Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-01-22
VILLAGE GOSSIP
Young Peoples Society

There was larger gathering than
usual last Sunday evening at the Pail
SADIE Church when w. r. Goodman
acted as leader. His subject was,
Whatsoever Thy Hands Have to Do,
Do With All Thy Might" This from
Solomon. Mr.. Goodman found much
in the subject into which he inter
polated series of most interesting
local illusions, besides many others of
general interest. He asked number
of Questiors at the close which added
to the interest of the subject, answers
being rendered in the spirit of the SUBJ
jeet in hand. All in all, with the sing
evening most tnjoyable.
If you know any kind of news of
general interest the Editor will appre-
ciate it if you will phone 131 CIiffside,
or drop a postal. Personal local hap
penings, etc, are of interest
About every man one meets has a
panacea for the troubles of the world.
And after all, the whole trouble is the
selfishness of man. Isn't that the
answer?
AT meeting of the board of trustees
of the Union Church of Palisade held
last week, Herbert Middleton was
elected a member of the board.
Folk in general believe we have had
poor sort of winter because we have
had so little snow, and such a
small number of extreme cold days. As
a matter of fact, the winter has been
close to normal mean temperature
since November, the difference being
in the distribution of the cold. 1t has
averaged scarcely a degree and a half
different from normal
The lovely voice of Mrs. Herbert
Middleton was again heard at the
Palisade Church last Sunday. How
one remembers the early days of the
church when services were held in the
basement, and Mrs. Middleton used to
gregatiOn. Her voice would rise above
all the others, and in such admiring
strains that people would turn round
wOnderingly, looking to see who it
was with such rare melodius voice.
Mrs. Ernest Sibley grew some very
lovely white paper narcissi in the
tower room of the church this winter,
leaving them there to mature for the
benefit of the children of the cradle
roll. Then she took them out one at
a time and placed them where they
would do the most good in sick cham
bers of the village.
The c. l.. Phillipses attended the an
nual banquet (they call it a dinner) of
the Ohio Society in New York last
Saturday night. Mr.. Phillips gives a
wonderful imitation of the speech of
JOB Hedges, the master humorist of
the old town of New York. Hedges
told the OhiOans that the two U. S.
Senators did not know what they
wanted or what they were talking
about, in proof of which he said that
one of them alluded to 'the gentle,
man on my right" when the man was
on his left, the other said some thing
about the gentleman on my right -
when he was on his left, etc. He
then said the world would never know
its direction until it got down on it's
knees and prayed earnestly to Almigh-
ty God for Divine guidance. Prayer,
he believed, would redeem the world
from its present path of darkness Mr..
Phillips said the Hedges speech was
one of the most remarkable he ever
heard.
A Red carnation
"A red carnatiOn lay in the roadway
Sunday morning, alone, cold but
beautiful. Just one little flower does
not amount to much, yet this one in
particular looked isolated in its beau
ty, and thus represented study in
color as all isolated things of appeal
do. The Japanese are the one people
of all the earth who know the art of
isolation. They make some of the
most hideOus, as we'll as much that is
wonderful and beautiful, and whatever
they make in art, they invariably iso-
like the great deeds of men. So this
red carnation made its own appeal,
and the finder picked it up, pinned
it upon a lapel, wore it away in
riumph-triumph at having released
this thing of joy from the trampling
of hOof or the mangling of a tire
Then a pretty child came along who
loved flowers, and the carnation found
Judgement in her hand to be taken
home and placed in a cup where she
imagined it would live and be beauti-
full for an indefinite period. She never
considered the whitening hand of time
Nevertheless, this carnation was no
doubt dropped from the hand of a for
list who was delivering in the neigh
borhood, and served several good pur-
poses. The unconscious influence of
things we never find out till their his
tory is made.
PaIisade junction