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{82. (Sunnyside, con.)}

to rest for the time being.

Estelle T. Moore gave a rhyming tribute
to that many-sided man, “The Farmer”.

“He watered the horses and fed them hay
And bedded them down in a careful way.
Then fed the chickens and shut them up,
And started away with the collie pup
To bring the cows to the milking shed,
And he milked them before the pigs he fed.
He found one horse was cast in a stall,
And he doctored another that had wind-gall.
Then he mended the pump and went indoors
But that was not work: it was only chores”.

Ellen Farquhar’s contribution was several
clippings, the first being “A Call for Fanatics”, of
whom the first and greatest was thought to be
Jesus of Nazareth, and the second His Chief
Apostle, Paul. Europe lay in the sleep of
death until [?], Luther, Zwingli, and John
Calvin came, all fanatics of the deepest dye, crazy
to their contemporaries. The article, a strong presentation
of facts, concluded with, - “Perhaps if
some great fanatics should arise and attack our
modern lust for pleasure, our sham religious life
our ___ respectability, our sin underneath our fine
clothes, there might be a real revival of religion
which would not only save our souls, but purge
our business, our social life, our politics, our international
relations of the rottenness and corruption
at their heart”.

A sharp criticism of the present fashions followed,
containing a good deal of truth in its arrangement, -
“In his heart of hearts every man
knows how ugly is the ‘mode’ of to-day; and I
believe most women know it also. Every artistic
rule is contravened by the abominable confections
that glare at one crudely from the windows of fashionable
emporiums. Style, shape, decency, all are
meaningless words in application to these dresses.
Clothes, so far as woman is concerned, are calculated
to constrict her limbs, impede her motion,
conceal the beauties of her body, emphasize its defects
and violate every right canon of decoration and proportion.
They cut her figure at the wrong place, stuff her

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