The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-27
A SER MON on EARS.
Preacher Talmage DiscOurses About the
AtrOphy of the Tympanun and
the Nolyphoid Growth.
New York Parents Initiating European
FashionabIes by Engaging Duennas
for Their Daughters.

Special Correspondence of the Evening Light.
NEW YORK, February IA deep hush
fell upon the Tabernacle when Preacher
Talmage stalked to the pulpit last evening.
"The Bible speaks Of dull ears and itcching
ears, and heavy ears and 'uncircumsized
ears, and open ears" said he, "and, i'm.
plying that many have this organ but
still are deaf to duy, cries aloud, He that
hath ears to hear. let him hear To show
how important the divine Christ thought the
human ear; one time he found a man who
was deaf and he stepped up to him and put
ting the right finger in the ori6ce of the man $
right ear he agitated the tympanum of the
boneets and the nerve of hearing, and then
uttered word which vibrated clear back to
the soul ephphetha, 'be opened and the in
hammation OF the auricle cooled off or the
atrophy of the ympanum weakened or the
nolyphoid growth gave way and the man that
night for the first time in years heard the wash
of the waves of Gallilee against the lime
stone shelving. Still further to show his
idea of the importance Of the ear, when Peter
the Apostle got mad, and with slash Of his
sword dropped the ear Of Malchus in the dust,
Christ, by an omnipotent touch, gave him a
new external ear to correspond with the middle
ear and the internal ear which the sword
could not clip away. Yea, he will not allow
any deafness in the mileunial June which is
to roseate the earth, for he distinctly declares
the ear of the deaf shall be unstopped' All
the vascular growth gone, all the catarrhal in
Examinations ended, all the determinations of
the delicate organs of hearing put aside for
as perfect apparatus of hearing as God knows
how to construct. All will be able to hear
with acutest appreciationthe burst of that har-
mony in which all the best musical instru-
ments of the ages shall play the accompani-
ment of a song in which all the nations of the
earth and all the empires of heaven shall Join
their voices with the deep baSSo of the sea
and the alto of the woods and the tenor of
the winds and the baritone of the thunder,
alleluia surging up to meet alleluia descend
ing"
DURNNAs FOR AMERICAN GIRLS.
Wealthy New York families are fast form
ing their habits upon French and English
models. Mothers and daughters each have
their own maid, and the town" maid never
loses sight of her young mistress. She
sleeps in an alcove, or small room, sepa-
rated only by portico; or, if her quarters are
in another part of the house, she is the last to
leave her at night, and the first to see.her in
the morning, for'she makes her clothes, she
prepares her toilet for the day, she superin-
tends her bath, dresses and addresses her, ac-
companies her on all her walking, shopping
and other little expeditions. The oversight
exercisedis constant, and so minute in the ma
ture of the case that the young girl can do
nothing, not even post letter, except under
surveillance.
In society, and especially in the ballroom,
this is removed. The maid may be in the
dressing room, the chaperone chatting with
some other matron within a few feet Of her,
but the feeling of perpetual restraint is, in a
measure, removed, and the joy in It, and the
temptation to avail herself of it, is all the
greater for its contrast with her daily life
That the restriction and scrutiny should be
reserved for the home, and the freedom ac-
corded in society, is one of those social incon-
sistences which arise from the attempt
to graft European customs on American
stock. BENEDICTUs.