to the picture. That estate also included a large tenement district in one of the worst portions of London. In wretched hovels, surrounded by saloons and low resorts, the miserable people paid their rents, exorbitant for such quarters, and these rents supplied the funds for the luxury and extravagance of the former owner. But now what has happened? The lady who owns the estate to-day is using her revenues, not for her own luxuries, but in bettering these homes, in driving out these saloons, and in creating a new spirit of love between her and her tenants. A few country yokels get less to spend for drink, but a great city population has more joy in living, and the bitter class distinction between riches and poverty is lessened.—Donald Sage Mackay, "The Threshold of Religion."
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Wealth Statistics—See Money-power in Canada; Money-power in the United States.
Weapons Displaced—See Warfare, Antiquated.
Weather Forecast—See Prognostication
of Weather.
Weather Influencing Crime—See Crime,
Epidemics of.
Weather, The, and the Spider—See Indicator,
An Insect.
Weaving—See Web of Life.
WEB OF LIFE
Sit down by the side of an Old World lace-*maker
for a few moments. Fifty or a hundred
bobbins, or spools, hang around a
cushion in which there is a forest of upright
pins. Every bobbin hangs by a thread that
runs toward and among the pins. The onlooker
sees the worker throw one bobbin
over another, as tho she were playing with
them. But how she knows which bobbin to
pick up, and where to toss it, is a mystery.
Out of the great complex of pins and threads
comes a beautiful lace pattern, regular and
beautiful. So the divine Weaver takes one
and another of us, ordering us here and
there, but keeping us always attached, like
the lace-maker's thread, to a definite purpose.
As we look back over the past, we can see
the wonderful pattern and perfect work of
the weaver. Just what he is working out,
for us and with us, now, we can not discern.
But the lesson of the past is that the future
will be good, and we can trust the Weaver
of the indefinite to do all things well.
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WEALTH, INCREASE OF
The great increase of wealth in the United States through a period of eight years (1900-1908) is shown in the tables below. Does it not mean a corresponding increase of national responsibility?
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