The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-29


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 Now this same small urehin has of late had his attention strongly drawn 10 the subject of the future life, He thinks and talks and dreams of death and heaven and springs the most startling remarks upon his friends at the most unexpected moments. In the midst of seemingly expressing occupa- ton he sighs out-"I wish l was in heaven" or wakes his bedfellow at night to inquire. Do the angels turn somersaults?"
 His questions are enough to daunt the stoutest intellect. but their seeming irreverence are due only to his attempt to 1t unknown heavenly conditions to known earthly standards, The new trousers. fitting his wee legs so snugly. suggested the thought Of celes- tlal raiment. and he burst out with What shall I wear when l go to | heaven?"
 "oh-white robes, l suppose his mother answered rather carelessly,for she was very busy,
 There followed q roar and a howl not to be expressed In syllables, and then these anxious questions: Have got to go back 70 white dresses?-like baby! Cant take my pants with me? Then won't go" Verify, the child is | father of the man" We all may sigh for heaven and dream of its glories.b but when the thought of leaving our earthly treasures presents itself we are only too well content to remain where we are. And if we do not exclaim with little Roland. that We wont go," we are apt to hope that the time may be far distant when we must desert that which has made the earthly life beau- tiful and happy, or even tolerable.
 FALLEN.
 It Is said that at a. Missouri church sociable, held recently. guests were served with "devil cake"
 The question at once arises, what is devil cake?
 Would not fallen angel cake be ap- propriately so described?
 Or Is 1t some new concoction of sweets and spices, warranted to make the strongest digestion quail; to alright the sleeper with dreams unnatural and full of contradictions;" to cause, if one persisted in eating the suggestively named concoction, all the horrors of dyspepsia?
 And in any case, ought it to be served at a church sociable? There would seem manifest impropriety in such an article being served elsewhere than at the feasts of the riotous and im- pious.
 | COOKED WATER.
 A woman physician has affirmed in print that very few people know how to cook water. The secret, she says, is in putting good, fresh water into a clean kettle, already quite warm, and bring ing the water to the boiling point quick ly. To let it steam, simmer and evap- crate until the good water is all in the atmosphere, and the lime and iron and dregs left in the kettle is what makes a good many people sick and is worse than no water at all. A critical taste, says this same authority, will detect at the first mouthful, if the nose has not already demurred and given warn ing, the faintest taste of dead water in tea, coffee, porridge and other things prepared for the stomach. If people will drink tea and coffee let them be as nearly free from poisonous condi- tions as possible; made with fresh wa ter, quickly boiled and used the instant this process is complete. That much benefit may be derived by many people from drinking hot water cannot be dis puted, and the disagreeable, insipid taste which deters many from using it } may be attributed to the fact that the water was not freshly drawn, or that it was cooked in kettle not perfectly clean, or that it was, literally, boiled to death." HILARY.