The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-02-15

children, do not crowd them into one
or two rooms but use the W ole house
1t will pay for the extra cleaning by
healthier CHI ldr Il and diminished
doctors bills. If The rooms are cold,
all the better. but cold air is not
ncc>s sarlly pure all; that has to come
from the outside There Is nothing
more invigorat NJ to the child than ii
morning plunge bath and Il good rub
blng with course towel. 1t there
are not facilities for this, hen Il basin
aud some hot and cold water, ii sponge
and rough bath towel three or four
times ii week are the Oh Y essentials.
The rubbing from the towel is as
lmpol tant rs the water 10 keep the
SKIN in heal nv condi ion. y clean
and vigorously acting skin is condu-
ctive to heal h Of mind and body.
AS the new modes of manufacturing
flour have taken out Of It many OF the
tooth and bone-makIng p"cpertirs
which children reed, Mrs. Robinson
recommended the use vi the whole
grain of the " heat -four whenever i,
can be obtained. Sh- thought it SUI
ptrior TO oatm al. Beans, peas and
other vegetables are r. required by grow
ing children. and milk, Of course Is
tn, If proper aud naturat food. Pure
water 100, is of the utmost Importance
for children, and the spring or Well
should be tar removed from any po-
slble contamination hv sui face dralu-
age.
lick.
There is no such thing us chance.
W hat We commonly term CT ance or
luck Is Simply mo It Of expressing
our Ignorance Of tn cause or series Of
causes Of which any glv'n ev~, is the
inevitable sequence.
no res lit Can take pl zee wit out ii
caus", and every prOxImate cause must
operate in ODE dltnce t. The exercise of
one will. 10 saw that an, thing can
be or subs St by chance is equivalen
to SAYING that it can be aud subsist
without an adequate Cause, which is
absurd 1t is equally absurd to sup
pose 1T anything can be Or subsist
exc pit throu-h the exercise Of some
will. But every exercise of a will in
cludes or implies, consciously or I'M
consciously. the presence of IA good or
bad motive. There is nothing n the
universe less accidental than the turn
of a card, nor are any acts of our lives
more lnexorably providentia than our
gains or losses at the gaming table.
"The lot is cast into the lap" Sid
the wise man, ''but the whole dispos-
ing thereof is of the Lord
1t is melancholy lustration Of the
prevalence Of Fortune worship in the
most enlightened countries of Christ
endom that We have no words in pop
ular use to express the occurrence of
events that exclude the idea of their be-
ing fol tutous We say, "W hen did that
happen or Glow did 1t happen:'
I've chanc d to be talking together
when,' in all these cases using
the word chance or happen for occur.
Even the learned Dr.. Paley cou' d not
dlvest himself of til. idea that chance
was one of the substantive fac ors in
the operations of nature. ''ln the hn-
man body. for instance, he wrote,
che operations of caus without de-
sign may produce Il wen, Il wart, a
mole, "a pimple, but never an eye.
Amongst animated substanc 5, a clod
a pebble, liquid drop might be; but
never was a watch, telescope, an or
ganized body of any kind, answering
a valuable purpose by complcat d
mechanism, the effect of chance"
1t seems to us now almost incredi-
be that divine Of high rank in the
Chris ian Church could at any time
within the present century have seri-
Gus y put forth in print the doctrine
thai a pebble or drop of water or u
wen was less complicated, ess incom-
prehensible, bore less evidences of de-
sign or purpose, was more entirely be-
vond the reach of the finite mind to
understand or reproduce, han watch
or all eye or that the pebble, the drop,
and the Wen mig be the result OF
chance, while the eye and the wa Oh
could only be the result of design.
Prince Bismark, in the course of
some remarks which he made at Il re-
ception given him at Jena in the sum-
mer of 1892, is reported to have used
these words:
sit has been of en- said that | have
had extraordinary luck in politics.
That is true, and Can only pray that
the empire may always have chancel-
lors and ministers who Shit have luck.
Every one does not have it. My pre-
decessors DID not have it. hope my
successor will some day be received by
yon as you have rec ived me, who am
no more anything
it seems very modest i. the Prince
to ascribe his eminence in the world
to lack or fortune, and the world IN
general will be disposed to agree with
HIM that if born al different period
of German history bis might nev r have
proved he name TO CON jure W tn that
| it has been. But in what sense can
any one event of our lives be III, Re d
matter of fortune or lack or chance
than another, every event being but d
| link in the CT ain of causes reaching
up to the Cuusa Causons, and every
cause being necessarily proper Toned,
and precisely proportional, to the
even: If it was luck thai made the
Prince IA prominent instrument IN the
unifica'ion of Germany, and which
clothed him with the robes of chan
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