could support his child. Gold and silver will never open my doors unless there is real destitution.
"It is to the homeless," said the doctor, "the actually destitute, that we open our doors day and night, without money and without price." (Text.)—Westminster Gazette, London.
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PHILANTHROPY, PRACTICAL
Samuel Saucerman is the originator of the
"Trimmer Band," which is an unique and
effective method of promoting temperance
and thrift in the young, from nine to sixteen
years of age. To every boy in the State
of Iowa who will take the pledge to abstain from tobacco in every form, intoxicating liquor, gambling and profane language, Mr.
Saucerman will give $1.00 upon his joining
one of these "Trimmer Bands," and will
pay him one cent a day for three years, and
another $1.00 at the end of that period.
Members of these "Bands" are urged to save
their nickels and dimes, which would otherwise
be spent for tobacco and liquor, and
also hold monthly meetings to discuss
economy, finance, clean living, and everything
in line with industry and morals. To show
good faith, each boy must deposit 50 cents
with his first dollar, and at the end of the
three years, even if he has not himself
saved a cent, he will have $12.00. The object
is to establish habits of saving, which will
enable every boy at twenty-one to have
saved sufficient to start him in life, or to
go to college.—James T. White, "Character
Lessons."
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Photography of Germs—See Invisible, The, Made Visible.
Physical Ailments—See Remedies, Strange.
Physical Training—See Play and Morals.
PHYSICAL WEAKNESS OVERCOME
Rev. W. F. Crafts, Ph.D., writes of the success of scores of men who were born physically defective:
The list includes club-footed Byron, halting
Akenside, frail Spinoza, deformed Malebranche,
disfigured Sam Johnson, Walter
Scott, "a pining child"; Sir Isaac Newton,
"who might have been put in a quart pot
when born"; Voltaire, who was for some
time too small and weak to christen; Charles
Sumner, who weighed three and a half
pounds at birth; Lyman Beecher, who
weighed but three pounds at first, and was
laid aside by his nurse to die; Goethe, Victor
Hugo, and D'Alembert, who were so weak
at birth that they also were not expected to
live, and also Pope, Descartes, Gibbon, Kepler,
Lord Nelson, Sir Christopher Wren,
James Watt, John Howard, Washington Irving,
William Wilberforce, and many others
whom the world has delighted to honor as
mental giants—a list that well-born children
could hardly match—whose bodily weakness
in infancy in any but a Christian land would
have marked them as unworthy to be raised
to manhood. The study of such a group
ought to be an inspiration to boys handicapped
by any physical weakness, and it also
suggests that mind and will may conquer the
most adverse circumstances.
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Pibroch, The—See Music of Despair and of Hope.
PICTURE, RECORD PRICE FOR
Frans Hals was the hero of the evening at
the Yerkes sale at Mendelssohn Hall, April
7, 1910. His "Portrait of a Woman" brought
the highest price of the evening, $137,000,
the highest price ever given for a picture at
a sale in America and $8,000 more than the
record-breaking price of the evening before,
$129,000, which was paid for a wonderful
Turner.
The dear old Dutch woman whose portrait Frans Hals painted more than 400 years ago could never have dreamed, if her practical soul was given to anything in the nature of visions, of ever being worth, in any form, so very many thousand dollars. She was the calmest-looking person in the hall when the curtains were drawn aside and she was revealed sitting quietly in her big chair, a wide ruff around her plump throat, a close cap encircling her placid face, one hand at her waist as she sat primly for her portrait, the other at her side clasping her Bible.—New York Times.
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Pictures—See Piety.
PICTURES, INFLUENCE OF
It pays to spend thought on the pictures
we put on our walls. A charming woman
once said:
"My earliest impression is a picture that hung on the wall over my bed and which I had to look at the last thing every night before I went to sleep. It was that of a white
