The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 3, 1905, Page 4

se lons de- Deheld N R MAR& ANGEL of tkhe RN CLATTON — 7 & Jan ben Lyck ted them in simple. draper- wings large. glorious and n color,' tinted with . the ¢ hues of heaven. When these wings were outspread they ecous background for the when they were at rest the wings drooped to the quaint tradition that the g wings to God's messen- om the maple key. the 1 blossom of the maple ain seasons -of the r m and then flutters to ¥ two delicate trans- Whether thls is respon- igning wings to the “up- or not still a mystery, »efore the time of Michael, }- the usical choirs of ssenger of Isis traveled heaven upon wings, while 1so sped hither and thither is e of simple white drap- ng ot angels’ colors deli- ’ greens, reds and ] r Then there came a poried of elaboration. The Spanish and Flemfsh artists depicted apgels arrayed 12, heavy, trafling robes embroidered end jeweled -in barbaric splendor. Later. a reaction began and painters-went in for the loase,, simple flowing drapery of the Greeks. Some of them even went back to the Old Testament idea’ of wingless angels. Rosgetti, for Instance, ‘made ‘his Annunciation” “abgel a-slender, grate- ful and youthful figure without feathgred appendages. Burne-Jones is another ex- ponent of the simple style of angel. Fra Angelico is said to’have pajnted the most “eminine angels of any of the great mas- ters. “ Though he ' §s. supposed ‘o have believed wholly In the man angel, the faces of heavenly messengers, ex- quisitely daity against tlie gniden’ back- grou: of the’ pimbus, were decidedly femtni, Now and then. gepuine feminine ve -dppeared. on canvas oOr dugels s out of marble, but neither the or art seems to approve ‘of this e from the ofthodox™iu_angel- o0 purples * 0)GgY. *ine expianation of this. oversight or wulful negleci in aman with the heavenly host is that woman's place in the ancient ence on art. an accejted. fact. Réank, among the angels was fitst ob- served in the early part of the Bihle. There the first of the archangels are mentloned. St. Michael, the guardian angel of Israel. was made the cantain of the archangels. His aymy comprised six othérs of the elect in ‘Anzelhood, among whom were Gabriel, Raphael and Uricl. ‘In the satter of wings both Michnel and Gabriel appear to be quite independent. They are as often repre- sented with them as without. On account of his fight with the demon Michael 13 usually presented in “full armor with gleaming sword upralted. Bdpuael and Guido Reni have taught us te think of this archangei as a knight, while Gabrisl is seen arrayed in gorgequs rohes horne by angel pagés, This archangel is essen- tially feminine and as the angel .of the Annunciation there seemfis to "be opd reason for gzepresenting.Gahriel as a woman. Order of Imporiance. Next to the archangels came the cherubjm and sergphim in ‘thé heaven- Iy hierarchy. THe séraphim®are sup- posed to be clokest to the throne of tha Creator, while the cherubim, who gre wiser than the seraphim, are given spe- eiai duties to perform. LR In his Madonna - dl | San ' Siste . Ra- phael represented cherubs ag1ies dren with tigy wings. me: bedds and others gtd sgtm bodles. Murillp. fde, Riled of thé “Immaculate Coni tiny winged heads. Perug]gm“g Ve us cherubim with ‘three pairs ‘of Wwings, surrownding a baby face, .no doubt Dasing _ this. ignciful imsgé “on ° that versé in the Bible Which sheaks of the cherubim ivith three pairh of wings; one to cover the feet, one to cover the face and. the third to fly with! But what has religion of to-day to RGNS How to Make a Success of the. Popular Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.) E b borrowed from our Engiish vousins the phrase if ot the idea of the “week's €énd” Over here we.are 5¥ pepple, and our leisure Only the rich can af- , and probably -mahy of be amazed if they knew y bubdreds of rieh men inmg to spend their livep of mere pleasure. week's end, bringing with it the y half tempts thou- and clogeness fo quiet and the Another visit. dust of rural the plication 0f suburban 10 longer exceptional, re the frequent choicé of young people, of middic-aged people k repose and ef men who ke and & cottage wheh Add to this ity - of outdoor as & hopeful .sign of the times. the mmer the Saturday boats are thronged with ho carry sult cases and \ light luggage for a day m home. send invitation who tratns. Fash- w require that there u ainty 2s to the time 2 guest is invited, the hours being jrecisely be a man of s S afternoon L ioned to a fem- ater asking Miss Green week's cnd visit may say; me the at pleasure of t home ‘of mine, ang come (neming jou at the find the and com- u will re afternoon.” e was not his d ask him to on_ and stay ing him that any hour on nience. breakfa at would su A guest who goes for the week's end houid mot be burdened with too s of raiment. A man may ening clothes, so that if ghe old be formal h dress for er. He may take besides a suit of nels that he may be reedy for tennis or golf. A women, in eddition to her traveling dress. should have a Dreitv €own of or- die or summer silk, which will be ntly festive for any funetion. For her own room or the veranda, she should have some sort of negligee, which she wear avhile chatting a.one with her At the breakfast table, however, apd wher In company with the other guests, a shirt waist and skirt are in'good taste when a kimona or wrapper is inad- missible. The same rules concerning dress obtain if a lady goes With her husband to spend the week's end at the shore or anywhese a hotel. One mever wears any lounging dress such as a tea kimona or dressing Jjacket, al- se may be very sumptuousiy richly embroidered. outside own room in a hotel. The dress v Women in-places of public resort should be simple and severe rather than elaborate, This is the rule in this coun- try, ‘although yery elegant and costly costumes may be seen in the great cara- vansaries of New York. The woman who is simply a bird of passage must not wear gay plumage. 5 EE e Carry to the week's-end visit a de- termination to enjoy yourself and to have a good time. There are peopie \who are everywhere welcome because they bring with them 2 light heart, a graclous manner and a willingness to be entertain- ed. Nothing is more depressing to a hostess than somcbody with a heavy personality, who settles down, wants to -do nothing, to go nowhere, and who con- tributes 1ittl® to the general fund of pleas- ure, Guests should conform to the rules of the household in which they are re- ceived. It is the part of good breeding not to be late at meals, and on Sunday morning to be ready to attend church with the tamily and tg-express Interest in the preacher and the serviees. A guest in a private house is not at all on the footing of a guest at an inn. It is incumbent on him or her to enter fully into the family life. No well-bred guest treats. any member of his host's family with negligence or discourtesy. ¥or instance, if tBere is in the family an aged man or womun, or an invalld, a guest should not full to bestow some at- tention on such, and should take care not to pass them by without kind words and looks, Especlally should attention be shown to aby one who has the mis- fortune to be deaf and who is therefore likely to be left out of.the conversation and to miss some of its delicate shades. About giving tips to servants there wide difference of opinion. There are employers who are extremely an- noyed at the thought- that a guest un- der their roof shdll bestow a fee or gratuity on the mald or the man who renders a Service. Others are less sensitive on this point and have no objection to allowing thelr domestics to accept a tip from a departing guest. As company in the house always means extra work for the help they are not to blame if they prefer those Zuests who slip a little money into the hand when they are ®oing away. A in Week’s End Visit With Tact and Taste. lady may please a njaid ps well by be- stowing on her sonje.pretty gift such as_ a stock; a handkerchief, a Tibbon, or a pair of ,gloves, as by giving her money outright.’ TUnless host and lostess are known to be opposed to the practice, a guest need not hesitate to give a §mall sum to those who haye ministered to his or her comfort. Years ago a ‘man who was born and had lived abroad most of his life was often a visitor in the home of a young girl whom he greatly admired -and who later became his wife. Following the European custom, he always set his boots outside his.bedroom door at night and he invariably found them well polished when he opened his door in the morning. He lad been some time a married man before he discov- ered that the maid who had blackened his boots was the dainty daughter of the house. She used to steal softly to the deor when all was still and carry those boots to the bathroom. where she cleaned them herself, The malds who dld the ordinary work would have disdained this homely tagk. which she wiilingly took upoM herself. for = her lover rather than give him a moment's embarrassment, Host and hostess should plan to give guests a good deal of freedom in the week’s end visit. It {s a greéat bore to be constantly entertained. The free- dom of the house and grounds, liberty to drive or row on lake or river, and some degree of license s to reading, writing letters, or taking walks are greatly appreciated. If there are chil- dren in the family keep them some- what in the background. American children are apt to exact quite too much from those who visit thelr parents. Precocious children are dreaded by bachslors and young people who are absorbed In their own matters and ‘re- gard “kids" as rather superfluous when garden parties and picnics are on foot, and yet some ple suffer their chil- dren to tag alon® on every occasion, whether they are-.in the way or not. The children will have their innings Jater; while they are lttle let them have the sweet security and retirement that befits childhood. A week's end visit is very brief, Make it ideal r:i( you cpar. I wonder if you girls have ever thought how much depends In this world on 2 good manner. I am not exactly talking about manners, for I think of several peo. ple, whose manners are not at all rude or bocrish, who are quite punctilious about being polite, who yet often at a disadvantage. T whole effect is spoiled by something hard to define, In the first place, one's manner is really one's self. It shoula fit like a glove, or like a dress that is made by somebody who knows just how te give the best cut and the most graceful style, Secondly, mote that manwer is person- kes the differ- ence between grace and clumsiness, be- tween sincerity and affectation. Far more vorld was too unim- £ portant for her to have any decided influ- . Her inferiority to man was ~ with, g;:xwmf HITH THAEL Say about the belief in and representa- tion of angels? From the Unitarian point of view the Rev. Dr. Thomas R. Slicer gives it as his epinion that “angels were men and angelic at- tributes were no more feminine than masculine.” The matter can hardly be taken seriously, for the representation of the angelic presence is simply a part of the symbolism of religious art and is meant to aid the imagination of .the devout, who need ‘symbols in their ap- proach to the spiritual sphere. All physical renresentation Oof piritual “things is a survival of that view of the unjyeree whish carried over to the Christian thought the Greek. conception of Olympus and its dejties. “The word angel simply means ‘mes- senger,’ and to the, Christian other world conveying His will by mes- sengers, the conception is 'a very nat- ural one, But to the devdut-mind God is immanent, the vital cemnter -of ‘the atom, the spul of the atom as well as the soul of the man.” There i8 a, place /for the poetry of religion and the csthetics of worship, but it ean mever be more :than the em- Dbroidery of thought and must-bs out-" grown by the thoughtful, The:human world, /. which thinks of God enthroned in the THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL _' ¥ are Wingleses. TOIEITIE WINGLESS A know, ‘ana prooapfy nobody ' does. . Whether they, have faces, figures,. drap-; —THE FEMIINE ANGEL — |B Fra Argelrco - T K GEL kingdom above us, hl§ messengers, In order to reach the earth, as they fre- soul in its most devout moments needs ery and wings is more than:we can. quently:did in.ancient times, were be- no interpreter bétween God and'it. Its s wery well expressed 20 b e % qug? sure a0 And witat say those oF opinions? One of the . Tects 5 Patrick's Cathedral answered . prom Iv: "Of course, therw gre.angels, they are repreésented with <win! latge, benutiful and glorious ones, “An= els ate creatures without, body ahd gulong‘ to the ‘spirit-‘world, but as to what ghey rveally look like-I do not RET E. SANG than you may think, your success in life, your abjlity to carry out what you un- Yertake, depénd on your possessing an at- tractive manner. The best manner sprin, from the best and truest heart. A man- ner that sets others,at eage Mand keeps them from feeling awkward .and out of place is sure to be good. A manner that for ‘a single Instant and for any cause whatever makes "another person uncom- fortable {s sure to be a bad manner: You cannot put on a manner and take it oft as you put on and take off & party frock. Your manner is you, and Whatever ‘else you do yoii ean never get away from be- ing yourself. i A person who has had kind thoughts and -unselfish ways ail her life, who has never been proud and conceited, or haughty and vain, who has naver looked down on anyhody or fanefed that some- hody else was not fit-to:be noticed,. will be very likely to hayé -2 good manner, and good manners, too. ook iw 5 Now that I have said this, I want to speak of a few points. One conceras your beliavior in pubjic-places. There is no -particular harm in giggling and laughing immoderately when a group of girls are by themselves, and see something. funny that quite upsets them. But-a car In which you are coming home from school, or the stréet on whic¥ you are walking with other people, or the ferry-boat, is not the place for boisterous mirth. Really well-bred girls are rather quiet in such places, and remember that they aré not the only people on the road, and are very careful not to do or say anything which wili make them conspicuous. This is_point No. 1. If you go to'a matinee and there are people aroupd you who wish to enjoy the opera or the play, it is to the last degree improper for girls to whisper and chat and carry on conversatious of their own to the annoyance of those about them. Equally, no matter how dainity and becoming your picture hat may be, good manners will lead you to remove it and hold It in your lap, if in a place of amusement it interfere with the view of somebbdy behind you. I once heard a lady ask a girl to remove her hat. The girl turned with a frown, which very much disfigured a pretty face, and said firmly: “I shall keep my hat on.” This leads me to still another point. Thoughtless girls sometimes pride them- selves on being very candid, They tell you, with quite an air, as If they were saying something fine, “I never hesitate to speak out and say exactly what I mean. I gon't care to whom I am talk- ing. T just tell the whole truth.” Nome of us are excusable for telling what is not true. But: there are times when si- lence is .better than , and wh we have no business whatever to tell either the whole truth or even a little bit of it. Sometimes we have re- serves. And a lle may be told by a cow- ardly silence. All adepends on the ogca- sion. If your Aunt Mina has just bought an expensive green cloth for her next gea- son's gown it is :o’; your dllxuty ::,, inform her that green does no. suit ~com- plexion, or that it is less fashionable tban Dbive. Let her enjoy her purchase. You were not as.ed for advice, and it is the worst thing in the world, so far as manners are involved, to go about giving people who do not seek it. “say, but the ' plotorfal with which y “’m"{' tamitiar js di . Bi faka the story of Bt. &::m:.fi%fi&"o demog, 3, 4 13 thkes. part in @’ flerce struggle, An-Fhat -instance’ 2 naturally ‘is por- 1ravea dresseéd in fall armor-and, with @ SWor B{lcl:%el( in ¢haa’ airy draperies or otherwise than i afmor. ; interpretation ‘e . areh-: ay. and- the: We .do not thihk of" St.' Heved™rto ~have: wings. - The angels ken of . In . the Bible were mostly nasculine, ' but .as they were spirits tHey pinst have been ‘sexless. Mmm«cmg; “more than Cath- olies dg.- Our sta ’. dre for the most! part those of saints, because we believal it i befter te place the figures of those saints whom we know to have suffered and lived llke the rest of us before the “The dcfinitfon of an angel Is ‘a mes-. oyeés of the people as. holy examples sénger,’ one sent. from: God, and as God: is supposed to 1lve‘in' the heavenly® DOGREROGRERNOR (Copyright, 1903, by Joseph E. Bowles.) ¥ } bad my way I would give every girl a moderate allowance in cash ‘to eoyer her expenses by the week _ or the month, " Please notlee, girls, * the force of the adjective. T would not bestow on a school girl so much _money that she would be prompted to rush wildly off to spend her little for- tune the moment she received it,,nor that she ‘could buy:all the sweets she craved, or even-take uniimited rides in tfolley cars, or'indulge in any other pastime to her heart's content. 'Nothing is' so bad for most of us as to he able to gratify every wish without some self-denfal. Whether you know it of not, the greatest misfortune that can befall a yoting girl when she is growing up is to be able to spend money foolish- ly just because there is pleasure in the spending. To be sure, there is a good deal of excitement in going into a shop and buying pretty things right and left, and once in a while it is a satisfaction to be just a little bit extravagant. But the one thing beyond others that you need to know, and the one habit you ought to acquire before you are much older, is that of living well within your income, whatever it is. A girl who has an allowance has an income, and she Is therefore on exactly the same plane, so long as she does not exceed it, as the woman who has a deep purse and counts her wealth by mil- lions. A girl without anallowance is a pensioner. She is not necessarily a mendicant. Her father, her mother, her guardian would be most reluctant to put the little daughter in that position. Nevertheless, she is a pensioner. Some- times, on birthdays or at Christmas, her pocketbook is well filled; sometimes when - she looks especially pretty or has taken honors in school, or her father is in a very bountiful mood, he throws her a bill or a coin of gold, and she is tempo- rarily rich. But her ot is not so enviable as that of her friend who has something regular on which she can count, and whose . spending money is neither doled out in driblets or flung out by the handful, but given her in a busi- ness-ljke way on' the first of the month, or perhaps every fortnight. ~If 1 were you and were living in the beautiful season where the years are ap- proaching the teens, or under 18, I would persuade the powers that be to give me an_allowance. Some parents begin when their children are very smal, the first allowance is only a few cents a week. This is grad- ually as the children grow older. A girl of 12 should, if possible, have a weekly or monthly allowance large enough to pay her fares and travell expensés back and forth to schaol : town, to pay for her statlonery, pens and pencils, to cover little presents she wishes + . than to give them angels witheut body and sofil to emulate. "What ‘man or to' glve, and dainty articles for her toilet, and to purchase the trifles such as ruch- ing, ribbons and bits of embroidery which make the delicate finishings of a young girl's dress. It might and should also include enough-to buy stockings, hand- kerchiefs and other. requisites of the wardrobe. ¥ If a girl has been carefully instructed in the art of spending money, by the the time she is 15 she should be able to select her own clothes and take entlre charge of the outlay for frocks, wraps, hats and shoes. Few girls aTe taught this art as they should be. It is at least as important as music or French. A girl away at boarding school usually has an allowance which is deposited witn the principal of the school, and on which she is allowed do draw as she would on a sum in bank. She often has a bank book and a check book, and learns prac- tically how to keep accounts and man- age her small affalrs to advantage. - The daughters of a certain well-known financier have'their allowance paid them quarterly. It Is by no means immense, al- thoygh it Is ample to cover the requisites of young women in the society of a small town. ould they spend the entire amount the first day after receiving it, no more money would be fortheoming from papa’s millions until quarter day should come around again. This is an important feature, if one is to have an allowance. Parents must not be too ready to make up a deflcit. A frugal girl contrives to have some- thing left untouched on the last day of the month. An improvident girl is often so deenly in debt that her money Is an- ticipated and she has to pay it all out al- most as seon as it Is in her hands, which is a very bad way of getting along. o e e Tt you are permitted to have an allow- anhce, confer with your father and under- stand precisely what you are to do with it. Then make up your mind firmly that you will®ever overrun the sum in your pockethook by so much as flve cents. Provide vourself with a blank book and pencll. You do not need an elaborate system of bookkeeping, but put down carefully and legibly every day all that you have spent, and subtract the sum from your total. I need not tell you to Pay as you go. You will find it at once the safest. most convenient and most sat- isfactory method of managing money. Do not be too ready to borrow or to lend. A girl should never borrow if she can help herself, and while she should not be mean, and grudging, she should beware of loose lending. Myra, a girl friend of mine, was a student at a fashionable boarding schotl. She had only a small allowance. but it was punctiliously sent her by her father, and as she had been trained in businesslike ways shé always had money in her purse. Just across the corridor there roomed a girl who dressed with great elegance and had an air of boundless wealth. This girl, who was very sweat and attractive in manner, had a fatal chronic habit of amlable borrowing, and was very slow churche¢s use angels_as ding. They'are divided S 2 i and each ome- of us has .4 angel. about Jt may about them. ter angel, this sympathetic. b and suffered with us? “God created these spirit wait upon and servae hi angels, to to do his bld- Wo seldom _preach angels in our ehurch. . be becduse we know so littl Angels do not appedr to us now-as they were said to have done once, tHough occasionglly we.have peo- ple Here who imsist they have been visited by a heavenly messenger.” STER’S TALKS ¥ # To Be Practical and Independent S'ch.ool.) Girls Should Have an Allowance. in vaying her debts. She - gradually used up the patience 4f most of her classmates, who learned- to be shy of listening to her honeyed pleadings.” But Myra did not know her and was rather flattered when Lucy came flylng In impulsive and smiling, begking for a ° loan which took nearly every cent from Myra’'s little hoard. . The money was to be returned in a day- or two, but weeks passed and Lucy sald nothing ahout reimbursement. Mean wii] Myra, the honorable, was'in the depth: of despair and in the greatést incon- venience. She never forgot afterward to be very careful to whom she made . loans. i % One more suggestion. It is as much a duty §o give to those who need it as it is not a duty foolishly to loan money. Every young girl should have. her charities. There are other girls in the- world who need assistance. Thera are causes very dear to us. We wish as a matter of course to use money in our - chureh work. To do this in the bes§ way we must do it according to sys- tem, and a fixed proportion of every - one's allowance should be put aside and held as 4 sacred trust because it Ig to be devoted to some unselfish purpose. For the rest, beware of having holes in purse which is very much like what the Bible describes as a bag with holes. Do not let outgo creep beyond Income. Be Just first and afterward be generous. Regard - money as as an. opportuaity which must be put to goed account. S . Girls with very sweet manners always rise ‘when older people enter a room., I don't insist upon this, but I just whisper that a girl who does it shows exiremety good training. Onme, of course; know$ that a boy will rise when a lady entets a reom, but it is just as preity 4 rule for a girl. About borrowing/ books and umbrellas and fans and any other thing you happen to want from a schoolmate, observe that good manners reuuire you to return them pronfptly. Should you be obliged to ask the loan of a little change for car fare or a church collection, or some unexpect- ed emergency, do not delay payment, but take trouble ta return fhe amount o the first opportunity. . In the family twe persons should not be reading the same baok at the same’ time. 1f Belie has the prior claim on the ° book that has come from the Hbrary.let her finish it before Clara begins, In some houses certain chairs, certain corners of the room and cerfain seats at the table, by a Kind of unwritten law. are the property of this or the other person. Do not seat yourself compla- ceutly in that corner of the soft where y6ur grandfather has read his morning paper for the last twenty years. Respect the rights of everybody. By no means look over the paper that your ! F neighbor Is reading in a ferry-boat or a-* sfreet car.. Do net interrupt conversa- tion, and if a friend hesitates for a word,. J walt with patience until she finds it. The word will come to her, never fear, if you d? not ‘hwn to supply it - -