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The advocate., 1897-10-20
First Silver Wedding.

The fashion Of silver weddings dates
back to the reign Of Hughes Capet, King
of France in 987, says Vogue.
Once as Hughes was arranging his
uncle's affairs he found on one Of the
estates a servant who had grown gray
in the service of his relative. He had
been such a friend of his masters that
he was almost looked upon as one of the
family.
On the farm with this old man was
also a serving woman who was as old
as he, and also unmarried, and who had
been the most devoted and hard-WOrk-
ing Of the women servants of the Kings
uncle. When the King heard these
praises Of the two he ordered them to
be brought before him, and said to the
woman:
your service Is great, greater than
this mans whose services were great
enough, for the woman always finds
work and obedience harder than man,
and therefore 1 will give you reward.
At your age know of none better than
a dOwry and a husband. The dOWry is
here-this farm from this time forth be-
longs to you. If this man who has
worked with you five-and-twenty years
is willing to marry you, then the hus
band is ready"
"Your Majesty" suffered the old
peasant, confusedly, "how is it possible
that we should marry, having already
silver hairs?"
Then it shall be a silver wedding"
answered the King, "and here give you
q wedding ring" drawing a costly ring
from his finger, and placing the hands
Of the thankful old people together.
This soon became known all over
France, and raised such enthusiasm that
it became fashion after twenty-five
years marriage to celebrate a silver
wedding.
The advocate., 1897-10-20
Grace and Health.

every one" writes Florence Hull
Winterburn in the October Woman's
Home Companion, "has had occasion to
observe in himself at one time or an
other some peculiarly happy perform
ance; an action that was wrought with
smoothness and ease; that was the re-
suit of an unConsciously fine adjustment
Of means to an end, and had delight
full finish and completeness. A feat of
this kind, be it the writing of poem,
the building Of bridge or the making
Of perfect bow upon an important oc-
Casion, gives us happiness. 1t becomes a
pleasant memory and enables us to bear
up against the mortifying instances in
which we are awkward and maladroit.
can inquiry into the reason of our
satisfactions with these rare perform
ances would prove that simplicity and
dEeCtness had largely to do with their
success. We forgot ourselves as the
phrase is, and acted under an inspira-
ton that infallibly. guided us straight
to the desired point without friction or
waste of energy. And this is the great
secret Of healthful activity; to move
oIuOOJulg anu easily w JnO POAAAJB &NOLO-
ing all useless and spasmodic motions.
Just as it has been ordained that we shall
find enjoyment in harmonious, ecOnOm-
ical efforts, it has been ordered that we
shall suffer from jerky, ill-directed
movements that so far from being a
part Of our progress impede it, and
waste both our muscular and our ner'
vous force.
"The reason why smooth, gliding mo-
tions are pleasing to us, either in our
selves or when we witness them in
others, is that they seem to be natural
and spontaneous. We like the idea Of re-
served power. All appearance Of strain
ing and struggling is painful, and our
sympathy with an easy, graceful per-
formance of difficult feat reaches the
point of esthetic delight when we look
at beautiful dancing, excellent rowing,
or even observe an example of perfectly
adjusted power in machine. Smooth
movements, those in harmony with a
plan, being always cOngenial to us, and
jerkiness always disagreeable, the infer
The advocate., 1897-10-20
HHgienic Value Of Singing.

When one considers how many thou
sands Of young men and women are
studying the art of singing, and how
very few of them ever learn it we'll
enough to earn their living by it, or to
give anybody much pleasure, one feels
inclined to look upon the vast amount
Of time spent on vocal exercises as so
many hours wasted. But there is an
other point of view which is not often
enough emphasized. In a recent number
of a German journal devoted to lar
yngology DR.. Barth has an article dis
Cussing with German thoroughness the
utility Of singing from hygienic point
of view. Every bodily organ Is strength
ened by exercise; singers exercise their
lungs more than other people; there
fore, he says, we find that singers have
the strongest and soundest lungs. The
average German takes into his lungs
5000 cubic Centimetres Of air at breath,
while professional singers take in 1000
to 5000. The tenor Gunz was able to
I'LL his lungs at one gasp with enough
air to suffice for the singing of the whole
Of Schumann's song, "The Rose, the
Lily" and one of the old Italian So
pranists was able to thrill up and down
the chromatic scale two octaves in one
breath
The singer not only supplies his lungs
with more vitalizing oxygen than other
persons do, but he subjects the muscles
Of his breathing apparatus for several
hours a day to q course Of most bene-
fetal gymnastics. Almost all the mus
Cles of the neck and chest are directly
or indirectly involved in these gymnas-
tics. The habit Of deep breathing cul-
tivated by singers enlarges the chest
capacity, and gives to singers that erect
and imposing attitude which is so desir
able and so much admired. The ribs,
too, are rendered more elastic and sing
ers do not suffer in old age from the
breathing difficulties to which others are
so much subject. BY exercising so many
muscles singing furthermore improves
the appetite, most vocalists being noted
for their inclination to good meals. The
nose of a singer is kept in a healthy
condition by being imperatively and
constantly needed for breathing pur-
poses, the injurious mouth breathing so
much INDUCED in by others being i'm
possible in this case That the ear, too,
is cultivated, need not be added. In
short, there is hardly any kind of gym
nastics that exercises and benefits so
many organs as singing does.-New
York Home Journal.
The advocate., 1897-10-20
Sundays--Drastio and Other.

"T am free to say" remarks promi-
nent rector of the Episcopal church in
New York, that in the capital Of France
there is less immortality on the Lords
day than there is in our own city Of
New York, with its Raines law and its
thousand and one other measures for
the suppression of vice on the Sabbath"
We have no Raines law in Chicago, and
we have a tolerably satisfactory Sun
day, far more so than in Glasgow, for
instance, where the most rigid Sabbat-
arian regulations are enforced. Chicago
of Sunday is not what strict Sabbat
arian would have it, but Sabbatarians
cannot do more than preach the moral
law In which they believe, and that law
The advocate., 1897-10-20

ence is instant that we can eliminate one
element of discomfort by becoming di-
rect and simple in all our movements.
Many people think that gracefulness
is something affected, even insincere.
Perhaps they are thinking Of the 'sickly
grace Of the heroines Of certain old
fashioned novels, who moved through
the pages with languor that arouses
the just scorn of a wide-awake modern
reader. But 'sickly grace has gone,
along with ethereal delicacy' and other
cherished symptoms of blue blood in
decline, and healthful grace has taken
it place. There is nothing deceitful
about that"
The advocate., 1897-10-20

will govern only those who think as
they think. It cannot be made to govern
those who think otherwise There ought
to be a day Of rest once a week for
everybody, and that day may we'll come
upon Sunday, for custom, more pow
erful than the statute, has so decreed.
But the manner in which rest and recre-
alton shall be taken must be left to in
dividual fancy and individual conscience.
Chicago, Chronicle.
The advocate., 1897-10-20
Be Good to Yourself.

Professor Sparker says: 'Think de-
liberately of the house you live in-yOur
body. Make up your mind firmly not
to abuse it. Wear nothing that distorts
or pains it. Do not overload it with
victuals or drink or work. Give your
self regular and abundant sleep Keep
your body warmly clad. DO not take
cold; guard yourself against it. If you
feel the first symptoms give yourself
heroic treatment. Get into fine glow
of heat by exercise. This is the only
body you will have in this world Study
deeply and diligently the laws that gov
ern it."
The advocate., 1897-10-20
LUNAR sUPBRsTITIONs.

"If you see the new moon over your
right shoulder it's good luck all the
mOnth"--oVer the left shoulder being
bad luck, Of course. IF you meet the
new moon face TO face with money in
your pocket, you will have that kind Of
money in your pocket for a month
and 80 on, this last being taken from
IN old blaCk-letter treatise on things
worth knowing" Everywhere in the
world the Idea prevails among those who
lack scientific training that anything
falling to the lot OF man when the moon
ig waxing will likewise increase, SINH
larly decreasing while the moon wanes.
The Hindoo troubled with warts looks
at the new moon, picks up pinch OF
dust from beneath his left foot, rubs
the wart with it--and when the moon
goes so does the wart. If you fall Ill
you can be cured by herbs gathered in
the full Of the moon.
The Moslems in the kingdom Of Oudh
cure insomnia, palpitatlon of the heart,
nervous prcstration and similar evils by
stationing the sufferer with basin OF
water in his hands in the light OF the full
moon in such way that its refulgent
image shines directly from the liquid
into his eyes. Then, without moving
his gaze, he is required to swallow the
water at draught. In northern India
the people lay out food in the full
moon that comes in the months corre-
spending to our September and October,
half of each, and give 1t to their friends
as means of insuring longevity. That
same night the girls pour water In the
moonlight, saying they are getting rid
Of the cold weather.
II was long ago noted that the York
shire maids "do worship the new moon
on their bare knees, kneeling upon an
earthfast stone" and Lady Wilde says
that the Irish damsels drop on their
knees when they first catch sight Of the
new moon and say, "0h, moon, leave
us as we'll as you found u.s." In India
the natives take seven threads from the
ends of their turbans and give them to
the new moon with a prayer. The spots
on the moon are caused by many per-
sons or things Sometimes 1t Is man
with faggot on his back sent thither
f0r picking up sticks on the Sabbath.
ChaMcer calls him a thief and puts a
thornbush on his shoulders. Dante says
It is no less q criminal than Calm.
Shakespeare provides dog to keep
him company HindOos keep, not a
man, but hare, in the moon, and the
well-known connection in the minds OF
the man in the moon and insanity may
account for the statement regarding the
X March hare, and possibly the thorn
bush may be the distinctive covering OF
the halter. At any rate this is as good
guessing as q lot of the sun myth people
have done, while Baring-Gould identifies
the moon children, Bill and Hiuki OF
the Northern mythology, with Jack and
N Gill Of the nursery rhyme.
The Greenland Esquimau believes
that the sun and moon were originally
brother and sister She being teased by
him past ordinary endurance, seized
some lampblack and rubbed 1t on his
face. Then she ran, her brother after
FINALLY she went SO fast she rose Ut
into the air and became the sun, while
her soOty-faced brother turned into the
moon. In Samoa when great famine
oppressed the people the moon rose one
nlFht, big and round, like a bread
'tfTT1u..
The advocate., 1897-10-20
TO SAVE DOCTORS BILLS
Use Garland" Stoves and Ranges.

Now Ia Your Chance to Get Farm.
Harvest excursions on the Great Rock
Island Route to the Oklahoma district,
also to Kansas and Texas. There are
six excursions arranged for. Ticket rate,
one fare for round trip plus 81. Dates
are September 21, and October and 19.
Inquire of any ticket agent of the Rock
Island system, or address John Sebas-
tian, G. P. A., Chicago.
The advocate., 1897-10-20

To brace up the system after "la
grippe" pneumonia, fevers, and other
prostrating diseases; to build up needed
flesh and strength, and to restore health
and vigor when you feel run down"
and used up, the best thing in the world
is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry. 1t promotes all the bodily func-
tions, rouses every organ into health
full action, purifies and enriches the
blood, and through it cleanses, repairs
and invigorates the entire system. For
the most stubborn scrofulous, skin or
scalp diseases, dyspepsia, biliousnss,
and kindred ailments, the Discovery"
is unequaled as a remedy.
The advocate., 1897-10-20

Readers of the Advocate will find that
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gate their goods and to deal with them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-21
GIVING UP ITS OLD HOME.

FAREWELL SERVICES ON SUNDAY IN THE CHURCH
OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY.
Farewell services will be he'd In the Church OF
the Divine Paternity. Fifth-ave. and Forty-ffth-
ST., on Sunday at II a. m. An historical sermon
will be delivered by the pastor, the Rev. Dr.
Charles II. Eaton. At the evening service there
will be addresses by a number OF clergymen.
The church organized November II. 1888
and held Its first service In the New Jerusalem
Church, a small wooden building In Pearl-st.. di-
rectly opposite City Hall Place.
In April. 1899 a church In Duane-st.. near Cha;
ham, leased. In l&l new church was
dedicated in Elizabeth-st. near Hester-st. Dr.
Chaplin began his pastorate May T. lsS From
Elizabeth-st the church removed Murray-st
and thence to Broadway and Prince-st. The pres
ent building was first occupied on December s. 1866
1t was the pioneer church In upper Fifth-ave, be-
Ing surrounded by great open spaces and cattle
yards when first erected. In its hfty-nine years
existence It has had Elk pastors-the Rev. William
Whitaker, the Rev. Dr. J. D. Williams the Rev
Moses Ballou, the Rev. Thomas l.. Harris, the
Rev. DR.. L. II. Chaplin and the present pastor. the
Rev. DR.. Charles n Eaton 49,, ..
Cary, william Montross George G. ". Piatt
sP ui RdSsl M
George Lake and Jacob Weeks. The fame OF DR.
Chaplin as a pulpit orator made this church
The new building for the use Of the church Is In
process OF erection at Seventy sixth-st and Cen
trail Park West. With a modern structure. with
the conveniences for modern church work, and a
generous endowment II is expected that the Church
OF the Divine Paternity will take rapid steps for
ward not only In the cultivating Of the spirit Of
thropic' work Religious services will be he'd after
April Is In the Carnegie Lyceum.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-21
A BURGLARY A MONTH OLD.
THEFT OF JEWELS FROM AN UPTOWN HOUSE ON
MARCH % JUST MADE PUBLIC.

THEFT OF JEWELS FROM AN UPTOWN HOUSE ON
MARCH % JUST MADE PUBLIC.
A robbery which occurred a month ago at the
homo OF Mark II. Frank. No. l5s West Seventy
third-st.. has just been made public. on the night
OF March % Jewelry and diamonds to the value Of
about 81. 500 were stolen. and the police have since
been looking for the thieves. but far no arrests
have been made.
Mr. Frank is In the wholesale embroidery busi-
at No. 451 Broadway. and his family occupy
the house in Seventy-third-st. The jewelry was
taken from Mrs. Franks bedroom on the second
floor. The robbery discovered by Mrs. Frank
on the morning Of the 25th when she went to get
some Of her jewels. She found that the bureau In
which she kept the articles had been ransacked and
nearly all OF her Jewelry taken.
The robbery was reported to the police OF the
West Sixty -eighth-st. station, and Detectives John
and Lang investigated the They believe
that the jewels were taken by person who Is IA
miar with the interior Of the house. but so far
the guilty has not been found. The Detective
Bureau at Police Headquarters also informed
of the robbery. and Captain O Bren sent some Of
his men to investigate IT,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-21
THE BRONX SEWER BILL HEARiNd'

MAYOR STRONG RESERVES DECISION AFlEN
HEARING ARGUMENTS on BOTH SIDES
Mayor Strong was surrounded by hundreds OF
citizens from the North Side yesterday VINO ap-
peared for and against the bill providing Tor
sewer along the Bronx River as well as oridee 70
connect Williamsbridge with Woodlawn' me es.
mated cost OF the sewer is N.cO.OOo. ana OF '"c
bridge $4,000 Ex-senator Charles Z. McCieilahu
opposed the bill for the building Of the bridge. but
the Mayor approved 1t.
Judge Isaac N Mills. of Mount Vernon; Joseph ..
Wood. Charles II. Wilson. Samuel {. Miller anu
about dozen others opposed the Bronx River
sewer on the grounds that too much power was
given to the Commission and that the expense or
the construction OF the work not limited. whlle
property was TO be assessed that could derive no
possible benefit from the sewer. James NJ hunt
and about fifteen others argued that the sewer Was
a good thing, and the bill should be approved Inc
Mayor reserved his decision.
The Mayor approved the following bills: Relating
to the opening of a place between East One-hun-
dred-and y-irst-st. and East One-hundred-
sixty-second-st and Courtlandt-ave. and the rail-
road; providing for the issue OF s7500,W0 bonds Tor
school purposes: 10 provide for Commissioner
Wrights farm for Migrants on Rikers Island. ana
regulating maps and prohles of the Twenty-third
Ward.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-21
HONDURAS AT 1T AGAIN.
ENJOYING ONE OF ITS PERIODIC REVOLT
TIONS-WAIL OF THE PUERTO CORTEZ
CUSTOMS OFFICIALS.

Honduras Is in the throes Of one OF It's periodic
revolutions and II the account Of this latest upris-
ing brought here yesterday by the American steam
or Foxhal Is correc; In all its details the seaport
town OF Puerto Cortez is probably now In the hands
of the revolutionists, and the government officers
there dead or dying.
Puerto Cortez is called town more BY courtesy
than for any other reason. as has only about hve
hundred inhabitants There is one pier there and at
the time OF the outbreak Monday week ago.
only one vessel. the Foxhall. was tied up and one
other rode in the harbor The Foxhal to sail at
a. M and her lines were about TO be cast OH
when. from the custom-house. one-story wooden
building with attic at the head or the pier, a
bevv of uniformed customs officials rushed fOrtn.
each with a package in one hand and rifle in the
other They made down the pier and halle captain
Leslie of the Foxha and begged him not 10 sail
News had reached them that there had been
general uprising of revolutionists under DE soto
who had been plotting ever since De Soto was de-
posed as president of Spanish Honduras to make
way for Bonilla The revoutionists had gradually
before a lagoon to the northeast OF Puerto Cortez
and also the barracks between the lagoon and the
town The excited customs officials as they danced
about the pier yelled to Captain Leslie that the
revolutionists even then descending IN nordeS
upon Puerto Cortez. and that everybody there
would be murdered; that If the Foxhal sailed their
only chance of safety would be gone. The captain
turned a deaf ear to them and sailed away as were
his orders leaving the customs officers to whatever
fate awaited them He thinks that now Puerto
Cortez is In the rebels hands.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-21
4 HOSPITAL SHORT OF PHYSICIANS.

The ambulance service Of the Manhattan Hospi-
tal or the J. Hood Wright Memorial. Ii is also
called. IN West One-hundred and thlrty-frst- is
crippled at present owing to the loss OF two sur
seon. heretofore attached to the hospital. DR..
Walter W. Strong and DIR. Henry Levlson have
resigned since the first OF the month. DR.. Strong
resigned because of ll-health. and DR.. Levison' $
resignation was rendered at the request Of the
Executive Committee and accepted.
II was said that trouble existed between Or.
Ievison and the matron who IL In charge Of all
the nurses and help employed at the hospital and
that she refused take any orders from the doc
tor This is denied by Superintendent Fem who
saws that there was never any clash between the
two hut that the whole trouble was caused by
DR. Leyison's insubordination and refusal TO take
orders from him.
nropress AT the various medical schools. IL Is I'M
possible for the hospital authorities to MI the va
rancies al present In the manner they desire. but
the examinations will be over in few days, and
then the staff will be completed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-21
ERIE RAILROAD.

Through trains leave New-York. loot Of Chambers-s.
az follows and five minutes earlier from West 23d-st.:
moo A. M.-vesbued Express daily FOR Waverly,
BinChamton Elmra. Buffalo Bradford. Arrive Bunalo
500 p NJ Paror 10 Buffalo 4
2.OO p. M.-vestibuled Limited fast mail Daily; solid
,r.ip FOR Chicago Chauauqua Lake arrives Cleve-
land : 40 A NJ Chicago, p. NJ. Sleepers to Chicago.
cleveland and Cincinnati Dining car
s.pH u W-punalo and Cleveland Vestibulei Express
Daily arrives Buffalo IL: A. NJ. Bradford I:l5 A. NJ
Jamestown SIS A. NJ Cleveland i:l5 p NJ seepers 70
pnnao nd Cleveland making direct connections for ~
troit Chicago and ,he West. . ,,.,,
Sax p M.-Va Chautauqua Lake and Niagara r aus
uaiv Solid train to Chicago Sleepers 70 Hones'iHe
chicago and Cincinnati Dining car ,D ,,,,N,y
rr,ICKETS LOCAL TIME CARDS AND ~ bl,M ny
Accommodations III ll3 26l 4Oi and 90. br oS
- ,oT Rowery l56 l23th st and 81 W esq l%otny
Chap,hers and West a3d-st ferries, Ne"-hork. aS2
ana 7oS FULTON st. l06 Broadway. Broohyn' ~ hua2
son-st fIoboken and Jersey city station Mes'Su
Exnr.ss calls for and checks baggage from ho'es And
residences to destin ion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-21
TIE ANNAPOLIS'S TRIAL TRIP.

The United States gunboat Annapolis will leave
the Crescent Shipysrd at Elizabeth early to-nor-
row for Long Island Sound. where Thursday
she will make her trial trip. The first stopping
place will be Bridgeport Conn, where the Trial
Board will be met. The exact course over which
the trip will be run has not yet been decided
The Annapolis s Of the six composite gun
boats authorized by Congress In 1895 She built
al the Crescent Shipyard and launched on Decem-
Der q last. She resembles steam yacht, with
auxiliary sail power. being barkentine rugged and
II is thought, VIII he able 10 travel almost fast
under sail under steam Her length over all is
200 feet and her mean draft twelve feet The arma-
mcnt consists Of six four-inch Tapd-ire guns and
four SIX FOUNDER ana two one FOUNDER rapid fire
guns. The contract speed Of the Annapolis Is
twelve knots hour.