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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



help recalling the incident where the dis- 

 ciples utterly failed in their attempt to 

 east out a demon. Jesus told them, as if 

 to encourage them, "This kind can come 

 forth by nothing, but by prayer and fast- 

 ing." They went to the Master, which is 

 always the right thing to do, and just as 

 this little girl has been praying over the 

 matter of the want of love and gentleness 

 between her father and mother. I suppose 

 Jesus meant by "fasting" that we should 

 be more anxious to have the demon ban- 

 ished than we are to have our daily food. 

 In fact, we should set about banishing evil 

 spirits with such earnest determination that 

 we shall forget even hunger and daily food. 

 It seems to take a good while and an 

 earnest etfort for the average man or 

 woman, or, say, father and mother, to learn 

 that a little thing may start discord. The 

 husband should be exceedingly careful in 

 choosing words when when he feels dis- 

 posed to find fault, and the same is true 

 with the wife. This is especially true, I 

 think, as we get to be older. Both men 

 and women settle down into fixed habits 

 as they become older, and sometimes these 

 habits of the two parties clash. Now, when 

 you feel like remonstrating or suggesting a 

 change, be very gentle about it. Take the 

 dear wife by the hand as you did fifty 

 years ago. Put your arm about her as a 

 reminder that you two are one. Suppose 

 you want her to let up a little on the 

 "housework, and not to be so particular 

 about having every thing "spick and span," 

 and free from dust. Suppose you wishher 

 to attend conference or some religious 

 gathering, and she says she is right in the 

 midst of ironing, and it can not be dropped. 

 If you wish to suggest that spiritual things 

 are of much more moment than the iron- 

 ing, say it gently and lovingly; and may 

 I suggest to the dear wife, if she finds 

 the good husband is getting to be careless 

 about cleaning his feet or removing his 

 dirty overshoes before coming into the 

 house, she should be very gentle in criticis- 

 ing. Wait until he is not hurried, say 

 some time when he is in a good frame of 

 mind; then tell him how your happiness 

 depends on a neat and tidy dining-room 

 and sitting-room. Suggest to him getting 

 a good substantial foot-scraper to clean 

 the feet; also one of the best modern rugs 

 near the door where he usually comes in. 

 If you go about it the right way, asking- 

 God to help you to be gentle and kind, you 

 will surely succeed, and the blessing of 

 the Holy Spirit will follow you. 



Now a word about automobiles. I am 

 really afraid they are going to make trou- 



ble in more than one home and in more 

 than one way. Mrs. Root and I have been 

 criticised and laughed at by a certain class J 

 because we have never yet owned an auto- i 

 mobile that cost a thousand dollars or 

 more, when at least a good many think we 

 might have one costing two or three thou- 

 sand dollars. These high-priced automobiles 

 may bring a kind of happiness for a time; 

 but I feel sure that a great part of them 

 will, in the end, bring sorrow and disap- 

 pointment. If they are used for taking 

 the whole family to church, well and good; 

 but our last county paper tells of a great 

 drygoods store firm that took all of its 

 employees a dozen miles or more to an 

 outing among some rocky scenery "on Sun- 

 day." I have feared these automobiles, es- 

 ]]ecially the stylish and expensive ones, 

 might lead to divorces. If the good wife 

 who has all her life been in the habit of 

 saving should not care to go on these trips, 

 especially on Sunday, it would not be 

 strange if the owner would take some 

 other woman or women who would "jump 

 at the chance" to go. 



Our young friend says, "Mama works 

 hard to take care of things around home;" 

 and she also suggests that the father rather 

 expects her to "wait on him all the time." 

 I can readily imagine that the poor woman, 

 in her anxiety to have her household at all 

 times in perfect order, may not herself be 

 always in perfect trim to go out riding 

 like these other ladies mentioned. Per- 

 haps she has waited on him all her life so 

 faithfully that he takes it as a matter of 

 course, and forgets all about it. By the 

 way, I wonder if this little girl's sermon 

 does not hit, first and last, a good many 

 homes, and not only a good many fathers 

 but mothers also. May God in his infinite 

 mercy and loving kindness send the Holy 

 Spirit with this childish message; and may 

 the angel of peace and love, because of it, 

 find an abiding-place in the hearts of many 

 a father and mother. 



AVIATION — WHY ARE SO MANY LIVES LOST? 



My dear Mr. Root : — I enclose clippings which ex- 

 plain themselves — the one regarding the fairground 

 managers compelling aviators to ascend against their 

 vcill, and the other on the subject of j'our talk in 

 the current issue, also confirming my statement. 



Lake Roland, Md., Sept. 29. B. B. Jones. 



Below is the clipping from the Baltimore 



Sun : 



AVIATOR GILL WAS NERVOUS ; OBJECTED TO GOING UP 

 IN THE AIR, AS IT WAS GETTING DARK. 



Chicago, Sept. 20. — "Officials in charge of the 

 aviation meet are all millionaires, and none of them 

 knows the first thing about aviation. They violated 

 every rule to safeguard the lives of the aviators." 



William Pickens, manager of aviator Horace 



