Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-06-03
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.
Motto: "God and Home and Native Land"
DRY GOODS CHRISTIANS.

DR.. Talmage says: "There seems to
be in the churches a great strife rag
ing; it is an Austerlitz of ribbons.
The carnage of color is seen all over
our religious assemblages. On the
| outskirts of the Sabbath audiences
you see here and there a packet of
fashion; but down the middle of the
| church are the solid columns blazing
away all through the service. Five
hundred broken and contrite hearts
Followers of the meek and lowly
Nazarine' all jingle and flash! Ten
cents for the missionary cause and
two hundred and fifty dollars for trap
pings! Church of God hung by the
neck with gold chains and diamond
lockets! Unsophisticated person
travelling on two yards of silk dragged
by the lady going up the aisle in front
of him diamonds enough to give all
India the Gospel.
The item Of dress among Christian
people on Sabbath day is an outrage
on the Christian religion. For grace
full and beautiful apparel we have ad-
miration, but this strife in Christian
circles, as to who shall excel in cost
ly millinery, and who shall dash up to
the church door in the gayest turnout,
and who shall make the most blazon-
ment in wardrobe, is one of the great
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ment. Our ladies' hats and shawls
are so fine, on rainy Sundays we are
afraid to go to church lest we get
drop on them. Our head gear is
worth more than our souls. We teeter
and swagger up the aisles to the dis
gust of good men and the grief of an
gels. Enough money is expended by
the Christians of a large city in excess
of the requisite outlay for dress to re-
lieve all the poverty, educate all ig-
norance, and balk all the crime in the
country. Much of the piety of our
churches is being smothered by this
gaudy display of basques and ruff1es.
The poor are kept out of the church
because their plain apparel looks SO
bad in the contrast. We need great
ecclesiastical reformation in this mat
ter of Sabbath requirement. Show
these religious peacocks out of the
house of God. By your own example
make subdued and modest costume
more popular than gaudy apparel.
Do not put so much dry goods on
your back that you can not climb into
glory. You never will sail into the
harbor of heaven with such riggings."
EFrances Willard recommends a
''food bar" where men can get food
as quickly as they now get drink. This
idea has been carried out in Boston by
the establishment of five cent restau
rants, where a poor man can get
meat stew or some equivalent dish,
four pieces of bread and a cup of cot
fee for nickel and be allowed to eat
it in a clean, attractive place.. One of
these restaurants has been serving
2, 100 meals a week, but showed loss
of four dollars for that length of time.
Changes have now been made that
will completely cover expenses. 1t is
estimated that the cost of the food is
about three cents for each meal and
two cents for preparation and serving
it. Although the conditions are very
different from those Of private fam
lies, yet something may be learned
from it by the housekeeper who tries
to feed family on limited means.
AS an experiment, family Of my
acquaintance found that they could
live we'll at a cost of seven cents
meal for each person. The cost of
preparation was not considered in
this figure, neither were they limited
to prison diet. There was varied
bill of fare and a balanced one.
The materials were bought in small
quantities, but this might not have
been a disadvantage because nothing
was wasted. Yet everything had to
be bought at the store and paid for at
city prices.
M. Charles Fere, a wellknown au-
thority at Paris on nervous and men
tai diseases, has taken an original
method of ascertaining the effect of
alcohol on embryonic life. He expos
ed hens eggs during the period of in
cubation to the fumes of alcohol.
Some were thus treated during TWEEN
ty-six and some during forty eight
hours. He observed that this delay
ed the growth of the chick in the