Maybe the women are lying around with hair unbrushed, and dresses and aprons showing the stains of week-day work. Rather frowsy. If they don't feel any better than they look, they are some points below normal.
Just lying around, not at church, not fit to be seen, not feeling much respect for oneself. Pretty low down, not much above the dirt level. Doing no good, getting no good out of the blest day.
Does plain lying about things hurt one more than this lying around on Sunday? It makes one almost trifling.
Don't do it. On Sunday morning, get up, wash up, dress up, shave up, shine up, go up to church, think up toward God and the highest and best. The day will be worth much more to you. You'll feel better Monday morning, better rested, better fitted for the work of the new week. Quit lying around, and try it.—Presbyterian Advance.
(1940)
LYING PUNISHED
Some time ago in a case in New York a
man gave false evidence under oath and
upon that evidence the point at issue was
sent to a referee and costs amounting to
$1,759 were incurred. A certain judge to
whom these facts became known fined the
perjured man the full amount of the costs
and directed that when the fine was paid it
should be turned over to the aggrieved party.
This action has recently been affirmed by the
United States Court of Appeals.
"This is hailed as a rebuke to a growing
evil, that of lying under oath and
nothing being thought of it if one can
avoid detection or any civil consequences.
The home, the school, the
Church and the State should unite and
compel greater attention to the dishonor
of lying, and business concerns should
be held strictly to account wherever misrepresentation
or lying form a part of
the business methods. Decent men
should refuse to trade with the man
who scolds his clerks for not making a
sale and declares the failure was due to
not lying hard enough."
(1941)
M
MACHINE, AN ACCURATE
A fine clock, reminding a community of
the lapse of time and of the value of the
fleeting minutes and hours, is an object of
much public interest. Some clocks have a
particular historic interest due to their long
and accurate service in behalf of a hurrying
and often heedless humanity. A number of
invited guests were recently privileged to be
present one night in Strasburg Cathedral
to observe the mechanism of the famous
clock. For the first time since its construction
in 1842, the machinery was called upon
to indicate the first leap-year of a century,
after an eight-year interval. At astronomical
midnight the levers and trains of
wheels began to move, the movable feasts of
the year took their respective places and the
admirable mechanism, calculated to indicate
in perpetuity all the changes of the calendar,
continued its regular movement. The man
who can construct a great clock like that is
indeed a mechanical genius.
(1942)
Machine-shop Equipment—See Modernity.
MACHINE TESTIMONY
In an article in the Evening Post on "Manners Over the Wire," the writer says:
Some little thing may reform an age, the
adage runs, and so perhaps the phonograph
recording device, which was installed recently
in the Copenhagen telephone exchange
to check the ill-natured remarks of subscribers
to central, by convicting offenders
out of their own mouths, may bring about
a revolution in the Danish city's manners.
Probably one of the first thoughts of the man who invented the telephone, and knew that he could project sound over distance, was that now he could tell his stronger neighbor his candid opinion without risking the dog and a possible thrashing; one of his second thoughts was to put his new-found
