIrs. Salisbury, in
the Nineteenth Centnyy.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-02-24
PRIMEYAL MAN.
His Habits and Appearance be-
scrfbed by Prof, How'd Daxvlxi,,a


scribed by Prof. Boyd Dawkins.
. At meeting Of the British Associa-
ton, Prot. Boyd Dawkins lectured upon
Primeval Man. !" Prof. Dawkins, ges-
eralizing from the distribution Of the
animal remains found in the early ter
hary periods, concluded that Europe
was then joined to Africa. The evidence
found in the midpliocene period Of the,
existence Of the river-drift hunter in
France. Italy, Spain. Greece, North
Africa, and also in India, brought us, in
his opinion, face to face in that period
with the primitive condition OF human
culture on which, in all probability, Ill
progress had been based. The absence
OF geographical limitations already re-
ferred to would account for the freedom
with which the hunter passed to and FRO.
Subsequently, in the cave-men he found
the successors Of the river drift hunter
men Of much higher type. He gave
their habits the following hypothetical
description They dressed themselves
in skins and wore gloves not unlike.
those worn at the present time. They
Woae necklaces and arnlets, and proba-
bly, pierced their ears for the reception
OF earnings for ornamentation. They
used red raddle, and indeed some of the
practices Of the present time might be
looked upon distinctly as being
survivals. The skins with which
they clothed themselves they sewed to-
gether with bone needles, and. from the
sketches they had left behind OIL bones
and pieces of skin and the like, it APP
peared that they were able to form a
distinct idea of the creatures which they
hunted, the representations thus left
probably being the trophies Of the chase.
They were fowlers and fishermen, and it
was evident from the figures of animals
which had been discovered that. the
hunters of these times had great facii-
ties in representing forms of animals on
bone, but their attempts at representing
the human form were rude. They had
also left behind them evidence of the
art of sculpture. They were ignorant
Of metals. They had no domestic ami
mails. Apparently they were not in the
habit of burying their dead. We were
not aware of what sort Of physique they
had, but there was reason to believe they
were most closely related to the Esqui-
maux. They were wholly different from
the river drift men. The river-drift man
was in a state Of primeval savagery; the
cave man was Of a higher type, but in
his turn was wholly inferior to the farm
er, herdsman and merchant who fol-
lowed him. We had this proof of tho
development of the human race in times
before history began, and it occurred to
him they had no reason for fixing any
limit as to where progress would end,
his opinion being that man would go on
increasing in knowledge and improving
in the arts Of civilization until in per-
haps not very remote tenure he would
be as superior to the men of 1880 as we
were superior to the early hunters and
cave men.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-02-24
The Women Of Montenegro.

The Montenegro woman takes an
equal share of labor with the men at
feld-work, and she does all the carrying.
In travel here one engages horse to
ride and a woman for the baggage.
Only those who have neither wife, moth
er, daughter MOI dependent female rela.
ton shoulder burdens as common
thing. Transport by animals, also, is a
department. Of female occupation. Com
ing from Cettinie here, one meets pack
horses, mules, donkeys, going up in
droves, with gang OF women follow
ing. Tremendous weights they carry,
slung by straps that cross the upper
chest, and as they go they knit or spin.
These dwellers by the frontier are much
better-looking than the rnmixed races of
the interior, but not less hardy, strong
and independent. They have no shame
or hesitation in begging, and universal
mendicancy on the part of women and
girls must, I imagine, have its influence
on morality. In leaving Montenegro,
the traveller carries with him a deep re-
gard and admiration for the gallantry,
the manliness and the shrewd intelli-
gence OF this strange people. He is
constrained to wish them well, and to
hope that they will acquire means to live
at peace Observation-Disclosures Standard.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-02-24

Conservative Women.
1t is curious fact that much as most
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19
Grown Him Lord of ALL"

p" | assure YOU" it is the language of
one who has the right to speak of India,
that whatever you may hear to the con-
trary, the teaching of Christianity among
one hundred millions of civilised and in
dustrlous Hindoos and Mohammedans is
ettectlng changes, moral, and social, and
political, which for extent and rapidity
OF effect are more extraordinary than
anything you or your fathers have wit
messed in modern Europe" The Church
OF Christ. if it witnesses nothing else,
witnesses a power to suit every class.
She has her message of hope for the
young She gives the exhilarating salts
faction of noble work to the strong; she
can soften the pang of regret to the old (;
she has gathered beneath her wide
spread roof every form of human sorrow.
every class of human character the ma
lions of the world have ransacked their
treasures and have given up their noblest
to the sanctuary of Christ 1t is not that
every nation casts jealous eye, and
guards as sacred trust, the sepulchre
OF Christ; far more potent as witness
to the powers of Christ, than this univer-
sal guardianship of the tomb of the Re-
deemer, is the view which history gives
of every nation sending her choicest repre-
sentatives to the Church of Christ. Do
you ask who they are? Do you ask for
representatives of the past? I bid you
move along the splendid corridors and
aisles of the Church of God. Behold
Origen, and Athanasius, and Augustine
Do you ask where are the sons of Greece
and of Rome? Chrysostom and Ambrose
are here. Do you ask for Celt and Saxon,
Latin, Teuton? st. Bernard and Tauler,
Xavier and Luther, Fenelon and Pascal,
Wycliffe and Latimer, Hooker and Usher,
Lancelot Andrewes and Jeremy TAYLOR.
Butler and John Wesley, are here. Thus
from every land come those whose high
est honor is to honor Him whose domin-
ion is from sea to sea. Those that dwell
IN earth's highest places have bowed be-
fore Him: the kings of commerce and
the kings of intellect, the kings of science
and the kings of song, the kings of So
clety and the kings of saintliness, have
offered the homage of their various gifts.
Yea all kings have worshipped before
Him, and all nations have honored Him
who is the Prince of the kings of the
w Boyd Carpenter.
We object to Xavier.-EDs.
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The Camel, on His Native
Heath

And now heaves in sight the un-
changed quintessence of Orientalism-
there Is our first camel, a camel in use
In his native setting and not in a men
agene: There is line of them, loaded
with buildlng-stones, YEARLY stumbling
along. The long Bonded neck apes hu
mlllty but the supercilious nose in the
air expresses perfect contempt for all
modern life. The contrast of this
naughty " stuck-up- ativeness" (it is neces-
sary to coin this word to express the
camel's ancient conceit) with the royal
ugllness of the brute is both awe-inspir-
ing and amusing. No human royal fami-
~ dare be uglier than the camel. He is
mass OF bones, faded tufts, humps
Jumps, splay-joints and callosities. His
tall is a ridiculous ,wisp, and failure as
an ornament or fybrush. His feet are
simply big sponges. For skin covering
ne has patches of old buffalo robes, faded
and with the hair worn off. His voice
is more disagreeable than his appearance.
With a reputation for patience, he is
snappish and vindictive. His endurance
is over-rated-that is to say he dies like
a sheep on an expedition Of any length.
IT ne is not well fed His gait moves
every muscle like the ague. And vet
this, ungainly creature carries his head
in the air, and regards the world out Of
his great brown eyes with disdain. The
sphinx is not more placid. He reminds
me, l don't know why, of a pyramid
lie has resemblance to a palm-tree. 1t
IS impossible to make an Epvptiah mic
ture without him. What a Hapsbnro
lip he has Ancient, royal The verT
poise Of his head says plainly, II have
come out Of the dim past, before history
was; the deluge did not touch me I saw
Menes come and go; I helped Shoofoo
build the great pyramid; I knew Epvpt
when it hadn't an obelisk nor a TEMPLE
! watched the slow building of the pyra-
mid at Sakkara. Did 1 not TRANSPORT
the fathers Of your race across the desertP
There are three Of us; the date-palm, the
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19
Old People.

A gentleman who was showing me a
literary paper which he had written in a
very clear, bold hand, remarked: 81
always write very distinctly that l may
have no difficulty in reading my manu-
scripts when old age comes upon me-"
He was then bordering on seventy. An
other very vigorous old gentleman.
aged seventy-seven, who was at the
head of a large publishing establishment,
was explaining to friend the enormous
amount Of work he went through from
day to day. His friend remarked that
1T must tell upon him seriously at his
age. ooh, no." he replied: IL don't
feel 1t now, but | expect | shall do in
after hteI | cannot vouch for the truth
OF the following anecdotes, but they may
serve to point moral and adorn
tale" In the old coaching days, when a
coach stopped on one occasion to change
horses, one of the passengers strolled
along green lane, and was surprised to
see an old man sitting under the hedge
crying. In answer to a question as to the
cause OF his grief, he replied that his
father had been beating him. The pas
senger, who thought the father of an old
man like that must be curiosity worth
seeing, asked him to take him to his father.
The old man led him to cottage where
a very old man was standing at the gate,
looking very angry. "Is this your son p
he asked. Eyes, replied the old man
gruftly. HE tells me you have been
beating him" said the passenger. Eyes F.;
and he deserves beating, the young ras-
cal, for he has been throwing stones at
his grandfather 1 have heard of an
other old man and his wife, both Of whom
had reached the venerable age of one
hundred. They had three daughters, the
youngest Of whom died unmarried at the
age of seventy-two. The old woman was
quite inconsolable on account Of their ir-
reparable loss. This youngest daughter
had evidently been her pet, for after their
return from the funeral she said to her
husband, amid her sobs and tears "I
always tellt thee, John, that we should
never rear that child Chambers Jour-
nal.
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True Vigor.

The vigor of church is not determined
by the amount of it's demonstration. 1t
often happens that congregations make
up for what they lack in real spiritual
power by noise and display. An ener-
getic pastor or an excitab'e member NAV
stir up people till they efervesce in all
kinds of religious service, fully believing
themselves to be powerfully wrought
upon by the Spirit of God, who are Yet
merely the subjects of human zeal. Sloth
and inactivity are ruinous to the spiritual
condition of any church, but artificial
stimulation and excitement are nearly,
if not quite, as bad. Diligence, earnest
effort, prayer to God in humbleness and
submission to his will-the right use of
all these means of grace, and patience
waiting for his blessing-these are meth
eds which have the divine promises. and
which have been proven effective In
these days the church needs to learn that
the world is not to be converted by squirt
and spasm, but by the orderly application
OF the gospel in dependence on the bless
ing of heaven.
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One of MIR. Moody's Stories.

One Of the secrets of Mr.. Moodys
power is his ability as a story-teller.
This is well illustrated by the following
from one of his addresses in San Fran
cisco When L was a young man, before
| left my native town, l was at work in
the field one day in company with a
neighbor Of mine. All at once saw him
begin to weep. l asked him what the
trouble was. He then told me strange
story-strange to me then, for | was not
at that time a Christian. He said that
his mother was Christian when he left
home to seek his fortune. When he was
about starting his mother took him by the
hand and spoke these parting words
My SOD, seek ye first the kingdom OF
God and his righteousness, and all things
else shall be added unto thee. This,
SAID he, was my mothers favorite text.
When he got into the town to which he
was going, he had to spend the Sabbath
there. He went to church, and the min
lster took this very text: Seek we first
the kingdom Of God He thought it very
strange. Well, he said he would not
seek the kingdom then: he would wait
N'"ViA hO S5OO a. DUAL U III lie, uDIll he GOJ q
farm and some money. Yet that text
troubled him. Again he went to church
and to his amusement the sermon was on
the very same text. He did not attend
church for some time. At last he was
induced to again enter the church, and
behold, he heard the preacher take that
very same text. He thought then it was
God speaking to him, that his mothers
prayers were being answered. But he
cody and deliberately made up his mind
that he would not be a Christian. I
never heard any sermon since, said he,
that has made any impression on me.
was not Christian myself then so |
didn't know how to talk to him.
The time came for me to leave home.
l went to Boston, and there l became a
When / got to be a Christian
the first thing that came into my mind
was that man. ! made up my mind to
try to bring him to Christ. When came
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19
An Americans Opinion of Home
Missions, from an European
Standpoint

The following is an extract from let
ter written at Vienna, November 7th,
1880, by a gentleman from New York
"The more [ see of the religious state
of these European countries, the deeper
is my conviction that the great work of
the worlds evangelisation is to be done
by the United States and England. Here
everything is cold and dead-there is no
room for expansion. The Lutheran
Churches, with their rigid formality, their
crucifixes, pictures and images, appear
only half reformed. All Europe needs
evangelisation of some kind. Then their
peculiar position, as nations, tends to re-
press all energy. The different nations,
hemmed in by neighbors who may at any
time become enemies, and, stepping over
an imaginary line, invaders, renders it
necessary to keep up their immense
standing armies, which are so democrat
Using and exhausting Germany, with a
population less than the United States,
has her peace establishment of near half
million. In Berlin, when | was there,
as many men were stationed as we have
in our whole army. Of course taxes are
heavy, the people complain, and emigrate
when they can. Then they have no Sab
bath, and very little spiritual life. They
are not prepared for such great work,
requiring so much energy and activity.
So it appears to me that God is raising up
our nation to be the main instrument.
We have youth and activity, and room to
expand. We are not worn out people;
have not reached our maximum of wealth,
or power, or territory. How important
does this make our Home Mission work
appear. America to be permeated with
gospel life and power that she may give
the gospel to the world.
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home l mentioned the name to my moth
er, and asked if he was living. Is he
living?' she exclaimed. Didn't write to
you about him?' Write me what?'
why, that he had gone out of his mind
and is now in the insane asylum When
l got up there he pointed his finger at
me. Says he: Young man, seek We first
the kingdom of God He. had never
forgotten the text. Although his mind
was shattered and gone, the text was
there. The next time l returned home
my mother told me he was at home
idiotic. went to the house to see him,
and there was that vacant look in his
eye. 1 said: Do you know me? He
pointed his finger at me, and said
Young man, seek we first the kingdom
of God God had driven that text into
his mind, but his reason was gone The
next time l returned home he was dead !;
and when | visited my fathers grave l
noticed a. new grave-stone had been put
up. | stopped to read it, and found it
was my friends. The autumn wind was
making a mournful noise, and seemed
to hear it whispering the text: Seek we
first the kingdom of Cod"