The Press., 1896-11-26

1GOf WnO came bringing new DOCK, a fragrant rose, inspiring thoughts, and the request for some delicacies for an invalid girl; and the story said this sweet guest died at sunset on that same day.
 The name was Thursday.
 This pretty allegory recurs to me as I write on this Thanksgiving day, this 17NrsdGy, for the same lovely visitor has come to you.
 She comes with the old, ever new, Book of books, more interesting than any novel, and telling of that glorious fanily gathering in the home of the low ing father.
 She comes with opportunities to share your bounties with those whose board, otherwise, would scarcely be festal, not witnstanding the harvests for which we ''gsve thanks to Almighty God"
 She may come with the red rose of love, the. white rose of death, or that faded flower of memory which has it's original fragrance as we bow over it on the anni- versary days.
 .ts My eyes are filled with tears,
 And my heart is numb with woe;
 IN seems as if t were yesterday,
 And it all was long ago."
 But, however this guest comes to you, lose not an hour in winning lasting treas ures for yourself from her blessed pres ence, for-remember-she dies at sunset! l!
 '+Dut of eternity this new day is born,
 Into eternity at night will return"
 & Christian 4 AdUocdte.
 The good old word hospitality has broader meanings than we have been wont to give it. No person can feel thorough ly at home with anyone who is not hos pitable to his ideas. No matter how de- lightful the surroundings, or how delicate thescourtesy shown us, if in any home or any city we are welcomed by those who look lightly upon the principles that are the'pith of our character and the core of our work, we shall by the laws of tele- pathy know this, and in such an atmos- phere we cannot feel happy or content. Above all things, those who would be mo- bly, cosmopolitan, and whose entertain ment of their friends is to be really high and true, must put themselves in the place of those friends spiritually, if there is to be between them any real rapport. The question is not so much: May we be entertained by you? but may our hopes, inspirations and purposes put up 9 h041So hxJx fireside and make themselves at home under your roof and in your heart of hearts?
 We recommend to every mother and woman affection localized first in her home and own beautiful town of Stafford. This guest, Local Affection, means the
 hesF civilization in state and nation. Welcoh he her. Constantly turn aside to listen and learn, for she comes with the work of a lifetime at hand. 7
 Miss Willard expresses our sense and sentiment thus wise: "What shall give calmness, and boise, and seJf-control to womanhood The lash of sarcasm, the sneers and browbeating of journalism, the denunciations from the pulpit, the tight ened strings of the head of the fam ily-all these will not soil. Nor will the ballot-the surest method of political prohibition-usher in the Golden Age for us, though in that sure-coming ballot I steadfastly believe. But christian edu- cation and financial independence will.
 "The brave old Ship of State has flung out new pennon. Don't you see it fly ing yonder from the mast? And, strange to say, it bears a message for just such as you and I. What is it? America ex- poets every woman to show that she has brains.'"
 The Worlds W. 0. T. U., now orga- nized in all civilized countries, has adopt ed department offood reform; based on the recognition that drunkenness is in large measure due to insufficient and in- judiciOus food.
 Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson wrote by request the resolution on which the movement is based. It IS as follows As it is now recognized that inebriety is continually the result of diseased condi- tions produced in a large measure by in- judicious and insufficient food, it is re- solved that a worlds food reform depart ment be established to deal with all ques- tions relating to food, and to diffuse a scientific knowledge of the nature of food
 In America, Miss Ole Bull, of Cam bridge, Mass, is president of this depart. ment of work, and Mrs. Ellen Richards of the Boston Institute of Technology, is associated with her. The New England kitchens in Boston and New York are truly economic, since the prepared foode furnish the greatest amount of nutrition obtainable from the materials used Studies in the chemistry of food are among the chief lines of work. The effort tc counteract unnatural appetites by means of natural and reasonable diet lies at the center of the practical considerations ot the temperance reform. In our local SO cieties we are introducing, by means o1 leaflets alTrIh stn6iAS aS WA have hintod at