St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-09
SUNDAY CHATTER.

ical alliance as Children's day. All the
church exercises are devoted to the interests
of the little people who are to run things In
the future. The discourses are TO interest
them and there is a miscellaneous sandwich
OF songs, Rotations. responsive readings and
talks by the parties who are best able to in,
terest them. There will be flowers, and the
bright and sweet things of June; but the
loveliest and most inspiring presence will
be the happy-hearted and bright-eyed chill
dren. Some one has said that the most hope
full sign of the times is the attention given to
the children. 1t was not so in the time OF the
grandfathers. There were no Sunday schools,
no festivals and Sunday concerts for the lit,
tie ones. Repression Of bubbling life and
the heavy hand of authority made the youth
full period and especially the Sundays, not
the cheerful and welcomed eras they are in
these better times. Young humanity should
be glad that it did not live in the old time,
when there was little fun for children.
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The Milwaukee proposition to introduce
the bath into the public schools Is exciting
considerable discussion in Wisconsin, and
the average of opinion is in the rear Of the
advance measure. Some of the papers class
it with the more recent additions to the
school range in the way of teaching cooking
and other household arts in the public
schools. There is some question just how
far the STATE shall 60 in supplying the de-
ficiencies of the home, but its aim is to equip
the coming homekeepers with such training
as shall make them most useful in society.
and if need be self-supporting. There may
be parents who never give their children
either precept or example in the way of per-
sonal cleanliness, and the daughters are not
taught to do good and wholesome cooking.
If these deficiencies can be remedied without
adding to the burdens of those who are
faithful in these duties, it is not easy to see
very weighty objections. The tendencies to-
ward the practical in public education are
wholesome and commendable.
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The attempt of the ladies of culture and
aesthetic perception to agree upon national
flower has proven a hopeless failure. They
have furnished bouquet of roseate senti-
ment Old the subject but each has her favor
lite. The fact is suggestive and illustrative.
1t would lead to social confusion, and work
disastrously generally if the ladies were all
of one mind They would all want to marry
the same man, possibly and the bewilder
ment of fascination might drive him to des-
peration or polygamy. The futility of at
tempts at agreement causes Rev. OLYMPIA
BROWN to suggest that each be allowed to
keep her favorite, and all agree upon ma
tional tree Men have often been forced to
take to the woods, but if the ladies are to be
found there. it will relieve such emergency
from disagreeable features. Miss BROWN
chooses the pine, but that is found on all
continents. The others are not heard from,
but it is not likely there can be more unity
than in the case of the flower or the male
feature.
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According to the scientists, there are diff
ferent broods of the locusts. with different
ranges. One of them is due this year. and is
assigned strip covering portions of Massa-
chusetts Long Island. New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania. Ohio and Kentucky, and a strip west
through Indiana and Central Illinois. There
is no great apprehension felt Of serious raw
ages, but so many unexpected and astonish-
ing disasters are striking Eastern regions of
late years that almost anything may be re-
garded as possible in that section. 1t is one
of the puzzles how Nature can keep the time
table on these little pests and check off just
seventeen years before they come out of their
eggs. If they have any useful mission, it has
not got into print
A high Louisville authority claims that
.'whisky was first made in Kentucky for
medicinal purposes 1t was probably taken
to keep the system prepared for snake bites.
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The case OF NATHAN CoRwITH. at Chicago.
has point worth noting. He was advanced
in years, and had accumulated great wealth
in an honorable career. He was proud of his
son, and ambitious that he should follow
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| all his business and property over to the
| young man. reserving no part for himself. nor
presuming to control him. The son rushed
! into wild speculations, aud ina few months
had wrecked the fortune entrusted to him.
| The venerable father did not suspect any
| thing wrong till his little bills came in and
| he had no money to meet them with. The
| shock, in passing from the luxury Of the
! millionaire to the penury of the beggar, was
| more than he could endure. A paralytic
| stroke followed, and he soon died. 1t is a
| mistaken idea that men always accustomed
| to active business habits can find luscious
fruits of their toll in inactive ease in their
later years. Entire cessation from the labors
of such career is liable to shorten life, and
not every son is safe to entrust with free and
| unobseryed reinS.
There has been in the Congregational de-
| nomination more or less controversy for some
years in regard to the status Of the unregen-
| crate in the next world. Mr. BEEcHER caused
sensation in his later time in the announce
ment of his disbelief in eternal punishment,
and his successor, Rev. DR.. ABBOTT, the
editor of the Christian Union, attracts atten-
| ton by substantial indorse ment of what is
known as the Andover heresy. In a recent
sermon he asserted that he could find moth
| ing in the Bible to lead him to believe that
the offer of Divine mercy is limited to a
mans lifetime" There is good deal of let
| ting down of ancient things in the theolog-
| zeal territory.
| 1t will be much pleasanter hunting for
STANLEY or other lost people in Africa when
railroads are built. Work is to begin this
year on 264 miles of road on the Congo, to be
completed in four years. People now living
may yet make the tour of the dark continent.
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All old world lands are free to encourage
the shipment of the pauper, vicious and
worthless elements to this country; but there
is a prevalent disposition to check and dis
courage the migration of the classes that are
desirable to build up and develop things on
the useful lines. France has hardly been
| noticeable contributor to the westward flow,
but recently circulars have been issued to
the projects instructing them to do all they
can to prevent skilled laborers from emigrat-
| ing This is a class specially needed in this
| country, but there is no surplus anywhere.
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| There is a growing impression that Cardi-
nal GIBBONS will be the successor of Pope
| LEO IT will interest some to know that he
| works with Bishops IRELAND and RYAN on
| the temperance lines, but insists that prohi-
| bition "confounds the drunkard with those