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JOHN WESLEY’S HOUSE.
Now a Methodist Museuvaith a Mission
' in London. _ .
The Methodists had a. great time over,
in London the other day when John
. Wesley’s old house, in City road, was
dedicated as a museum of Methodism.‘
There isn’t a. Methodist in America. or
Lngwhere else who dosen’t regard Wes-
ley’s mission with reverence, and it is
but fitting that the old house adjoining
the birthplace of the Methodist Church,
in which the founder of that sect lived
Ind died, should be rescued from decay
and preserved in as near its original
state as possible. .
The work of restoration has already
been accomplished. The building was
found to be in a. state of.dilapidation,
but every vestige of decay has been
removed. Preparations are being made
for the housing of mission workers for
the building will not be merely a mu-
seum. A part of it will be devoted to
practical church work.
The first floor, however, will be pre-
served intact, with all the precious rel-
ics. It is a plain brick building, fin-
ished in October, 1779. The interest
centres mainly on the three rooms of
the first floor. The front room, with
Its windows facing City road, was the
sitting room of the preachers who lived
with Mr. Wesley, whilethe second was
hs study and bedroom as well, the
room in which he died. The study
opens into a small room of triangular
Shape, to the rear of the house. This
was the closet where the aspostle of
Methodism was wont to pray, the most
hallowed spot of all.
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In the front room stands Wesley's
rlookcase, a well made and elegant piece
of furniture, with doors glazed in a
trellis kind of pattern. Also John Wes-
ley’s chair, occupied by the president
of each London Wesleyan Conference
since the founder’s death. And here
also is John Wesley’s antique side ta—
ble, made of oak, inlaid with walnut.
On the landing is the famous clock,
keeping as good time to-day as when
it started the great evangelist on his
ceaseless Journeys, or called to early
morning service at 5 o’clock.
In the next room, the bedroom and
study combined, is the bureau with its
cunning secret drawers where Wesley
kept his private papers. On the inside
of the doors are thirty-two portraits
of early Methodist prea'chers and other
ministers—placed there, it is said, by
Wesley’s own hand. In this bureau
is the celebrated teapot of enormous
size from which in the early hours of
the Sabbath morning Wesley would
pour out the tea while he discussed
matters of moment 'with ‘those other
early leaders of the Methodist Church.
The old teapot is one of the most in-
teresting relics to be enshrined in the
museum. Wesley was a great tea.
drinker, and he was very fond of this
old pot which was presented to him by
(Wedgwood, the famous potter ofVSt'af-
fordshire. An enthusiastic American
tourist recently altered $10,000 for the
old teapot, despite the fact that it is
cracked and minus a. part of its spout.
Greatly in need of money as the Lon-
don Methodists may 'be the offer was
promptly refused.
To Make Good Coaee.
It is a little curious that the most
expert authorities, almost without ex-
ception. fell back upon the old-fashion-
ed coffeeLpo-t as the one which, prop-
erly looked after, produces the best
coffee. The reason this is not true in
the average kitchen is because the
qualification mentioned is not careful-
ly observed. One mistress insists not
only that the inside of the coffeespot
shall be clean, but that it shall be pol-
ished—this not because she cares for
the polish, but because in this way
the absolute cleanliness of the inter-
ior is insured. The deposit of sedi-
ment-from many coffee-makings final-
ly effects the flavor of all brews made
in the pot. Gare, too, should be taken
to keep the inside of the tea-kettle free
from deposit, and with pure, freshly
boiled water, a good grade of coffee.
the fourth of a whole egg—shell and
all—with five-minute boiling, and
prompt service at the tablef the old-
fashioned pot, be it of tin, copper, bri-
tannia, agate, or what not, is still the
peer of any in the long list of spe-
cial coffee-pots to he found in any
housefurnishing shop.
The Kind of Wlte to Have.
A man who had been indulging too
heavily since the New Year Was in-
duced to sign the pledge.
“You must let me have it," said the
wife. “I will keep it for you.” So
the pledge was handed over to the
wife's custody.
The next day [the man was drinking
again as freely as before.
“How is this?” asked a friend. "You
signed the pledge yesterday, and now
you are drinking again."
“It is all right," replied the pledge-
signer in unsteady tones. “I don‘:
have to keep that pledge. My wife
says she will keep it for me. That's.
the kind of Wife to have, 0M teliow
Let's have a drink!”
I ' CHILDRENOFTHE POOR.
Transplanting Them to Better Homes in
l - the West. ,
, It may not be known. that the ship-
ping of the children of the .poor of
New York to the homes of the west is
an industry of forty-five years’ stand-
lng; and as conducted by Charles
Luring Brace of the Children’s Aid
Society, one of the noblest ‘ philan-
thropies of modern times. His work,
by means of lodging houses for home-
less children, with shipment to prairie
homes (never to cities) exterminated
the “Topsy” child in New York—by
which was meant the wait with no
place to sleep—and perceptibly check-
ed and finally decreased juvenile
crime. In the thirty-nine years in
:which Brace was the moving spirit of‘
the aid society, it placed 84,318 poor
city children in “safe country homes.”
Children are still coming west—some—
times by the trainload, Farmers
drive twenty and even thirty miles;
all the mothers in town go to the town
hall, or wherever the exhibit may be,
to see and inspect the little travelers.
But they are placed in «homes only af-
ter wise precautions to secure their
_welfare. Local committees are form-
ed in the villages and towns on which
leading men and women serve. They
receive the children; they consider
the applications; they are responsible
'for the happiness and progress of the
little ones. Finally agents from the
New York institutions visit the homes
éto see that all is well. Itis stated byex-
perts that from 75 to 90 per cent. of
'applications for children are not
-, worthy of consideration. The appli-
icants want, not a child to love and
gbring up, but a drudge, or perhaps
something worse. The Brace answer
ito this sort of thing is “Not your need,
'but the child's need.”
The success of child-saving on this
,order :has been wonderful. It has
{shattered old notions-of the part hered—
fity plays in destiny. “We can think,”
. , :wrote Mr. Brace before «his death, “of
little Five Points thieves who are now
ministers of the gospel or honest
farmers; vagramts and street children
who are men in professional life, and
women who, as teachers or Wives of
good citizens, are everywhere respect-
;ed; the children of outcasts or un-
'tortunatos whose inherited tendencies
have been met by the new environ-
ment and who are industrious and de—
cent members of society." Governor
Burke of North Dakota is one of them,
dispatched forty years ago to an In-
diana farm home. It is seriously stat-
ed that 90 per cent. of these children
sent west make good citizens. Those
who disappoint are the older one—the
secret is to get slum children into
good "names at an early age. The
average is nine years; and 14 per cent.
are under five; and 44 per cent. from.
five to ten years. The boys and girls
who haunt the slums until they are
twelve or fifteen years old are the
ones who prove troublesome in the
new environment.
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AS TO THE FOOT.
Some Things About II: that Are Said 1:)
Indicate Character.
It is surprising the little interest we
take in other people’s feet. Our own
command the whole of our attention;
and very worrying they are some-
times.
‘Have you ever noticed the shape 05
Your feet? It may astonish you to
know that one's feet are as much an
index to one’s character as one’s face.
or one‘s lines and wrinkles therein.
This is the opinion of a foot surgw“
whom P. W. has interviewed on the
subject. __
“Palmistry, physlognomy, and the
like, are beside) the mark compared
with the value of the study of the feet
in the formation of a- man’s character,"
said he. “There are three classes of
the human foot—Aryan, Scandinavian,
and. the Anglo-Saxon. The first two
are pure; the third is the blend of the
former. There is also a nondescript
type.
“The Celtic or Aryan foot was the
foot of the old Phoenicians. and is the
highest type of the human foot. It'
has many characteristics which stand
out from all other feet.
“You may know it by the big toe
being shorter than the next one to it,
the big toe~joint being large and long,
the arch'heing short and high-pitched,
and the heel—bone being irregular in
form. The man with the Celtic foot
will perform 'what he says; he will be
strong, healthy, moral. It is the foot
of the soldier, of the conqueror, and
the trustworthy man.
“In the Scandinavian foot the big
toe stands far away from all the others.
The arch is'flatter and longer than the
Aryan; the heel is very symmetrical in
relation to the general outline; the
toes are longer; the tread is: narrower.
It is the mere elegant of the two. but
the Celtic is the stronger development.
The man with such a foot as this will
be no less sincere than the Aryan—loop
ed man, but-he will be slower in com-
ing to a decision, and will perform his
duty or a promise usually with less
grace. For swimming it excels the Cel-
tic; but the latter is all for long dis-
tance walking, ‘ mountain
rapid and quick movement.
“The Anglo-Saxon may be termed
the general all-round foot. We pass
that fills our prisons, hospitals, work-
houses, and supplies us with the foot-
pad.
“Even the prospects of marriage may
be gleaned from comparison of the
feet.
“The Anglo-Saxon foot is that of the
business men. The big toe and the one
next to it are brought on a line. The
arch is not so accurate as the Aryan,
but an improvement on the Scandina-
vian. Thedisplafiment _ across the
tread is greater than the Scandinavian,
but. not equal to the Aryan."
climbing,.
into degeneration from this. the foot ‘
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