The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-12-06


IL created criticism and objections Judas,
rTns had a gift for management, had also
TIE unfortunate habit taat gIft 50 oftsn
ynpaxts Of finding fault vita untru!tf0i
expenditure. Judas played the deIna-
gogge IN MS pea for sconoFuy on oen@G
OF the poor. while tire rss. fri@nd OF the
poor permitted the waste Much 1naS -
ca1sed waste in tbs way. for example, OF
ART expenditure or pubic PARKS or ga
lefes Is no waste AZ all he o1itaibs
OF a beautiful churca, when people
through love really give the money 10
co Il. kae adornment OF home, the ereS-
zion OF harmonious pubic buildings. the
foundation and maintenance or me pup
ate Gfbrarses--these things are not uniruit-
fui IN tneir ultimate uses, unless one
measures III. b. the bread and butter
standard A man. BY a little sacIfisees
buys a b1non OF roses 70 take nome 20
MS wife. One sends flowers 10 SICK
friend Is it unProfitAoief Sucn Things
Keep I'd the romancs Of ne S~t1oHA
oae grudges gifts for the dead. way
% often are hey denied the living .aA
NOT thr little c0urtesies and onlcsS OF
friendship a waste. Even Christmas,
with It's exchange OF gifts. IS said 10 oe
averd0ns and therefore deerled oy ths
eyuhc surely it r. poor world ~e are
living Ia when people are too poor II d
simple way 10 keep Christmas.
IL a. 10 one special phase OF this anoint-
ing OF Jeztss that our attention Il directed
The doing OF kinduesses. the manifesto
ton OF love 10 orr friends before they die
Jesus said Of Mary's act: "Sne is come
aforehand to Anoint my body 70 tsae bury
ing" II was this that touched MS hesFl
re most. lie c0utrasred the two Judas.
VINO was beading on 10 his death. object
Ing, ard Mary Who would honor the dead.
performing IL was trait of human IA
tufe In that day as this TO put on the
H. asNtsss 80
amounting ihiaf;eF death. Cosby SspEientes
aud gorgeous funeral trappsngs were per
sraps as fashionable in that age as in the
present. Much money was spent in en-
lsainiiug and enr8chiug the lfesess body
After tine death az Jesus. Nicoaemus, the
secret disciple. the night caller, came ana
Drought a mixture OF myrrn and aloes.
about an hundred pound w@ignt. How
significant the mention Of the weight
Alas. Il often takes IN modern life many
hundred pounds % funeral specs 10 Offset
past nogleeis Timidtty vanished at the
foot OF the cross. bat IN one sense the
amounting was too late. Mary. the type OF
the ss4f-sacrfdcinE woman. wife or mother.
had the Honor Of doing X aforehand.
chryeosIam said that this act had out
Nved tho deeds OF mighty conquerors,
hut fourteen centuries after Chry sos torn the
economic Judas Is despised and the waste
fal Mary Is canoalzed. IL ofSen happens
in the course OF strange world thai
roes and saints are not appreciated al
after death IL was 50 with Sayonarola,
Luther, Hasa, Frederick Robertson and
hosts OF Others Not many years ago the
first statue ever erected in England 10
woman save TO Queen Anne and Queen
Victoria was raised IN the town OF Wal
sal IN che Back country TO SISTER Dora
--Dorofhy Patt-s0n. who In 1854 went 10
Waissn during a fearful outbreak OF
smallpox and nursed the ssok and dying
ana with her own hands laid out and
buried me dad. she wac not well re-
cssivsd. however, and so strong was the
prejudice against mo sisters garh that
aha was actually stoned IN the streets an
in ore attack was struck 81 the head
and Knocked 20 the earth. When she final
IL fen victim TO the disease and died,
the rough r1ea m0urned for her bitterly.
Eighteen llboring men carried her 20 the
grave aud afterwards rhe statue was
erected hy the offerings OF the masses.
one OF the men sad: We want her cut
In marble. with her cap an COON and
blessed face It's not that wei forget
her--no danger o that; but we want her
10 be there. 40 that when strangers come
and see her standing up there, they'll say.
WHO'S tnatT An weA say, Who's
fhatg That's Our Sister Dora" Such a
statue Yves a ntt-ng memorial % a brave
ife. No one dcprecates nhe act. hut Il was
postmortem amounting. People as rule
are willing 90 lay out money for costly
sslrta1s and headstones. The motive -
frequently "a good one. but nos infrequent-
~ such eNpend lures are thought to atone
Tor a lack Of love for the living. Memo
rials for the dead may express beautiful
sentiment. hut there Il often woetul
want OF taste tn the choice Of the monu-
rnaut Better than a huge piece of marble
m the graveyard IS the truly artistic win
dew ia the sanctuary or even better stu
The free cot Tn shc hospital. Il is not the
memorial that IS objectionable. but the
memorial that IL not a worthy expression
% art and che post ponement ~ the act Of
dove til love can speak mo- longer. Better
Is The amounting suCh as Msrys afore-
band. Let ms not SAY. Il praised the dead
Watch are already dead more taan the liv-
INK whseh arc yet alive" u r. kindness
re IRE living tast - most needed. Life
teens with opport antties for such minis
sraftons In Th@ homo let there BE- ante
snortsfu aneinting. Many homes are dreaFy
abosies from lack % apprecsa tou. Too
much criticism and 200 litfle credit given.
Iaven degenerate into mere machines and
from desrsh ~ love people only exist not
I've. THE fam}y circle should have tha
golden ctncEure 81 love 70 bold 81 together.
Rlossed the household that bresthes the
az surchafgca with good VIII and good
nature. Rec0Gnixe tha good offices and
unpelnsh deeds and be nor afraid 10 speak
a. them. Many n heart Is weary for a
want 90 a htt1e praise Nothing IS more
fathettc than fAs realization. when too
tste. or tbe mistake 81 not aDe,nt nx
aforehand / heard mos hong stree the
story 81 "a mother eUtgrowu ~ her chill
eren Who had cultivated themselves. as
they tifouEf}t. efycnd The simple tastes
Nnd provincial NAYS ~ fheiF ''0iA fash
toned nAther." ard actually BETRAYED that
Fhey were httie ashamed ~ her. she
VAS keri IN ties background and suffered
a. many an aged usrsoa suffers she rssngs
of lionel ness. Rut when it came Tor hcr
- tie. tire me n3ories OF C3i}Thos-d. and ire
mothers Gevotton Rna SELF -.acrlfep. fha
Frsesl1eg-iHHc. FsEorv sretleus than al cuf-
aure and ether gifts bore in ike "a aos,tl
sffsnu she cSiteEa hear;S a0 snfnr chem
ssad cs5EnE forsa fee,fnEs Thaf bad fot
fGaln3 Nc8F ser years one ~ ore asy nstR
fheiF arms araurd Der and stsoas thslr
tave. uFestsssln< r}ass she waa s'tes best
Fuothersn an tlse weFld-' Just ike a rsol hs E
she accepted fhe ano5stsaK with 10Y. but
sssul4 not rSfrsata. aEnsst tle sears Of glad
foss. the heart -searcslnE question. "On.
Why aas3 you not tsli me tsls Before
yos3ns man lcavcs tsosma an8 ggses So
same far-oM CcusfrY, Hsx own neasfa. ard
ehe experience ~ hls ova sncreSs or fall
stre gradually ,tispess eAa shauEat - home
81 rsrsRts faT sNsv. re forxets "a
~rtte. He psStES9nes Ehe promise ssft made
50 binaseif "a - hark ard see father AID
rsotaer once usore 3n tasz worlt Aching
hsssrts wsH ard watt for ttlHrxs he -
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fheY 80 ~ tss areesf s3rcsssss-nr ef fhe.r
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