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THE HAT Why Should Wc In Ch Atlanta Joun Thc .Journal recently published a suggestiuu from a correspondent that the ladies of Atlanta remove their hats in church as they do in thc thea tres. This idea has been very goner ally approved, and wc shall not be surprised to see an anti-church hat movement inaugurated iu this city. Atlanta was thc second city in this country to require thc hats of ladies, as well as those of men, should bc rc moved at performances in theatres. New Orleans led in this great reform and Atlanta was ?juick to follow. How immensely has the pleasure of all the patrons of thc theatres of this city been increased by this simple concession to common sense! If tho question wore put to a popu lar vote, a great majority of women, as well as men, would now declare in favor of tho disappearance of hats at theatres. Are not tho reasons for taking them off at church quitcoas strong as those which have effected their removal at operas and plays? Tho attendant of church services should have as many conditions of comfort as tho attend ant of thc theatres. It is quite as de sirable to seo a preacher while ho is speaking as to sec an actor while ho or she is performing, prancing or sing ing. We never really know what a speaker, especially if be bc an orator, really means unless wc eau look into his face, catch its every expression, watch thc flash of his eye, see thc play of emotion on his features and discern that indefinite and undefinable something which betokens sincerity and earnestness of pretense and hypo crisy. And yet many of us now often sit in church and hear a voice, but cannot pcrceivo whence or from whom it comes. Tho awful spread-eagle hat ?B in the way. A man outside thc door, with his back turned to thc preacher, would have as much chance of benefit or entertainment from thc sermon as do you when you sit and suffer in this total eolipso. There is a groat moral principle as well as a serious question of ethics in volved in this matter. Thc big church hat is a deterrent of religion, an obstacle to righteous con viction, a feathered and ribboned stumbling blook io the way {?of tho pilgrim who is trying to walk tho straight and narrow path. There may be mon in this land of light who aro still in darkness because tho ohuroh hat has intervened be tween them and the full effulgence of tho truth. For all we know thero may bo men now leading wicked and hopeless lives only because tho preachers have never had a fair shot at thom-men who havo not skulked and hid from tho batteries of thc truth, but have been involuntarily concealed during all their church going behind a varied but unbroken array of femino head- 1 gear. Those who favor this proposed * reform do not advocate thc onactment of a law which will compel women to take off their hats in houses of wor- 1 ship. They will depend upon the power of moral suasion. They ap peal to that sense of justice and mercy which is strong in the hearts of all good women. The appeal also to that honest and laudable desire of every woman to look her best at all times. The milliner is a benefactor of man kind. She works wonders for the adornment of women, and men are ?truck delightedly dumb as they gazo on her oroations. But all things have their place, and tho place for a wo man's hat in church is ?her lap or her pew, not her head. f And, after all, what art or achieve ment of millinory has ever equaled the beauty of a woman's uncovered head? Is there anything in this world more beautiful than the silken tresses which cover and crown a woman's head, cluster over her sweet temples and sweep above her beauteous brow? The more we see of these things the better, and how can wo got a full view of there when women persist in wear ing their hats? The church is, of all places, the ono where the hats of wo men should come off. Not only are the comfort and the moral welfare of men involved, we may ask if women aro following strictly the way of the righteous when they .wear hats in church? The good Book tells us that her hair is a woman's glory, and in T7C~sk:p she S???iu be at ?east as glorious as she is in pleaseT The war on the church hat has be gun. It is a war for the right, and when it is won by the champions of the right, civilization will make a long stride forward. Atlanta Journal, Maj; 1. .1 Ladies took off their hats during .Services at Trinity church yesterday. /Following tho suggestion made in a recent Journal editorial Dr. W. B. Stradley, the' pastor, at the opeoing MUST GO. >men Weir Hats .iirch?> fat, April as. of the services requested the feminine I part of his congregation to remove their hats. Scarcely had thc request been utter ed before hundreds of hands were busily engaged pulling out hat pins. In few moments thc lovely display of spring millinery which had obstructed thc view of many members of the con gregation was out of sight. The coverings of straw, laces, rib bons and flowers being removed thc ladies presented a prettier vision than before, anu thc new venture was gen erally pronounced u success. Thc question of women taking off their hats in church has been much discussed ol' late in social circles. One practical woman suggested thc other day that if women must take off their hats in church, they should cer tainly bc provided with hatracks on which to hang them. A young man overhearing this sug gestion wanted to know where was thc woman who would bc willing to hang her lovely Kastor bonnet on a hatrack where it would blush unseen. Atlanta women arc somewhat divi ded in their opinions on thc subject. "I am strongly in favor of women taking off their hats in church, and think it a much needed reform," re plied Mrs. Albert II. Thorton, when questioned on tho subject. "My moth er'declares," she continued, "that BIIO hasn't seen a new preacher in years on account of thc big hats. I hope you will start a crusade against them and that success will meet your efforts." "I think it a good idea," said Mrs. Charles Rice. "It is terrible to have to sit behind a big hat in church; be sides, if one has a very heavy hat it is a rolief to take it off. I think it a very sensible idea for women to re move their bats." Mrs. I. S. Mitchell, a incuber of Dr. Stradley's congregation, when ap proached on the subject, replied: "I think is is unnecessary for tiiosc women who wear small bonnets to have to remove them, but for tho.ie who wear large hats I think it a splen did idea. Yesterday in Dr. Stradley's church thc ladies looked lovely with out their hats. I think boys ofton do not go to church on account of the big hats. Thoy say thcro is no use going when thoy can't see the preacher." "Put tho pulpits up higher so that women won't have to tako off their hats," said a prominent member of tho North avenue Presbyterian church. "I asked our minister the other day," she continuod, "pleased to have tho pulpit high so that wc might dodge the question of women removing their hats. However, I seo mp Ty conveni ences in thc idea, and f : uk we will undoubtedly come to it before long." Mrs. Alex King thinks that taking off one's hat in church would bo a great nuisance, and altogether unne cessary. "I think it would bo a great mistake to have such a rule in ono's church," she doolared. "Let women booonsid-1 "-ate and wear hats of moderate size, but don't put them to tho inconveni ence of taking off hats during ohuroh service. You can usually manage to Bee thc minister's face, and that is sufheicnt. It is different at tho thea tre where you wish to see tho entire stage and everybody upon it. "No, I'm not in favor of trammel ing women with so many laws. The law of kindness and a small hat is Burely the solution." Mrs. W. A. Ilemphill, another member of Dr. Stradley's church, ex pressed herself as horrified at the idea of women hiving to remove their hats in churoh. She thinks it entirely in consistent with the old time Metho dist faith. "It made me sad yester day to think what the oldfashioned ministers would have thought on the subject. I oouldn't realize that I was sitting in a Methodist churoh," Miss Madge Landrum thinks re moving bats is a very good idea, bat not an improvement to tho looks of thc churoh. "I think," sho said, "it takes away somewhat from the dignity of the ohuroh. The men, however, are strongly in favor of the innova tion. I remember hearing Governor Northen speak with much emphasis recently, of his great annoyance in having to sit through a wholo sermon behind a gorgeous mass of millinery." Mi:: Belle Nash and Miss Liiiian Smith, two representatives of Atlan ta's young girls, object strongly to removing the hats in ohuroh on ac count of the disarrangement of the hair that results, and the difficulty in getting on again the pretty head-gear. "We'd never get them straight," they say, in despair. "After suffering from piles for fif teen years I was eured by using two boxes of DeWitt's Witoh Hazel Salve," writes W. J. Baxter, North Brook, N. C. It also cures all skin diseases. Evans Pharmacy. Memorable Ilattleflelds. lu view of the near approach of the annual reunion of the Confederate veterans at Louisville, the main pro visions of a bill now before Congress, to create in Virginia a national park, embracing thc battlefields adjacent to Fredcricksburg, will be interesting. The bill provides that for the pur pose of preserving and suitably mark ing for historical and professional mil itary study thc famous battlefields in Spottsylvania County, Va., known as Fredcricksburg, Salem Church, Chan cellorsville, the Wilderness and Spott sylvania Court House, all of them within u radius of eight miles, and on which limited territory thc late distin guished Union general, John C. New ton, after careful investigation, de clared that more great battles were fought, more men engaged, and more execution was d >ne than on any simi lar area in the world. The report made on thc subject by the House Committee on Military Affairs recommended the passage of the bill. It sets forth that it is propos ed to set apart (?,000 acres in Spott sylvania County, Va., embracing the area on which were fought the great battles of Fredcricksburg, Chancel lorsville, tho. Wilderness and Spott sylvania Court House ; also Marye's Heights, Hamilton's Crossing, Salem Church, Laurel Grove, thc Bloody Anglo, Todd's Tavern, the Po and Ny rivers. Thc land may now bo pur chased at an average of eight dollars per acre. Troops from every State, North and South, were hero arrayed in battle to the number of at least 500,000, and moro men were here engaged than in any battle in tho world's history. The losses in killed, wounded and missing on both sides aggregated 129,838, to wit : Fredcricksburg, Deo. 13, 1862 Union loss, 12,.'{53 ; Confederate loss, 4,570. Chancellorsville, May 1 to 4, 1803-Union loss, 16,030; Confede rate loss, 12,281. Wilderness, May 5 to 7, 1864-Union loss, 37,737 ; Con federate loss, 11,400. Spottsylvania Court House, May 8 to 18, 1864 Union loss, 26,461 ; Confederate loss, 9,000. Of the aggregate of 129,838, thc Union loss was 92,581, while the Confederates lost 37,257. In the na tional cemetary on Marye's Heights, the largest in tho nation, there lie buried 16,500 I nion soldiers, and fre quent additions aro made from thc exhumations on thc battlefields. Tho general officers who hero offered up their lives a sacrifice to their con victions wero, on the Union side, Ma jor Generals John Sedgwick, Hiram G. Berry and Araiel W. Whipple, Bre vet Major Generals James S. 'Wads worth and Alexander Hays, Brigadier Generals George D. Bayard, Conrad F. Jackson, Edmund Kirby, James C. Rico and Thomas J. Stevenson ; and on tho Confederate side, Lieutenant General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jack son, Brigadier Generals Thomas H. ll. Cobb, .lanius Daniel, Abner Perrin, Maxcy Gregg, E. F. Paxton, J. M. Jones, Leroy A. Stafford and Micah Jenkins. Over the entiro field tho intrenchmonts are in a remarkable state of preservation, proteoted in largo part by a heavy growth of tim ber. Capt. John Smith, within the limits of what is now Fredcricksburg, fought the Indians in 1608. Here Washing ton's boyhood days were spent, and from Frederioksburg he went to join the army of Braddock. Near the eity was opened the first iron mine ever worked in America, from the product of which the cannon and cannon balls used in tho Revolutionary war were made.-New Orleans Picayune. Blood Poison Cured by B.B.B.-Bottle Free to Safferere. Deep-seated, obstinate cases, the kind that have resisted doctors, hot springs and patent medicine treat ment, quickly yield to B.B.B. (Botan ic Blood Balm), thoroughly tested for 30 years. Have you muouous patches in the mouth, sore throat, eruptions, eating sores, bone pains, itching skin, swollen glands, stiff joints, copper colored spots, chanores, ulceration on tho body, hair and eyebrows fall out ? Is the skin a mass of boils, pimples and ulcers? 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Hood, Justice of the Peaoe Drosby, Miss., makes the following statement: ean cortify that One Minute Cough Curo will do all that is ol ai m ed for it." It cures all throat and lang trouble Evans Pharmaoy. !-Many a Christian destroys hie peaoe and usefulness beoanse he is not willing to do little things. ?o Ants Tulki A close observer of tho little crea tures of God's world tells us that he once saw a drove of small black auts moving, perhaps to more commodious quarters. Tho distance was over seven hundred feet, and nearly every ant was laden with a portion of house hold goods. Some carried their "eggs" he cocoon stage of tho ant, some had .oed, "some had one thing and some another. I sat and watched them over an hour," he continues, "and I noticed that every time two met in thc way they would hold their heads close together as if greeting one another, and no matter how often thc meeting took place this same thing occurred, as though a short chat was necessary. To prove more about it I killed one that was on his way. Others which were eyc-witnossoa to the mur der went with speed, and with every ant they met this talking took plaoe as before. But instead of a pleasant greeting, it was sad news they had to communicate. I know it was sad news/for every ant that these messen gers met hastily'turned back and fled on another course. So thc news, spread, and it was true. How was it commu nicated if not by speech?" Many naturo students have observed like facts. Yet we aro almost as far from a solution of tho problem of ant ioteroommunication to-day as ever. Tho Rev. Henry C. McCood, D. D , of Philadelphia, has done more than any other living student in America in this field of ant study. Young natu ralists cannot take up a moro fasci nating study than that of ant habits; but murder, even of an ant, is not necessary in such studies, save to preservo a few speoiments to assure one of the species under study. An ingenious and truo lover of nature delights to devise ways for suoh study that do not require needless c r uel ty.-Fo rica rd. Washing the Face. This matter of washing thc face ai5 pears very simple, but it is thc excep tion rather than the rule when it is properly done. Look at a piece of fur niture and note the amount of dust and dirt it will collect in a few hours, and it is realized thc quantity tho face has to receive. It not only gath ers up the minute particles of all kinds that float about thc house, but that, too, whioh is outside. There is an old tradition that if one would pre serve a delicate complexion, water should not touoh the face, its skin to be oleansed by rubbing it with a piece of flannel, which might suffice if the face were kept in a glass case. The face needs hot water applied liberally to it with'the hands, and generally the use of a pure, nonirritating soap will not come amiss. Wash-clothes aro often an abomination, as they are too seldom free from impurities, and the same statement is true of sponges. They ave left imperfectly cleansed from the soap that has been used and are dried at the washstand, when after overy use they should be wash ed, boiled and hung in the air. I have often seen faces with muddy skins dotted with black heads and pimples because impurities from wash cloths and sponges have been rubbed into tho skin, to its infection. If the face is oily and filled with fine blackheads, the latter can bc re moved by rubbing them with a soft oloth dipped in alcohol or in equal parts of cologne and water; the latter will oleanse the face better than any thing else, aeting upon the skin as a gentle stimulant. The oontaot of the fingers with the face seems to have a vivifying effect. It is easy while thus dashing the water in the face to message it and to bring the blood to the surface. If, however, the faoe has not been carefully looked after in the manner described, the only matter has been allowed to collect in the glands and enlarge their orifices, and the face is dotted with these unoigthly accumu lations, the work of getting rid of them is no easy matter. Some of the largest may be rubbed out with the soft oloth dipped in cologne and water, especially if the face is first steamed; but if this method is not sufficient, those remaining must be pressed out, one by one, using a watch key. The hole of the key is placed over the point, a quiek pressue is made, and the contents of the gland is pushed out. To allay the irritation the faoe should bo washed with very hot water after this, and oare should be taken that too many of the blackheads are not removed at one time.-Dr. Grace Peckham Murray, tn Harper? Batar. - To keep roosters ?n>m fighting catch one and clip one wing. When u* iuak?? ? divo ii W?? thrOW bim to one fiido, and he wi!! soon conelode he don't kno v how to fight and will attend to his owe: business. - "How's dat, Sambo? You say you , waa at the battle of Bull Ron? when I sees yon at New York the same night?" "Yes, Julius, you did for sart?n. You see, our eolonel says he, 'Boys strike for yer country and yer hornea!' Well some struck for der country, but dis chile he struck ?or home. Dat splains de whole matter, yen see." ? ??riiik.^rfl- -' ? - -?? ^A. . M'-. ? ? . . Thc American (?ill's Marriage. When thc American girl defers her choice of a husband until she has had a icasonable opportunity to sec some thing of mankind, and had a chance to compare thc good with thc bad, she is pretty apt to strike a good judge of herself. As a rule, she is a pretty good judge of men when she gives her judgment time to assist her to a wise conclusion. Thc point is to get her to wait. It must be sar' to her credit that she is waiting longer than she did formerly. It is not so many years azo that a girl was considered of a marriageable age wheo she became sixteen or seventeen years old. If she married then, or shortly afterward, it was not such an unusual thing. Twenty-five years ago girlr generally married at nineteen, while to day the average is closer to twenty-three. Tho marriago of a girl in her teens causes actual surprise in these days. Out of a list of 1,000 marriages recent ly compiled, just one-half the brides were between twenty-two and twenty five; 200 were between twenty-five and thirty. Still, thcro wero 300 under twenty years of age. And nearly all theso young girls married men under twenty-two-mere boyB, in other words. And this is the fatal part of a girl's marriage at too early an age. Instead of choosing a mau for her husband she is very apt to choose a boy.-Ladies Hoyne Journal. The Importance of Grass. No more graphic and comprehensive statement has been made on the sub ject of grasses than this by John J. Ingalls: "Next in importance to the divine profusion of water, light, and air, those three great physical facts which render existence possible, may be reckoned the universal beneficence of grasses. Exaggerated by tropical heats and vapors to tho gigantic cane congested with its saccharine concre tion, or dwarfed by polar rigors to the fibrous hair of Northern latitudes, em bracing between these extremes the maize with its resoluto pennons, the rice plant of Southern ?swamps, the wheat, rye, barley, oats, and other cereals, no less than the humble ver dure of hillside, pasture, and prairie in thc temperate zone, grass is the most widely distributed of all vegetable be ings, and is at once thc type of our life aod the emblem of our mortality.' Mr. Ingalls says this also in favor of grass. "Its tenacious fibers hold thc earth in its place and prevent its soluble components from washing into the wasting sea. It invades the soli tudes, climbs thje inaccessible slopes and forbidding pinnacles of moun tains; modifies climates, and determi nes thc history, character, and destiny of nations. Unobtrusive and patient, it has immortal vigor and aggression. Banished from the thoroughfare and tho field, it bides its time to return, and when vigilance is .relaxed, or the dynasty has perished, it sileot?y, resumes the throne from which it has been expelled, but which it never ab dicates. It bears no blazonry of bloom to charm thc senses with fragrance or splendor, but its homely hue is more enchanting than that of tho lily or the rose. It yields no fruit in earth or air, and yet should its harvest fail for a single year, famine would depopu late thc world." Evidently the presence of grass in farming practice can hardly bo over stated; and even in.the usual under standing of the meaning of tho word grass it is safe to say that ibero can be no good farming without grass in the pasture and meadov; form. The faot is that ?he state of farming ia a coun try can usually be inferred from the presence or absence of the grass feat ure. Achilles waa in vulnerable in every part of the body save bis heel. The myth rona that he was rendered invul nerable by being dipped in the river Styx in infancy, the heel by which he waa held being the only part not submerged and there-. fore retain Iing its mor tar weak ness. Everyone has some weak spot in bis phy sical organism, and that weak spot is the invariable attacking point of disease. No man is stronger than that weakest spot in bim. We see great robust look ing men go down like ninepins, at a touch of disease, and wonder at it. It is simply the wound in the weak spot, the vulnerable heel of Achilles. It is the office of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to build up the weak places, to Rtrenathen the weale organs of lire body. It does this <<n Nature's own plan of nourishment Proper food prop erly . assimilated maw s vrc-h ;ssn strong. But the man ia only an aggre gation of parts, so that the strong nan liver, nerves, etc. "Golden Medical Discovery *' pots into Nature's hands the material by which the stomach is strengthened, the blood purified, the nervis nourished, the luum vitalised- xt makes the weak strong and the sick well. It contains no alcohol or other intoxicant. Mr. R. J. McKnight, of Cade*, Williamsburg Co., & C., wit?*: ^'X had bein troubled with rheumatism fcc- twelve yea?, so tad at times I could cot leave my bed. X waa bsdly crippled. Tried many doctora ead two of them ?at?'me up to die. None of them did ne much mod. The patna tn my hack, hipa and tes* (and at times tn my head), would neatly kui me. My appetite was very bad. 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