Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1889-10-26

The original and divine idea OF
married life is that of family home
over which the husband and wife
shall preside; and so housekeeping is
the normal condition of such q life.
However, q normal condition may be
rendered a failure by mismanagement
or the perverseness Of those who have
part therein. In this world anything
good may be perverted, and the great
est blessings changed into a curse
And SO housekeeping, the proper
thing for all married people, may be
made failure in given instances.
Il cannot be u failure on the whole
unless all family life shall prove to be
q failure.
Marriage without Housekeeping is
a hybrid of modern invention, which
is about equal to life without homo.
It is true many married people board
and claim to find pleasure therein,
but that shows an abnormal taste
which has grown up through lack OF
knowledge OF anything better.
But, then, it cannot be denied that
some wives are unfit to preside over
home. They do not know how to
make good bread, or properly broil
beefsteak, or put together the ingre-
dents of pudding, and SO their cook
ing upsets and deranges the digestive
organs, breeds dyspepsia and bilious
ness, and lays the foundation for max
ing the husband q sinner beyond the
power of divine grace to prevent 1t.
There is also a wastefulness that
spends money to no profit in the line
of comfort, and lack of tidiness
which destroys all attractiveness OF
home surroundings. Such housekeep-
ing is unquestionably failure, and a
failure often because the wife was
never taught or trained in better
ways The real difficulty dates back
to former generation and, therefore,
cannot be corrected in the present.
But there is no reason why this lack Of
training should go down to curse the
next generation All girls may be
trained and should be trained by skill
full teachers in all the arts of house
KEEPING New York Star.
Bolivia, which has an area of 5O0,0
square miles and population of 2,000,-
000 is without single Protestant mis-
sionary. Two American teachers, en-
couraged by Bolivian gentlemen and
recommended by the Presbyterian board
of missions, expect soon to establish a
school in La Paz, the capital.
An EngGshman who was playing bill
lizards in a public house in Bromley made
bet that he could get one of the ivory
balls into his mouth. He did get it in,
and there it stuck, in spite of all his
efforts to dislodge it, The surgeon who
was called in extracted the lump OF ivory,
but only after taking out several Of the
"experimentalist's front teeth.
AT Spezzia, Italy, the whole Italian
fleet is to assemble for two months ex-
ercise. One of the items of the pro-
gramme is to show the facility with
which large force can be disembarked,
fully equipped for attack, and English
alarmists predict that it will show how
easily England could be invaded before
defensive force could be gathered at
any point.
A monument to the memory of EN-
peror William viii be erected by the in
habitants of the upper Fichtel mount
aims on a peak rising nearly 1000 feet
above the level of the sea. The spot
affords ON one side a view of the Saxon
lowlands, on the other that Of the Boz
hemian forest with the Keiberg close
by and the spires of Carlsbad in the dis