The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-24

ture. ror tnlS week Is not tnlS Quatrdln
Of rare excellence? And who can tell
rs the authorship?
Whatsoever thou lowest
That become thou must.
God, IL God thou lowest;
Dust, II thou lowest dust.
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In much the same vein are these lines
Of Mrs. Browning:
Beloved, let us love so well.
Our work shall still be better Tor our love,
And each commended for the sake of each
By all true lovers and true workers born.
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Nothing said or sung of Louis Steven
son that could have been more to souls
strenuous liking than would be LIE Cal
lienne's saying that he was
Loved Of his land and making all his boast
The birthright of the blood from whence he
Heir 10 the lights that guard the Scottish
And caring only for filial fame;
Proud of poet. he was Scotsman most,
And bore a Scottish name:
Not while boy still whistles on the earth,
Not while single human heart beats true.
Not while Love lasts, and Honor and the
Hath earth grave.
Well-beloved for YOU!
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FOR PLAIN WOMEN ONLY."-In
the book For Plain Women Only, Aunt
IsdN1nd makes some dQInlrdDlc conf
ments on feminine headgear. Above all
things" she declares, 1.-The ideal hat is
simple in construction and in shape. Let
the material be as costly as you please
no properly understood hat or bonnet
can afford to be anything but simple
and single minded in the impression it
produces. over abundance Is the abom-
nation of desolation. and confusion of
idea has been the death warrant of many
a blameless bonnet For consider, the
object of its existence is to surmount
to crown and frame human counte-
nance. And If that face be beautiful al
ready. what possible collection of beads,
roses and plumage is likely to draw
closer attention to the lovely and deli
cate lines beneath? And If the face be
irregular in shape, faded or muddy in
color. unfortunate in length or size or
breadth, what concatenation of the ami
NAL. mineral and vegetable kingdoms
Is calculated to lead away the critical
eye to some happier point in the wearer's
anatomy? No, Theodore. A woman's
headgear must be simple In outline and
simple in effect. It must appear the
result of a decorative impulse. not the
madness of a natural history museum.
And it must--it must be personal. The
properly trained woman said my aunt
solemnly, would no more accept bon
net which she had not devised. suggested
or selected than she would accept hus-
band because that was the style of man
people were marrying this spring"
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THE DEMORALIZING PRESS.-H.
Nj. Stanley in The Independent. 1t ap-
pears to me that the passions of Amer
lea are the great obstacle to system
of arbitration. The people are fed on
sensations by the press. which is ut
terly INSCRIPTIONS as to what it pub
fishes. Its headlines brstle with muir
ders and violence of all kinds. Horrors
succeed horrors every day, which de-
range the nerves of readers For every
sermon the people hear they have a
thousand brutalities offered to them.
These kindle the iuaginations and are
perilous to all morality. They wholly
undo all that the preacher and the pious
parent have tried % teach. 1t Is like
alcoholism. which begins with sip of
brandy and ends with a quart and de-
lirium trensens.
Being satiated with murders of indi-
Niduals. the morbid appetite begins
tn banker for something more horrible.
viz, war, bloody. remorseless war-the
death of thousands. destruction of towns.
the devastation of lald. How can we
devise a scheme of arbitration which
will satisfy Il people who are fed with
details of lust, rapine and violence.
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PATMOS; Or. THE UNWILLING
by Rev. Charles Beecher, author Of
Spiritual Manifestations. Redeemer and
Redeemed, Eden TaDleau, etc. Lee d.
Shepard. Boston.
Here is a religious book that the
worlds people" will delight to read 1t
is one of the ablest and most delight
fully written eXpositions of the Apo
calypso that has ever been given to the
public. Mr.. BeeCher would have been
Il famous preacher and writer even with
l,c nIynntitinIIS holm Of lannon's
family; and this seems to us to be the
very best of his works. 1t is Vitalized
throughout with a fine Christian spirit
and as scholarly in style as 1T Is just in
tone. The early portion of the book
sets forth the environment of the Apos-
tie, the nature of vision, and the literal
ness of the Apostolic descriptions. The
author then proceeds to give a specific
Interpretation of the symbols in the light
OF history. The speculative portions
cannot fail to command attention. the
descriptions being beautiful in the ex-
IRENE The simple story of the last
Apostles. banished to Patmos, lisa touch
ing one What wonder that he
dreamed and wrote as no one had ever
dreamed and written before. II am AL
pha and Omega, and the first and the
last"
Never was such companionship as
that which he enjoyed with the spirit of
his risen Lord that walked with him up
on the Aegean shore. Continually the
voice came to him. Fear not; 1 am
he that liveth and was dead. And, be-
hold. / am alive forevermore. Write the
things thou hast seen, even the things
which are, and the things which shall be
hereafter
What thou seest write in book and
send it unto the seven churches which
are in Asia
1t is an eloquent and reverent work,
and will command not only the atten-
ton of Biblical scholars. but 1t will be
welcome wherever men and women love
thoroughly sound and saving Christian
literature.
There is certain floridity of style
and fervor of utterance that at first
seem excessive; but one at once comes
to enjoy these as genuine Beecher be-
longings.
BY OAK AND THORN. A record of
English days. BY Alice Brown,
author of Fools of Nature. Meadow
Boston.
This volume is n record of recent
travel in choice bits of Britain. and is
dedicated ITO my good comrades who
shared the footpath Way"-One of whom,
If we remember right, was Miss ImoEene
Quincy.
Miss Brown has here set down some
of the most fortunate observations and
some of the best thoughts about Eng
lish homes and English lives that have
come to us since English Traits. True,
they do not carry, nor claim, the philos-
ophy of EmerSon's essays, but they are
as shrewd and sure in their way, and
the manner of them is very charming.
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