An officer of a Cunard steamer remarked that there is "a vast difference between the appearance of steerage passengers returning to Europe and those coming to America. On the western voyage the faces of the immigrants are bright with expectancy. You can see that they have been inspired by the roseate visions painted for them by their friends who have succeeded on this side of the water. Those who go back are not many. You can pick them out by their dejected looks. They have not succeeded. They have found that hard work is just as necessary to get along in the States as in Europe."
The sad faces of those who go back
because they failed is an illustration of
the gloomy hearts that are carried by
those who have turned away from their
Christian profession and gone back to
their sins.
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See Profession versus Character;
Spiritual Declension.
Appearances, Judging by—See Judgments,
Indiscriminate.
APPEARANCES MISLEADING
It is the custom in European, if not in all
American, prisons to shave the head and face
of criminals in order to have the full force
of the moral expression furnished by the
contour of one and the outlines of the other.
A profusion of hair may disguise the head
whose shape often reveals a degree of turpitude.
A luxuriant mustache may hide a
mouth about which lurks the evidence of
the basest instincts. (Text.)—San Francisco
Chronicle.
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APPETITE
To be slain by appetite is a common fate with men, as it was with this serpent:
A boa-constrictor woke up hungry from
a three months' nap and caught a rabbit,
which he bolted whole in the usual
way. This did not satisfy the cravings
of his capacious stomach, and so he went
afield in search of further victuals, and
presently came to a rail fence, which he
essayed to get through. But the lump
caused by the defunct tho undigested
bunny stopt him, like a knot in a rope,
when his head and a few feet only of his
body had passed between the rails. Lying
in this attitude, he caught and swallowed
another rabbit which had incautiously ventured
within his narrow sphere of action.
Now, what was the state of affairs? He
could neither go ahead nor astern through
the fence, being jammed by his fore-and-aft
inside passengers, and in this embarrassing
position he was slain with ease.
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APPOINTMENT, GOD'S
Take each disappointment
As thy Lord's appointment
Sent in love divine;
Check all faithless fretting
God is not forgetting
Any need of thine.
Appraising the Christian Religion—See Christian Honesty.
Appreciating Patience—See Good, Seeing
the.
APPRECIATION
When Sir Godfrey Kneller had painted for Alexander Pope the statues of Apollo, Venus, and Hercules, the poet paid the painter with these lines:
What god, what genius did the pencil move,
When Kneller painted these!
'Twas friendship, warm as Phœbus, kind as love,
And strong as Hercules.
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The reckless extravagance that has brought Princess Louise, of Belgium, into such trouble with her royal relations is far from being due entirely to selfishness, and Brussels now is discussing, half in admiration, half in despair, the latest story showing the utter inability of the princess to realize the value of money or the things it buys. When in Paris, a few weeks ago, she happened to be in her room in her hotel when a little work-*girl from one of the shops in the Rue de la Paix called to deliver a gown. Princess Louise was struck with the girl's charm of face and manner, and, keeping her for a few minutes in conversation, chanced to admire a small silver medal she was wearing around her neck.
"It is a medal of the virgin of Prague," said the girl. "Perhaps your Highness will accept it."
Princess Louise thanked her warmly; but, insisting on giving the girl something to replace the trinket, handed her a rope of
