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THE SUMMER VACATION Evils of Some Summer Resorts Un= sparingly Denounced. {Entered according to Act oi the Poi* liament of Canada, in tho year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Three, by Wm. Baily, of Toronto, at the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa.) A despatch from Chicago says' Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage preached from the following text: Numbers xxxii, 23, "Be sure your sir will find you out." What are you going to do this summer? "Take a vacation answer. "I am going away country. There was once a when I did not believe in vacations. I thought they were merely lazy men's excuses for shirking work. But now I know that I was mistaken. I have been gradually breaking dorvn under the cease- s of I, I v and need a change. I am going out among tho green hills or down by the seashore. I will leave word that all letters and telegrams at the store as far as 'possible must remain unanswered until I get back. I am going to rusticate. I shall turn myself out to grass and let my mind^-un rakow." SABBATH DESECRATION. But, my hearers, before we separ ate for the summer, as your pastoi I would like to ask ycu anothei question: What do you expect tc do when you are in the country? How are you going to spend " vacation? You have been working the Lord. Perhaps there may be times in the home when the dance may be a harmless amusement, may be the means of a harmless frolic and tho means of keeping children at home, where the fathers and mothers and grandfather and grandmother may be participants in the domestic merriment. But, though I am not now denouncing the harmless social enjoym which tako place in the home, I most vehemently protest against the promiscuous dance hall at our summer watering places. I know of what I am speaking. I am not a stranger to the social etiquette of this world. Men and women whom I address to-day. I defy you to, find one man or woman of noted spirit-will contend that the hard dm life. you have destroyed your ability to play. Therefore when you go to the country and do not know what to do temptations will there assail you which would never tempt you when you are at home and at work. Now, the purpose of this sermon is not to talk of libertines and loafers and dead beats. It is not to up-raid the social outcasts and the sinful vampires who as human leeches try to suck the life's blood out of their fellow men at the summer watering places. That class of people aro not those whom I want to talk to now. But I would to-day, pastor, earnestly and prayerfully, give a few words of practical " "ng peoplo who (rill snce. from home, may cessful, may Christian cha germ absorbed body in a day work its malformations clear on down to the grave and change your whole eternal destiny. Summer red light the first: Beware of Sabbath desecration. That means bewaro that you do not un-armor yourselves by one false move and leave your beating hearts defenceless b'-l'oio the poisoned arrows ot the Satanic archers- Bewaro that you do not practically say to the evil tempters: "Here am I, off on my summer vacation. I have left my religion at home. I am ready to let you lead me where you will. For two or three weeks, or one month at least, I will enter no church, lisiten to no sermon, utter no public prayer and ask fcr no de-vine projection. I will take a holiday from religion as well as from business, -.--U vt- a beginning I will disregard tha Lord's day." HOW M .START A VACATION. "What do you mean by such a warning as that?" some one asks. "Why do you place such emphasis upon Sabbath observance?" Because, my friend, the way you generally start, your Aimmer vacation is the way you will end it. The Sabbath desecration is tho keynote, as a rule, or the forerunner, o' a long series of spiritual backsliding. How? In all probability your sum- your children^ o the. Sundaj ,ol of that neighborhood in public worship within the four walls of the little village church, or will yet. do it by coming down in your flaking togs or by waving your golf stick or with you- baskets full of iood for a rollicking time in the woods on a Sunday picnic? Here are tho two extremes. Which will you choose? Vhe one heads toward spiritual toward aprri ual power v summer ballroom is a safe plnce in which to allow our sons and daughters to pass the summer months. I defy you to find one young man or learned tho lesson of Christ love in the fetid atmosphere of a public dance hall. AVOID GAMES OF CHANCE. Summer red light tho third: Beware of all games of chance. What does that mean? Beware of joining! the gambling table, which will be! played every night in the side room of the hotel which opens into tho' hotel bar, which game will be kept up until 3 or 4 o'clock i; tho morning. Beware of coir mingling with the "plungers" gath cred before tho bookmakers' stands at tho famous summer race; no. I would no more expect you to be found in such flagrantly promising positions than you would expect to find your pastor there. But beware of the insidious beginnings. Bewaro of wagering the box of candy upon the game of tennis or quoits which is played in the hotel grounds. Bewaro of betting the penny upon the simple game which played upon the hotel porch. In other words, beware of taking your lessons in one of the awful, tho most facinating and the most de-"" evils, the gambling among the many sinful summer ff! cinations of a hotel piazza. FAMILY SEPARATIONS. Summer red light the last: - K< Ware of the family separations which tako away for any length of time wives from huaDands, husbands from wives, brothers from sisters a parents from children. Mark th my friends, and what I say. I speak calmly and deliberately: Nine-tenths of all the evil temptations of our summer resorts are directly or indirectly due to the separations of families. These separations lay temptations, awful tempatations, at tho feet of the men who are compelled to stay at home and work. They lay temptations, awful tempta-' the feet of the women who the summer hotels. Go to t near to your home, in a place where all the members the family can get together every few days. Never let your husband arn tho lesson how to bo happy thout you and the children. Wives d mothers, never learn yourselves o lesson how you can be happy thout your husbands and the chil-en by your side. As far as you may be able, during the years of ■thly life, never be separated from your loved ones for any length of timo until you are compelled to lay them away for the last sleep in made grave. losing I would speak to you words of congratulation and good cheer. Before we separate for the probable slight figure t of David (xvii, 33); also that which is written of another Saul of the tribe of Benjamin (II. Cor. x, 10). people are pleased with their visible king, a choice man and one ble appearance. 25. Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom and wrote it in a book and laid i before the Lord, aind Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house. He would doubtless write Deut. xvii, 14-20, with perhaps additions. li the king would consider himself tho Lord's representative and act for tho Lord toward the people, in all tilings consulting Hdm, obeying and honoring Him, all might yet be well by the mercy of God; but if he, like the people, turns away from God, lives to please himpelf or the people arid relies on human wisdom or strength all will be lost. The Lord alone must be exalted (Isa. ii. mths I i mid : til. When tho poise game of chance of ngratulato you bc-ou have well earned your | rest. I congratulate you because you havey-finished a hard win work. I congratulate you that you arc going out among the trees the flowers and the mountains the valleys; that you are going to drink out of the cool spring and the cows gather for the evening milking. And I also congratulate you that the same Christ whom you worship here you can worship there. Tako along tho Saviour's companionship. Pray during the next few weeks for divine protection and help. Then, if you have Christ along, there will be no fear that you will succumb to the evil temptations which beset every one during a sum- THE S. S. LESSON. late< 's heart there seem power to stop bin a committing mental, physical spiritual suicide. The k and the roulette table are threatening rocks where thousands pon thousands of human crafts are 'recked for time and for eternity. Trifle not with tho games of chance, however small the wager, any more Id play about a rattlesnake's fang or toy with a boa con-tricfor's coils or a tiger's claw. FLIRTING DENOUNCED. red light the fourth: B»- i of II ing l Oh, the fascinations and yet hellish malforming power of a ler flirtation! Havo you ever pon a hotel porch and watched nsects gather out of the dark-and buzz and play about the electric lights? Those lights have for them the fatal spell that tho glittering eye of the black snake has for the mother bird sitting upon the edge of her nest. Theso insects will circle round and round the brilliant light. They will disappear for awhile, as though they know tho hot tongue of death is ready to touch them. Then at last they will make one plunge and in an instant the wings and the legs are gone. Then the poor suffering creature falls the ground, wriggling and twist-;oi<l dying, to bo trampled under the foot of man. Such are the awful results which follow when the human insects play about the hiss- ng, bias It may 1 Of £ ic pleasant t flush upor for i love, f his p 1 Indi ber of scalps he ca But by the scorched and multilated hearts oi hich havo been malform- pole. r God and it' will md right. Start it by praying in the village pe,v for divine guidance. Start it, if possible, by helping t.he village choir sing in the choir loft. r first Sab- tho first Sabb bath in heaven. EVILS OF PUBLIC DANCING. Summer red light the second: De-jraro of the hotel ballroom and the Bummer public dance hall. I am not now discussing tho question of dancing ir general; I am not considering whether it be right or wrong- for the young folks, within the quiet!de and the sacred precincts oT a home, to have ono of their number finger the ivory keys of the piano; then, while the stately strains of tho minuet or the lan-md forth, to have tho boys to l sJo-.v at his belt, and bruised thousands w ed for tin glowing flames of tion I denounce trifling with human love. I denounce it before the young people who may be pa"""-' ing their next summei this merciless, heartless and damning universal evil. PERIL OF THE WINE CUF. Summer red light the fifth. E ware of the serpent which lies coik up in the bewitching wine cup. Me carry their bottles of intoxicating beverages when they go fishing or dancing or taking a tramp in tho woods, and men drink everywhere. But this is not the greatest curse for which our summer resorts are famous. They are noted as places where women get drunk as well as tho men. To me the most abjectly repulsive creature on earth is a drunken woman. When I see one I know not which feeling predominates most in my heart, that of pity or of horror. In our summer hotels drink everywhere. Therefore, friends, I beg of you when you nmer party where wine is passed around do not touch it. ur Christian example's sake touch it. For the danger of inflaming your own evil tastes do ~ it touch it. Stand back from tho il wine cup thouga it may be offered to you by the jeweled hand of a hostess or by tho companion who pretends he is your friend. Tho tempter may not be able to enslave i city where you are in ac- you a drunkard's grave Tert of the Lesson, K. Sana. *-i 17-27. Golden Text, Isa. xxxiii., 22. 17. And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord to Mizpeh. 'the people pors-isting in demanding a king that they might be like other nations, God selected the man and brought him to Samuel in a remarkable way, and Samuel, himself tertained him and kept him < night, anointed him the next m< ing and sent him on his way. This lesson tells of the Lord's public elec- ^i,^Maa tin^ el, as recorded in chapter ix., is one of the most interesting of all Bible The weary, disappointed, man going to tho prophet to inquire about the lost asses and finding an unexpected welcome and feast and communion and rest for body and mind and then to bo told that he was chosen to be a king-- ■r heard of such surprises? And yet it is all a foreshadowing of le way by which every child of od is led in unexpected ways to iare with Christ His glory. 18, 19. Yo have--thrs^BliSrrejected your God. who Himself saved you out of all your adverseries and your tribulations, and ye have said unto Him, Nay, but set a king over us. They are reminded of all the Lord had done for them in tho great deliverance from Egypt and in His wondrous care of them and are told plainly that their present conduct is a deliberate rejection of Him notwithstanding all that He had done, It was only a short time before the events of our lesson that they were gathered at this same Mizpeh entreating Samuel to cease not to cry unto the Lord for them that He would deliver them from the Philistines, and, being delivered, they set up the Ebenezer stone, saying, "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us" (chapter vii., 8, 12). 20-22. When they sought him, he could not be found. Therefore they inquired of tho Lord further if the man should yet come thither, and the Lord answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff. All Israel presented themselves before tho Lord by their tribes, and the lot was cast for the tribe and for the family and for tho man, with the result that Saul, the son of Kish, of tho tribe of Benjamin, was chosen. But he could not be found. God knew tho kind of man whom they would like, and He was going to givo them a man after their own heart, and now He guided the lot to bring him before them, for "the lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord" (Prov. xvi., 33). oaul knew through Samuel that God had selected him (x., 1), and, knowing this, it was a becoming thing not to put himself forward, but let all see that he had no hand in the election. 23, 24. And they ran and fetched him thence, and when he stood among the peoplo he was higher than any of the people, from his and upward, and Samuel said to all the people, See ye him horn the Lord hath chosen. In chapter ix, 2, we read that ho as a choice young man and not a goodlier person in all Israel. Flesh and blood, and plenty of it, oven of good quality, is not everything, else "oliath and other giants might be ivied. Neither is outward appear-nce everything--that which people Jlr r,S^;ce -- as Samuel after. ard l'unr .1, 17). 26. And Saul also went home to Gibeah, and there went with him band of men whose hearts God' had touched God would help him by giving him helpers and friends. Hie d( iverything to make it easy for ,o do right if we are only willing erve Him in sincerity and trip He is tho same God who saw that it was not good for Adam alone (Gen. ii, 18), who also sent tho disciples out by twos (liuke 1), ard he always in due time r vides helpers for such as aro willing to dwell with Him for His work (I. Chiron, iv, 23; Isa. xli, 10). 27. But ?he children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him and brought him no presents, but he hold his When God works, the adversary also works, and if wo are can tlhe Lord's side, while we are sure to have friends, we will also have many to despise us. When Etuch rise up against us, it is well to do as Saul did and act as though we were deaf. See tho margin and also Ps. x,xxviii, 13. When later the friend of Saul cried out for the lives c these enemies, He would not alio' them to be harmed (chapter xi, 12 18). It is very interesting to not all the good points in Saul, and they are many up • •••••••••^(^•••••"la f FOR ™.E HOME | Recipes for the Kitchen. < Hygiene and Other Notes J for the Housekeeper. , DOMESTIC RECIPES. Johnny Cake.--Two eggs, two-cup sugar, two level spoons TINY PAWNBROKERS. Then there are twenty-four heso tiny women returned as pawnbrokers, forty as coalminers, fifty-cycle and motor makers, and hundred screw-makers and steol pen makers. One girl of ten figures under the classification "missionary, scripture-reader and itinerant, preacher," and one under that of "painter, engraver or sculptor." There are twenty-two girl messengers in the Civil Service, nineteen photographers, and 102 actresses, all ten or eleven years old. The boys of this elementary age are more ambitious. Five ten-year-olds are returned as "engaged in scientific pursuits," four are "author short hand'"VriteW'^and'fo ers are described with tantalizing vagueness as "connected with literature. "„ In addition, there aro thirty-four actors, and 233 invidiously described as "performers." Finally, theso tables reveal fact that while England and Wales contain six and a quarter millio habited houses, there are close haif i he houses altogether habited, while at tho same timo houses building are increasing at rate of near 15 per cent, per am while the population is only increasing at a little over 12 per cent. i after heart i appointed PHILOSOPHICAL BITS. Tho egotist is always the other fellow; Most men would rather fight than xt their own words. No, Maude, dear; the wife of a gov-rnor is not necessarily a governess. The dentist doesn't deal in perfum--y, but he is an authority on ex- You can't convince the father of twins that there is nothing new under tho sun. The fellow who makes a fool of himself is seldom satisfied unless he works overtime at the job. Even when poverty pinches some people insist upon adding to their misery by wearing tight shoes. Many a man who has the reputation of knowing a lot manages very successfully to conceal his knowledge. --Philadelphia Record. TOLD THE TRUTH. Edyth--"Aunt Margaret used t marry the 1 did she keep say she wouldn' Mayme--"And word?" Edyth--"Yes; but she got married just the same." Visitor--"You say you call horses Biscay and Bengal? Aren't those decidedly unusual names for horses?" Farmer--"Ef the joggra-fies hain't changed senco I got my schoolin', them's very good names for a pair o' big bays." Young Jones, at a bazaar, had recited once or twice, and the people were sitting about chatting, when ho heard one of the committee go up to the chairman and whisper. "Hadn't Mr. Jones better give us another recitation?" Chairman -- "No, not yet. Let them enjoy themselves a bit longer." Miss Vane--"I know he was talking to you about me. Now, wasn't he?" Miss Speitz--"Well, ye.s." Miss Vane--"I thought I heard him remark that I had a thick head of hair." Miss Speitz--"Partly correct. Ho didn't mention your hair. thirds shortening, good teaspoon salt, cups sour milk, two level teaspoons soda, three slightly heaping tablespoons flour; cornmeal to make bat-ir to run or spread out well in tin. Gooseberry and Rice Pudding.-- Butter a pie-dish, and into it put a shallow layer of green gooseberiies. Scatter sugar over it, and if you little grated lemon peel, then a thick layer of boiled rice, now another layer of gooseberries, rice, Scatter breadcrumbs over the top, with a little butter on them and bake in a moderate oven, allowing sufficient time for the fruit to Dried Beef Frizzled .--Melt three tablespoonfuls of butter in the spider, add two tablespoonfuls of flour and a dash of pepper and stir till it is a paste, then add two cups of rich milk and beat until it is creamy. Add three-fourths of a cup of dried beef which is cut thin and has been freed from fat and "strings" and cut fine. Let just come to a boil, and serve on triangles oFbuttered toast or with mashed potato. Nice for breakfast in hot weather. Baked Beans, Camp Fashion.--To bake beans according to the cuisine of the camp, soak the beans over night in cold water and parboil. Put into a beanpot with half a pound of pork on top; pour over them warm lo which has been added a tablespoonful of sugar, a teaspoonful of salt and mustard and pepper i your liking. Cover tho top with piece of cotton and fit tho lid on. Now you can bake it in an ordinary oven or in a stone-lined baking-hole by your woodside camp, in which you have kept a fire for two or three ' hours, setting the bean-pot among the hot coals and ashes and covering to keep the heat in. Lemon Tartlets.--Take a dozen raisins and split each, remove the stones and stow the fruit in a little water. Mix a dessertspoonful of cornflour with a little cold water. tho juico of two lemons and tho grated peel of one, five ounces of sugar and tho raisins. Beat all together. Line some patty pans with a thin paste, fill them with the mixture, cover each with bars,, of pas-try and bake for ten minutes. N. B.--It is an improvement to cook the filling for a few moments over pan of boiling water before baking. Brown Bread.--Weigh seven pounds of wholemeal (or if you prefer bran-bread, two pounds of bran to five pounds of wheat flour), put it into pan, and make a hole in the cen-b. Mic two ounces and a half of yeast with one quart of warm wa-pour this into the pan, and with how much courage it gives the chili if he has learned to trust you inw plfcitly. If you say "this will hurf you at first, but it will be over it an instant," he feels instinctively that you are. telling the truth. Th< indignation and shock to a child" from the deception often practised ati such times may have a permanent effect upon the character. It is na uncommon thing for a mother t« lose the confidence of her children in some such way, and once lost sucK confidence is not easily regained. A mother who retains the confidence oi her children can guide and help them, though she cannot command, in their of life, without making 'tjiera miserable slave One of the si children good i en is to gi rade. It is rest ways to^^aks nd useful men and. re them a profession becoming more and t the e ■eptio itudy for a life's work^ If she is ever a wife and mother she will be all the better fitted for her mission if sho has learned to do especial work well. However' wealthy parents are, they do a post-' wrong when they fail to educate* their sons and daughters so they can become self-supporting and self-re* spec ting. it to form a light batter. Dust" flour over and set to rise for one hour near the fire. After this time the dough will have risen, and the meal will be cracked. Then work in more water and a dessertspoonful of salt till you have kneaded all into a light dough and all the paste has worked from your hands. Set thia to rise for an hour, covering with a cloth. Make into loaves and bake an hour. If this makes the brend browner than you like put one pound of wheat flour to six pounds of whole meal. HONESTY TOWARD CHILDREN. Al! tho best and kindest mother can do for her children is to rear them up in the love of God and man, and leave them to their own choice, whether their life shall be an industrious, helpful one, or an idle, worth- nore than precept, and Example is r actions more t dangerous thing to deceive a child in even a trifling matter. It is tho seed of distrust which may grow to such dimensions as to poison the whole nature. If a boy or girl is called on to bear the pain of a slight surgical or dental operation, which does not require an anaesthetic, it is always better to tell the truth | firmly and quietly. It is wonderful i HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. Rooms Ibfested With Flies.--Should have a plateful of this mixture placed in each window: Mix one tea-sooonful each of brown sugar, and black pepper, with a little cream. To Clean Black Felt Hats. -- A good rubbing with benzine will remove all dirt and grease from felt, hats. - Hang in tho open air after-: wards to free from smell. Keep a Separate Sauce-pan--For cooking all green vegetables in, and it allow it to be used for etc., for no food material absorbs flavors more quickly than green vegetables. To Whiten tho Hands.--Mix thoroughly two ounces of eau de Cologne, two ounces of lemon juice, six ounces powdered brown Windsor soap. When hard this makes an excellent soap for whitening the hands. In dressing a salad--and salads are most in favor at this season-always remember that the lettuce must be perfectly dry and that the oil must be poured on it first. If the leavos are first wet with vinegar the oil will run to the bottom of the bowl and the salad will taste only of the vinegar and salt and pepper. A simple and novel cherry-seeder may be impeovised from an ordinary hairpin. Insert the closed end of the hairpin into tho cherry and draw out the pit. With a little practice this simple instrument can be used quite rapidly, and has the advantage of leaving tho fruit whole and perfect. A jelly of delicious flavor ia obtained by uniting the juices of red raspberries and currants in the proportion of one pint of the former to two pints of the latter. If the two fruits don't happen to be in season at tho same time, can the currant juice and set it aside until you can jelly is not so tirm as that mad« entirely of currants, which is a further advantage. Perfect jelly ii not hard, but just able to maintain its shape, trembling with its ow( weight when turned out. IMPORTANCE OF NEATNESS Neatness is a good thing for a girL_ and if sho doos not learn it when tJ }' ia young she never will. It tabes' j groat deal more neatness to make\ girl look well tnan it does to make a boy appear passable; not beca"ie " ly, to start with, is better loo,-' ing than a girl, but his clothes si of a different sort--not so many & in them--and people seldom j pect a boy to look so pretty as/ girl. A girl who is not neatly dresse-called a sloven and no ono like' look at her. Her face may bo ty, her eyes bright, but if there ts -spot of dirt on her cheek, and h< ■ finger ends are black with ink ari her shoes are not laced'or buttonei and apron is dirty and her cot" is unbuttoned, and her skirt ia frayed sho cannot bo liked. > be r THE LOAN WASN'T NEGOTIATED. ie a fiver, old man, and I shaif, $a svertrtstfng. Jack Hardu; ly indebted to you. Will Notte-- Yes, that's what I' j