El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16
For the Better Half
Written for the HHRAHD.

mon law founded in our ideas of com
mon decency. Our common law ii
our slow working towards divine law
We are far enough from it yet, but tn
common law which is the crystal Ia.
tion of common impulse towards bet
ter things, is the sure wav. Common
law may be wofully Insufficient, but il
is a Lart of divine law. 1t is the duty
of the nation to 1force it's man made
laws. 1t ia the duty and privilege oil
the individual to try to carry out the
divine lsws. The two working earnest
ly together may bring the world nearer
day by day to the Gay when His will
shall be done on earth as it is in
on earth. His will" may mean the
permission 20 practice poly
gsmy to the Mormons, but
it certainty has not such an
int probation to most Anne ricanS, and it
il the most Americans who rule our
land. 1t is our msjorities that have
the responsibility of not letting our
part of the world grow worse, but in
sisting that it shall grow better.
That a man shall have one wife and
cleave only unto her, that she shall be
the priestess of his hearth fires, and
that the two together, the man and
the woman, shall guide and guard tn :,
little ones who are given them and by
their different and combined wisdom
insure to the children a more perfect
life than was the life of the parents
when they were apart, has seemed to
most of Christian and white men of the
world the highest good. So, it may be
prejudiced, but to most good men and
women there is a feeling against
Roberts as law-breaker and as one
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our noblest impulse.
Apropos of Christmas presents no
small boy or girl can afford to bs with
out all or most of the following books !:
The two Alice books, Alice in Won
derland and Alice Through the Look
ing Glass; Charles Kingsley's two
wonderful books, Water Babies and
Back of the North Wind; Stevenson 8
Child's Garden of Verse; The two
Jungle books, wherein Kipling tells of
Mowcli and his friends; and that dear
delightful book of nonsense by Ed
mund Lear, which is entitled Lear's
Nonsense Book. or course there must
also be Hans Anderson's Fairy tales
and the Grimm Fairy tales in the
little ones library. If the child be
the book, to handle it cleanlily and
gently, to not smudge. tear or break
it, these few volumes may become the
nucleus of fine library. They are
books whose pages he will turn with
pleasure In every period of his life,
not the came kind of pleasure always,
but no truly sensible and good MAJ
ever grows up entirely every bis OF
him. There will always be something
little over these books of quaint humor
and i'm aOinatiOn
A very fetching device for sleeves of
an evening frock or for a pretty dinner
frock Is to have them of In terlaced v ell
vet ribbon. 1t is particularly pretty
when black velvet ribbon sleeves are
put in q black net or chiffon frock.
The sleeves from shoulder to elbow are
simply OF the open work, the ribbons
being interlaced diagonally and the
the opeu work spaces, squares of the
width. The sleeves may be
finished simply with q band above the
elbow and bow, or chiffon ruffle
may be used for a finish at the elbow.
The woman with fine arms or the girl
with dimpled elbows will probably
prefer the severer style, while the
woman with arms that ara only half
way presentsble will prefer the half
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ruffies. The ribbon sleeve is well cal
cplated to show off 6ns arms or TO
make iudifferently pretty ooes less in
differently pretty.
The trip planned by the General
Federation Of Women's Clubs for the
benefit of club women who expeca II
go to Paris next year and hope also
to have little jsunt around some
of the rest OF Europe, includes the cap
itals, cathedrals, art galleries and fam
Gus mountain and river views of Great
Britain, Holland, Germany, Switzer-
land and France. The entire trip will
cost about four hundred dolla it is
said, and that will include ocean
steamer fare, first class hotel expenses,
aud tie direct expenses of travelling,
such as cab fares to and from railway
stations and for transfers of luggage.
The trip will last something over two
months. The secretary of the COM
nittee which has the trip in charge is
Miss Anna M. Jones of 222 West TWEEN
~ third street, New York.
The City of Mexico has an active
club, composed of the English
speaking residents of the city. Be-
sides their literary, domestic and hos
pital departments, the club has a COM
mlttee devoted to the interests of Am
orleans in Mexican prisons.
ELSIE MCELROY SLATER.