The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17


! phia in the twenty years the population OF
| the congested wards actually decreased 81
| per cent, while that of the other wards
increased 1S6 $40 per cent. In Boston
/ some of the ward boundaries were changed
| between 1870 and 1880, hence the COM
parison covers only the last decade. In
| that time the population OF the cOngested
wards increased | per cent, while the re-
manning wards increased 81 9-l0 per cent.
If the suburban towns are included the
evidence is even more conclusive that the
tenement house class increases at a rate
far less than that of the people able to
live in greater comfort and hire or own
more spacious homes. But for the unre-
stricted immigration it is not improbable
that the cOngested wards of all the cities
would show a decided decrease of popula-
ton during the last twenty years,-with
the possibility of ultimate extinction.
The results now manifest are due largely
to the efforts of the children's aid So
cieties, the industrial and mission schools
and the churches.
The man who went to the theater last
night and paid S1.50 for a seat, will go to
church this morning and economic by
putting tive-cent piece on the plate.
IIOm Tic NUMEROUS lilllC5 tllhb nuQ lnelE
way into the contribution boxes, one
would conclude that the congregations
were composed largely of widows.
America is not the only land where self
supporting women abound. Germany
and England each boast of 100000 such.
France, Austria and Italy have half as
many apiece. The day is gone when wo-
man was content to pose as live bric-a-
brac, and live on the sweat of somebody
else's brow. Occupation for mind and
hands is a law of health and happiness.
Idle women are priestesses OF Satan. Good
old DR.. Watts lines are truth:
Satan will find some mischief still
For idle hands 10 do.
As an offset to the foregoing paragraph
It's said that one woman In every sixty in
London is a gin drinker, one in every
twenty pauper and one in every thirteen
illiterate. Should the custom of employ
ing girls as bar maids become quite as
common in this country as it is in Eng
land, a similar melancholy result may be
reached here-which may God forefend.
There is, as our readers know too well,
a widespread superstition regarding Fri
day as an "unlucky" day. History shows
that it is just the contrary. Some of the
greatest blessings have fallen upon the
world on Friday. Listen:
The "Mayflower" landed on Friday.
The bastile was burned on a Friday.
Washington was born on a Friday.
Shakespeare was born on a Friday.
Columbus sailed from Palos on a Fri
day.
America was discovered on a Friday.
The declaration of independence was
signed on a Friday.
And Old Hickory fought and won the
battle o. New Orleans on Friday.
Besides the absolute subsection of all
evil propensities, the law of temperance
requires that those natural desires which
are in themselves innocent and lawful
should both as TO the manner and the
method of their indulgence, be regulated
by a regard for the highest good of the
SOUL. T. Thompson.
We worship God, we praise Him and
pray to Him, not because we think He is
proud of our worship or fond OF our praise
or prayers, as mankind might be, but be-
the nature of things and becoming the re-
lation We stand to our Supreme Lord and
Governor.-BiSbOD Berkley.
There is no religious exercise rightly
performed which does not improve some
salutary virtue, and no virtue which does
not receive nouTlshment from some rellg-
ious exercise.-Cdrdinql Mdnninq
Never forget that the end of a sermon is
the salvation of the people.-McC heyne
| don't know what may be the prevail
ing vice of the race but vanity is the pre-
vailing weakness.-Bmdette
Before God can deliver us from our
selves we must undeceive ourselves
Ibid.
In debating society the question be-
fore the house was: rs There a God?"
After it lad been debated pro and con a
wise man rose and said: "Some of the
disputants have eontended that there is
God. Others of them have denied it.
But, as for me, Mr. President, 1 prefer to
take the middle ground :" This sapient
straddler was clearly cut out Tor poll
tcian.
Rose Terry says of the xpletive "well :"
Blessed monosyllable that means so much
or so little: that has such shades of phrase
and intention; that is yes" or mo" or
perhaps" just as you give accent to il !;
that is at once preface and peroration,
evasion and definition. What would
speech be without "wellT" Even as salt
without SAVIOR or pepper with no pun
gency.
IT'S said that the leading women artists
of London agree that women who paint
should not be bothered with husbands.
In almost all the churches there are
some self-importance folks who threaten,
whenever they are disgruntled, "to leave
the church" but who, unfortunately,
never do.
Have no equal as a prompt and positive
cure for sick headache, biliousness, consti-
pion, lBpain in the side and ali liver
troubles. Carriers Little Liver Pills. Try
them.