The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-02

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effect OF her beauty and toilets aud poses
upon the blase men of her fast set. Play
ing with fire. What wonder she was
burned? Thrown into habitual tempta-
ton, who can marvel that she yielded?
"He who sups with the devil, saith the
| old saw, needs long spoon"
What life and In a world full Of du-
| ties and camorous with appeals to the
higher and better self of man and woman.
Happy the men whose time is occupied in
honest business and legitimate industry.
Happy the women whose hearts and
hands are full of hearth and home.
In the select salons of London and Paris
it is "the thing" to make prominent in
every gathering of the dons and donnas of
society some celebrity of the day in music,
art, letters. science. the drama-no matter
what. The celebrity is there, quite indie
pendently OF his or her social position out
side OF the walk of life which he or she
adorns. The result is that the gayest cir
cles are sobered and lifted.
Here is a fad which our Mrs. Grundy
might domestic to the mighty improve
ment of her high teas and receptions and
dinners. The lion and lioness would
give more than they get. They would re-
peat the miracle of the creation and bring
something out of (or into) nothing, and
give inanity animation or food for thought.
Try it, dear Mrs. Grundy. lis worth
the while even as a new sensation IN cir
cles jaded and biase.
IT'S said that in Sweden girl must be
able to make and bake good bread before
she is allowed to have a beau. It's fur
-
accomplished cooks very early IT life.
Here is another foreign custom that would
repay transplanting. We teach our Amer
lean girls all the ologies except the five
most important, viz: bake-ology, boil
ogy, cOok-olOgy, stitch-olOgy and mend
OOgy. Consequently our women are
lovely bric-a-brac, but poor housekeepers.
They marry and straightway 90 into life
long bondage to Bridget, the tyrant of the
kitchen, and TO Mary, the chambermaiG,
who plays the role of despot above stairs.
The Swedish plan is best No Deaus. girls,
until you have learned to cook and to sew.
The adultery OF the eye precedes but
ushers IN, the adultery OF the body.
"My dear Lady Emily" says Mss Al
script in the excellent comedy of The
Heiress' don't YOU dote on folly?" To
which her ladyship responds: ITO &C.
stacy! | only despair of seeing it well
kept up" Had the Lady Emily lived
nowadays, she need not have had any dis
NAL fOrebodings as to the early demise of
folly.
That is an unhappy division which has
been made betwixt faith and works. In
nv intellect l may separate them. Just
rs in a candle may know there is both
light and heat, but vet put out the candle
and they are both gone. One remains
not without the other. So it is betwixt
faith and works-nay. in a right concep-
ton, fdes est opus. If believe a thing be-
cause 1 am commanded, that Is opus
Seiden.
1t is proper that aims should come out
of a little purse as well as out of a great
sack. But surely where there is plenty,
charity is a duty, not courtesy. It's
tribute imposed by heaven upon us, and
he is not good subject who refuses to pay
it.-Feittam.
Lord make me to bestow pains in get
ting those things for the obtaining which
l am wont to pray unto Thee.-ST
Thomas More.
Do not retail ISLANDERS and whisperings.
Do not make quarrel an inspector Of warts,
a supervisor OF carbuncles, the commits
sioner of street cutters and the holder of
stakes for a dog-fght- Taimdge.
Infdelity is noisy. but it is shallow.
Thomas Paine said: I'm five wears there
will not be a bible in America" We smile
today when we read his words.-Richdrd
5 .SiOrrS.
They that make the glory of God their
end, the word of God their rule, the spirit
of God the guide of their affections, and
the providence OF God the guide OF their
affairs, may be confident that the Lord
goes before them ar truly as He went be-
fare Israel in the wilderness, though not
so sensibly.-hdtthew Henry.
Faith is the pencil of the soul that
pictures heavenly things.-Bisiop Taylor
Everything that needs to be done is
great-B g. Mitchell
Christ leads us through no darker scenes
than he went through belore.-Richqrd
Barter.
If the way to heaven is narrow, it is not
long; and If the gate be strait, it opens
into endless life.-Bishop Bereridge
Half the misery in the world comes from
the trying to look instead OF the trying to
be what one is not.-GeOrge Macdonald.
Irivance to take place of character
George d. Heron.
Salvation is not in sin, but from SIM
Carlos Martin.
Will man never learn that the road to
hell Is through the valley OF Deceit
Beecher.
There is good sense and sound mortality
in the claim that nation which rests
upon the theory that everything for the
people shall be OF the people and by the
people has not done its full duty until it
has safely housed every person who may
be called upon to bear arms in its de-
Tense. This claim would include woman
hood, for some woman perils her life
whenever a soldier is born.
In Ireland recently coronerrendered a
verdict in the case of a man who, con-
ceiving that a little powder thrown on
some green wood would facilitate its burn
ing, directed a small stream from key
upon the suffering pile, but not possess
ing hand sufficiently quick TO cut this
oil in time to prevent the flame from run
ming up into the keg. was blown into
million pieces. The verdict was: ST
can't be called suicide, because lie didn't
mean to kill himself. IL wasn't visita